Tristan Siegel SCAMMED

Monday 12 November 2018

This post is about Tristan Siegel who is a retired Colonel from the US Army who has his images stolen to generate fake accounts that are used to scam women out of money.

If you are being messaged by anyone claiming to be a man using these images then you are being messaged by a fake out to scam you.  Many of the photos scammers use of him are old pictures (his real children are grown up now) and of him wearing his uniform (he is retired from the army).  Please do not believe the scammer - they are out to trick you and make you fall in love so that you send them money, itunes cards, tech or whatever.  It is not the real person that is messaging you.

Indeed click on this here to take you to a news story featuring the real Tristan Siegel and what is happening to him online.

Please do not contact the real man either.  They know that scamming goes on in their name and they are pretty powerless to stop it from happening.  They do not need you getting in touch with them adding to their stress.  You may have been scammed, this gentleman is scammed hundreds of times every day.  Chalk your interaction up to experience and learn from it.  

Please never send any cash, cards or tech to anyone who befriends you on the internet.  They are sure to be scammers out to steal your money and your self-esteem. Ladies we are the ones who have the power to change the scamming culture.  Become educated, say no, report and block anyone who you think is fake.  Do your research here on my blog and on my Instagram account @insta_scammers2018.  Minimum research is trying a reverse image search or ask for a video chat. The answer is no?  It's a scammer. Say no, report and block.

john_cotas SCAMMER

Monday 5 November 2018

And the next scammer for today is this one

I was dying for this scammer to message me and he did.  The reason why is because I have a strong feeling looking at the photos used on his profile that the original, real guy is gay.  The photo that particularly draws my eye is the middle picture where the real guy is wearing the leather harness that I have only ever see gay guys wearing.

Here follow the screenshots of my conversation with him.  He was not listening and tried to convince me he is straight and wants to be with me.  He kept trying to convince me by sending more photos and videos that only served to prove to me that he can steal photos and videos.  On re-reading the conversation, particularly the parts where I must be pissing him off, his English is really poor.  He is definitely a fake using another man's images and this scammer has chosen the wrong images to scam with and the wrong person to scam.

Richard Panier SCAMMER

Monday 5 November 2018

And another one who out of the blue contacted me again yesterday.  Again I can't remember the original account on Instagram where he messaged me first.  If I find it or come across it I will update this post with the new information.

This guy reckons he has a used car business and he has joined his shipment of cars in Africa and guess what??  He is short of money to pay the country's customs bill.  This is one of the scams I have heard before and is used by scammers who don't seem to understand how business works and are extremely badly prepared.  Here are the screenshots of the conversation from yesterday.

I should explain at this point that I video chatted him which he declined the first time.  The second he covered the camera and the screen was red.  All I could hear in the background was a lot of noise and African voices plus some speaking in French.  Hence the reason I speculated about him coming from Ivory Coast - a West African country that speaks French as it's first language.

What was hilarious was that he asked me for €1,000,000 which is almost a £1,000,000.  I mean really?  I assuming that he had no concept of what he was asking of an individual.  The whole scenario was an obvious scam but the amount just made it even more obvious.  What made me laugh out loud was the fact that he thought I would be reassured by him answering the video call but not letting me see him.  Now why would I be reassured by that???  The answer is not. Your guy won't be seen on a video chat? Plays a fake looking video? Covers over the camera?  Then he is fake.  A genuine guy who genuinely loves you would want you to be able to see him.  Spring a video chat on him and see what he does.  

Greg Insta SCAMMER

Monday 5 November 2018

The screenshots that follow are from an account that is most definitely fake and the scammer first messaged me on Instagram.  Unfortunately it was so long ago now that I can't remember his Instagram account name so thus I don't have a screenshot of the profile page.  Suffice to say this guy was masquerading as a white American man who lives in Texas and was working as a contractor as indeed do most scammers of Instagram.

A little bit of background here is needed before you read the following screenshots from the end of our conversation yesterday.  He first messaged me well before the school summer holidays and must have been in July.  We spoke for a little on Instagram and then our conversation moved onto WhatsApp.  The phone number provided was American but really these days that means nothing as numbers can be cloned etc but scammers think they lend a degree of authenticity.

He decided that he wanted us to have nicknames for each other so he became "Bear" and I was "Pear" for some stupid reason.  We had chatted on and off for July and August and into the beginning of September when all went quiet.  I had spoken to him on voice call and realised that he was a black man from Africa but hadn't had the opportunity to call him out on it as he didn't call again until yesterday.

There are always new scams on the go or something happens in the scamming world which piques my interest again and yesterday this happened when "Bear" contacted me again out of the blue for the first time in just about two months.  I knew this meant that he more than likely wanted something from me and this certainly turned out to be the case.  Here follow the screenshots of our last bits of conversation plus a screenshot of "Bear" that I took when he did a video chat.

                                        

And at this point I quit the conversation, made sure I had all the screenshots I needed and got him blocked and reported on WhatsApp.

I think the screenshot of the real guy coupled with his definite African accent makes it clear just what and who he is.  Doesn't look like he needs the cash does he?  Scammers almost never look destitute - all I have seen look well dressed and fashionable.  Not like they are struggling.  He certainly wasn't struggling as he was driving and talking to me yesterday.

Lists of fake accounts all using images of Prince Hamdan

Monday 5 November 2018

Yesterday I spent an interesting 5 minutes on Instagram answering a question that was going around in my mind.  I was wondering just how many active accounts of the Crown Prince of Dubai, Prince Hamdan there are.  I did a quick search on Instagram using the search terms Prince Hamdan and this is what I found:

   

 

    

 

 

There are 20 screenshots here and each shot has 8 fake accounts listed so that makes a total of 160 fake accounts that came up using the search of Prince Hamdan.  This makes me wonder now how many other fake accounts there are using other terms to search such as Fazza, Sheikh Hamdan etc.

Basically the lesson to take from this exercise is that there are literally hundreds of fake accounts using the images of Prince Hamdan, the Crown Prince of Dubai.  All you need to remember is that @faz3 is the original and verified account on Instagram and the Prince won't be messaging you at all.

Prince Hamdan SCAMMED

Saturday 3 November 2018

Today is the day to tackle the huge elephant in the scamming room on Instagram and all over online platforms: Crown Prince Hamdan from Dubai.   Follow this link here to find out more about the real Crown Prince.

The simplest thing to say here is that if you are contacted on Instagram or elsewhere by anyone claiming to be the Crown Prince shown in the images below, the person is a fake and is out to scam you. None of the accounts on Instagram claiming to be the Crown Prince are ever real they are all always scammers looking to part you with your money and your affection.

Crown Prince Hamdan does have a real and verified Instagram account which he uses much like all other genuine Instagram users, ie to post pictures of hobbies, lifestyle,  work etc.  This is the ONLY Instagram account he uses and he will not be messaging you from it.  Notice the white tick in a blue sunburst shape next to his user name of faz3 - this means he has been verified by Instagram as the genuine person.  Other fakes will try to mimic this check mark or won't include it at all. If it doesn't appear at all or doesn't look like the one here or is an account that is not called @faz3 then you know the account is not genuine and is manned by scammers.

DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OTHER ACCOUNT USING HIS IMAGES WHEN THEY TELL YOU THEY ARE THE REAL CROWN PRINCE.  

They are not.  They are scammers and will be looking to part you from your money.   Please do not let yourself be sweet talked by all these scammers from Nigeria, West Africa and India.  They do not love you, they are not coming for you, you are not going to be a member of the Royal Family in Dubai - it is all a load of rubbish to get your money.  Stay smart and do not believe them.  Report them on Instagram as impersonating a celebrity and include the real Instagram account @faz3 and hopefully Instagram will take down the fake accounts.

The question is here what are the scammers looking for?  They are not usually looking for the normal requests like iTunes cards, Google Play cards or Amazon cards or technology or money to be sent for sick children etc.  The usual scams are not at play here because even they realise that they are stupid requests from who is mean to be a Crown Prince.   They will ask you for:

1.  Money to become a member of the Royal Family in Dubai.  They will send you documents, ID cards, membership cards etc as proof which in reality are all fakes and are not genuine.  No-one pays to join the Royal Family in any country with a monarchy.  The only way you can join the royal family as a full member is to marry into it and this is really not going to happen from a contact on social media is it?

2.  They will ask you to make a donation to a charity that the Crown Prince supports or a charity that he is Patron of.  Again false documents will be sent, links to websites that are fake may well be sent, links to websites of genuine charities may well be sent.  However, the Crown Prince is not contacting women on Instagram or social media in general himself to  send a donation.  I am sure that there are staff for each of the charities he is genuinely involved with who are in charge of fundraising and that the Crown Prince is wheeled out to perform duties at events etc to encourage people to give generously.  I mean ask yourself why would the next in line to throne in Dubai be messaging you to give money??  The answer is he isn't, scammers are.  Give them money and you are donating to the scammers not the charity named.

It is simple really.  Any person who contacts you on Instagram, Facebook, any social media, online dating or gaming platform on the internet and they say they are Crown Prince Hamdan  is lying.  The real Crown Prince is not contacting you scammers are.  If you choose to believe them then that is up to you but they are not genuine.  Believe the fake Hamdans at your own peril.