A woman shared her story of being scammed by a love scammer that she met on a dating application “Coffee Meets Bagel”.
According to her post, the man is a Canadian born with Singaporeans parents. He is staying in Singapore at Bishan area working in the oil and gas industries driving a Mercedes.
After chatting for 4 months, the woman asked for a video call but multiple excuses were given.
The man later asked the woman for a new iPhone an apple watch. He even asked her for money to help him. If she doesn’t do as he said he threatened to break up with her. In total, the woman transferred the man USD $33,000.
To her horror, she found out that everything about the man was fake. All the photos that he used was extracted from Instagram. The woman then made a police report against the scammer.
Full story here:
“It started with him liking me on coffee meets bagel in mid may and he asked to move to WhatsApp the next day. he claimed to be an only child, widower, Canadian born with S’porean parents, now a PR. He stays at Bishan, works in oil & gas and drives a Mercedes C400.
We conversed and text as much as four times daily throughout the 4 month experience. he serenaded to me and even sent me song lists, music and video links. I requested for video chat but he claimed his phone screen was broken. I insisted but all i saw was a black screen which he probably covered up the camera although he could see me.
He claimed to have flown to turkey in early June after passing a covid19 test. soon after he had a lot of problems from a fire causing injuries to workers who required hospitalization, machines were damaged and he had malaria. due to being offshore, he claimed difficulty transferring funds from his offshore bank account at the oil rig so he provided me access to his account. after helping him with 2 transactions, his account was frozen and he started asking for money including money to seek treatment! He also said that he needed an iPhone and iWatch as he has lost them in his travels, he said to buy him the devices immediately or he will break off with me.
I transferred usd33,000 over 4 transactions to a foreign account and 2 local accounts over that period. the final straw was when he requested for help to pay resident tax to his bank, i found out he wasn’t at the quarantine hotel where he claimed to be and the bank contact details he provided were fake. i sought legal advice and reported to the police.
I subsequently found that his phone line was perpetually on airplane mode. the bank website was a fake and the photos of his profile were taken from an instagram account of an american asian.
I felt emotionally betrayed by a very skillful and experienced scammer and it was a bitter lesson.”