Cole N. Wilson, colelookinggood0010@yahoo.com

[CamPam412]

I have an active Nigerian scammer trying to get $400 wired Western Union today from me. He contacted me on Match.com and within 2 days he had closed his membership. He said that he lived within 30 miles of my town in MN but it is a really small farming town and everyone knows everyone there. He had a daughter (14 yrs. old) and he was Greek. Only lived in the town for 9 months and his ex-wife was in Greece. No future in Greece for him. He was an IT contractor. Exactly one week from the day we started emailing, he told me he was flying to Africa for a big IT contract and there was no one to take care of his daughter, so she was going with him. I noticed that right from the start, he would always receive my email replies 6 hours ahead of my time zone. I didn't say anything because I assumed this was going to be a scam. Within 2 days, he was gone to Africa. Within 2 more days he was down to his last $200 and no one would cash his travelers checks. He said the American Embassy would not help him and that he needed to come back to them in 10 days. He would have to pay $1k to get to South Africa to cash his travelers checks. The hotel was not modernized but yet he told me it was a 5 star hotel, early on. He then told me he had a rat terrior dog but in the photograph he had a lapsa apsa dog. That was interesting! I played a game to string this out some and when he asked for the favor, I created an auto reply for vacation. He received the same auto reply twice and stopped writing. He was to be back at home in MN this past Sunday (11-16-09). I contacted him on Wednesday (11-18-09) and told him that since we were both home, let's meet at Maynards. He wrote back this morning and said that Maynards was close but he was still struggling to cash his checks and get home. He had lost the IT contract. He also invited me to ride the rapids in upnort MN this next week. The problem with that is it is an average temperature of 35 degrees and too cold to go on the rapids. Nigeria is hot now but we are getting ready for snow. He goes by Cole N. Wilson at yahoo (I don't have it right here in front of me but will verify email tonight and post a photograph of him). He is in Mainland Lagos, Nigeria - which is where the Nigerian Love Scammers go to pick up their victim's money at Western Union. BTW - I also have a phone number and woke him up in the middle of his night once...his accent was African...not Greek. I didn't tell him that I had a greek friend and his accent is nothing like what his was on the phone. I told him originally that I would have a church affiliate in Nigeria meet him at the hotel and give him the money. I asked for his hotel and room number. He never gave it to me. BE AWARE OF ANY MONEY REQUEST UNLESS YOU HAVE PERSONALLY MET THESE PEOPLE!

[CamPam412]

Here is his alias contact info. Trying to locate the photographs.
Cole N. Wilson
colelookinggood0010@yahoo.com
phone that I reached him on was: 011-234-7025290426
Skype: j.cole0488 (Wilson Joseph Cole)
Western Union: Cole Wilson
Lagos, Nigeria 23401

He had the secret question and the answer all ready for me to use within minutes.

I hope some of these guys could be stopped but I guess for every person like me that doesn't send money, there are 9 others that will. Don't fall for it no matter what they say.

[CamPam412]

This is Cole N. Wilson's Match.com Profile - In my own words
for fun:
My favorite though is to take my boat out for a day/evening on the lake and also my favorite things, Monsoons, on-time flights, sunsets over water, spicy cuisine, smiles, coffee, eyes, history, U of A., chocolate (the good stuff from EU)

my job:
I love my job and am truly blessed in the opportunities it has offered me to grow. Great company and career. I'm very lucky in that department!

my education:
I have a Masters of Science in Information Technology

favorite hot spots:
Each year I do several trips to Europe for work and beaches for fun getaways. Over the past couple months have been to UK, Netherlands, France, Czech Rep, Germany, Austria, Italy, South Africa and diving in the Bahamas, Hawaii, Key West and Costa Rica

favorite things:
Right now am listening to lady Gaga!

last read:
My career requires a lot of technical reading, so I don't delve into too much fiction. I am into current events and politics, which is where most of my reading interest lies. Magazines: The Economist, Dwell, and Architectural Record are faves

About my life and what I'm looking for
I'm very honest , loyal , consistent person who has good morals and ethics . I'm full of fun , love to laugh and smile as much as possible . I'm very funny and I never seem to run out of things to talk about . I work very hard at anything that I'm trying to accomplish in life even if it is a simple task. My family upbringing and life growing up was very good and so is my belief system and values. I believe in communication at a high degree between people no matter what the situation or circumstance. Dependability , a persons word , making a choice and sticking with it are also very important to me . Obviously these are all important things in life since the 2 biggest decisions we are likely to make in this world are choosing a significant other and having children . A woman that I would like to meet should have these qualities.

I am looking for someone who shares similar values-honesty, trust, open communication. I appreciate someone with a good sense of humor-I think laughter is a gift that needs to be shared often. I am looking for someone that knows how to live a balanced life-style. I am looking for someone who will take the time to get to know me for who I am...a loving, giving, caring, romantic.

About me
Hair: Dark blonde
Eyes: Hazel

Sports and exercise:
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cycling
• Dancing
• Hockey
• Racquet sports
• Running
• Swimming
• VolleyBall

Exercise habits: Exercise 1-2 times per week

Interests:
• Business networking
• Camping
• Coffee and conversation
• Cooking
• Dining out
• Gardening/Landscaping
• Movies/Videos
• Museums and art
• Playing cards
• Shopping/Antiques
• Travel/Sightseeing
• Video games
• Volunteering
• Watching sports
• Wine tasting

Education: Graduate degree
Occupation: Self-Employed / Entrepreneur
Income: $100,001 to $150,000
Languages:
• English
• Other
Politics: Liberal
Sign: Cancer
Pets I have:
• Cats
• Dogs
Pets I like:
• Birds
• Fish
• Horses

[CamPam412]

[CamPam412]

From his message about wiring the money - again early this morning. I have now blocked him in my email program.
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[CamPam412]

This is what Cole sent me this morning because I have stopped all communication and he thought I was sending him $400 via Western Union. He also sent two new pictures and one was with his daughter. He originally told me that his daughter was 14 but this girl looks younger than 14.

Please respond to this email if you are well as i want us to try to work together at saving
this. I really do want to continue to get to know you..I do still feel a connection to you.
If you think this has just been a game and all i wanted was money, I will be very hurt but I will survive. I am looking for someone to be honest and truthful with me and someone that will respect me and will not be wrong about me as I will do the same for them in return. I had hoped that you might be that person...I still do. I also want you to know that there are no bad feeling as you won't be able to help me out. I hope we can get past these and move on. I have some things to explain to you. I really do hope that I get that chance and that we will be able to get to know eachother. I miss what we had started Pamela

[The Wild Geese]

Hello CamPam 412,
This is the one of those we call the psychological tactics. This devil is trying to play on your feelings by making you feel guilty because of not helping him out. Oh yes! I had been there! He will tell you that money can't buy his love for you! You are the love of his life. He can't live without you! Then, comes again and again that reaching out for your wallet. Forget this scammer. Use your money to yourself. You will be having more fun out of it than giving money to a scammer. He will be having a battery of mishaps one after the other.

[DianaMo]

All
He has surfaced again only this time with a new email ColeWilson76@yahoo.com. He found me on match.com. I have reported him and several others to the site, but they don't seem willing to do anything about scanning for these guys. The phone number he provided me is 0112348059522913, plus the one that Pamela provided is still in service as well. I wish I would have found this site before I sent him and his "lawyer" over $50,000K. I fell for their story hook line an sinker.

The story goes like this (and plays off of Pamela's original entry). He is stuck in Nigeria due to a problem with the contract that he secured. Shortly after the contract started there are an accident and several of the local workers were hurt. His insurance only covered US workers, working aboard. So he had to come up with the money to pay for the deaths. They took his and his daughters passport pending a jail sentence. Since his three years to pay was coming due and payment had not been received. All funds were in US and not accessible from Nigeria. His lawyer confirmed the same. The courts were ready to jail him, the local families had a hit out on him, he needed help from aboard. So I foolishly cleared out my 401K and sent it to his lawyer (Lerry Stuart). For several weeks now they have been trying to verify that I had actually sent the money to this bank in Singapore. I send confirmation receipts from my bank, provided all kind of info, still waiting for them to confirm that they had received the funds.

So up until yesterday Cole was still talking with me. Now he has gone MIA. Although his lawyer still emailed me yesterday. I contacted my bank but there is no way for me to recall the wire transfer. I am just sick over this whole thing. Ashamed and financially ruined. I do understand why people want to end their lives when faced with such things. I am at a lose as to what to do next.

By the way the pictures of course that I have of Cole and his daugther look nothing like those that Pamela posted. He is still claiming to be Greek and he has even brought his "mama" into the story line. He is very believable. What a fool I am. I am sicken with what I have done and how gullible I have been.

Is there no way to stop him, before someone loses their life over him?
Removed real name - Ralph

[Ralph Warner]

hi Diana, I am so very sorry for what has happened to you, please do not blame yourself or begin to believe that you are stupid, the fact is that you have had your good nature abused by a professional liar.


To a scammer, this is their job and as you can see they get very good at what they do.

First up, how did you pay the money, if it was by western Union there is absolutely no way to trace it however there is an extremely low chance that the scammer has not yet picked up the last payments. Contact your local WU immediately and ask if the money has been picked up, if so, ask where it was picked up.

If the money was paid into a bank account, chances of recovering the money are still almost non existent however there is a small chance of being able to track the scammer but an even bigger chance of being able to save somebody else from being scammed, often when a scammer gives a bank account for payment, it will be the bank account of another victim who may be able to be saved from losing (more) money.

If it was a bank account you paid into we will need the emails requesting money as well as the email where he has given the bank account details as well as the header for each, armed with this information we can certainly slow this scammer down somewhat.

I will post this now so you can get onto WU straight away and I will edit in some other things that you need to do.

please dont go away, we are here for you.


Continuing on
Once we have established that the money is gone, the next thing is to make sure that you are safe from losing more money or indeed keeping the scammer from bothering you further, it is very important that you understand that the scammer as well as anybody you were introduced to are all most likely the same person if not part of the same group, do not trust anybody that you were refered to.

Next is to ignore any future attempt to contact you, any attempted contact in regards to this will be either the scammer professing his innocence with more lies or the scammer trying to steal from you with a new set of lies, thoroughly check out anything that lands in your inbox and ask here if you have the slightest doubt.

By continueing to communicate with the scammer you will be prolongling your hurt, re-establishing a route for the scammer to steal even more from you and potentially teach the scammer to be better at his job, there can be nothing good come from you contacting him or replying to him in any way.

You should also be aware that the chances of getting your money back are virtually zero, your only real hope lies in whether a WU payment has not been picked up yet which would be very unlikely in itself. any person who contacts you to suggest that they may be able to catch this person or if they suggest they can get your money back will be yet another attempt to steal from you, view everything with suspicion and ask here if there are doubts.

The next step is to make this scammers job of stealling from somebody else as hard as possible, the best way of doing that is to post as many details as possible about how he scammed you, we have absolutely no interets in your own details or the emails you sent him but anything that he sent you on the other hand is extremely handy, pictures, dating profiles, email addresses and phone numbers are all great ways to keep track of his scam.

Any emails he sent you are also a great way to help, generally, the emails sent by scammers have been copy and pasted many times from one person to the next so there is a great chance that any of his future victims who do a search on the email they were sent and they would be led to the information you can provide us with.

If you have any questions or if there is any way we can help you please ask

[Littlesister]

Okay....so I think I am being scammed by this guy. Anyway the guy I "met" on Match.com wanted to start writing by email right away. His name is Cole Wilson. He supposedly just moved to my city two months ago from Dubuque Iowa. He was very sweet and opened right up with this feeling, dreams, etc. He seemed like he was too good to be true. And of course within a few days he was totally smitten by me and couldn't wait to meet me because he felt he had found "his woman". Well the next thing I knew within a week he had to suddenly make a trip to Nigeria to fulfill a Contract Job. He's an Engineer of Oil Rigs. He is widowed .....for the last 3 years. He has an 18 year old daughter....who he took to Nigeria with him. Within 3 days of being there a terrible accident happened on the worksite and 4 workers were killed and 11 were in the hospital. SO he spent the next two days after that going though pain over the loss and feeling so guilty about it. He visited the families and was going to pay for the funerals and wanted to be able to contribute some money to the families to help them in the time of their loss. He said he was contacting all of his friends and business associtates to donate. And of course he asked me to donate to them. I emailed him a very long email then explaining the financial difficulties I was having myself and that I couldn't afford much if anything. He didn't say..."Oh I understand, don't worry about it then" instead he "Said it's okay Sweetie, I understand but how much can you send? I will send you the information of how to wire it. These people really need our help". There were all of these red flags going up in my head but ....he was so sweet. And he seemed to spending so much time emailing me and calling me.....like he really cared for me. The one thing that was strange to me was he told me his mother was British and his Dad was American, but had died when he was young. So when I was going to speak to him the first time I expected a British Accent. It is not British. It's a very heavy accent and difficult to understand. I kept thinking that maybe I was just paranoid because I was afraid of getting hurt and maybe there really were guys who could be so sweet and could fall in love that easily. But then today he called and suddenly needs more money. So I got on the internet to start trying to find out about this guy or if there had been any accidents lately in NIgeria. Nothing about any of that but saw all the info about scams like this! So do you think this is the same guy???? The other interesting thing is that he supposed bought a cell phone over there just so he could call me, but I've noticed he has called from 4 different numbers. This is crazy!!!

[DianaMo]

It will be helpful if you post the email address(es) and the 4 phone numbers mentioned in the prior posting. This helps others to confirm that this is the same guy.

[duckhunter]

Welcome Littlesister and thank goodness you found us before the scammer convinced you to send money. Many people figure it out much later (myself included, though that was a long time ago).

Please do - as DianaMo suggests - post everything here that we don't already have.

And also, delete this dirtbag from your life ... phone, email, chat, everything. Don't even give him a clue that you are on to him.

@DianaMo -- welcome back. It would appear that you've found a way to get past what happened and move on, maybe even help others based on your newfound awareness. I sincerely hope all is well with you.

[Littlesister]

Good points. I am happy to list my "Cole Wilson"'s info. The email address he wrote from is ottumwawilly@yahoo.com. I looked up the IP address for that email (after doing some research on how to do that) and then went to some of the (many) emails he sent me and they all originated from Nigeria.....even the first few he sent when he was supposedly here in the USA, in my hometown!! I have blocked him from my email addresses. I sent him one last email and simply told him that all of the reasons he told me that he couldn't get money over there were not true and anyone who looked it up on the internet would know that. From the tone of my email and the things I said he knew his scam was over with me. The numbers he called from were:
+2347057133596
+2348167565237
+2347057133 This one looked a lot different.....notice it isn't as long, but this is the last number he called me from yesterday Jan. 29, 2011.
Another time he called it showed up as PRIVATE on Caller ID.
Actually I didn't clarify very well in my first post. When he asked for money to help out the poor Nigerian families who had lost someone in the Rig accident I did send $200. through Western Union. I am so mad at myself because I definitely couldn't afford it and there were misgivings when I did it. Yesterday when he asked for money he needed $3000. I thought at the time even before I thought of it being a scam that this guy is really an asshole......here I had explained my financial difficulties and a man who claimed to love me and is financially successful is asking ME for money?
I am so glad you have this info on here. I can't believe I was so naive!!! I also reported him to Match .com.....not that it will do any good since he used false info with them I'm sure. But the more people who report to them maybe they'll see the problem is a valid one.

[The Wild Geese]

Littlesister wrote
Another time he called it showed up as PRIVATE on Caller ID.

When a caller's number shows Priv. on caller's ID it is because he programmed his cellphone to hide his number. When he makes a call, you will not be able to see the caller's number.
So my dear little sister, ignore any calls with private or hidden numbers. In this case you will not be able to pick up any call by mistake from your former foul smelling mugu. Yes, these kind of people are even worst than any shameless beggar you can meet. They will tell you that they are successful professionals or businessmen but they will be asking money from the love of their life because you are the only one they can trust and can extend a helping hand to them due to unexpected circumstances they call. Drop him little sister. Forget everything about this leech. You will be better off without this beggar who is just interested in your wallet.

[FrumpyBB]

I sent him one last email and simply told him...

This means he will still definitely continue to contact you because you have ignored the very important "Ignore the scammer!" rule.
So please in future, ignore all his contact attempts - even if they come after months from now...