Christiano Todd
Complaint 164714 Details

I met a girl on a dating website called "Confirmio" and began talking to her. She claimed she worked for a drilling contractor in Houston. We talked some on the phone but mostly by text because she claimed she was working on a drilling contract for an actual drilling company called "Hercules" here in Houston. After some days she told be she won the contract and had to mobilize the worker's. She claimed she would be offshore on a rig for 3 weeks and we would meet when she returned. Incidentley,she claimed to live in Pearland,Tx which is right outside of Houston. She claimed she was going to make $320,000 of of this particular contract. I was skeptical but she was very convincing. She claimed she was having some problems with one of her pumps and she needed money to fix it. She said she had money in the bank, but she had transferred a large amount from one branch to another and the bank became suspicious put a hold on her account and they had to see her in person to lift it. She said her leaving the rig would breach the terms of the contract and she would lose it. I told her i didn't have any money to send her. She insisted she would lose the contract if she couldn't access her funds. I told her the only way i would help her is if i could check her account balance and she agreed, gave me a phone number with her supposed account info., and pin number. She claimed it was Texas Bank of Trust. It was an automated system and it indicated that a certain large amount of money had been deposited consistent with what she said. I started to believe her more. Finally, she said her father Mario Todd who lived in the U.K. loaned her the money for her drilling problems. I really didn't hear from her much until she said she was almost done with the contract. Towards the end she said that her father had suffered a heart attack and need to raise money for his hospital stay. Much begging and pleading to help save her father's life. Finally, after verifying again she had money in this account i borrowed $4000 and sent it to her sister Juanita Todd in the UK. Of course, her father ended up dying in the UK the day we were supposed to meet and she claimed she had to fly from the rig to Italy. She said she would be there a week for the funeral. i really didn't hear from her for about a week. She finally texted me and said that she had to use her passport as collateral for her father's funeral and the person who loaned her the money wouldn't give it back unless she slept with him. Already thinking i was being scammed but still in doubt because of the acct. info she had provided i sent her $1700 hoping that she might me telling the truth and come back. I bought a plane ticket for her and on the day she was supposed to leave i got a call from a supposed doctor in Italy saying she was in a car accident. about 30 mins.before then she had texted that she was on her way to the airport and the driver was drunk and driving too fast! The doctor seemed somewhat legit at first but he is in on it too. At first he said she would be okay then later he said she had head trauma and would need surgery and money. as of this e-mail i told them that i would try to convince my mother to loan me money to help her. I am still playing along. i have all names,phone number, e-mails, texts, Western Union receipts, etc. I would like to know what to do now. I have been talking by text to her supposed friend named Laura. my last contact was two days ago. I have found very little info. on these people. They are new doing this or covering their tracks pretty well. The cell phone that i receive texts from her friend Laura i have traced to Houston, Mo. under a Verizon account with no name.