Multiple Faces Detected
April 13th, 2022
Linda a woman from Kentucky, was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin by a man she met on Match.com. The story followed many of the patterns of romance scams, but like most people who have never heard of romance scams, Linda was unable to see the signs until it was far too late.
It all started when Linda matched with a man named Philip on Match.com. Philip was only Linda’s second Match on the app. When she matched with the first person, she could clearly tell that the profile was fake. But Philip seemed different. They started talking right away, and they developed a deep bond.
Philip claimed to be a traveling engineer who was working on a project in Oregon. He said that he would meet up with her once he got back to California. The two set a date and a time to meet up, but two days before they were supposed to meet, things changed.
Philip said that he landed a new project in England worth big money. $800,000 – $1M to be exact, so they would have to postpone their meeting in person.
Before he left for England, Philip needed to ask Linda for a favor. He needed her to transfer a large amount of money for him. She agreed.
During this time, Linda and Philip were talking on the phone, and Linda started developing suspicions. Even though Philip claimed to be originally from Germany, he had a thick accent that was extremely hard to place. She couldn’t be sure where it was from, but she knew one thing for sure, it was not Germany. But she ignored it.
Once Philp went to England, trouble started. First, he said that he was unable to access his bank account to pay his employees, so he would need Linda’s help. Linda was uncertain about sending him any money, but she felt guilty. Philip had entrusted her with so much. He sent her his bank account information and gave her access to his funds so she could send them. Because of this, she felt that she could trust him to repay her, so she sent him the money he asked for.
Once she sent him money to pay his employees, a couple of weeks passed, and Philip was done with his project. He said that he could finally fly home to meet her. But once he was boarding the airplane, he was stopped from leaving the country. He claimed that he”owed $600,000 to the British government” and they wouldn’t let him go home until he paid it.
Linda helped him through the process of being able to come back home. She helped him with his supposed “lawyer fees”. She also helped him pay back the money he claimed to owe. All in all, she sent over 80 transactions amounting to over $100,000 in Bitcoin.
After Linda Turned to the Social Catfish team for answers, we were able to use our reverse search technology to prove that Philip was a scammer. At this time, it is uncertain whether or not Linda will be able to recover her lost money. But one thing’s for sure, ‘Philip’ was a scammer for Lagos Nigeria.
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