I had met a male on plentyoffish.com who said he was overseas touring in Iraq. He claimed to be part of the U.S. Military. His e-mail address is [email protected]. He exchanged emails with me back and forth for about a month. Then he asked me to wire $100.00 dollars to his son who was studying abroad in Canada. Shortly there after he asked me if he could send me a package. He already had my address, and without my consent he put my information on it. He said he was sending me 1.2 million dollars from Iraq via a Diplomat who would hand deliver it to me. I didn't have a chance to say no before the package was enroute. The "diplomat" got my number and we stayed in contact via the phone and E-Mail on his whereabouts. Today I recieved a nasty email from the "diplomat" who said he was stuck in Ghana with no more money to get past customs so that he could deliver the package to me. He asked me to wire 2,000.00 dollars to Ghana so he could finish the trip. I became suspicious of the whole thing when the email began getting nasty. Then I went to try to wire the money to Ghana and was told that I could not wire any money there because of the high amount of fraud taking place. I had a feeling this was a scam, but the man I met online seemed so genuine and sincere. I am glad that I only lost out on 100.00 dollars, but still someone should know that they are posing as American soldiers on dating websites and attempting to get people to wire them money.
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