Here is the initial email I received from Ms Rodica Arba from Bucharest,
Romania.....
I met her through a site called DatingFaces.com
I dont know if she is still doing this but, she sure scammed me as you will
see in the emails to follow.......
I was stupid enough to send her $2000 US........and got NOTHING in return!
She put me off for the longest time......said she was applying for the VISA
and that it was the fault of my govt as to why it was taking so long.....
Sit back and study this scam!
Her phone numbers are included in the emails.........
She even got so bold as to ask me to send her brother Remus, a new Nikon
camera!
As you may have gathered in my email to the FBI agent.......I lost $2000 and
she never came to see me! She just faded into the sunset.!
Her emails just became less frequent till they finally stopped altogether!
I have never been so humiliated in my life!
I am sending all this info in hopes you will find it fit to place her on
your MOST SCAMMED LIST !
Dear Stacey,
... I strive to be a good person. I tend to be talkative, but I am also a good listener. I have a deep
appreciation for a good kiss. I value a romantic evening and surprises. Itīs the little things that win
me over. I am passionate about almost everything I do. I am working on my career but there is
always time for those I care about.
I am looking for someone who I can talk for hours and never get borred or tired and the whole time
it will feel like they are right there next to me and like Iīve know them my whole life. Someone who
will always ask me how my day is going. A man who will like me to rub my hand thru his hair at night and a man I can watch sleeping and smile. Someone who can be the last thing I think about at night and the very first thing on my mind in the morning. Someone who is willing to do crazy and extreme things... all for love...
Kiss and Hugs,
Rodica Arba
Bucharest Romania
PS. I live in Europe, it doesnīt matters ?
Dear Stacey,
First of all I want to thank you for the surprise that you have made with
the email that I got from you. To be honest I send the letter without to
much hope that I will get this positive answer from you.
Now, I believe that maybe I am no longer the little girl that I was used to
think that I am. I still might be wrong but now I have your support and it
is easier. I do act sometime as the same little one, which is thinking that
the most important thing is to be kind of a beauty as much as possible. I
know that it doesn't count anymore and therefore here you have this new
opinion of mine.
I will be happy to meet you and to spend some time together. It can bring
us closer and it can give us the opportunity to know each other better and
made a better decision for the future. I am at the age that I want to find a
friend to be together with. It is no good of being alone once that I grow
up. To be honest I was thinking too much of me being too busy to finish my
studies and to find myself a job. I can tell about my job that it brings me
the satisfaction that somebody needs. For the moment I work for an
International Import Export Company as a manager. I take care of paper works
and contracts. It is not the very paid job but it gives me the knowledge
that I will need for the further projects in business. There are some
projects I am thinking of but I do not know if I will be able. Finally you
have to give yourself a try to find out if you are. I will probably find the
right moment once.
To speak about me it is always not very easy for that most of Myself I do
not know as well. Maybe it is also because I'm not much used to speak about
me or also probably because I haven't the opportunity to do it. Or maybe
both. I will be happy to be a friend, a close friend with you. That will
make me feel better. Maybe than I will be able to speak more about myself as
well. It is a kind of training that you have to go through with me.
..I know. I am acting like this because I was too much alone and now when I
try to get in contact with you I am acting strange. Do you think so? Maybe I
am also like this because I really have not too much to tell about me.
Besides my age, 1.72 and something like 56 kg., I do not have much to hide.
I do not smoke (much) or drink and my life up to this moment was silent. To
write to you, was a nice accident and what I know for sure is that I want to
go further with this. I want to build this relationship as strong as
possible. Everybody is in need for friends and why not me. I do not feel
like staying away from my own happiness. I am ready to come to you or to
have you here in Bucharest and try to get to know each other. You just have
to name the moment. If we will stay away of each other we will not have the
opportunity to find out how beautiful is to be actually together and, this
is the romantic person, which is speaking out of me.
I enjoy candlelight dinner and a good glass of wine and soft music like
you, as well I believe. I like the good music to play with the music of our
souls. I am also for nice trips up mountains to sleep on a blanket under the
sky full of stars. I like long talks after making love and than making love
again. This is the woman speaking out of me. I do hope you agree with this
as well. I have found out speaking now with you that people are losing
themselves in work or common life and they forget that they exist until,
they discover being all alone. It had happened with me as well and I was not
very well until I got your letter. Now I have the meaning to strength me and
this is making me happy. I have found myself and I am not alone anymore so,
let's get together. Do not laugh too much. At the beginning I didn't know
how to run from expressing myself and now I make already plans on how this
friendship should be like. Hope you agree...
I do not have more pictures with me for the moment. I was willing to send
some other more but I will try to arrange this maybe with my next letters. I
will prepare the original as well. Maybe you want the original rather than
the copy you have! I am very modest...Anyway I can tell that I was never
married, no children, although I am looking for, when time allows. I have
the feeling of a great and beautiful experience that we have already started
and I hope that you have by now a better idea about me and about what I am
looking for to find in my man.
Your lines told me that you are the person that I need and I am sure that I
am not wrong. The time will decide for us and, the moments that we are about
to share. I am looking for the moment when I will be able to see you. For
sure it will give us a better idea about what we are looking for in one
person.
I am looking forward to your letters. You can call as well, the number is
+401.315.67.32.
It can bring us closer, in a way...
Kiss and Hugs,
Rodica
Dear Stacey,
It was a pleasant surprise to receive your letters with the help of the site from your country. It is something good that can happen out of this and I have to say that I am very happy about it.
It is a nice feeling to have somebody to correspond with. You can see in this way that the world is so small and the people can be so close even if it is such a big distance between them. It is good with this technique that can bring us our daily mail.
To go further I can tell that I am not very special therefore I believe that I am like the other people. Sometime I like to find some clear waters for myself. I am searching until I find them and than I am swimming like everybody else does. I like very much the company of a man, a boyfriend as you say in English but, as a girl it is not always that easy. Being at the age when you are, in a way, vulnerable I said to myself that I am going to find me The One and then it will be easy as well for me to find the world attractive. I hope that I am not to old fashioned, am I ?...
I like traveling as much as I like to fly or to have a good pizza but always if possible to share this with people that I care. Loneliness itīs something with not very good taste. The friendship for me is very important and therefore I do enjoy spending time among friends. I believe that everybody can be my friend or rather I have the feeling that I want to be friend with everybody. I can tell that it is a nice feeling to know that all the doors are open if you want to try them. Funny, isnīt it ?
Now, if we are already on our deep letters I guess that we have to be a bit mature and I want to say that I am looking to find a friend, a man, a different kind of person to share all I have learned and especially to learn from him what he has achieved best. I like this. I want to grow wise not just old.
I like to feel myself in a competition and therefore I have the feeling that I must learn everyday different that I have been learning the day before. Sometime it sounds complicated but with the exercise I can tell you that it is not that hard. Practice, nothing but practice and you will succeed.
I will be glad to have some photos about yourself and the place you live. I like to know more about it. I promise I will save money and I will make some special photos that I can send you as well. You will be very proud about them and about me in the same time... Do not laugh...
I hope that we will become good friends and, to understand some of my principles it is only up to you. Here you have my part of the share and I am willing to fulfill this beginning. Deal ? I am just happy to find out that I might represent a special person for you. I think itīs important for everyone. Adventure is not something that I am looking for.
I wish you now a pleasant day and, do not forget that you have a close friend here even if that far, geographically speaking.
Kiss and Hugs,
Rodica
PS. Maybe we will be able to have a chat on the phone this week end. My phone number as I have said is: 011.401.315.67.32
40 is for Romania
1 is for Bucharet
315.67.32 is my home phone number.
Poem from Rodica
softly brushing past our sleepy brow
on the shore sweeping past
is both our past and what we endeavor to make
for our state of well being right now
I can see and feel the sharp blow
of a wind which puts us in a comfort zone
and is also forebonding challenge
For what we make of our life
is what we forge into it and
fortify with our thoughts and beliefs
If we could only capture what is the best part
and cast away the rest
we would be happier
and never feel remorse
I meet you now
as a bright light among the tall trees
I feel the warmth and sparkle
of thought and emotion
I reach out to you
through the fog
extending out with my hand
hoping for you to be there
PS. I feel like I have wings now and I send this
words to you. Yes, I am going to be there in a
short matter of days...
PSS. My address is:
Rodica Arba
Str. Dionisie Lupu 52 Sect. 1
Bucharest Romania
Stacey's letter
I talked to a friend of mine and told him about you and that I sent you money to come see me.....
He warned me there are scams out there on the Internet, where European women are ripping people off.......sayin they are going to fly to America to meet someone and dont!!
So...I am wondering this.......I have asked you to keep me informed as to what is going on....I asked you by email to let me know when you pick up the money...I know you have picked up the money on Monday......
I am a good guy Rodica....the best you will ever meet.....I dont have money to give away to be stolen from me....PLEASE dont be one of those people that do that.....I told my friend I felt in my heart you just could NOT be like those other women......I told him you were the right woman for me and that I thought you were honest and sincere......loving and kind...all the good things about a woman.....
I ask you again to keep me informed for my own piece of mind.....$1000 US dollars is a lot of money.....I had to get the money from my savings account....money that is used only when necessary.......I thought it was necessary to take you for your word and send it to you!!
You understand how I feel...dont you? I am not saying you are like the other women.....I dont want to believe you are.....but please dont give me a reason to think that either!!
Please dont shame me!!
I will talk to you this weekend......I cant wait to hear you tell me when you are coming...... :)
Hugs and a special kiss,
Stacey
Rodica's reply
You make me very sad... I await for you here.
I am real, I am alive and I long for you. If you
donīt than, you better stay with your friends...
My dear,
I am OK now but I was hurt. We will be together
because it is what both of us are looking for.
I do await for your call on Sunday and we will be
able to speak more. The paper works are going
well and in a matter of days I will be there.
There is a small issue that we have to speak as
well. I will need pocket money so that I can have
with me when I will be asked at the airport. Do not
forget that I am in vacation for them in the States
and I am not supposed to speak about us. I will
might have problems with my entry. You know
better how authorities are looking at this matter.
Once there it will be easy to travel back and forth
easier. They want people to be fair and this is how
we will be. We have to prove them that we want to
be together and that we ask nothing from them. It
is like everywhere. When you ask the authorities
things than, they are willing to change your mind for
they own sake. Thatīs all.
We might go out of Bucharest for the week end but
you can call on my brother celular phone. The number
what you have to dial after 40 is: 92.209.170
I do wait for your call when you can have the time.
Kiss and Hugs,
Rodica
My dear,
I just got back from work but before I go to bed I just want to say that I miss you a lot. I feel that bad that it has to take that much of a paper work for us to be together. You have to be strong and we will win. I am, sure as the people from the agency told me that in a week time I will have my departure. It is all because of your government but I donīt care. We have to be together and we will be. No matter what it will take. I will make sue that I will be in September there for that I want to spend my birtdate with you. It will be my second birtdate than or if I may say, it willme my birth. I will be with you... I love it and I need it and I want it.
Tomorrow I have to go for a week time in Budapest for my company but I will be longing to hear you on the 3rd of August. I need you... so bad.
Rodica
PS. About the camera D1 digital as you said, it will be something out of my brother belief to have the camera. I do hope that we will be able to provide him with this equipment. I have fait in you and in your spirit of making things happen. You manage to have me there because, my soul is there... with you, with us.
Stacey's letter
Hi,
It has been several weeks now and I have not heard from you..... could you please let me know what is going on?
Are you still planning on coming to see me?
I have to make plans for September and would like to hear from you as soon as possible.......
Missing you in the USA,
Stacey
Rodica's reply
I am so sad that I am not there by now and all you think is about money ???
Stacey's letter
Hi Rodica.......hope you are doing ok!!
Can you please tell me how the process of the visa paperwork is going? You do not keep me informed!
If you cannot get one...I will have to ask for you to send the $2000 back to me via Western Union.......
Please email me!
Stacey
Rodica's reply
I will be there on the 15th on my birthday...
but you have to come to New York unless
I will find the conection avalaible...
Kiss and Hugs,
Rodica
PS. You donīt like to wait, do you ?...
Stacey's letter
so you tell me what I am supposed to do, Rodica? I am waiting.....but it should not take so long......you have been working on this for 2 months now......
I have a friend that works in the FBI and I can get him to check on the paperwork of your visa, since you cannot tell me anything.....and since you said the problem was with MY GOVERNMENT.....
Stacey's letter to friend from FBI
Hi ,
Stacey here........
Please keep the following confidential!
First off.......is there anyone in the Bureau that works on Internet fraud, scams?
Second.....unfortunately, I am a victim of what I think, is both fraud and scam conditions.......
I answered an ad on a personal site called Dating Faces.com......the person placing the ad is from Bucharest, Romania......the gist of this is that after establishing a great deal of trust on my part...and believing that she wanted to come see me here in ..which was the plan......yes, I sent her money.......$2000 to be exact......
Supposedly this was to get her over here and $1000 of it was to show the Romanian authorities that she would be able to sustain herself for the duration of her visit here........
She works for an import/export company in Bucharest as a manager........
For 2 months now, she reportedly is seeking a visa from either the Consulate or embassy there in Bucharest.......
I have emails to her asking for info and how the process of the paperwork is going. All she says is she is sad she is not here yet, and that all I am thinking about at this time, is the money.......
Repeated calls to her at her home find her not there. But not only do I have her home number, BUT also bank account number.....when I sent her money it was by Western Union........heck, I coulda bought 2 AFF program gift certificates.....lol
In looking at her profile on the personal ad site mentioned....it shows most recent visits.......I noticed while she and I were corresponding, her last visit was July 7........now that I feel she has scammed me, she is back checking in at the site again.....most recent as of Aug 27......all during the time July 7-Aug 27....we are conversing as to how the paperwork to get here, is going.......I have kept copies of several emails to her and from her.......all with the same mentality........
In emailing the personal ad site....I asked if there had been any reported scams to DatingFaces.com......at that time, and I would have to check the timeline on that for verification, there had not been!
But I feel like something is fishy and that I am being avoided by her due to my questions about this whole process of coming over.
So......what should I do about this.......short of getting some hacker buddies to go in and get my money!
Again...please keep this confidential.......
Thanks,
Stacey