Craig Johnson from Egypt

[dotti]

Alegna,

None of the information he gives you will be true--in fact, it's already an obvious lie, as his name is not Craig Johnson, so his father's last name wouldn't be Johnson either!

We strongly recommend against continuing correspondence with scammers who have your real life information. At this point, he knows you too well, and it is not in your best interests to have him playing head games with you. Plus, if you play with him too much and he gets angry, he may retaliate by posting personal information about you all over the internet, reporting you as a scammer (yes, we know you are not but that won't stop him from posting all over that you are), spoofing your address in his scam emails, leading to you becoming the recipient of lots of angry responses and possibly the loss of your email account (all of these have been done to former victims). While he is not going to fly out and physically harm you (as you have already discovered, the one thing you can count on is that he won't fly out to you) he can still cause quite a headache for you.

[cat2009]

Please do not believe anything that man says. As you can see from my emails he is a con man there is not much you can do about it as he is so far away. I know how you feel and would love to catch this man for him to go to prison but this would never happen.

[terrrit]

I was scammed by Kenneth Robert Thomas, i met this whatever on Black people meet i did send money a lot i have cried more tears then the atlantic can hold. He of course called me sweetie asked for money said he would pay bac any interest rate he sent passport photos, i sent money he also scammed me with some money orders having some one send them to me so i will know he was real. i ignored every red flag i got i felt like i was under a stupid spell, stupid for someone i never even met. I had to actually go see a psychiatrist because of this scam, i am seriously on medication. When i am home alone all i do is call myself stupid in the mirror for being an idiot sending someoone my hard earned money, as if it was just going to regenerate, kept that hope alive Lord if only i knew about scammers before i was stuck on stupid. I have lost my money i was saving for my mother she has alzheimers and is in a nursing home , nursing home patients can not have lif insurance, he has devestated me he Promised to pay me back and i sooooooo believed him....what was wrong with me, I look decent but after all my money was sent he said he was ill, and i never heard from him again. I t is said that i participated in hurting myself i feel like a self mutilator, i am in so much pain for my MONEY. I really dont know what made me do such a dumb act of stupidity and what makes it such a shameful thing i participated after all his begging and lies i wish i would have stayed firm but that lonliness took over in hope of finding a man, i found the DEVIL on a web site who preyed on me and i became a victim and didnt even wanna see it coming because i knew it ws wrong i just talked myself into believing he was going to pull up in mercedes and come and help me wit my mortgage these are some of those magical lies i fell for all these years of living i am ashame that i was so stupid

[Pinky]

Terrrit, you really must stop beating yourself up, here especially. On this site there are many brilliant, intelligent, responsible human beings who have been through the same thing you're going through. By calling yourself stupid, you are insulting them.

Spend a few days reading the many posts on this web site. You will soon realize that you are the victim of the accident of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You are not stupid but you are compassionate, loving, and helpful. The worst thing that you can say is that you were naive.

There is still so much more you need to be aware of. I urge you to read here and then go to the victim support section and vent and allow others to support you through this You are not alone.

[red zora]

Here the scammer has the pictures stolen from
http:/ /www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=Browse&Cache=bbbb309acd773dced5bef8e7076ab55f&page=7
http:/ /www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-5033670-african-american-male-with-beard-dreads-and-sports-jacket.php
http:/ /www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-5040842-young-african-american-man-with-dreads-in-sports-jacket.php

[Tanzie]

I regret to inform everyone that Craig Johnson is on the prowl again. He is using the same pictures. This time he claims to be an American in london on business. He says that him name is Tyron Forbes Jr. He is using the email address ftyronjr@yahoo.com. I was scammed by him. He was on Blackpeoplemeet.com.His username was lovseeker45. He was off the site when i informed blackpeoplemeet.com. All they did was to tell me that they could not give me any information about him only to a Law enforcement agency or a lawyer. They also deleted that webpage so that it would not come up in a google search. I wanted to sue them but the lawyer that I contacted said i would have to pay him more than I was scammed.
A few days later he was back on the website. He is still there. This time he is themanofvalor45. He is using the same pictures. The profile is the same and he claims to be in South Bend, IN. I have managed to track down the young man whose pictures he is using. This tells me the BPM is not vigilent. I have contacted every law inforcement agency in the US, the UK and Nigeria but no one has responded to my complaint.
Interestly enough he wanted me to call his bank to see if his funds were deposited. He gave me the number and I refused to call it. He became very upset. This is putting it mildly. He had a fit. He even called me on my cell. since he was so far away and using a jack I could not understand him clearly but he does have an African accent. He wrote that it is an offshore bank. I presume it is in the UK. The number is 01144 2035141036, I also have the pass code, account number and pin code. Can anyone find out which bank this number belongs to? I did call the number a while after and I was able to access the acount. The next time I called the access was restricted and i was asked to contact my banker Mr. Kelton. The automated system said there was $5 million the first time.
I am 99% sure of who he is. I do have a name. Is there a way that he can be prosecuted to loose this money if that information is real? Somone please respond.

I have posted a video on youtuble please watch it and share it with everyone you know. spread the word!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGLDudWZj4

[FrumpyBB]

Can you please post the url of that bank? It´s a fake bank.

[Tanzie]

There was no Url for the bank the information was sent through Yahoo IM. Here it is in full.
Tel # 01144 2035141036

Pass Code: 9870
Account Number:015525010000
Pin Code: 0222

I think the scammer's real name is Oyedapo Ayodeji Oluwaseun. He is on Myspace. He deleted his last name recently. All the searches of that profile led me to him.

Someone had already told the man whose pictures he is using a few years ago. He used to be a model.

[FrumpyBB]

... when i informed blackpeoplemeet.com. All they did was to tell me that they could not give me any information about him only to a Law enforcement agency or a lawyer. They also deleted that webpage so that it would not come up in a google search. I wanted to sue them but the lawyer that I contacted said i would have to pay him more than I was scammed.

I am so sorry to hear this. Unfortunately, much that local law can do is simply put the complaint onm file, having no jurisictions in West Africa. This is also why scammers prefer untraceable unretrievable cash money transfers.

I have managed to track down the young man whose pictures he is using.

Please take care. You may have very likely alerted a scammer that he is one, now he will start over with "better" gallery. See "realguysearch" link in my siggyline, this is a common concern.

I thought it was a fake bank. Oh I see. Maybe the bank account data was part of the scammer´s massmail message then? Your banker "Mr. Kelton", did he have an email addy the main scammer gave you? I´m not assuming you are talking about a "mule"? Means, another victim now turned accomplice who washes the money to forward it to the scammer? If that mule (if the banker was not the scammer with another email addy, very common scenario!) was an US, UK, EU etc citizen, the police however would have told you...I assume the banker is just another fake identity of the scammer.

[Tanzie]

I think you mis understood me. The scammer Tyron contacted me one night and asked to to check to see if his funds were deposited. He had previously told me he was awiting funds to clear the bank since it was an extemely large amount. I took his information that was sent via yahoo IM but i did not call and he got ectremely upset. So I believe it was real. I call the telephone number a few weeks later and sure enough. I was able to access the account. A about 2 weeks ago and last week I tried it again. The automated system does not allow any transaction to be made. It states that "access is restricted to thtis account , please contact your Banker Mr. Kelton. Call the number and follow the directions. I still believe it is a real account.

[FrumpyBB]

Indeed I did not get it
How can you access a bank account through a phone?
Has the scammer set up a telephone hotline-like fake bank account? [Fake websites would be very common.]
Or do you mean you went into your own account via your smartphone and he told you to expect some money there now?
I.e. was your bank account "flashed" (which would explain his anger since it woul dbe visible, never real, only for a short time) ?
"Your banker Mr. Kelton" is not a mugu contact but your real life house bank bank clerk? Or someone the voice from the "automated system" asked you to contact?

[Tanzie]

Well I do not know if you can acccess a bank account through phone. He said it was an offshore bank. I was never asked to disclose my banking information. He just asked me to call to find out if his funds were deposited. Mr. kelton was the banker the automated system asked me to contact. This happened the second and third time I tried to access the account by phone.

[FrumpyBB]

It all sounds like a scammer setup then. This is a first to me though. Fake banks are far more "normal".