He is now going by the name Brooks Anderson as of April 8, 2018.
He contacted me early April on Instagram.
He told me after about 2 weeks of talking that I needed to block his account on Instagram and he was going to have to use his friend Rico Anderson's Instagram account from now on because he got in trouble for being on Instagram while on duty while being deployed in Kabul, Afghanastan. He told me that if I got any messages from his account to ignore them because his superior was using his account.
He told me that he is from Texas and has a house there and in Russia where his deceased wife is from. He told me that he has an 11 year old son named David.
I asked why he had the same last name as his friend Rico and he told me to stop asking so many questions and to just do it.
So..the whole month of April and May we talked though "Rico's account" until he told me that Rico was killed on May 27, 2018 and his wife was going to deactivate his account and he was going to have to talk to me on google hangouts from here on forward. He told me that he was nearly wounded and killed but Rico jumped in front of him to save him.
Up until 5 hours ago (June 3, 2018) we were using google hangouts to talk.
He asked me like every 2-3 days to send him a $50 or $150 gift card that was Amazon or iTunes. When I would refuse he would stop talking to me for a day or two then come back and apologize.
He told me the beginning of May that he was shot in the leg and needed medical attention and the US Army would not help him with medical attention. Being a nurse I knew this was bullshit but humored him. He then asked for $400 to be sent immediately.
He tells me daily that he is sick and needs medical attention and medication that the US Army will not assist with. He says that at his camp they do not have medical personnel and they have to go into town to Kabul and it is very expensive to get there.
When I asked if I could send him a care package he told me he was too far out to get a package and they were not allowed to get packages. He told me that the camp they were in was hidden and they rarely get supplies and he was risking "death" for just talking to me via the internet.
He called me on google hangouts today (June 3, 2018) and this is where my deepest reservations and assumptions were confirmed.
He sounded African/Nigerian/Russian/French...not even the slightest amount of American. When I questioned him he told me his mother was American and his father was French and Russian and was raised abroad.
His internet connection "went out" then this time when he called back he did video and I caught a glimpse of him before he put a hand over the camera and I noticed he was black not white.
When I questioned that he told me that his friend walked by and he was black.
**When I questioned why the name Jeff was embroidered on his black leather jacket in the photo with his son he told me that it was the designed of the coat.**
Upon ready this thread...the real guy is Jeff Anderson.
He uses 2 different e-mails:
brooksanderson974@gmail.com and
brooksanderson38@gmail.com
He most recently used the Instagram: Rico Anderson (handle: andersonrodney009)
These are ALL photos that he sent me of him (and his son David) since April 2018.