Scam Type
Romance Scam
Business Name Used
Unavailable
Date Reported
January 31, 2024
Postal Code
33101
Total Dollars Lost
$ 9000
Scam Description
Most of last year I was in contact with an American woman named Valentina Anna Nelson (she told me she was a photographer from Tampa, Florida) and she always told me that she was working at Care Ong, in Yemen, in the province of Lahj, as a manager logistics and assistance to refugees. She also told me that she was in a military camp, with many other international organizations. Her employment contract was for 6 months, from March to August, but she had not been able to find a replacement for her position and for this reason she had not been able to leave Yemen in August.
Well, in short, we started a friendship and as the months passed, she asked me for money to which I agreed, under countless deceptions…
First she told me she asked me for 200 dollars for a satellite internet plan, since the one she uses at her work was only for her work and had very little capacity.
As the months passed, she told me that her father had left her an inheritance with some of her shares, which she should release from it and so, she convinced me to help her.. The details of those transactions are below.
It should be noted that we spoke with this person daily, and we even communicated by video.
When her work was finished, she would return everything to me, she would travel to Chile and we would meet.
I made 2 deposits to PNC Bank (branch located at 10 Commercial Point, Ohio), in the name of CYNTHIA SAVER (account number 4153433323), who was supposed to be the agent of a financial institution called Standard Financial Corp.
The 1st deposit for the sum of U$9,780 (date July 13, 2023)
The 2nd deposit for the sum of U$7,608 (date October 31, 2023)
The above was to release an inheritance from her father, which were funds or shares.
In addition, she requested U$200 from me monthly for the purchase of an internet plan, since she could not communicate because she was in Yemen.
These deposits were for another person, who was Care ONG’s IT staff and who enabled the service:
Nancy Bell, located at: 809 E. Jefferson St lot 33, Whitney TX. 76692
Western Union:
U$200 May 2, 2023 (mtcn: 6680300850)
U$200 June 6, 2023 (mtcn: 1201146081)
U$200 July 17, 2023 (mtcn: 5859633764)
U$200 August 18, 2023 (mtcn: 7290196516)
MoneyGram
U$200 October 3, 2023 (ref number: 86995361)
U$200 November 20, 2023 (ref number: 53859230)
In December she was able to leave for France. She told me that they were evacuating many humanitarian workers (first they took them to Saudi Arabia and then to France), due to the Middle East crisis that is currently being experienced between Israel-Yemen-USA, etc… We were always in contact, daily. The last communication I had with her was in early January, where she told me that she was in France and that she was ready to return to the United States. After that, I never knew her location again and she doesn’t respond to my emails.
This person stopped communicating at the beginning of January 2024. Later, I contacted CARE ONG, where they told me that she does not belong to that organization. Furthermore, I tried to locate her at the US embassy in France and they told me that this person does not exist, since I sent them the passport that she sent me.
