Michael Johnson, Wesley Chapin, James Horton & Oscar Castro
Complaint 147438 Details

Wesley befriended me on facebook early June and was always kind and friendly. He was setting me u to trust him. One day Wesley asked me had I got my money yet. I said what money? He said he had won a lot of money on a facebook contest that was a promo and random drawing from frequent users of facebook. At the time I was but hadn't been before or sine this happened to me. Wesley advised me to get in touch with Michael but before I could Michael contacted me. He said he was a lawyer and also worked for somekind of treasury, I didnt quite catch that. He said all I had to do was send them 15,000.00 to pay taxes and fees and within 24 hours of them getting it I would be delivered 1,500,000.00 dollars. I told him I would thinking the 15 thousand would cme out of the one and half million. He said no it had to be paid up front. I told him I didn't have 15,000.00 and he suggeted I ake it out of my retirement, I didn't like the idea because I have so little in there ( a lot less now).I took the money out and sent it where he told me which was James Horton. Either all these men are working together or they're sending it to themselves pretending to be in another state except Michael's phone # checks out as Tn he first said he lived in Ohio. I told Wesley that Michael had a Tn area code and he said well he used to live in Tn and moved to Ohio and was still using the same # cause it was a cell. I looked up the number and it's a landline so he has to be in Tn. Michael quickly changed his profle to Tn.The I sent to James Horton in cape coral Fl got there and they said the money was on it's way, then I got a message from Michael saing urgent in caps three times, they had been stopped on their way to my house. They said the money was in a FedEx truck and they were following it in a convoy and they got pulled over and the money found, Michael said they held it because they didn't the proper papers to be transporting tht much money. It was a bunch of whoey but I didn't knowif they were lying or not. He said they needed 25,000.00 dollars to get the money back from the IRS. I asked what did the irs have to do with it since I paid taxes and they were responsible for delivering to me I wasn't going to send 25,000.00. I told them if it was a facebook contest they should pay it and I did nothing wrong and I didn't get caught without the proper papers. This made him mad and he said "don't get me annoyed" I was already annoyed when they asked me to pay that. I tod him "don't you think I'm annoyed that ya'll expect me to pay for something I didn't do, something I was not resposible for and didn't they think having a convoy follo a FedEx truck look a little suspecious?"This really made him mad nd he started accusing me of saying he shold pay it. I told him I never said that I said facebook should pay iy. Wesley has somehow heard about this (read about it, he's deaf) and writes me and says I should try to get along with Michael so he can get my money to me so like a fool I tool 25 thousand more out of my retirement and sent it to Oscar Castro in Austin Texas. I have the account numbers and addresses of the people I sent the money too but nothing on Wesley and Michael except that lives in Goodlettsville, Tn a subburb of Nashville and I found out when Wesley called here one evening that he is deaf and supposedly at one time Michael worked with deaf people. And I have Michaels tele # but it might be one he only uses on scams because my grandson dialed it and the guy answered lawyer Mike. He may not be a lawyer. Neither one of them typed very well (neither do I) or had perfect grammar. Wesly claimed to work for the Hall county board of education in Ga. whe I asked what he did there he ignored the question. Atfer they got the25 thousand which was on a Friday they said UPS would be delivering my money on Monday. I had errands to run but I stayed home all day Monday. It's not that I'm greedy, I'm definitely not but I need SO many things fixed mostly my house and car and my granddaughter's medical bills, she lives with us. The money never arrived, really no surprize, by now I figured I had been scammed, I supected it when they asked for the 25,000.00. That evening Michael sent me another one of his URGENT, URGENT, URGENT messages. He said they had been held up by customs. Now I'm thinking he must really think I'm stupid just because I was dumb enough to give them 40 thousand dollars. I asked him was the money coming from Mexico or Canada and was it dirty? Again he ignored me and said to get it from customs I would need to send them 40,000.00 dollars a total of 80,000.00. I don't even have that much or not much more (I'm not sure) than that in my reirement account. Michael once referred to it as a retirement saving account. I told him and it's true, that I don't have a retirement savings account, there's nothig going into my account, I am retired and living on that money or was, I don't know what I'm going to do now. They had all my personal information, my bank acct, a credit card number my soc sec number, my name and address. I had my bank acct number changed, my credit card number changed, an alert put on with the credit bureaus and called social security. I was notified that these crooks did try to use them but as far I know so a I beat them there. It was a big hassle and there were expenses with fedex to Fl and wire transfer to Tx and faxes to get these other matters straight plus getting everything with my retirement going into the right checking account number. Atfer they asked forty thousand I blocked and reported both of them as spam and scam. I recieved a phone call from the relay operator from Wesley that's how I found out he was deaf. The next day I was lanning on going to the sheriffs dept. but after his call I called the sheriffs dept. The officer that came out was in such a hurry that he didn't write down anything I said except the guys names and he got them wrong. He was the most incompetent policeman I've ever met,he didn't introduce himself and I couldn't see his badge. I told them I had got a threatening phone call I don't think he even wrote that down. Wesley apparently already knew I had changed my personal information that I was able to because he said "well I still have your ss# and address " and I said is that a threat and he said whatever wait and see" I want these guys caught real bad. The sheriffs dept didn't seem to take me seriously. I've filed a complaint on the IC3.gov twice and still haven't heard anything from them. I know nothing else to do. Thanks, Terye Roberson