by Alyse King
Nov 22 10:56 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: The way you act and chat Camila.
Nov 22 10:57 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Cuáles son su impresións acerca de mí ahora?
Nov 22 10:57 AM
CAMILA: What’s that?
Nov 22 10:57 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Spanish.
Nov 22 10:58 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Meaning what are your impressions about me now?
Nov 22 10:58 AM
CAMILA: I don't know what just happened.
Nov 22 10:59 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Was wissen Sie wirklich über mich? sind Sie für real oder nur auszukommen?
What do you really think about me? Are you for real or just getting along?
Nov 22 10:59 AM
CAMILA: Darling, you are turning into a different person.
Nov 22 11:01 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Yes, because I told from the start that I do not do cam chat and today you brought that up again, so it makes me feel that I am wasting my time with you.
Nov 22 11:01 AM
CAMILA: I am totally confused. After spending countless hours with you asking me to trust and believe in you, when I finally did trust you and believe in you, this is happening?
Nov 22 11:02 AM
CAMILA: That was just a comparison, I did not bring it up as anything else.
Nov 22 11:02 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Honey, love hurts some times.
Nov 22 11:03 AM
CAMILA: Have you lost your mind? What just went wrong?
You Hurt Me
Nov 22 11:30 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Is this how you act and hurt men?
Nov 22 11:30 AM
CAMILA: I don't hurt men.
Nov 22 11:31 AM
CAMILA: I don't hurt anyone, I love people - good people.
Nov 22 11:31 AM
ALEXISCHRIS60: You hurt me so badly.
(CAMILA’S COMMENT: WHATEVER, YOU NEED TO GET HURT.)
Camila’s Farewell Note
Nov 23 4:16 PM
CAMILA: I loved and enjoyed every single moment of this, even those times when I cried. You made me feel emotions that I had not felt before and I thank you for that. I hope you and your boys will have a great time wherever life takes you. And I know you will enjoy your little girl. I love you and may God be with you and your efforts always. My love.
Nov 23 4:17 PM
CAMILA: Good night my friend Christopher.
Nov 23 4:17 PM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Something seems wrong, are you ending this now?
Nov 23 4:18 PM
CAMILA: You won't believe it but I am crying again.
Nov 23 4:18 PM
ALEXISCHRIS60: Don't cry my love, I am me and will always be me.
End of Part I
Resources
ICE – US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. www.ice.gov/
Toll Free Hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/nigerian-man-arrested-uk-illinois-fraud-charges
www.ice.gov
Recognizing and Avoiding Email Scams
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/emailscams_0905.pdf
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/woman-loses-150000-in-online-dating-scam-072414.html by By Jennifer Abel. July 24, 2014.
FBI – Call your local FBI office to get more information or file a report.
www.ic3.gov.To make a report of a fraud contact the FBI at www.ic3.gov.
http://www.spokeo.com/ type in names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of scammer.
http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/
For more information, please see the Department of State's brochure athttp://travel.state.gov/pdf/international_financial_scams_brochure.pdf (PDF 654KB).
http://ghana.usembassy.gov/romance_scam.html
http://www.usembassy.gov/africa.html
Nigerian scam solicitations e-mail FTC at [email protected].
Canadian High Commission in Ottawa – Lagos, Nigeria office: E-mail:[email protected]
In Nigeria report fraud to the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria.
In the UK contact the UK’s national fraud reporting center by calling 0300 123 20 40 or by visitingwww.actionfraud.police.uk.
Report fraud to Scotland Yard
Contact your internet providers.
The Dr. Phil TV Show.
References
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/february/dating-scams_021412/dating-scams_021412
Looking for Love?
Beware of Online Dating Scams
Recognizing an Online Dating Scam Artist
Your online “date” may only be interested in your money if he or she:
- Presses you to leave the dating website you met through and to communicate using personal e-mail or instant messaging;
- Professes instant feelings of love;
- Sends you a photograph of himself or herself that looks like something from a glamour magazine;
- Claims to be from the U.S. and is traveling or working overseas;
- Makes plans to visit you but is then unable to do so because of a tragic event; or
- Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for a child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).
One way to steer clear of these criminals all together is to stick to online dating websites with nationally known reputations.
http://www.spokeo.com/ - Search scammers’ names, phone numbers, E-mail addresses, user name, see their social profile.
Quotations
Fraud.Org stated,“Scam artists take time to cultivate victims and gain their trust,” said John Breyault, Director of NCL’s Fraud Center. “And they do it for one very simple reason – it pays.” Victims of this scam reported losing, on average, more than $5,500 in 2011, making it the single costliest type of scam for its victims. “Scam artists spend significant time and energy to convince their often-suspicious victims that they are in a real romantic relationship,” said Breyault. “Love is a powerful emotion that these criminals manipulate to extract large sums of money from their victims.” What’s worse, because of the deeply personal nature of this scam, we believe that this type fraud goes widely underreported.
http://www.fraud.org/news/42-dont-let-a-new-sweetheart-swindle-you-out-of-cash
Fraud.Org stated, “Red flags that the person you’re communicating with may be a scammer include:
Requests to wire money or to cash a check or money order for them and send money back or to a third person.
The “relationship” may become romantic extremely quickly, which quick pronouncements of love or close friendship.
Claims that he or she is a U.S. citizen who is abroad, that they are wealthy, or a person of important status.
The person claims to be a contractor, and needs your help with a business deal.
The person makes excuses about not being able to speak by phone or meet in person.
The person quickly asks for an e-mail address or instant messaging username (to avoid communication via online dating sites’ messaging services)
The person makes frequent spelling or grammar mistakes.
LA Times, by Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writer states, “When you get a reply, it’s 70% sure that you’ll get the money.” October 20, 2005.
Taken from MoneyCNN.COM. Reporter Melanie Hicken stated, “In 2011, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received 5,600 complaints from victims of so-called "romance scammers" -- criminals who scan online dating sites, chat rooms and social networking sites for potential victims. The victims reported collective losses of $50.4 million, which is likely only a fraction of the actual losses since many victims are too embarrassed to file a report, the FBI said.
About 70% of the victims were female; more than half were women 40 years or older.” (Febr
uary 20,2013.)
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric, in a 1994 study stated, “Women with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorders are more likely to be raped multiple times.”
http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/ states,” Report the matter immediately to The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership among the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BIA), at www.ic3.gov; and, to the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, at http://www.efccnigeria.org/”
http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/ states, “If the scam originated through a particular website, notify the administrators of that website. “
South African us embassy
http://ghana.usembassy.gov/romance_scam.html. “United States citizens should be alert to attempts at fraud by persons claiming to live in Ghana who profess friendship or romantic interest over the Internet. Correspondents who quickly move to discussion of intimate matters could well be the inventions of scammers. If they are after your money, eventually they will ask for it. Before you send any money to Ghana, please take the time to be very well informed. Start by considering the fact that scams are common enough to warrant this warning. Next, look over this partial list of indicators. If any of them sound familiar, you are likely the victim of an internet scam.”
M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News (2013) stated, “Romance scams make up more than 10 percent of all financial losses to online fraud — and women 50 and older account for 61 percent of those losses.” The article continues, “women ages 50 and older, who are by far the biggest victims of online romance scams, federal authorities reported Tuesday in detailing an 8 percent rise in U.S. Internet crime last year.”
According to statistics released Tuesday by the Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, a joint project of the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, “… it's much more common for older women to be victimized.”
The article continues, “More than 10 percent of all reported online financial losses last year — about $56 million out of $525 million overall — involved romance scams, the center reported in its 2012 crime roundup.”
Author
Alyse King is the mother of four courageous children, one wonderful son and three delightful daughters. She is also a grandmother of one beautiful granddaughter and four adorable grandsons.
For over two decades, Ms. King has tirelessly focused her attention on caring for two of her four children who had been struggling with chronic illnesses since they were teenagers. She has successfully helped them cope with their illnesses and reintegrate into society by retraining them to live independently and become financially self-reliant, provided them with the soft skills training that are vitally important to self-improvement and skills for the job market.
Ms. King’s happiness about her ability to help her son and daughter to recover has encouraged her to share the "recovery techniques" she used. She self-published five books titled, “A Letter to Schizophrenia from a Mother,” “When Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar Struck My Son and Daughter,” “140 Ways Coping with Stress, Depression and Stigmas,” “Coping with Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar and Stigmas,” and a self-help Workbook on how to cope titled, “Day After Day Coping with Mental Illness – Support for Individuals and Families.”
These books tell how she rebuilt her children's lives by helping them with skills that are necessary for coping, managing daily in-home routines, adhering to medical reminders, as well as the increasing joy she felt after each hurdle that marked their movement beyond illness.
The experiences gained as the mother of two children who are successfully recovering from illnesses, as well as being their fulltime caregiver, instructor and re-trainer, has enabled her to accumulate many years of expertise. Additionally, her prior experience as a trainer in the private sector has added necessary, unique tools for writing these books.
Alyse King also self-published several Self-Help Guides titled, “Reintegrating after Traumatic Life Experience for: “Self Improvement,” “Job Preparation,” and “How to Keep Your Job.”
She also wrote and self-published, “A Trainers’ Manual for “Self-Improvement, Job Preparation, Job Retention.”
The Workbooks provide continuing education and training for returning to employment or becoming financially independent, using detailed Motivational Activities designed by I.A. Mohabier, MA to help trainees to visualize their futures. The Workbooks share the systematic techniques that Ms. King used in helping her children to develop personal skills and skills for hunting for a job, securing the job and holding the job.
The Trainers’ Manual provides guidance to all who wish to develop programs to help others to find work or achieve financial independence.
Alyse also wrote four additional books titled, “Comfort and Hope Death of Mother - Reflections from Scriptures,” “A 30-Day Online Romance, Part 1,” “Confessions from A 30-Day Online Romance, Part 2, and “A Follow-Up of Confessions from A 30-Day Online Romance, Part 3.”
Ms. King grew up and was educated on a beautiful Caribbean Island; married in her 20’s and has been a homemaker, mother and sole provider for her family. Later, divorced, she relocated to Southern California with her four children.
The author currently resides in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina. Her son and youngest daughter also live in North Carolina. Her other two eldest daughters and all five grandchildren remain in Southern California. She frequently travels to California to visit her family and friends.
Ms. King’s goal is to utilize her expertise in both the health and educational sectors. For the past several years, she has been working towards that goal by volunteering her time to help friends who are in need. Now she is including you in her network of friends.
Website: cmitrainingservices.com
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.amazon.com/author/Alyse King
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alyseking
https://www.facebook.com/alyse.king.12382
To Be Continued.
PART 2
Confessions from A 30-Day Online Romance
Notes
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