"I met Clement on OK Cupid. Tyson Clement Michael told me that he worked in import/import sales of diamonds, gold, antiques and ivory. He said he had a staff. Clement gave me no real information, a company name or address. He concocted an interesting story. He was raised in S. Africa, attended a university there, earning a degree in gemology, and had dual citizenship. One parent was S. African, the other American; for some reason his grandmother in AZ raised him. He wrote and spoke like an educated man, but placed words "in the wrong places" making him sound very foreign. He said his family amassed a great deal of money in antiques in the 40's. He "name dropped" that the family business was now in the U.K. in Lancashire.
Clement said that tragically he was the "victim of identity theft." He said his business nearly went bankrupt, and lost his house due to having his identity stolen years ago.
Clement dropped out of sight for a couple of weeks, then wrote from Los Angeles, claiming he got in an auto wreck and "the hospital doesn't allow me to make phone calls." He next said that he was recuperating at a friend's penthouse in L.A., and mentioned he was working on a "huge project" with immense profit.
He said his huge shipment of "diamonds, gold and antiques" had gotten hung up at the customs dept. in Ankara, Turkey. He said he spent two million U.S. dollars on it which left him "nearly destitute." He needed to fly over to Turkey (a 20+ hour trip) because they refused to ship it until he paid for a "certificate" with some ridiculous fee of $128,000.
He said he "only had $80,000" but would go over there and "see what he could do to get the shipment." Once he got there, he had a host of stories. He said he finagled the price down, but he "needed $30,000, or just whatever I could spare him" to get the shipment.
That was the first time he asked me for big money; it took him nearly 3 months to get to that point.
Clement volunteered to give me 5% of the profit when he sold it off.
He said the reason he needed this Ankara shipment was he had to "pay taxes on his inheritance."
He sent me a text with info about a fake Bank website :
https:/ /northernstarunion.com/index
Password:XXXXXXX
Account number: XXXXX
Pin XXXX.
It takes forever to sign you in, and it states he has 10 million bucks, in a dormant account, deposited in 3 installments in 1991. "
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