mrainwater5150
We are truly very sorry that your dad was scammed. It is so sad that these evil pests exist in cyber world and pray on vornouble people. Their managed to brainwash your dad as well as their brainwashed me and by achieving it their were able to manipulate him and still so much. He gave because he has a good, loving heart and felt for them not knowing that those bastards are criminals from internet cafes of Lagos Nigeria.
Please know that scammers do money laundering online, they send stolen from victims accounts and credit cards money to other recruited victims, so receivers will be associated with fraud before money will get to the scammers hands. Same with gifts and merchandise bought online. Scammers pretend they live somewhere in Europe or Asia and they will ask to send goods there but it will be send again to recruited European and Asian mules and they will be able to forward this to West Africa as it's very hard to ship anything from US to Nigeria. I was asked to send money to Spain and Malaysia and it ended up in Nigeria somehow.
Unfortunately FBI has no jurisdictions in Nigeria and will not investigate the case, also the truth is that there is no way to find the real criminals as every info they gave about themself was fake. They managed to pursue your dad to give him bank and credit cards infos. There are terms which need to be accepted when person opens bank account or apply for card and no matter what happens later the owner is responsible for it. It is very painful and I know how it feels because I also lost lots of money and not having much I had to pay back my debts.
Please contact fraud departments and ask them to consider lower the interests and amounts to pay back to minimum. I was lucky with them and didn't have to pay back all I owed. First of all file IC3 complaint with FBI via the link:
https://www.ic3.gov/Home/FileComplaint - and when you get the confirmation ID please use it in letters to the banks. With this you will be able to get a small tax deduction if your tax-preparing person will feel the "Defraud under false pretences on internet".
Please don't worry about posting anymore info fast. Take care about your business first. You mentioned a suicide note. I am scared to ask if he is alive? Please do not answer if it's too personal. We only hope it will get better in time. It takes baby steps, but it gets better. My scam was 7 years ago, I was in pain and wanted no longer be alive but I forgave myself for not knowing better and moved on with help of wonderful people which helped me go through. Hope life will get better for you and your family too. God bless!
The scammers are nothing more than sociopaths who have no feelings of remorse, guilt, shame nor do they know what sympathy or empathy mean. They don't care how their behavior affects others as their victims are nothing more than MUGUS to them ..."easy fools". Being such gullible easy fools they reason that the victims deserve to lose their money as it appears to them that they must have it to give away so readily to them . This is why they don't believe the victim who says I can't give anymore as in their minds if they gave so freely and easily before than they must have it.To them the victims come from Nations with money hence the victims too must have money.
Remember the average yearly income is $900.00 USD ..nine hundred dollars a year ..why people earning minimum wage are millionaires to them. Also they feel entitlement for past wrongs done to them by Western Civilization including slavery forgetting that it was often tribal chiefs who sold out the prisoners from warring tribes etc. They have so many reasons that we can not begin to comprehend or understand ..they are after all sociopaths. This is often also just a game to them to see just how much money they can get out of their victims.
On that long list scammers are working ALL HOURS you have to be vigilant ALL HOURS not just some hours. I run into people I feel are scammers all the time BUT I also have met REAL people online and made friends. Scammers are not just on dating sites they are EVERYWHERE. Remember any site you can get on SO ARE THEY, learn how to recognize them they are not perfect,it may take talking to them a few times BUT they will slip up somehow.
Why scammers, scam? – It is not all about greed. Scammers scam because it gives them infinite pleasure and power over their targeted victims. The compulsion to scam is so strong that scammers will produce a scam even if he/she gains no money out of it.
Adrenaline rush -The scammer is a compulsive liar, gambler or illusionist. It is interesting to note that although the scammer is a sharp-witted liar; his gambling skills are such that they usually lose their ill-gotten gains within hours of the take. Scammers boast at private parties, of their daily scamming activities, money and spending. Scammers buy expensive cars, guns, clothing, and also pay for female dancers to perform at pasting parties (scammers paste large denomination dollar bills on the hired female dancers’ bodies).
Why do scammers scam?
Scammers scam because it gives them infinite pleasure and power over their targeted victims.
For scammers, it is amusing and challenging to play with innocent people’s emotions. It's a game that emotionally hurts a lot of people. The scammer learned the rules of “social behavior” and the consequences of all “his” actions against “his” targeted victims. All that matters to the scammer is that - it’s fun - a trick that can be played over and over again; and YOU suffer the consequences of “his” joke.
If anything, they feel justified in taking your money. Scammers think victims owe this ill-gotten money because of the abduction and slavery in past centuries. Scammers in African countries have not realized and are in denial their own tribal leaders are responsible for the slavery issues prior to the 1350’s. Tribal Chiefs have set up the slave market in the region now known as Ghana, northward up the Western Coast of Africa, where the traffic for trade, exports and imports was prosperous.