Facebook Romance Scam

Victim Location 83661

Total money lost $500

Type of a scam Romance

The scammer started a conversation. Said he was an engineer from Florida. After a while he started to use endearing comments and wanted to meet me but he had to finish a job first. He said he had to have money to buy some equipment for the job because he lost his wallet and had no way to buy what he needed. He gave me an address to send the money to. He was very insistent about getting the money. He wanted to call me so I gave him my phone number. He did call me and from his voice and accent I could tell he was maybe 20 years old and from a foreign country (Africa). He created a fake identity on Facebook.