Online friend turned out to be a scammer

Anonymous | 07 Apr 2022

Internet Love Scam
We got to know as a match via Bumble and then he suggested we talk over telegram; which I did. He shared me the website (https://integrityenergysolutionsinc.com/index.html) and said that is his company which he wants me know more about him. I did check and confirm the founder info together with the photo is consistent with the one i have at bumble profile; because of that i ruled out the possibility of love scam and lower down my alert.

When we chatted on Telegram, he showed presented himself to be a highly committed person and willing to man up; very good at sweet talks, aggressively expressing he is very keen on me and is willing to build our future together.

He is working as civil engineer and now engaged in a offshore project on oil rig. after this project, he will have all the finance resource to move the company from us to singapore as he feel as asian, he got biased at us and would like to settle down in singapore if he manage to find the right partner.

It went all good; we chat in morning and night due to limited access at internet on the rig, as claimed by him. and then one day, he said there is an incident incurred at the rig, one of his major machine is broken down and need to replace a critical part in order to wrap up the project. it rings a bell to me and i try to play cool. then finally, he asked me for a help of usd2,000-3,000 as he run out his budget and only need this fund then he could finish the project and then come to singapore to meet me up. i instantly feel this is a scam and confronted him that he was a liar. he then appeared to be upset and replied how could i insult him over him asking for help. That was the last conversation we had and after a week, he delete all the chat history at telegram. i did research online and saw a lot oil rig scram which is very similar to what i encountered. From then i could confirmed it is indeed a love scam.