Stefano Muller - Stefanomuller@ymail.com

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Stefano Muller - Stefanomuller@ymail.com

Postby Claire on Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:11 pm

I have been approached by a scammer located in Malaysia, under the name of Stefano Muller.
He said he was an engineer working for http:/ /www.jlengineerings.com. Please note even this website exists!
However everything is fake on the site. The phone numbers on the site are from the scammers.
He presented himself as a widower. He told he had a daughter of 8 years old. He was doing some business in Dubai, but would return to Europe (or whatever the country of his victim is).
He wanted to build a relationship with me, get to know me, marry me etcetera.

Already very soon he requested my help financially. He had the guts to ask for almost 14.000 Euro's.
He came up with false documents.
His phone number is : +97 150 258 0640.
His IP address is : 115.134.76.203

After his request for money, I asked him to phone me. Already I was very suspicious right from the beginning. Immediately I heard that this was an african male voice, which did not match the pictures.
I confronted him about being a scammer. He turned very upset, and tried to manipulate me.
This is their tactics to play on the feelings and manipulate strongly.

Here is one of his many manipulative, smoothly written emails. I attached also the pictures he is using.
I feel very sorry for the man in the pictures being abused by the scammer.

Examples email:
I am Stefano Muller and i am Italian by birth. I am the Chief Executive JL Engineerings. I work for an engineering consulting firm that provides clients with renewable energy engineering services for energy related projects. I am a non smoker, but drink Occasionally and very light. I am ambitious, optimistic, playful, hard working, devoted, intelligent, trusting, honest, sincere, witty and easy going person. I'm very passionate in all areas of my life. I am very responsible and try to eat right, walkout and live a healthy life. I stay active and have a good time doing it. I believe in a healthy relationship...
I value honesty and sincerity of a person. I go for simple things in life. I may not be the perfect man, but I know my heart is pure and genuine when it comes to friendship or relationship. I think it's important to understand and accept each others strengths and weaknesses. It is important to have passion, romance, physical attraction, a playful attitude, with lots of laughter, i strongly believe in this. I have strong family values and morals.
Life as it is, has made me become a widower for some years and some months now, ever since i lost my wife, i have tried to focus so much on my work, trying to deny myself of not having a woman in my life anymore, but now i have realized that i miss so much, i need that special person in my life and i want to feel love in my life again. I joined the site to find a caring and honest woman. I really admired your profile, then i decided to show an interest in you by sending you a mail. Annemarie all i want is a relationship which will lead to having a future together. I do not want to grow old alone. I would drop here and hope to hear from you again.

Sincerely, Stefano
P.S: We can chat on Skype, Windows Live messenger or Yahoo messenger in the evenings, I'm usually logged on with my phone and on my laptop when I'm not at work. Instant messaging is a better and more interactive way of getting to know someone over the computer. my chat id is" stefanomuller@ymail.com "

And another example:
Hello my love, How are you this morning? I hope you slept well. Unfortunately for me these Dubai people are more difficult than I thought. After paying for the storage of my goods, I have to pay for the insurance, bill of lading, pro-forma invoice and before I leave behind and to travel. I was not able to make great progress. Although I obtained some support from my friends, But I still need some assistance from you. I do not know if you can afford to assist me, so as to settle everything and leave this place as soon as possible.
I really don't want to keep telling you words that sound like I'm saying the same thing over again but the truth is I feel compelled to write you about how I'm really feeling. Since the first day I sent you an email, we've shared something incredible, something that most people only dream of. I did not know I had been searching for you for a very long time. You have made me the happiest I have ever been. You are sincere, caring, loving and I wouldn't trade you for the world. I am so thankful and blessed that you love me as much as I love you. We have been communicating for some time now, and I have cherished every moment with you. I cannot wait to meet you. I love you more and more everyday. Thinking about our future fills me with anticipation and excitement. I see us having an amazing life together. All of our dreams are coming true. I will be forever grateful that you came into my life and all my dreams come true. Together we are perfect, and I will spend the rest of my life with you. I love you more than words can express. You are a gift to me.
Thinking about you with much love, I love you.

The question for money mail & all the details for payment !!!I honestly don't know how to start this message. Firstly, I want to say thank you for giving me a shoulder to lean on when I needed it most. Annemarie i am not asking you to give me the whole 14,000 Euros. What ever you think you can assist me with is alright, but please after making the transfer, i would need a scan copy of the transfer slip as evidence to pick up the funds. I will pay you back your money as soon as i am done with my project. Below are the account details of a staff of the storage company who is helping me make the necessary arrangements, It is where you would be wiring the funds to:
NAME: NAGARAJAN A/L THANASAKODY
ACCT NO : 14300002640207
SWIFT CODE : CIMBMYKL
Bank Name : CIMB BANK BERHAD
Address : GROUND FLR OF NO 2 & 4, THE BOULEVARD SHOPOFFICE,
JLN 11/48A, SENTUL RAYA , 51000 K.L.
Country: MALAYSIA
Thank you for picking me up when I fell. Thank you for giving me the freedom to tell you how I feel without feeling bothered about your reaction. Thank you for your respect of my thoughts and feelings. Thank you for everything. I am so grateful.
Thank you so much
I love you
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Fake documents used by Stefano Muller scammer

Postby Claire on Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:36 pm

In addition to the post on the Stefano Muller Scammer :

These are the FAKE documents that the scammer used, in order to get me to pay some money.

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(Re-posted "fake" documents used by this scammer - watermarked to prevent re-use)
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Re: Stefanomuller@ymail.com - Stefano Muller at Dubai

Postby Myra on Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:00 pm

info via PM
A site that reports fake sites are already working on the fake company site :twisted:
forwarded all the necessary info about http:/ /www.jlengineerings.com
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Re: Stefanomuller@ymail.com - Stefano Muller at Dubai

Postby Claire on Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:38 pm

Additional note, this scammer has also created a facebook page under the name Stefano Muller:

http:/ /www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100002093096850

All together, facebook page, company page, it is all together very misleading. DONT BE MISLEAD.
It is all part of the internet profile of the scammer.
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Updated version ,Re: Stefano Muller - Stefanomuller@ymail.co

Postby JJpan on Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:09 am

This person or this letter is recently revised as following for your reference, and he had 2 accounts with handsome photos on Facebook, one of the photos is a little bit like the one here. I believe his letters are just spamming now.

Hello,

I saw your photo on Facebook and think you are very beautiful woman and will like to know more about you.Let me make a proper introduction of my self.

I am Michael Hoffmann and i am Switzerland by birth. I am GOD fearing, ambitious, optimistic, playful, hard working, devoted, intelligent, trusting, honest, sincere, witty and easy going person. I'm very passionate in all areas of my life. I am very responsible and try to eat right, walkout and live a healthy life. I stay active and have a good time doing it. I believe in a healthy relationship.

I value honesty and sincerity of a person. I go for simple things in life. I may not be the perfect man, but I know my heart is pure and genuine when it comes to friendship or relationship. I think it's important to understand and accept each others strengths and weaknesses. It is important to have passion, romance, physical attraction, a playful attitude, with lots of laughter, i strongly believe in this. I have strong family values and morals.

Life as it is, has made me become a widower for some years and some months now, ever since i lost my wife, i have tried to focus so much on my work, trying to deny myself of not having a woman in my life anymore, but now i have realized that i miss so much, i need that special woman in my life and i want to feel love in my life again. I need a caring and honest woman. I really admired your photo when i saw you there, then i decided to show an interest in you, by sending you a mail. All i want is a relationship which will lead to having a future together. I would stop here, hoping to hear from you soon.

God Bless you
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Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby june20 on Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:11 pm

I discovered this site a few days ago, and I feel bad, that I didn’t know about this before, I would’ve handled this scammer differently. But this is the first time ever I encountered anything like this.

This is the email address he used:

stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

His profile is on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/stefano.gerrard.3

These are his details on FB: (I did not report it on FB, should I have?)
Stefano Gerrard
Works at: Self employed
Studied at University of Manchester
Lives in Manchester United Kingdom
Widowed
Likes: Michael Jackson and favorite movie is Brown Sugar ( :thinking: )

I was contacted on FB. He said he’s 47 y/o (years of age, like he formed it), wife passed away 3 years ago, has a daughter called Anita (9 y/o). Half British, half Italian (I thought that explained the somewhat different use of language..). Wanted to exchange emails, not messages on FB.

Of course he almost immediately started to write about how much in love he was – the usual in other words. Some letters are word-for-word copy-paste from other forum posts I’ve seen on this site. And they like to accentuate how honest and true they are, that everything they say is only the truth. :mrgreen: And they like to point out their faith in God..

One thing that seemed weird from the beginning, is that sometimes the sentences weren’t in a logical order..so now this makes sense, they copy-paste from their “handbook”, sometimes entire sections, sometimes only one sentence from here and the other from there. And long sentences, without any commas, dots etc, not to mention use of capital letters is totally random.

His/their language was quite good (well, English is not my first language either, but I think mine is better)—but these Malaysian scammers are supposed to be more sophisticated then the Nigerian ones-.. after all, they’ve worked their way up in the Mugu hierarchy , to have been assigned abroad.. :twisted:

The emails originated from the following IP-s:

The source IP address is 175.138.11.138.
Geo-Location Information
Country Malaysia
State/Region 12
City Puchong

The source IP address is 175.138.8.113.
Geo-Location Information
Country Malaysia
State/Region 12
City Petaling Jaya

The source host name is "jiz-214-92.tm.net.my" and the source IP address is 210.187.214.92.
Geo-Location Information
Country Malaysia
State/Region 14
City Kuala Lumpur

For some reason one IP was from the US. In this mail he claimed he arrived to UK, after being in Dubai.

Source:
The source IP address is 69.22.174.49.
Geo-Location Information
Country United States
State/Region CA
City Torrance
Latitude 33.8403
Longitude -118.3539
Area Code 310


We chatted on two occasions on MSN, he wanted me to see him on webcam, but that didn’t work, because of his “poor” internet connection… (yeah, right)

What amazes me about these Nigerian SOB-s is their perception, that every white European/American female has tens of thousands of $ just laying around. I mean, seriously..? Or maybe their business is not going well and they won’t bother asking for smaller amounts any more.

Below is the first letter from him---it seems, they’re using scripts from 2010 again (I read the exact same letter from topic “MidasPassions1@yahoo.com”)

So this is the second and last msn conversation, after that I deleted him. He played the “stranded in another country” trick. He had to travel to Malaysia for “business” – to buy some goods. And these were held by customs, so this is what he writes:

Stefano says:
darling things are not going to fine with me over here my love
ME:
really? what happened?
Stefano says:
today i went to the shipping company also owned by the government
They have asked me to pay tax for goods
and i don't have enough money with me.. I am confused
ME:
okay..that sounds bad indeed. How much do they want?
Stefano says:
they want me to pay 1% tax
which is 38,450
i don't know what to do
all this happened because i have spent above my budget
ME:
that is a lot of money...
Stefano says:
yes i know darling
Stefano says:
i have called my frank today
he is not in the country.. but he said he can make a transfer of 15,000 for me
so i still have some balance left that is why i want to plead with you.. if i can get a little support from you
i can't even asses my online bank over here
i mean i think
darling i beg you.. I am stranded in another mans country
are you there?
talk to me
ME:
unfortunately i don't have any money available
Stefano says:
you mean you can't help me with any amount.. i am ready to pay back with interest
Stefano says:
so what do you want me to do for you to believe me
i can send you all document about me
Including a copy of my international passport
tell me what you need
please.. I am really in need here
ME:
no, you don't have to send me anything
Stefano says:
darling please
i really need your help this time
i am so confused
My Hotel bills will expire on Thursday and i don't have any money with me
i am ready to do what ever you require from me
Stefano says:
please i have to send you the document so you can unserstand what i mean
i want to send you all document concerning my business
i need to make use of a scanner
i can't do that now
but i will be able to send it to you by morning
ME:
so how much would you need?
Stefano says:
23,450
ME:
i don't have that much
Stefano says:
how much do you think you can raise for me ?
are you there?
Stefano says:
darling.. if i really had other people to help my situation... i would not ask you.. because i feel so ashamed of myself
but i have no choice.. I am stranded over here
are you there ?
talk to me please
Stefano says:
tell me any thing you need
ME:
i don't need anything
Stefano says:
i guess you are not going to help me ?
Stefano says:
please i beg you
are you there?
Stefano says:
i beg you in the name of God help me
please


Only then I found out from this site that I could have played along and find out much more about him, and that way stalled him from finding another victim. I feel sorry for all the innocent people, who’s photos they use, who are probably living happy family lives, and have no idea, that pictures of them and their children are abused and they are claimed to be “widowed” or “divorced”..

Keep up the good work with this site! :applause: It helped me and I hope it will help to educate many more, so eventually this kind of “business” will see its last day.

**************
I guess you should truly know who i am ,I don't really know how this is to work, but hey! here is an exclusive. If at my age i do not know what and when to say, then what would i be? When a wise man sees he has probably spent about half of his time in life already, he begins to assess his main goals in life. What could be more important than a happy ending? LOL. A man needs to live his life full of joy and happiness. No matter his achievements, he is reduced to nothing if he has no crown to complete him and that is a woman to call his own. Wife and Best friend. A woman who knows that even while arguing they still need to hold hands. A woman whom i can call a partner in crime, lol A woman whom you can tell anything. How could you think anything can make you happier in life than finding a love that knows no bound. To make you know more about me. I will break this down to segments and it would be like a case study.


MY BACKGROUND
I was born into a loving family ,Father Italian, Mother British. My father was an international business man who met this British orphan whose only family were close friends.. She says there was something about the man that no woman could ever resist, sometimes she says she sees same in me, lol During my father's global movement, when i was twelve i and my mother let for England, My father died and My Mother went back to Italy to take over business from were he stoped and to Secure our properties . I met my late wife in London. Very good at heart. Actually i could say i met her in a funny way, would explain that later.


MY JOB
I am self employed.Get Contracts from Countries and Firms, sell my products and make good profit, took over from my father lol,I have been doing this for the past six years ,I think i really have gotten to this height cos i embraced work for so long trying to get over my late wife, that i worked this hard, but i think i now realize i can move on.


MY DREAM
I have told you how my typical dream would be like, i just want to spend the rest of my life enjoying the fruit of my labor. I just want a woman who would be my best friend and everything. You know someone whom we would still love each other more as the days pass by, even when we cant make love anymore and all we could do is play bingo,LOL.hahahahaha


I am a total package , i only need someone who understands the value of a good smile.
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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby june20 on Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:15 pm

These are the photos he sent me:

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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby FrumpyBB on Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:18 pm

You have done so well :) thanks for posting. There are many Nigerian scammers operating from Malaysia. So much that we have a sticky topic on it.

Reporting non paysite profiles is not worth it and actually destroys googleable scam proof. Readers, don´t do it :) It helps only the scammer to hide.

Did he give you a phone number? And do you have a money request email/money request / payment receiver details/ possibl yeven a scammer-.used bank account?
Please try your best to block ALL your scammer´s still incoming messages and calls!

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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby june20 on Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:27 pm

Unfortunately, I don't have any more information on him :roll: Only the MSN chat, where he asked for over $ 24 000. As he was pleading for money, I was researching this site, and one of the first things i read, was to stop all contact with the scammer without explanations, so that I did - closed the chat and deleted him from contacts.

I acted too hastily, as I later read some other topics, I too should have tried to find out some more details and pretend as if I was going to pay..

There has been no further contact via email from him/them. I don't have his phone number.

I'm really glad, that you have this site going and you are informing people of this. There should be at least on every dating site a warning, to check the IP of every email sent from a stranger. I have never done it, but from now on, always will.
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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby FrumpyBB on Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:39 pm

Don´t worry, you´ve done ok :) and yes, in an ideal world, it should be like this. Tho in a perfectly ideal world, there would be no fake love and money-stealing at all.
Please try your best to block ALL your scammer´s still incoming messages and calls!

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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby Delilah on Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:36 pm

Hi
I would like to know more about this case, dates of chat and emails etc. I have collected a lot of information about this/these men. One question: why do you think these scammers do not know about these pages? :thinking:

They contact you (contacted me) on facebook, using the same story and photos and other of the same man (also with a little girl).
Some of them, concernign this case, speak perfect british english, travel to different places, they have "companies", roles like police, doctor, many different british and malaysian (maybe also finnish, swedish) phone numbers, they create false www-pages about real british and malaysian companies and authoroties etc.
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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby FrumpyBB on Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:09 pm

Scammers are locked out off here. You stay anonymous anyway. If no victim confront sthem they usually rarely bother to come here. About once a month. See "Mugu says" in general.

About our approach, we don´t keep a secret big scam info database, we (not just the mods, ALL users is "we") post it for other victims to find, or how did you find us here? Right: by Google. ;) Google led you to here, led tens of thousands victims to here, only because volunteers like me and you post scam info we have. :)
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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby Delilah on Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:13 pm

I will write more information here soon; names, phonenumbers etc.
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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby Delilah on Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:41 pm

I wrote here more today, but where did it all disappear? Frumpy, can you find it?
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Re: Stefano Gerrard, stefano00@hotmail.co.uk

Postby Marisa on Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:07 pm

it could be in your drafts, probably you clicked on Save instead of Submit.
User control panel -> Manage drafts
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