Good morning.
I need some help to try to convince my brother in law that he is being scammed.
I can see that he is, but he won't believe me and blindly is being taken for a fool.
To cut a long story short, he met a soldier based in Syria by the name of Frank Mckeon, on a gay dating site.
after moving the conversation to WhatsApp, they talked for a few days, and all seemed ok to be honest.
But then my Bro in law got a message saying "franks" case had been broken into on base, and he wanted to ship it out to my Brother in law for safe keeping. At first he stated just had general personnel belongings in it, but later came out with the gold bars story.
My brother in law agreed, and then a day or so later got the message that there was taxes etc to be paid for the box to leave the country, and, "Frank" couldn't afford them, and could my Brother in law please pay, and, then he could sell the gold to recoup his expenses when it came.
He agreed without question and then got an email from a "David Grant" a supposed diplomat handling the shipment of the trunk, who, proceeded to advise my Brother in Law that card payments were subject to fee's that would reduce the amount paid off the taxes, and bit coin was the way to pay with no additional fees.
At this point I knew he was being scammed, and, told him, but he was so blindly in love with Frank, he wouldn't listen to me or his sister, and has, as fae as we know, started to pay.
I include pictures of "Frank" taken from a social media page i managed to find, (which shows the pics are at least a couple of years old, and were taken in Afghanistan) tho my brother in law(who has some of these pics sent to him) has the whole convo and more pics, which i can not access to provide much more detail to you, or any further pics.
If anyone can help, I'd be so grateful.
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