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Complaint 681 Details

  • Date Occurred: 06/16/2013
  • Reported Damages: $1,550.00
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The complaint is against an online dating profile

The complaint is a listing fraud posted on public forums or sites against an anonymous entity

The complaint is mobile text spam or smishing related against an anonymous entity

The company or person contact no longer exists

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I joined a dating site called badoo... I have spoke to a few people but recently I started to talk to a guy that said he lived in Miami, Florida by the name Sampson Ayitey. He claimed that he was single and that he didnt have anyone because six years before his parents died in a car accident. he told me he was originaly from Greece. He also informed me that his father had a business in Miami, Florida of rice and when we continue to talk he asked for my number since we had chatted a few times on the MSN I gave him my number he proceeded to tell me that the next day he was going to travel to the UK on business that he was meeting with some potential clients. after a few more days of talking on the phone he said that he spoke to his best friend in Miami, Florida whom he was in business with and his best friend told him that they were running low on supplies that he needed to go a purchase some he then told me that he told his best friend that he was going to go to China to buy some rice and his best friend told him not too because the rice was not so cheap in China at the time to go to Ghana, Africa. he asked my opinion on the subject i said that if it was cheaper to go for it he was going to save money on his business so he tells me that he won't be able to use his US cell phone over in Ghana and that he was going to call me from a number over there. I didn't believe him in alot of things because when he called me the caller id said Salt Lake City, Utah the number was 801 212 9584 but when he said he always travels i thought he was roaming on the cell phone any ways. he then left to Ghana and from there he calls me from this number 011 233 248602787 he says that he is able to send text messages also. after a few days in Ghana he procees to tell me that on Friday he was coming back home and that after a few days in the States he was going to come to my State to meet me on the following Wednesday that what i thought about that i said that was ok. he also told me that hi was worried because he been calling his best friend and was not able to reach him at all. the next day he calls me and he sounds a little strange he tells me that he is hurting i asked why and then he proceeded to tell me that in the morning he was traveling to pay for the orders of rice when a car was coming towards him and when he try to break the breaks didnt work and he had to jump out of the car and then he showed me some pictures of a scraped shoulder and side. he then tells me that he wants to die there i said why you want to die there he then tells me that he was able to talk to his best friend and that his best friend tells him that they didn't need the rice that he sent him to Ghana to die because he wanted to take all the money from the company and leave with his wife and son to their country. so i told to go to the authorities and tell them everything and he said he did i said when you come back and he said that he was not able to come because he didnt have a airline ticket. so i said why didn't you buy a round trip when you went to Ghana that he never does because is cheaper to buy a one way. then he said that he didn't care about the money the friend was taking but that all he cared about was to come back to the States to visit me. i said don't let your friend get away with that he said that the business account had $35,000,000.00 million dollars and that he was better of without it that he was going to let his friend take the money and that he was going to start from zero again. thats when i said something is not correct here no one would let any one take that much money and not care if they worked for it. so then he said that if I could help him. I said how can i help you he said that the friend left the account with $500.00 dollars and that he used $100.00 dollars to eat. and that he didn't have enough to buy the ticket to come back that the ticket costs $1550.00 dollars. so I said ok I couldd help you I will buy the ticket here and all you have to do is show up at the airport. he said that he forgot to tell me that he lost his passport I said all you have to do since you already called the police about your friend go to the US embassy and verify your information and they will give you a temporay documents to come back home. he then said that he went there and that they told him he needed to wait for a whole week and that he wanted to come now. I said didnt you tell me that you was driving the car from the hotel rental and that the breaks didnt work then they should pay for your trip back home if you lost everything because of the accident it was their fault. he said i told them that but they told me that they were only going to help me with food and a place to stay. I said ok so since you said that you are not going to get your friend in trouble then you should call your friend again tell him that you don't care if he takes the money but to send you the amount to come back home only. he said I try calling my friend again and he doesnt pick up because the phone is off i think he left the country already. I said ok so what you should do is call the bank that you had the business account in and tell them what happened and they would cancel the check they gave your friend and he wont be able to cash it because that amount of money there is no bank that would give it in cash they always give a check. he said that one he couldnt find the phone number of the bank because he lost all his papers. so I said go online and you can get it. so he said that he did that and that they told him that there was nothing they could do that the account had $500.00 dollars and that was all the help they can give. so I said this guy is trying to scam me somehow I went online and I found a website when I google the name he gave me and there was someone else saying that he did the same thing to her and that she ended giving alot more money than that because she sent him that money and then he supposely came back to the states and then he would call her telling her if she could help him with the business by sending him more money I guess once he got the amount he wanted he stopped answering her calls same pictures and everything. same names but in on accasion there was another lady that said he gave her a different last name but same first name. i knew there was something wrong because the pictures that he gave me looked like a picture of a model because they looked like the guy was posing on the pictures and when he called me the accent he had was not of a Greek man it was more like an African or Haitian man. so the voice didnt go with the picture. now the reason I told you this is because I would like to know if you are able to do something about this I didnt loose any money and I dont want any money but I would like to help other women out there that would fall in love with this man in the future and he will be able to continue to scam them like he did before me and like he try to do to me... please let me know if you need any futher information because I have all the pictures he sent and I saved the conversation on my MSN when he was asking me for money. when he gave the information as to where to send the money he said that I should sent the money to the hotel manager name because since he didnt have any documents he could pick it up himself but if I sent it to the hotel manage they would both go and he could pick up the money. he then game me a name and information i needed to put on the western union. let me know what you need to put a stop to this man. thank you

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  • Posted 06/21/2013
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