Feedback via the ScamSurvivors.Com [#3466]
What name did the scammer use?*: Robert Bulter
Scammer's email address if you have it.:
r.butler80@yahoo.com,
robertbutler380@gmail.comHow old did the scammer say they were?*: 58, June 15, 1957
Scammer's Skype username . THE NAME WILL HAVE NO SPACES IN IT.*: Robert Butler
Address of the scammer's FaceBook, Google+ or other social media site page. .: FB robert butler, email
100008167508963@facebook.com, Yahoo IM, robert butler, christian dating for free , robert_67 "member banned" .
What site did you first meet the scammer on?: christian dating for free - robert_67
If they asked you to leave the site , where did they take you to?: email back and forth, and chat room on Yahoo
How much money did they demand?: I made several loans out, close to $30g
Name you were told to send the money to. : Richard Nwafor in Nigeria, and I have 2 other names on my money grams.
What country/city were you told to send the money to?: Malaysia, Nigeria, Florida, USA
If they gave you a phone number, please add it here.: 213-290-1119 also daughter Kayla 1-205-406-8256, 011 44 7011137116
How were you to send the money ?: Western Union, bank wire transfer, money gram
What steps, if any, have you already taken to block the scammer?: I have not blocked him as I am waiting for the authorities to communicate with me. I contact Los Angeles FBI, as well as my local police, small town and they said my issue is not urgent. Scammers asked for money and I gave it to them, hence it was consentual, per the officer on the phone even if it was close to $30,000.
I filled out a for that the FBI told me called the IC3.
Are there any other details you wish to share? Anything you say may help prevent someone else from being scammed, no matter how trivial it may seem at the time.: I have several other pictures which I don't know how to download.
He said he has a business called www. butlersantiques.net
I searched this one as well as the butlersantiques.com and called all their numbers to confirm and they are all disconnected. I have internatinal call access on my phone so I called the numbers in the UK and they are also not good.
He claims he was born in Berlin, Germany, father died of a heartattack and 2 months that he arrived here to USA his mother died as well. He stayed with an uncle in Los Angeles then in Phoenix, Arizona. He was married and lived with his uncle there, but his uncle then wife died and he moved to Montgomery, AL.
as of today, 10/16/2014, he asked for more money, which I WILL NOT SEND, but am telling him I am working overtime to get him the money, but it will take a couple of weeks, giving time for the authorities to tell me what they want done. I am willing to cooperate, with authorities.
I gave him the $900.00 that I was suppose to pay these outstanding loans that I got into because he said he would pay me back as soon as he got here on Saturday, and this was the last time I sent money via Money Gram as I really, really, really believed that he was real. The loans just keep increasing and increasing and I am at the $28g point and slowly it is creeping up to the $30g. I may have gotten on one loan $600. But so far I have paid $1,800 and am still paying that loan out. My truck was reposes, I have pawned off all my jewlery, I got loans from family, friends and boss....
On 10/11/14 - 10/12/14, I was seriously considering to end my life of the embarrassment, loneliness, shame and all the other attachments that come with this.
He is suppose to be in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. I have emails of two invoices he has sent me when he first needed money.
He went to Scotland, then Malaysia to get antiques and goods to bring to the USA. The setbacks was the insurance, the taxes, and the airfare and hotel bills. Friday, we were working on flight but he said $900 wasn't enough. I checked the internet as well as called the Malaysian Embassy to find out if they were scamming him at the airport as I saw on the net that the flights were cheaper, hence, that is where I started to doubt.
I am at peace now, I am not angry because it is not in my nature. I just wish I can somehow catch him. If I can help kudos. I have been also trying to see how much I can find on him so that I can report it to whoever.