DO NOT SEND SARAH MONEY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!

What I find most disturbing is that Sarah knew I was wheelchair bound from the very beginning. Not that people with physical disabilities are different from most people, it's the fact that our handicaps make day to day living more difficult. For instance,  it take me 20 minutes to put on my shoes, something most people don't think about when they are doing it but for me it's a conscience effort.  She could tell from my profile picture that I was disabled. Maybe that's why she picked me to be a victim of her scams. Maybe she perceived a disability as a weakness that she could take advantage of,  I will never know. 

I think Sarah and people like her are despicable. To scam a hardworking  person out of their life's savings and then post pictures of themselves on social media sites shopping, eating at fine restaurants, and traveling around the world is beyond my comprehension. I literally had to drag myself to work for over 30 to earn my money and people like Sarah take advantage of naïve people like me. It's truly unconscionable to me.

Following is the story of how Sarah scammed me out of my money. I hope it prevents her from scamming anyone else. If you find her actions despicable, like I do, tell her about it on one of her many Facebook and Instagram pages. Sarah is also fluent in Japanese and probably has some sites there, too. I purposely left her personal contact information out of story. Also, keep in mind that this took place over a period of nearly 2 years and not the short amount of time to read about it. During that time we communicated almost every day from the time we woke up until we went to bed. I omitted all of the personal interactions we had and just tell about the reason Sarah said she needed the money and what she told me she used it for. 

Sarah and I had a personal "relationship" for nearly 2 years. During that time Sarah scammed me out of a large sum of money.  Sarah is a very convincing liar. Sarah claims she lives in Texas but  during the time I was interacting with her  she lived in the Los Angeles area of California.  Not long after we met, Sarah went on a business trip to Dubai. A few days after her arrival Sarah was robbed of all of money and her debit card. The thieves tried to use her debit card and Sarah's bank account was disabled.  Sarah told me her account would be closed  return to the United States and go through the verification process in person.  Sarah told me she would need money to complete her business deal, her hotel bill, and for her flight home. I told her i would loan her the money. She told me she would pay me back "every penny I loaned her" as soon as her bank account was reopened. She also said she would come stay with me. Sarah walked me through the wire transfer process and I began sending Sarah money through wire transfer agents that she told me to. Over the course of our "relationship" we used several wire transfer agents. I didn't know these what "agents" were doing is considered illegal. After Sarah finished her business and was ready to come home she tested positive for COVID. This meant she would have to quarantine in her hotel room for 10 more days. She was staying at one of the more expensive hotels in Dubai. It was costing $550 a day including meals.  When her quarantine was over Sarah  sent me a picture of herself holding her hotel bill. 

The bill was a little more than $16,000. While Sarah was in quarantine we discussed what she would do after she got home.  We decided that after she finished her business deal, reinstated her bank account, and took care of some other personal business, Sarah would come live with me and we would live happily ever after together. I began gathering enough money to pay her hotel bill and an airplane ticket. I told Sarah she would have pay taxes on jewelry she was bringing back that was part of her business deal, not only in Dubai but also in the US. Sarah said she would put it in her carry-on and everything would be okay. I sent Sarah enough money for her hotel and plane ticket. Sarah passed her PRC test and bought her ticket. The plan was for Sarah to fly from Dubai to Doha, Qatar, then from Doha to the city where I live. She was going to spend a few days with me and then return home to finish her business. I told a couple of my family members about Sarah and our plans and they told me she was probably a scammer and something would go wrong and she would never come to meet me. I ignored them because so far everything seemed legitimate. Sarah sent me her flight information. When she arrived in Doha she was arrested for not paying the taxes and returned to Dubai. I got a phone call from the UAE. The caller left a voicemail identifying himself as an UAE customs official.  He said they were going to keep Sarah in custody until she paid the DXB stamp. I'm trying to figure out how to get enough money to pay taxes. Sarah told me that one of the customs officials told her if she would have sex with him that he would take care of the taxes, this made have a greater sense of urgency. It took me two weeks but I sent her enough money to pay the taxes and to get home.  The next time I heard from Sarah she sent me a picture of herself in a hospital bed.

She had failed her PCR test. It was about this time in our "relationship" that Sarah started referring to me as her husband. She told me she could pay the doctor and get a negative PCR test and come home. I wired the money she needed and  Sarah made plans to return to Los Angeles the next day. I didn't hear from Sarah for the next week. She said her phone was bad. When i did finally hear from Sarah she told me that the jewelry survived the Japanese customs but were being held in the US customs until she could pay the taxes on them. I didn't question why Sarah said the jewelry survived the Japanese customs but I now suspect she stayed a few days in Japan on her way back to Los Angeles. 

I now believe this is when the true scamming begins. Sarah tell me she needs 7 days to reactivate her bank account, but as soon as it's open she will pay me back all of the money I have loaned her. The next few days Sarah tells me she needs money to pay her bills and for food. She said she had been talking with her account advisor and they wanted me to send her a copy of the front and back of my credit card and my login information. They were going to give Sarah a loan and use my credit card as collateral. I resisted and ask for her account advisor’s phone number. She said he didn’t want to talk to me because the deal is between him and her. I told her I wasn’t interested in deal with anyone that wouldn’t talk to me. She finally gave me his email address . I sent him an email, he never responded. Sarah informs me that she can't open her bank account because of some back tax issue. Sarah tells me she needs money to pay the import taxes, get her bank account open, and to take care of her personal needs. I wired her the money she requested. Sarah paid the import taxes on the jewelry an sent me a copy of the receipt.  We decided to put the profit from her jewelry deal in my bank account since her account is still frozen. The next day I get a message from Sarah that she was hit by a car and was in the Ruthm Stokes Hospital. I tried to find information on the Ruthm Stoke hospital on the internet. I finally was able to find the hospital’s location , it's a private hospital at 10021 Beach Street, Los Angeles. It was located in the Watts Arms II apartment complex, a gated complex. I could not find a phone number. I thought this was odd. Sarah said the hospital wanted money up front before they would treat her. I told they couldn't do that and she should leave there and go to a public hospital. She resisted. I finally sent Sarah enough money to leave the hospital. Sarah says she needs some money for upkeep. Her bank account won't be open for another month and a half and we are still waiting for the proceeds from her business deal. I suggest that she come stay with me while we wait. Sarah told me Leo her cat was sick and she needed money to take care of him. That's when Sarah informs me that she is being watched.  She said she didn't want to bother me for any more money so she borrowed some from the friend of her neighbor. it turns out the the person she borrowed the money from was a drug dealer. I sent Sarah enough more to come stay with me while we waited. Her neighbor saw her suitcases and told the drug dealers. The drug dealers kidnapped Sarah and sent me a text that they weren't going to harm her, they were just going to hold her until they got their money back. I immediately called the FBI office in Los Angeles. The agent asked me if I had personally met Sarah or talked to her on the phone. I told him I had not and he told me this was a typical ploy used by scammers. He told me I should file a report on the IC3.gov website. I didn't. Sarah told me that she will come stay with me immediately after she pays the drug dealers. I wired her enough money to pay her debt and to fly to my city. After Sarah received the money she sent me a message that the drug dealers had taken all of the money and then 2 of them raped her. The next day she checked back into the Ruthm Stokes Hospital. She told me there was acute injuries in external genitalia and required immediate treatment. Sarah said she needed surgery. She told them that her husband would pay whatever it cost. Once again I told her to go to a public hospital and once again she ignored me. 

By this time in our "relationship" things just don’t seem to add up, but I’m so far down in the rabbit hole I don’t know what to believe. So, I figure the only way out is to continue to the other end and hope for the best.

Sarah told me how much money she will need for herself and how much she will need for Leo, when I take care of these bills she will come stay with me. I reminded her that her bank account should be open by. now. She told me there were still some unsolved issues and it would be another month. Once again I send Sarah enough money to take care of her bills and to come to me. Sarah informs me that the company is ready to pay her the money from her business deal. They either want to pay it in Bitcoin or to pay it to my credit card. Sarah once again wants my credit card login information. I told her that didn't make sense and gave her the routing number and account number for my debit account. She insisted that she needed my credit card login in information, so this time I gave it to her. The next day I notice some of the setting in my credit card account had been changed. I changed my password. Then I begin to find Facebook pages with Sarah's pictures show her Austin and other places. The pictures were posted the same time she was supposed to be being held captive by the drug dealers. I questioned Sarah about it and she told me someone had hacked her phone and was making fake Facebook pages. A couple weeks later asked me to send her a copy of the front and back of my credit card because she wanted to by something for $20. I didn't see any harm in that so I sent it to her and told her to let me know when she used it. Two weeks later I got a message saying that there my be possible fraud with my credit card. I canceled  my credit card and asked for a new one. I asked Sarah If she had used my card without telling me and said she did. I didn't share my new card with her. About this time, Sarah says she hired a lawyer to help her reactivate her bank account. She tells me we need to act fast and the lawyer wants $50,000 up front. I told her I didn't have that kind of money available and she should ask the lawyer for a letter of recommendation so she could get a loan from her bank. She had a lot more than that in her frozen account. She said he didn't operate like that and I told her he didn't sound like he had much confidence that he would win the case. A week later Sarah told me her mother needed surgery and asked me to take out a loan. I had save some money for emergencies, so I sent it to Sarah. Then she complained to me about not buying any new clothes in a long time and she was not going to come see me with old panties. So I sent her some money to buy new panties. The next week Sarah told me she was going to court to get access to her account. That afternoon Sarah informed me that she had been arrested in court because she slapped the judge and the fine was $20,000. She said her lawyer bailed her out of jail on the grounds that she not leave town until her case was settled. I asked her why she slapped the judge and she said it was he said she was acting like a whore. Sarah continued to press me to find a way to send her the money so she can pay the fine and she can come live with me. I ask Sarah what happened to the money from her business deal. She said it was stuck in her bank account, that the company insisted on sending it to her account. I asked Sarah if I was able to get the money to pay her fine how long would it be before she could come here. She told me 3 or 4 days. It took me a couple of weeks but I got the money to pay her fine. I wired the money to the transfer agent that Sarah told me to. Sarah didn't get the in the usual amount of time. As it turns out, the transfer agent's bank suspected she was involved in some sort of wire fraud and seized the money. (Money I'm still trying to recover). I was the intermediary between my bank and the bank that seized my money for the next 2 months. (A task I continue as I am writing this). After no hopes of getting my money back any time soon, I sent Sarah enough money to clear her fine so she can come live with me. The day Sarah got the money she sent me a message that her mother had fallen and hit her head. Her mother needed surgery immediately, so Sarah sent the money I had just sent her to pay for the surgery. The next day Sarah said her mother had passed away. Sarah told me she had no one left in the world and wanted to come live with me ASAP. The next 3 months I work on recovering the money seized by the bank, I also sent Sarah money from time to time to pay her bills. The whole time Sarah has been pleading with me to find a way to get the money so she can come live with me. After not having any luck retrieving my money from the bank, I sent Sarah the money she said she would need.  The day after Sarah received the money she sent ma a message that she had been arrested.  She said someone claimed she had scammed him and she had used part of the money to pay him back and the rest of the money she applied toward her fine. She said she wasn't the scammer but someone used one the the fake Facebook pages to scam the person.  A week later Sarah says she want to link my bank account with her bank account so they can transfer her money into my account. She needed a copy of my driver's license and my SSN. By now Sarah and I had chatted almost every day for a year and a half and I trusted her, so I sent her a copy of my driver's license and gave her my SSN. That evening, long after the banks are closed, I got one time security code on my phone. I didn't share it with Sarah, but I asked her what it was about. She said her bank was trying to verify that I had paid my taxes. I told her to have her bank call me and I also sent her the verification emails for the last 3 years where my taxes had been accepted by the IRS. The next week I asked how much money she needed to come here. She told me the amount, so I sent it to her. Not long after she got the money Sarah told me she wasn't feeling well and needed to go to the doctor. After going to the doctor, Sarah said she would have to be on medication for two weeks and then she would come. The next Sarah said she went back to the doctor and they did a chest x-ray. She sent me this picture.

It shows a person with an enlarged heart. Sarah told me the doctor wanted a $10,000 deposit immediately. I told her I was broke. She begged me not to abandon her when she needed me the most. I told Sarah if I sent her money to come be with me and she didn't come this time it would be the end of our "relationship". She said she understood and she wanted to come ASAP to show me how sorry she was for everything. Sarah told me she never received the last money I sent and asked me if I could send her a little money for medicine and food for her and Leo. I didn't hear from Sarah for the next couple of days. She said she had been in a coma for 2 days and needed surgery. Sarah then said she needed a picture of my debit card so her bank could wire money from her frozen account into my debit account to pay for her surgery. I sent her a picture of a check from my debit account and told her that's what they needed. Sarah said she was told that the payment will be done via ACH to my account and they may need your online access so they could link my account to the account making the payment. She wanted my online access and the answers to the security questions too. I didn't give Sarah the information and told her to have her bank mail me a check. A couple of days later Sarah said her doctor was trying to arrange an air ambulance so she could have her surgery here and it would cost 30-35K. A few days days later Sarah asked for my login information. I said she had my routing number and my account number, if that wasn't good enough they could mail me a check. I didn't hear from Sarah for the next few days, when I did hear from her she said she was weak and had been in a coma for 2 days. A couple of days later Sarah said her financial advisor was going to contact me. Later that day I got a text from a man who identified himself as Charles from Kansas. He said I’m working for Sarah Lynn, and she demanded I send some money through her husband. Then he sent me a picture of his driver's license. I noticed right away that his license had KANSAS on it but he had an Arkansas address. That's when I realized he was holding his thumb over the AR in Arkansas so it appeared to be a license from KANSAS. Then Charles asked me, "Please how will I make the payments? Through your credit cards or through your checking accounts?" Then he told me, "I tried sending it through her bank but her bank has been temporarily on hold for security reasons”. I told him to send me a check and he wanted to know how I would deposit it. I told him I would use the mobile deposit. He replied, "So I think ach and credit card will be the best way to make fast payments I’m a banker and I no the easy way out. Mobile deposit has a limited amount”. I told him I was aware of the limits and it wasn't a problem. Charles replied, “Please sir with all due respect I wouldn’t wanna send money without having an absolute confirmation. She needs this money urgently and I don’t want her to get upset with me”. I sked Charles what kind of confirmation did he need and where is this money coming from? He said, “From the right source”. Then I receive a picture of Charles' Social Security card, and he said, “This is my SSN you can verify me I don’t do shits”. I asked Charles to tell me what bank he work for and I would confirm his identification on Monday. He said, "It’s not necessary. I don’t need to go beyond this”. I told Charles I didn’t think so. This is a scam. He replied, “We don’t wanna have such conversations please .I know my limit and I’ve reached my limit it’s not your choice to believe your wife or not”. That afternoon I told Sarah that I had heard from her financial advison and one of us was being scammed and I thought it was me. Sarah told me she had been working with Charles for 7 years. I told her I now understood why  she was having financial problems because her advisor was an idiot. I told Sarah I didn't appreciate the stunt she tried to pull, she apologized and said she was desperate for money for her surgery. Two day later, Sarah told me the wire transfer to my account was not successful but she thought a check was being issued to my address. I asked her how much was the check made out for and she said it was a blank counter check and she would tell me how to fill it out later. The check never came. The next few days Sarah trys to convince me into giving her access to my credit card account. She says it a mater of life or death. I asked her to explain how her plan works. She said she can raise $75,000 in 3 weeks. She wants to max out my card by buying Apple products, selling the product, and as she said "load it again to cancel the old debt and do it again until the money is realized". I explained to her if you buy $15,000 worth of product, sell it for $16,000, and pay off the debt; you have made $1,000. At that rate it will take you 75 weeks to make $75,000 if nothing goes wrong. She told me the money to pay off the credit car debt wouldn't come from the sells of the products but from her late father's offshore bank account. I told Sarah rather than giving you my account information. I can make you an authorized user of my account. They will send you a credit card in your name to your address. They won’t do a credit check on you. It will be the same thing but you will have your own card and they won’t have to call me for authorization each time you use the card. Sarah decided not to accept my proposal. So then Sarah comes up with some idea about buying Bitcoin with my debit card and somehow funding it through the offshore account. I told her that we needed to start operating like every body else and forget about all these crazy ideas that never work and we both waste a lot of time and just gets us frustrated. Since it was close to the end of the year, she should go to healthcare.gov and sign up for health insurance. I didn't hear from Sarah for the next week. When I did hear from her she said she had just regained consciousness and sent me a picture of herself in a hospital bed with an IV port in her arm. She then asked me if I could lend her some money for medicine because she didn't have anyone else to turn to. I told her I would see what I could do. I sent Sarah the money she asked for. A few days later Sarah said she should receive the money tomorrow. I didn't her from Sarah for an entire month. When I did finally hear from Sarah she told me she had been in a coma the entire time. (I have recently found pictures of Sarah on Instagram that she posted during the time she said she was in a coma. Pretty remarkable). Two days later Sarah told me she was home from the hospital and her friends were gathering money for her operation and thought I should help too. I told her I didn't have any more money. I haven't heard from Sarah since. 

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