Regrettably, I have to say that I was scammed by someone using a photo from the same collection as the one posted above is found. I did lose some money to this person, unfortunately, and she (he/they) caught me at a moment in time when I was weak and vulnerable, and getting out of a bad relationship and trying to rebound. I am computer savvy, but never came across this site until today. The story behind hteir life was believable, and I never once thought it was a scam until some weird things happened, that made me dig deeper. Anyways, I was able to track my scammers IP to Nigeria, where she said that she was. This scammer is a real pro, and even worked into their scheme that their email address was stolen and I had other scammers helping the original scammer scam me by trying to impersonate the original scammer... I was so confused earlier this week, I didn't know if it was scammer 1, 2, or 3 trying to get me.
Her story was believable, and thats how i got hooked I guess... we had chatted for close to 3 weeks, before she told me that she wanted to get togehter. The whole time she claimed to be in the states, working as a fashion model. Therefore the pics she sent seemed to make sense to me. She told me that she had to do some fashion work over in Africa for some show over there, and it was not until some recent research that I realized what a bunch of criminals reside in Nigeria. I know now. I also now know that she was there the entire time working on me from 4 different computers, of which, only 1 has the IP address of a known scammer.
This person promised to meet me, with my help (of course), and even sent me money orders (supposedly from her modeling work) sent to my home address from some place in IL. After calling Moneygram and finding out that the money orders were fake (VERY GOOD fakes, so good that the Moneygram people could not tell that they were fake!), I finally knew that I was in the middle of a big scam and in a complete mess, and that I would never recover my money or the valuable time I wasted on this person. She was after more money and I am glad that I wised up and did the proper research before I sent anymore funds...
Here is the info:
Site: Iwantu.com
Handle: Rose406
EMAILs:
adamsrose_002@yahoo.com,
adamsrose_022@hotmail.com,
gentlerose_beauty@yahoo.com
IP: 80.89.176.35
Pics: Nicole from Focushawaii.com
Nevertheless, I did lose some money to them... alot of money by some peoples standards, but not a alot to me. I will be sure to play it safer online in the future, and watch out for all the signs posted here.
I regret that this was my first online dating experience, as this whole situation really leaves a bad taste in my mouth...and takes away from the little bit of trust I had left after my wife left me... but I will pick up the pieces and move on, like I did before.
By the way, great site. Hopefully putting this info out here will help some people out, before they get robbed, like me.