The following is a letter we received on March 22, 2006 from a victim of a new type of Nigerian scam involving these criminals trolling Myspace.com for victims:

I have actually been the victim of a international scam. It all started when I meet this guy on a web site www.myspace.com  are relationship was based on a open and honest relationship so I thought...This guy claimed to be from Florida but was working and living in Nigeria. He claimed that he was a U.S. citizen (but could never spell like an American)  nor did he sound like an American) he claimed he was overseas for a large US computer software company installing software for this company called NNPC in Nigeria. After talking for a few days he told me how he claim that he had been so moved by my profile on myspace.com  that he had to talk with and get to know me better. He got in my good graces and convinced me he wanted to marry me and loved me so much...eventually after about 3 months of getting to know him better. I thought he was true and could trust him. He tells me he want's to come out here to California to be with me so we can get married and start are new life together. But his company wont let him live so soon and  if he wanted to live he would have to pay for his own air line ticket. So I tell him that is fine what did he need to do to do this? He tells me that all his money is in a bank under the companies name as a payee and that he was going to have his company send me his money in some money orders and that he wanted me to take and cash them and wire him the money to buy a ticket so he could fly back home to the States...I still didn't think nothing of it and side ok so he sends the money orders I took the money orders to my bank to cash them but they tell me at the bank that they can't cash the money orders because I'm so over drawn on my account and that I would have to put the money into my account and so they could place the money on a hold but I told them no I did not want to do that. So I just cashing the money orders at a Western Union because I knew they cash money orders there and I could wire the money at the same time...Well needless to say I come to find out the money orders are no good the are fake. When 2 cops show up to take me to jail for trying to cash fake checks.
They let me out the next day and give me a court date I have to go to court March 23rd at 8:00 am I have printed out all info about this guy his name anything we talked about his pictures the web site that we meet on.

Needless to say, he still ask me about his money, and I just make up what every I can think of to tell him that I think he will believe it's been working so far thank god for that. But I’m onto him now so I'm just leading him on trying to get as much from him as I can to take to court with me. By the way, his name is "Jeffery David Lawson". so claims  If you get an IM from "jeffery_aotus2000@hotmail.com or jeffery_fb2005@yahoo.com and jeff_gabe101@yahoo.com , watch out.

The total cost of this scam came to $9,300. Which I will fight to prosecute this individual to the end. well thank you for letting me share my story with you all it's good to know I'm not alone in this.

 

I have in closed pictures of this guy Jeffrey David Lawson I hope they help.

 

Thank you

NAME REMOVED BY LPC, Ltd.

California

The following are the pictures submitted by this victim.  We do not believe the person pictured here is the scam artist.  These fraudsters simply download images from other sites and use news pictures and pictures from advertisements.  From looking at these pictures, our guess is that they are downloaded images of a clothing sportswear model taken from an ad or a clothing company Web site.