I recently went on Christian Mingle.com and met a Sgt. Clayton Ramos, he seemed nice enough, we began by emailing each other. The email he used was [email protected]. the very first time we chatted, he used a video chat. I don't have Skype so I was using my cell phone to see him. He appeared in Army garb, appeared to be in some sort of Army tent, and we began to talk. He asked to go on instant chat because it would be easier. He immediately sent me pictures of himself, and we began chatting via IM. He said he was a Staff Sargent in the Army stationed in Kabul Afghanistan. Pretty early on he asked me to send money for the Oprhans there that needed food and water. He said that both of his parents were killed in a car crash, and his last girlfriend stole from him so he had his accounts frozen while he was overseas, so he couldn't get to his own money. I didn't have the money to send, he pressured me a lot, I kept saying no. Several weeks went by when he sent a picture of himself holding a sign telling me he loved me, I questioned him, because it looked like he was in a hotel room, he said he was really close with the General and was in the General's quarters. After about a week or so (he sent me love letters in between conversations daily!) he asked me to send money for him to come home, he desperately wanted to get out of there and come and be with me. He said he was 55 but he looked about 40ish, I don't look my age either so that didn't really bother me. He kept pressuring me to send him $3,000 for a plane ticket to come home, I kept telling him I didn't have that kind of money, he told me to borrow the money from someone and the government would reimburse me within the week. When he realized he wasn't going to get it, he finally stopped asking. He still continued to talk with me, but didn't ask for money anymore. He then asked me to send him a Bible, because he had given his to a soldier who had just accepted Christ. So I thought I can do that, if it's a scam I'm not out much, so I put together a little care package. He told me he didn't have an APO box and that I needed to send it through "The Diploma". I have a coworker who has family in the service and she checked out this information, they said yes the Army does use Diploma's to deliver things, depending on where someone is stationed and what their security clearance is. So I thought ok, he is legit. So I sent the package as instructed, the Diploma guy said he was in Ghana and leaving the following week, so if I wanted to get the package to him to deliver to Sgt. Ramos, I needed to send it 3day air and to wire 98.00 to his driver so they could pick up the package. So stupidly I did it, Sgt. Ramos emailed me immediately after receiving the package Thanking me, and telling me how much he loved me and on and on it went.Then several weeks went by and he said he got a hold of his accountant (He'd been drying desperately to get a hold of someone at the bank so he could get access to his money) and he was going to wire me money, once I got it, he wanted me to send it to "The Diploma" and then he could buy his plane ticket to come home. Again, because I had emailed back and forth with "The Diploma" and Sgt. Ramos had received the first package, I thought this was all ok, so I gave him my bank information and sure enough he wired the money, and then asked me to wire it to "The Diploma", which I did. I figured it's not my money, so I was safe WRONG!!! so after two wire transfers, I received a call from my bank a week later telling me the wire transfers were a fraud, I felt my world fall way, I was sick to my stomach. Fortunately, because wire transfers are guaranteed, I was not going to be held liable however I could have if I had been with another bank. I immediately closed my account. So I started searching this Sgt. Ramos, and I actually found his picture on this site, my heart dropped when I saw that it was the same guy that had sent me his picture, so I needed to share my story as well to any other women out there. Please, please be careful. I thought I had done my homework, I saw him on video to verify he was real, I checked with my co-worker about "The Diploma", I didn't send him anything of value right away, these people are really smart. He did get me form some money, but not a lot, I was definitely protected in this situation. If you are going to do online dating, date someone locally, so you can actually meet them in person in a very public place, and let someone know where you are!!
I wanted to post his picture here, but I cannot figure out how to do it, but he is the same guy that is on here I believe under Aaron Ramos. He used the name Clayton Ramos with me.
I wanted to post his picture here, but I cannot figure out how to do it, but he is the same guy that is on here I believe under Aaron Ramos. He used the name Clayton Ramos with me.
