richsam796 SCAMMER

Tuesday 1 May 2018

And the second scammer for today is this one

Now where do I start with this idiot??  He really isn't very good at this scamming lark because I was onto him right from the start but figured that he might be fun to toy with for a while and he was.  This is his backstory:

• He is called Sam Richardson
• He is from Germany but lives in California
• He was widowed when his wife died in a car accident
• He had 2 children, aged 15 and 25 but then changed his story when questioned by saying that he did a typo and meant to say 5 and 16
• He says that he is a maintenance engineer on an oil rig off Aberdeen in the UK, working a 4 on 4 off pattern - he called it 4 in and 4 out (no one in oil or shipping refers to trips like this it is always on and off)

This guy followed a very familiar pattern to the rest of them out there.  Overly affectionate immediately and very evasive at answering questions.  One that I do ask them now regularly is how tall are you?  This seems to bring forth a varying selection of answers, average being one of them or can you not tell from the pic I sent you?, being another. Well this class act must have missed class that day because he answered 5'17. With a friend he had learnt and said 5'11 but when he answered me it couldn't have been a typo as 1 and 7 are not next to each other on the keyboard.  He also had a very poor understanding of the time in Aberdeen (and thus where I live too also in the UK). His excuse for this was that he was being bombarded with messages from a woman so he was putting her off by saying it was night time.  This was my friend and of course, he was messaging her and had lost track of what he was saying to whom.  This often happens and is your instant out of the conversation.

He added me on hangouts reasonably quickly and did do a voice call - it was not a German come American accent that spoke back to me that's for sure.  Eventually after pussy footing about for a few days we got to the crux of the matter and he came up with a totally false story about damaging a pipe on the rig and needing to pay for a new one himself.  It was going to cost $3000 and he wanted to fix it on the quiet without his bosses knowing.  I mean as if he would have to do this and he swiftly got blocked on all platforms.