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Address185 Jalan Ampang
50450 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Phonelocal: (03) 2170.2200
international: +60.3.2170.2200
Faxlocal: (03) 2170.2370
international: +60.3.2170.2370
Web sitehttp://ukinmalaysia.fco.gov.uk/en/
NotesYOUR ONLINE FRIEND WAS NOT ARRESTED AT THE AIRPORT.
YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED.


Have you been having conversations online with someone you've never met before who claims to live in the UK? Has he told you that he will come to visit you in Malaysia? And now is he frantically contacting you because he are being held at the airport, and needs you to pay a fine so he can be freed?

It is a scam. There is no romance, and there is nobody being detained at KLIA. The same person who was chatting online with you was also chatting online with many other victims. They are trying to trick you into sending money to an accomplice. Once you have sent the money they will disappear forever. Every year these scammers bilk unsuspecting victims out of thousands of ringgit. Don't be one of them.

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anna
Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:18 EDT
money scam
Hi ! I'am also a victim of romance scam. This is my worst experience i ever had. The name of my"boy freind" is Marc Adler he is from u.k he has a construction business their? I meet him at the dating site we chat each other for also most 4months. Then he told me he will meet me in phillipines but he want to go first to malaysia to get her father retirement money when he arrived in malaysia he called me then in the next day he said the he going to the company to process that papers from that he called that he got a problem he said he need to pay a 28,800 for the agent because his father did not pay yet so he call his freind and mom in u.k to help his mom got 5,000 and his freind got 5,300 and he has 16,900 and the money is not enough to pay so he asked me to help on that i told him that i dont have that money!! Then in the he called me that his freind advice him to go to kuala lumpur the british company aked them for loan so he need 500 dollars to buy a ticket then he asked for that so i send him true moneygram but mot in his name in his freind a taxi driver his told me that if his name used it he need to pay a taxi driver so i send them. After he go to her embassy he got the money then go back to the company after he to the company he call me again he said he got another problem he that he need to pay for the community and he need money again he asked me for help he need to go back to his embassy then i send her another 500 dollars for buy a ticket then he go the comunity again to pay after he call me that he got already the money so he need to go the bank to change tne cheque then the bank said that he to open account so the cheque will change in cash so he 6000dollars for the open account he told me that he call his freind but his freind give only 3000 dollars so not enough to open an account he called me again asked for help he that he to go back to her embassy so i send another 500dollars and he got only 2000dallors their and he go to the that her money is only 5000 dollars so the bank said he cannot open because her open account is 6000 dollars so i send her 1000 dollars then he open already and get the he change it to u.s dollars he call me and he that he can meet on tuesday his is around 8.30p.m after few hours he call me again he said that the taxi driver got a wrong destination of the ticket so he to change it! Then he said that he got already the ticket but he to go to kuala lumpur then to macau then to phillipines and her flight # is 6413 american airlines oct.19 arrived in the phillipines around 7.45p.m . When he arrived at the kuala lumpur he call me that he got a problem in the airport he said he hold at tha baggage area because he bring a lot of money and he said that there is a woman who help her and he want me to talk to the woman so i took to the woman the woman said that he can help marc to get his bag in the office of her boss the only think we can do is we need to pay the boys inside the tne office and the girl asked me to pay $10,000 i told him that i dont have that money so she asked me $7000 i told him what if u get that bag first then marc will get the money to pay u she said that cannot what if marc will not pay if bag is already on her i told that u need to be worry coz marc will pay u give you account to him so that he will send the money she said that cannot coz with out showing a money for the boys thay cannot get the bag so she told me that even $5000 is ok . Then i call to marc i told him that u call your mom i dont have money her i cannot help you and he told me that his mom is sick and if he did pay this he will deported to u.k with out money. On that night im thinking if this true or not so i check on gooles about the bristish scam oh my im shock to read this. That i am the one the victim of a romance scam
DEWI
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:56 EDT
BE WARE LADIES, DON'T BLIND OF LOVE SCAMMED
Hi everyone, I'm an Indonesian Lady..
I got a nice friend,who just got scammed by this group bellow:
JOHN RAHEEM SIMPSON, phones No;
+6014 6289564, +4478 5869 7240,+447594279572
And His email; j.psimpson@live.com
MICHAEL DOUGLAS, phone No;+601 126 306915 & email; m.douglaschambers@yahoo.com
MARINA, phone No;+601 920 37845
NORADIAH BINTI MAHAT Address; 137 Jl. Ampang- KL- Malaysia 50450
HALIMATUSAKDIAH,her address the same as above.
PLEASE, DON'T SEND THEM ANY MONEY IF THOSE GROUP OF BLACK CRIMINALS BEGGING YOU FOR MONEY! THEY ARE GOING TO BREAK YOUR HEART & YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS!

Let hope the police could catch them ASAP & hope they be rooted in jail forever!!
If not, lets hope, they will be suffer forever in their life with hall a lots of their generations, because they deserved!!

"I BELIEVED, THEY WILL CROP ABOUT WHAT THEIR ALREADY PLANTED IN THIS WORLD & ONE DAY THEY WILL GET MISERY & FEEL SORRY FOREVER IN THEIR LIFE,BECAUSE GOD ALWAYS WATCHING."

Have a great day Ladies & be safe!!
TIFFANY
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:59 EDT
SCAMMERS GO TO HELL
Beware of guys who pretend that they are engineers and contractors they use different kinds of names and alias and pictures too.Scammers have pity on us.You cannot face GOD and you are accountable on doing such things.find a good job and not cheatting on us.Don't make us fool,God is watching you from up above.You are judge by your own doings.We are your victims.have pity on us.Eat with your own money.Liars go to hell!Ladies beware of false guy.Beware of Scammers!
Rose
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:05 EDT
Hi Marilyn, i was a victim also about this scam, just today my so called fiancee that i met only in Fb, he told me that he will travel coming to philippines he even send me his etirinary ticket. october 14, 2012 just yesterday his flight, stop over in kuala lumpur, before his departure he called me and i even heard the page in the airport so you will believe that he's in the airport, today around 12pm a filipina lady called me telling me that they hold my fiancee, his name is wilson danile, this filipina told me that they hold him because of carrying a 3.5m pesos which is not allowed to bring a lot of money and she said he will be in jail for 6 months if he will not pay the penalty of 50,000 pesos and they will release him and give back his money, so i decide to help him, before i send the money i called her to confirm if i will send the money they will let him go and travel to philippines, she told me yes, she told me to send the money to bernard mandigou thru moneygram, after that she called me again and told me that i will wait for her call and she will give me the flight number and the time he will arrive to philippines, she called me again and telling me that i have to send 150,000 pesos because he has to take this paper like anti money laudering, i told her why she didn't tell me before and i even ask her if they will release him if i send the 50,000 pesos. there i doubt her and i told her that i don't have money, i even talk to him i told him that i cannot send money anymore, and he can ask money in london. so now, i lost money, i am trying to contact her no. but its not activated anymore. how we can stop this kind of scam, they can get more victims, if thid will not stop.
hazel
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:52 EDT
BEWARE OF SCAMMER
I AM ALSO A VICTIM OF ROMANCE SCAM. THIS IS A VERY WORST EXPERIENCE I EVER HAD. THOMAS JOHNSON WAS REALLY LOOK GOOD TO ME AND I DID NOT EXPECT SUCH ACTION FROM HIM, HE MANIPULATE ME, HE SAID HE IS FROM U.K, A MINING ENGINEER THAT HAS A BEAUTIFUL JOB. AFTER ALL THOSE CONVERSATION HE TOLD ME THAT HE SENT PARCEL CONTAINING PERFUMES, DIAMOND RING, AND MONEY INSIDE BUT SUDDENLY THE ACCURATE XPRESS EMAIL ME THAT NEED TO PAY FOR THE RELEASING OF MY PARCEL BEC. OF THE MONEY INSIDE I IMEDIATELY GO TO MY BANK AND WITHDRAW THE MONEY THAT NEED TO PAY THAT COST 1889 MALAYSIAN RINGGIT EQUIVALENT TO 28,00O PESOS AFTER SENDING THEY ASKED AGAIN FOR THE INSURANCE AND VAT OF THE PARCEL THAT COST 4,500 MALAYSIAN RINGGIT EQUIVALENT TO 61,000 PESOS.. AFTER SENDING THE PARCEL HERE IN PHILS. ANOTHER PAYMENT AGAIN FOR THE TAX COST 31,250, I SPENT ALMOST 120,000 JUST FOR THAT, ALMOST MY SAVINGS IN BANK WITHDRAWN. I AM SO MUCH DEPRESS.
Kristina Json Sweden
Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:07 EDT
Criminals- Daniel Helguson and William Bran
Please all be awere that Daniel Helguson, saying he is a uk.citizen and maching engineer on ships is a froud. Have chat with him since July 2012 until Oct 2012. He was on job in Malaysia took his son with him, the son get Dengue fever, and he need money for hospital bill, then he was to cash in the payment check in Kuala Lumpur and was arrested, charged of money laundry, then this William Bran called, saying he is working at the uk embassy and they have taken care of the son (called John) while Daniel still is arrested, but no cleared of the charges. Unfortunately he has to be bailed out from the yale with 15 600 MYR!! The phone number these guys are using are: Daniel: 60146281752 and when he predented to be home in uk he used: 44 7624198964 and 44 7902783047. and once he used 44 708627188. William has used: 601126371047. I checked with the embassy of UK and there is no one employed with that name. I belive that someone have taken the pictures of this (daniel) mans on FB where he contacted me. and I belive they have have taken copies of me on FB and use that to cheat on lonely men as well. IF you are a man who been contacted on FB,with message, check the pictures on FB if they are the same! I don´t want to help this cheaters in romance! If you the man - on fb- as daniel helguson, see your picture be stolen, I would like to be in contact with the right person - the one in London to let him have some more information. ALL WOMENs Be aware of this cheaters. OBS both this persons are on yahoo.com and Daniel like to chat on yahoo messenger.
MARÍA
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:43 EDT
FB IS PLENTY OF SCAMMERS WHO SAID LOTS OF LIES,BE CAREFUL,THEY SAY THEY ARE FROM UNITED KINGDOM OR STATES,BUT THEY WRITE MISTAKES AND DIFFERENT INFORMATIONS,BE AWARE,THEY PROMISE LOVE,BUT YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HIS REAL FACE.IT IS HORRIBLE AND THEY ARE DEVILS.
GRAZZIE
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 06:33 EDT
SCAMMERS ATTACK:BEWARE
I met a in fb,he said he is from Manchester UK,a divorcee for 5 years and have a son age 8 yrs old with her mother 80 yrs old living with her own house.He said he is an engineer by profession and last feb,i started chatting with him,and promise to marry me and he will come to phil to meet me and my family.he said he will come to Malaysia for a project a condo unit of 18th floor.When he get there after chatting everyday,since last march he asking of money because he said the construction materials are stocked in the warehouse and need to pay it for 2,000 USD to release.then i send it through Western Union by the name of Balule Papidzhani Manatsha,then again asked for money again of 1,000 USD.and again asked 300 USD for the lawyers fee for some papers to process so that he can get his salary and the payment for his services but the employer is travelled around Singapore to see the other project.That time i suspected that its a big scam,he promised me he will pay all my debts and he send me to UK.Later on he never call me or chat me after sending him the money,and dissappeared.Beware of the British National name DAVID JONES....
rai
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:59 EDT
men from neterlands work in uk as arsitek.
iam lady from asia.meet this men in dating site. want meriagge with me.want come visit me.i have coversation with him 3 month.hi want to know all what about my family.. my job and anything. 3 month hi for in love to me.one day i realy know hi a scam. because hi sent me wrong email. same with scamer sent to me in dating site.dont trust men in dating site. before you know him very weel. and you never see hiz face.on webcam or in your contry. they only one money and want steal information from you.
ema-europe
Sun, 7 Oct 2012 12:34 EDT
THANK YOU AVIANNE
Avianne thank you for your post ... you just did good work and save a soul (my) that it does not destroy an cheater. Fortunately, I checked the phone numbers ... thanks again for the published telephone numbers. My story would probably have been the same as yours .... cheater just changed the name to Sean Dempsey. Suspicious to me as any e-mails written to by matrix ... do not answer any of my specific questions ... It seemed to me suspicious, immediately. Avianne .... Thank you very much.

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