William Sasha
Complaint 135325 Details

I met Mr. William Sasha on Match.com on Friday, May 18, 2012, his account name was San30love2012, and account that he has since deleted, he did on Thursday the 24th or Friday the 25th, before he asked for the money. We started emailing back and forth for the next week. He said he was born in San Diego and moved to West Africa with his aunt when he was young after his mother died and he just moved back to San Diego to claim inheritance from his father, but is from Nigeria, but he was currently in Nigeria to help his aunt who was sick. On Saturday, May 26, 2012 he said he need to come back to the states to take care of his father's stuff, but he didn't have the money for the ticket and he need 450 to finish paying for it since it went up. I said no at first, but then emailed him back on Monday, the 28th accusing him of only wanting my money and asked why he wasn't talking with me, in the line of email, I did feel comfortable enough to wire him the money, so I wired him 450 online with Western Union. The next day he need the tax and reservation fee so I went to Money tree and wired him 500 with my check from Wells Fargo. Then on Wednesday he had his flight, he had to drive from Benin City to Lagos and it was a 6 hour drive... because of traffic, he missed the flight, so he needed 950 to change the flight. I couldn't wire anymore online or take a check to money tree, because the first one hadn't cleared, so I waited until Thursday, took out 950 from my bank, Wells Fargo. and wired him 950 through Western Union at the local money tree. Then the next morning, the 1st of June, the next flight was full so he had to take the Saturday flight which was 500, so I took another 500 out and wired him that through Money Gram. Yesterday, the 2nd he was to get on the flight, but he said he couldn't get on because he didn't have proof of ESTA Authorization to get into the US. So now he is asking for more money (500) to change his flight and (500) to get this clearance. When I look it up you can do it online for $14, but according to him Nigeria has additional chargers and he needs a medical clearance. Bottom line it just doesn't add up. I have all the emails back and forth between us. He emailed me 2 word documents with information about his flights that seems to be correct when I looked it up on US airways, but he won't give me any confirmation number from the airlines. On Monday the 4th of June he got the money for the ESTA and his blood tests, 1300 I believe, on Tuesday the 5th he had 800 of it stolen. So I wired that. The next day he was to get on the plane, but he couldn’t because his passport had expired the day before in the mist of getting robed. (BTW…I would send the money after 4pm my time so he would get it the next morning his time because of the time change). Then the next day the 6th this was discovered, so I had to go through my bank this time so it took a couple of days. He then got the money on Saturday, June 9th… as soon as he got it he was beat up and robbed again. So I wired him another 1300 for that and to get a cab. On the 11th of June he went to get the ticket and couldn’t because his current ticket had expired, so he needed 1500, he finally got it on the 13th but then got robed again, since he didn’t have taxi money, so then I give him another 1600 which he got on the 15th, then I didn’t hear from him, because I guess he got into an accident in the taxi he was in and went to the hospital. So then since he lost his ticket and needed to pay 2500, 2000 for the ticket and 500 for the medical expenses, then I threw in an addition al 130 so he could get a cab to all the places he needed to go. Then he was to get that on June 20th, but according to him he was unable to get the 2500 from western union and someone else did, because it was picked up. I did call Western Union to have them look into it, I have the results at my mother’s house, so I haven’t seen then yet, but he has that money and lied. He told me not to look into and he would investigate it, that all I need to do was worry about getting him the money to get him on the flight, I of course couldn’t and wouldn’t give another 2500. Then he was able to get a discount from the airline and he only need to pay 1500 if I got him the money by Saturday the 22nd. So I gave him another 2100, 500 for the medical expenses, 100 for the taxi, and 1500 for the flight. So he was able to get 10am his time on Saturday the 22nd, so he went and got it, paid his medical bill and by the time he got to the airport the flight was book, true according to the airline’s website and he couldn’t get the discount extended, so he would need another 700. So I told him if he keep the money for a week until I got paid on the 29th I would be able to get him the rest of the money, including whatever extra amount it went up, if I could. But then of course he need taxi fee and money for food for a week and a taxi, so I told him to use what he needed of the 1500 and tell me what he needed after that. So he needed 50/day for food, and 100 for the taxi to Money Gram, which would leave him with about 1000 and he would need 1250 from me to make up the difference, extra 700 for the flight 200 for the taxi rides (this went up all of the sudden 100 each way, because it was further away), and 350 for food for the week. Then before Friday the ticket prices went up all of the sudden to be 2500, which made since from what I was seeing on the website, lower than what was available on line but I assumed he had a non-refundable ticket that he could get through the airport or travel agency. So I gave him another 1550 on June 30th so he could get the flight on July first. It took him forever to get back to me, but when he final did he told me that he had the money but had lost the 1000 that he had because he had left it in his bag in the airport when he went to the money gram and someone had gone through it and stolen it. At this point I was so not pleased and couldn’t help him anymore because I had to pay my rent, he tried to get another discount so the 1550 would work but he could only get 200 off, but this is the point that I stopped because I needed to pay my rent. I emailed him and told him that and my mom emailed him to tell him he was a fraud and not to contact me. He did continue to contact me a few more time between Saturday and Sunday trying to get me to help saying he would kill himself since he couldn’t be with me and he wanted to prove himself and needed one more chance, he did try to get me to send him just 500 more, but I didn’t. In the end he took around 17000. In the meantime while all this was happening he sent me his lawyer’s information so that I could try and get him to give him more time to get back and delay any court matters that needed to be taken care of, which seemed to work every time I did it… I did need to send him a document of some of the money I wired to William to prove I was doing what I said. Finally, I sent him an email telling him I wasn’t helping his client anymore. I did tell him I thought that this was fake and that I don’t think his father existed. The lawyer simply wrote back that he was sorry that it didn’t work out between Mr. Sasha and I. That he didn’t know why William couldn’t make it back, that I wasn’t being fooled because he knew William’s dad for a long time until his death and knows that William is to receive the inheritance. He did not ask for me to continue to help him, but he did promise me the money if his client made it home to get the fortune which may not happen now, the time might have run out. He seems untruthful too though, some of his emails had spelling errors, he sent it at random times at night, the time stamp on the email I sent would end up being Nigerian time instead of San Diego time and as a lawyer he would not give me his phone number and he couldn’t meet with me last week due to travel and he seemed to ask for very little evidence that everything was happen as William and I said it was before he gave more time. The lawyer’s name is Merlin Waller and the email is [email protected]. I’ve done online searches for the lawyer, William, his father Jonathan and mother Shannon, but haven’t found anything. I feel like such an idiot, because I wasn’t going to do this at first and then I did and got way over my head. I kept telling Mr. Sasha that I didn’t want to be fooled and I felt it was not real but he kept reassuring me that everything was real. He was so nice and seemed real, lots of random small things that I could look up like his favorite restaurant, and he said he lived in South park San Diego near Grants market and Balboa park, I looked that up and it existed. The flights actually existed. He finally gave me his phone number and it was a real number, thought I got a Verizon message saying that the customer was unavailable. I trusted him and somehow fell in love with him. How and why I don't know.