I lost over $10k to Internet Love scam

Anonymous | 21 Apr 2019

Internet Love Scam
I met one girl through the matrimonial app (Bharat matrimony) named Anisha kumari(kriya4735@gmail.com/+1 (209) 580-8071/+44 28 4378 0177) as a marriage proposal who lives in the UK. We chatted each other for a couple of weeks and she told she was sending some gift items to me so I shared my address with her and she told she sent some items to surprise me not revealing the items.

After a couple of days, I got a call and mail from courier service named Transnet (transnetcustomerservice@gmail.com/info@transnetcourierservice.com/+60 3-9212-1454/+60 11-5314-9498) stating I need to pay 3200 dollars to them to get the package and I transferred through online banking to the specified account and after a couple of days got the call again from them stating 3200 is USD and not SGD and asked me to send 1200 SGD more so that they will deliver the package and I transferred them to the specified account.

Again after a couple of days got a call again saying I needed to produce money laundry insurance certificate since there is some cash in that package. I paid 7500 dollars to the courier service to get the certificate by depositing the amount and they are demanding another 15000 dollars. I checked with Singapore customs about the certificate and they told there is no such certificate and asked me to lodge a police complaint. then I realised this was scam and I lost so much amount in this.

I lodged a police complaint in January since I lost 11900 dollars in total and now also I am getting calls every week from the scammer to send money to me.