MSG Robert Mclaughlin has been assisting our readers ferret out military dating scammers since I wrote Internet Dating Scam: Fake Soldiers back in October of 2009.
Moreover, he’s also been educating us about how to avoid getting caught up in a military dating scam.
His latest comment highlighted in point form all the things to look for when you meet someone online who says he or she is in the military. (Note: some changes have been made to the original text simply for readability. The original meaning remains unchanged).
- If he says he is military do not trust, especially if he uses a hotmail, yahoo or other free email account address. Ask for his email address ending in .mil. All military folks have one. If he says he doesn’t have one, or won’t give it to you, he is not a soldier. If he says it’s secret then demand the other one. YES, there are classified email addresses out there but all military personnel also have an unclassified address.
- Is he claiming that someone in his family died? Wife, parents, kid,etc? Check the social security death index to verify his claims.
- Is he divorced? Ask him in which county he received his divorce decree. Records of the divorce will be on file and many counties have the information online now.
- If he is telling you that he needs money to take leave, here are some facts. We earn 2.5 days of leave per month. That’s 30 days a year. If we pay for leave we only pay the plane ticket in the states. So maybe he needs $400 to fly coast to coast. You do not want a man who cannot even afford a plane ticket at that age. We pay no money for leave at all. The form we use is DA31, Google it. Anything else is fake.
- If he is under cover or on secret work he would never tell you unless you have a clearance and a need to know what he does. So that is a lie.
- Ask for a picture of his CAC card or have him take a picture of himself for you and have him write your name on a piece of paper for the photo. That is very simple to do.
- Scammers who lure women talk of love now and in the future. Scammers who lure men do so with promises of sex. Remember if the person is not acting like the opposite sex, it is a scam.
- Ask their name, rank, and social. Not classified and even what you tell the enemy when captured. If he wants you to show your devotion by sending money, well he can show his by providing information you can verify.
- I have checked out over 50 claimed soldiers for folks here. Only one was really who he said he was. The odds are that his claim of being a soldier is fake if you have doubts.
Thanks again kindly to MSG Robert Mclaughlin for providing us with this very useful information.
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How to trace an IP-address (if you receive any mail you don’t trust!)
Try to find the “message-header” in the mail you got. (check your mailprogram on how to find this information!!!)
There you will see all kind of information, your mailaddress (either sender or receiver)
and the mailaddress from the other party (either sender or receiver)
Find: (if you want to know where the person who sent the mail over to you):
Return-Path:
Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com (mailout-us.gmx.com. [74.208.5.67])
Copy this number into a IP-tracker or IP-tracer: (http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/)
Enter the 74.208.5.67 in the box and click enter :
The next thing you will see is:
74.208.5.67 IP address location & more:
IP address [?]: 74.208.5.67 [Copy][Whois] [Reverse IP]
IP country code: US
IP address country: United States
IP address state: n/a
IP address city: n/a
IP address latitude: 38.0000
IP address longitude: -97.0000
ISP of this IP [?]: 1&1 Internet
Organization: 1&1 Internet
Host of this IP: [?]: mailout-us.gmx.com [Whois] [Trace]
(in this case that is the @USA.com mailaddress server, located somewhere in the USA)
If there is another number in the messageheader(in this case there is a gmx.net!), copy that as well, doing exactly the same thing as I told you before:
Received: from 196.46.245.49 by rms-us011.v300.gmx.net with http
Then you will see what’s below:
196.46.245.49 IP address location & more:
IP address [?]: 196.46.245.49 [Copy][Whois] [Reverse IP]
IP country code: NG
IP address country: Nigeria
IP address state: Lagos
IP address city: Lagos
IP address latitude: 6.4531
IP address longitude: 3.3958
ISP of this IP [?]: Vee Network Limited
Organization: Vee Network Limited
Local time in Nigeria: 2012-05-30 14:32
So, there was my proof: The scammer used a server that was located in Nigeria!!!! To be exact: Lagos
I hope that all ladies reading this, will find out for themselves (and if you do not know your way around computers or internet: ASK someone who does!!!) Better safe than sorry !!!!!
Hi, me again.
Initially I blocked (Facebook & Skype) “my” general (Herbert McMaster), but since I read all these stories about the woman that DID get involved, I wanted to see if the scammers would want to take our conversation to another level (after confronting them with their lies). And SURE they did. On skype, last sundaymorning (they went quiet on me for 12 hours) all of a sudden (after asking for the .mil -emailaddress) I got this message:
“since he didn’t trust me anymore, because I didn’t trust HIM anymore, he wouldn’t want to give me his .mil address.
I told him, that no High ranked army general would send over a parcel to me, without even knowing me and without me having clearance! I’m an outsider!!! And He sure wouldn’t have sent “important documents” over to someone, he didn;t even know!!!! Ladies, PLEASE, PLEASE be aware of this scam! NEVER let anyone sed you a package over!! For all you know, they may contain drugs… or even bombparts!! (You don’t know how far they go) and since you would be paying for the package, the papertrace would lead to you!!!
Then, getting all angry at me, he tried to make me feel guilty again, telling me, that he would have arranged a quick videochat (LOL) Stating: “and we both would have done that fast so no one knows..”… (A real General would want to know for sure, I had clearance!!!) and would stick to the “no contact allowed”!
He continues by saying” MADAM, (getting all official on me now) Do you know who you are talking to? I bet you don’t!
This is what he actually wrote: “I have to stop contacting you so i do not get myself into trouble that will jeopartize ( poor English) my career okay.. ”
That is when he stopped sharing connection details.
He had a facebookpage (still exists!! Herbert Raymond McMaster, with a link to the official Wikipediapage) but removed me as a friend yesterday, and even made a new one Yesterday (Gen. Herbert Raymond McMaster). I reported online to US Army CID!
They get into your head ladies, please be aware that if they are for real, they NEVER would ask you to do anything that would get YOU in trouble(for you are the woman he wants to spend his life with FOREVER!!!) . I tried to see how far they would go to get the money: so I told “him” that I didn’t have that kind of money, that I would have to ask my friends (he said, please do, but don’t tell them you need it for me)… and then I said ; “I might ask the bank for a loan”… (since he would come over next monday and we have a national holiday, I felt safe saying that, because he stated the package needed to be paid for and had to arrive before he came over and after payment it would take 3 days for the “Diplomat” to bring the package to my doorstep!!!!!
I told him, the bank needed 5 workdays to approve of the loan (so the approval would be on his arrival date) so that wouldn’t be an option…..
Then again he stated I would have to see where I got the money, for so much depended on that!!!!! And I would have to let him know in the morning!!!
MSG Robert McLaughlin : Please let us know, where to report these scammers, for we probably all have received mail and may be able to help figur out, where they are. I wouldn’t want more woman to fall for these guys, they really are VERY good in what they do and I can understand that if woman are promissed the bright future with a retired Army general, they would buy it! Not reading between the lines, not researching any of the things told to them, getting on “cloud 9” and believing every word they say…
MSG Robert McLaughlin,
I got contacted on skype a few weeks ago by supposedly : Brigadier General Herbert Raymond McMaster (himself) hahahaha.. .telling me he would want to come over, the “woman he wanted to spend his life with, after he found me to be so “pure” ….. sweettalking and buttering up to me….
Lots and lots of alarmbells… NO videochat possible as he was on a mission in Afghanistan now, “making time in his busy schedule” just to talk to me….
First question I asked myself : How in Godsname, did he find me ( “plain jane” from Holland) on skype (I guess just random namesearch) and see if I would buy it…
Then a @ USA.com mailaddress so we could contact offline..
Now supposedly he’s had to ask for a leave, had to wait 2 days for approval, wanting so much to meet me in person and hold me, love me…
All the time, during those 3 weeks, I have been asking questions, to find out if this was for real. Some were answered, some were denied… (more bells ringing, always an appology of an emergency so he had to leave all of a sudden) stating that he didn’t have time as he was working 18 hours, 2 rest and 4 hours sleep…
I was just waiting for the please I have to ask a question” …. and Yes it arrived:
He mailed me last night that his leave was approved and I had to help him get his personal belongings Clothes, books and very important documents)
This is his way of starting the conversation:
Okay my love… I was wondering if you could help me receive my parcel from a security company that is affiliated to the United Nations where i kept if for safe keeping before my mission here in Kabul,The parcel contain my private cloths,books and important documents..It’s going to be delivered to you through United Nations Diplomatic Delivery Service and i want you to keep it safe for me before my arrival…
But before the parcel can be delivered to you there is a delivery fee that needs to be paid,As you know I’m on mission here,because of that I don’t have access to cash from here. I want you to please help me pay the delivery fee. I will pay back as soon as I come over okay honey..?
I had to contact : info.united.nations_delivery@diplomats.com
And you will be contacted back on how you can make the payment and how the delivery will get to you okay honey..
and it was getting better by the minute!!:
My love, my parcel has to be in Holland first before my arrival date for so much depends on it okay honey..
So I told him I didn’t have that kind of money and wouldn’t send it over anyway, to somebody I had never met. Stating that such a highranked Army officer must have more than enough ways to come over (and have his personal belongings send to him AFTER he would be over here), without asking ME for money….
Then He tried to make me feel guilty, for I promissed I would do everything to make his stay over here more enjoyable and now I didn’t want to help him…
So then “he got a headacke”… and thought I better go to bed 🙂
I replied him with the 419-scam webaddress, stating that if he as who he said he was, he would come over regardless…. haven’t heard from him since…
just now, after reading all the comments, I asked for his .mil address.. he’s still online, but still no reply!
The story might continue… or not… I will see if they try and play me again tomorrow.
I Feel sad for the woman that “bought” all the lies, and I DO understand why they would so easily fall for this scam, since they have a way to “get” to you on a psychological level, buttering you up, till you can’t take no more… make you feel loved and wanted. Telling you all the things you WANT to hear! Making you the center of their Universe! (If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is….. never ignore your gutfeeling in this!!) They just didn’t get away with it with me, because I studied the human brain too long for that…
I hope this is a warning to all the woman out there… wanting so much to find true love with an Army soldier!!
to claudia … i just read your post …. omg you are sure scamm …. cuz am from canada and there is not such thing as what he told you …. i have a friend who is a canadian soldier and he told me some thing about the canadian army ….. i was scamm before who pretend to be a us soldier … they always say the same words … there wifes died and bla bla bla….. but i had a happy ending i found the real person annd now we are good friends
Dear Molly, “General Peterson Sivewright” is on metro dat. I have got the following email of him.
My Claudia ,
I am a General Peterson Sivewright and work with the CANADA Army Cyber ??Command (Cyber ??Army) is a service, the Army included command support U.S. Cyber ??Command. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command / 9 Army Signal Command (NETCOM/9thSC ()) 1 Information Operations Command (country) (1st IO CMD (L)) (Parts) Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) will be under the operational control of Army Cyber ??Cyber-related events.
Right now I am serving in AFGHANISTAN for a period of six months from the day I spent three months and will soon come and meet with you to meet us face to face. I am very interested in you with all your heart, if you consider its demand that you love and be in love with you forever.
Here in AFGHANISTAN I am sure that access to a computer, but I do not have access to phone calls because we are in the field of serious crime against the Taliban. Also, I was in Liberia in Africa on a peace mission has only to mention a few. In Liberia, the 4year son as a boy in 2005, that I take full responsibility for the train after I saw with my own eyes how his parents were brutally murdered by the Rebels army in a town near Monrovia, the capital. Now studying in the neighboring country, also in West Africa and is also very important to me.
In addition, I am 57yrs old and 58yrs old I will be in September. I live in Toronto. My wife died in a car accident in 2008, I was so alone since then, but now I need a sincere and honest woman to love sincerely and honestly from the depths of my heart that I can view all my love and my wealth again I think I should stop here now. Please tell us more about your own people your work. I wait to hear from you soon. I really need you as my life partner and I seriously only if they give me this opportunity and I believe it will work for us, frankly, because in three months time, we need to know so well. I have a huge salary when I’m out here to have full access to my payment and I’m sure they will take care of our widest dreams in this life.
I can always send e-mails or to chat with you online, because I can have access to a computer because the computer must do their job every day. You are so special to me and I have faith in that field and I hope sincerely that came into my life as soon as possible.
I want you to listen to this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYdAL5qfsSA&feature=related
General Peterson Sivewright.
CANADA ARMY
“General Peterson Sivewright” is user on Metrodate. User Name is: FunGuyInBirmingham7741. He send me this email:
My Claudia ,
I am a General Peterson Sivewright and work with the CANADA Army Cyber ??Command (Cyber ??Army) is a service, the Army included command support U.S. Cyber ??Command. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command / 9 Army Signal Command (NETCOM/9thSC ()) 1 Information Operations Command (country) (1st IO CMD (L)) (Parts) Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) will be under the operational control of Army Cyber ??Cyber-related events.
Right now I am serving in AFGHANISTAN for a period of six months from the day I spent three months and will soon come and meet with you to meet us face to face. I am very interested in you with all your heart, if you consider its demand that you love and be in love with you forever.
Here in AFGHANISTAN I am sure that access to a computer, but I do not have access to phone calls because we are in the field of serious crime against the Taliban. Also, I was in Liberia in Africa on a peace mission has only to mention a few. In Liberia, the 4year son as a boy in 2005, that I take full responsibility for the train after I saw with my own eyes how his parents were brutally murdered by the Rebels army in a town near Monrovia, the capital. Now studying in the neighboring country, also in West Africa and is also very important to me.
In addition, I am 57yrs old and 58yrs old I will be in September. I live in Toronto. My wife died in a car accident in 2008, I was so alone since then, but now I need a sincere and honest woman to love sincerely and honestly from the depths of my heart that I can view all my love and my wealth again I think I should stop here now. Please tell us more about your own people your work. I wait to hear from you soon. I really need you as my life partner and I seriously only if they give me this opportunity and I believe it will work for us, frankly, because in three months time, we need to know so well. I have a huge salary when I’m out here to have full access to my payment and I’m sure they will take care of our widest dreams in this life.
I can always send e-mails or to chat with you online, because I can have access to a computer because the computer must do their job every day. You are so special to me and I have faith in that field and I hope sincerely that came into my life as soon as possible.
I want you to listen to this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYdAL5qfsSA&feature=related
General Peterson Sivewright.
CANADA ARMY
Hi Robert
I just want to thank you for all your advice and info that was provided on here thankfully i never gave any money this time as i was able to read all of this and check on things before doing anything. The scammer i think was the same person that had gotten me twice before because he knew who to look for. I had it out with him and he got all angry and wouldn’t take any notice of what i was trying to tell him i knew then that he was not a soldier. I have ended our converstations and deleted him permantly i have also reported him to the dating site too.
Many thanks.
Deborah.
Deborah, ANYTHING with an African country in it ask asking for money is a scam. Run!
Dianna, I am a MSG not a COL, wishful thinking. 🙂 Your post shows a classic scam, where they use fancy letterhead and official sounding stuff to impress you into sending cash. It’s a fraud, sorry.
ALL, Ask for that .mil address or tell them to get lost!
Col McLaughlin, I desperately need your help. Guess I was the stupid one here and actually thought i was in love and he with me. we met on speedate,but what i want to know is if he is for real. Sgt Daniel Sherwin bagram kabul afghanistan base. E6 SGT and DOB is 12-6-70. I first sent him a phone and we talked for a few times. then it was for a laptop to keep constant communication with each that he hid supposedly. then wanted private leave home to me because his name was not on the list to come home and needed alot of money wired. first was for flight, and processing of fees. i have a copy of the reimbursement paper here that i had to fill out for when he would return with a militay stamp and all on it and the name of Brig general Les A Kodlick public affairs office Bagram Airfield,
afghanistan APO AE 09354 and is also stamped with DEPT OF THE ARMY, OFFICE OF THE ASST SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, WASHINGTON D.C. AND LOOKS LIKE IS HAND SIGNED BY ALEX CRASS, this is why I really thought it was real and sent back to them cos was a reimbursement form 3rd Infantry army division in Afghanistan saying i would get funds back when he got to the states, cos he said no funds can be touched while in the war zone. i sent that, then it was money to bring his top up card and military travel stamp to the minimum amt to travel, again i paid that, then it was for replacing officer and i again paid that. i even got an itineray of his flight that i can forward along with email addresses of where my info came to wire the funds to a diplomat in malaysia named iness smalley. i waited at the airport only for him to not show on that flight, and delta told me the flight had issues when i contacted them and said they were in the process of rebooking passengers and hopefully he would contact me. i contacted the email addresses i had and they said that his offgoing troops had been attacked by militants and he survived and was in the hospital. then he contacted me 3 days later on yahoo messenger. Then i had to pay for the flight again cos he said was not cancelled on time cos of the incident that happened. now i have not heard from him since my birthday 3 days ago after the last pmt was sent. i want this investigated and if he is a real sgt in the army, i want to know and want to have him punished to the fullest extent. please contact me asap cos i do not even know how i am going to feed my kids this month with his open promises that he gave me of being here by now. the phone and computer were both sent to sgt daniel sherwin e6sgt dob 12-6-70 to bagram kabul afghanistan base. Now i am wondering if he had someone that he knew get the money to get him home elsewhere, he is supposedly from Kentucky, i looked at his myspace acct page also, and see that he was real and need to know what is going on, i have lost alt of money, but you can email me and i can send u the emails with amts and where they went to, and want to know how to go about having all of this investigated. i have already reported the abuse to yahoo messenger that he was using to communicate with me other than emails which the email address was danielsherwin0151@yahoo.com. I even received flowers and such on Valentines day in the morning that went through customs. OMG, my life has just fallen apart again, I have not been with anyone in 8 years, PLEASE HELP ME ON WHAT TO DO WITH THIS AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF HE IS FOR REAL OR NOT AND WHAT I CAN DO IF ANYTHING. If this soldier is real, you need to let him know that someone is using his pics, he even showed me pics of him and his uncle and sister and another of a cousin that was not on his myspace acct. OMG how foolish i have been and now in debt way over my head.
Hi Robert
Is there any way to check on a soldier claming to be called Sgt James Robbie he says he is in Kabul but i think it could be a scam as he has asked for 250 pounds in english money to be sent out to a guy in Lagos Nigeria stating that they deal with the soldiers leave and i have read on here and on several other places that we don’t pay for their leave at all. He wants it sending via western union i have not sent any he says he loves me has promised me this that and the other i can be his wife mother to his son etc he will pay for me to go and visit his son when he comes over here etc. I have gone through google images and not found any of the photos he has sent there are some of him in uniform in civi clothes and one of him and his son. I am thinking that these could have been done using photo shop i am not sure also he has sent a photo of his id which has the date missing everything is i think right plus he sent a photo of the form that i have to pay the 250 for a liberty pass card.
I have been scammed two times before being silly to give out money thinking they were the real deal so i am on alert this time not to do the self same thing again.
Are there any real soldiers out there that i can write to and get to know without being scammed? any websites? i have hooked up to the military singles one that i found on here also i am looking at one possibly to join called British Penpals i just want to know if you know if they are okay and if you have any others that are fine too.
I want you to know exactly the same that happened to me in the MATCH.COM and twice (LOL) (change username) but the firts was called Staff Sergeant Javier Lopez (Roo) and then Sergeant Sam Lopez and also they asked for Iphone, Ipod, Cell Blacberrie, boxers, shirts, men cologne, money. I have several photos of the Navy sergeant in uniform and in civilian clothes with his child with his mother, they also were widowed and when he got back home we would get maried… the same… and also they asked me to send things to Ghana to this a second address,
Nana Ofori Asante
Address : P.O Box 8698,
Accra North.
Ghana.
Well I want to join this, because I dont want this people use the image of our soldiers for this misuse and dont want to think how many women have fallen into this trap.
sincerely
Patricia
I want you to know exactly the same that happened to me in the MATCH.COM and twice (LOL) (change username) but the firts was called Staff Sergeant Javier Lopez (Roo) and then Sergeant Sam Lopez and also they asked for Iphone, Ipod, Cell Blacberrie, boxers, shirts, men cologne, money.
I have several photos of the Navy sergeant in uniform and in civilian clothes with his child with his mother, they also were widowed and when he got back home we would get maried…… and also they asked me to send things to Ghana to this address,
Felix Adu Ntim Annan lucky
PO.Box at 2023
Achimota Market Accra _
Ghanna
Well I want to join this, because I dont want this people use the image of our soldiers for this misuse and dont want to think how many women have fallen into this trap.
sincerely
Patricia
Deborah, you posted a link to your email box so I cannot see it.
Hi Robert
Is this card the real deal please?
http://uk.mg40.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=3g3f2bge2n3t7
and for my previous post, please check this person out, his name on facebook is Ken A. Victor, alot of the pictures you can google, except the ones he is claiming as him, i have not found them yet, and i am glad i didn’t get conned, but i hope someone can find the man whose pictures he is using, and let him know. its horrible people can try to scam others and use military men to do it!
i met a man online, who emailed me out of the blue, says his name is Ken A. Victor, his profile is still on facebook. his email he gave me is kenvictorr@yahoo.com
i never thought to ask for a military email, i didn’t know this info until i started looking around. well about a week after we started talking, he starts in oh i love you i want to marry you i want to leave the military, etc.. he said he was a german soldier in afghanistan and he will be able to leave in about 2 to 3 months. well then he gets me on yahoo imstant messanger, and says oh my friends and i found large sums of money, can i send it to you. well, i said this sounds like a scam to me, and then he blocked me lol! well i started looking around online, alot of the pictures he has you can find on google, the only ones i havent found are the ones he claims is him. so i know this person is a scammer, i just feel horrible for the soldier who’s pictures he is taking and claiming to be him
I joined match.com on Wednesday and the next day received several requests to chat, one from a military man who calls himself James Harry, apparently a Sargeant E6 stationed in Libya and working for US military and the UN. Says he closed his profile on match.com as soon as he saw me and asked me to get an account on yahoo messenger so that we could chat. He is divorced from his wife who he found sleeping with his best friend. He has a son in NY and he will be retiring soon to live in Florida where his father used to live. He is being discharged on May 10th. He is enamored with me, sends me poems and love songs. He says he has a birthday on April 28th. He asked for candy and cookies. I told him that I would send him some if he gave me his address. He said nevermind. Should I run?
“General Peterson Sivewright ” I was not trying to get a contact for dating he came thru Skype and then thru Yahoo Messenger . He claims he is in the Canadian Army and is in a peace keeping tour in Iraq. He asks for money for Maxwell his adopted boy. He has pictures on Facebook and ChristianMingle site. He is trying to get money into the country to be wired to my account which I refused. He has a brother he claims took all his money used on drugs and needs help for his son in Guyana.Pictures of his brother and Maxwell and pictures of himself in uniform and talking with press. He states he believes in long distance relationships if you trust in God. He even gave an address in Quebec for his house. He claims he lives in LA and wife was killed in an accident.
Well I found it and his email is from Nigeria, no surprise there. Thought I should put his sons email address out there also nicolaso63@yahoo.com.
Ive been talking to a man online, he tells me that he is in Kabul. His name is Seargent Orlando Blake. His email that he writes me is orlandoblake51@yahoo.com. He has been telling me that he is in love with me and lately that he wants to marry me. He even has had his son emailing me. The problem is he resently told me he requested a leave so he could come home but hes asking me for money to get him home. He says hes from Maryland, and cant ask his son for the money and has no other family. Im positive its a scam.Can you tell me if his name or email has come up before all the sites i go to ask for money to check out the name or email.
Sorry misspelled his name: Staff Sgt. Eric Kocher Former U.S Marine.
Just an FYI. I found out that the person on match.com who tried to scam me was using Staff Sgt. Eric Kocker photos from the HBO miniseries “Generation Kill”. Found them through Google photo search. I can only hope this marine gets informed his pictures are being used this way. I really have no idea on how to get a message to him. MSG McLaughlin or Ms. Gardner maybe you can help get a message to him.
Christy, there is no BLACK OPS in the US military. That is a Congressional term for where secret money goes to. It is NOT a military term unless you are playing a video game. And then of course the “no you cannot contact me” bit. Say fine, email me when you get to the USA.
Thank you MSG McLaughlin for your repy. I have already confronted this person with what I have found out and asked him to prove he was who he claimed to be by asking for a picture of himself in his uniform holding a sign with my name on it, his military email address, full name, rank and serial number. Guess what, he got offline and no word since. No suprise to you but I feel very foolish. I at least was smart enough to check before I sent him anything. I have pictures of the solider he is impersonating and I feel very bad that there is nothing I can do to to tell this solider his photographs are being used this way. If that jerk hadn’t given me that shipping email (us.carrier78@hotmail.com) I would have still been communicating with him. What do you recommend, for future reference other than what I listed above, I do to check these men out to make sure they are legit? Again thank you for your time it is really appreciated.
Laura, he is fake! No .mil email address! Wilson here is fake too, police do not use hotmail!