Oil rig scammer-Wei Logan

by Akiko
(Japan)

Connected with this guy named Wei Logan though Tinder. He said he was in the UK and would have a contract in Turkey for the next few weeks. He sent me lovely messages everyday and some music from YouTube in the morning.

It took him a month to ask me to send him money.
He said he had an accident on the rig. He fell into the sea and lost his ID and credit cards. He told me to send him money because he needed to provide food and water for his workers.

His demand was $3,000 dollars. Of course I didn't send him but asked him to talk on the phone. His English was not enough to tell he is a native speaker, though he told me he was from Orland FL.

Blocked him soon after the call. Be careful with this guy. He is a scammer.

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Mar 22, 2021
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Omg
by: Anonymous

Omg, I started chatting with him a week ago through Tinder and then he asked to add WhatsApp to make this chat alive!

But I found that his English is not like a native speaker and the time he told me was not like the US timezone!

I was lucky to know this announcement is timely

Mar 15, 2021
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Who is this guy?
by: Anonymous

I have had the same experience as this with this guy and I am wondering who he is. The guy on the pics.

Dec 03, 2020
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RE:OMG
by: Akiko

Nice to hear you know the real owner of the photos.
Hope he doesn't have any influence regarding scams anymore.

Dec 01, 2020
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OMG
by: Anonymous

I also encountered the same guy, same name, same story back in May 2020. I started to doubt his identity after 2 weeks of chatting. He seemed to be nice during the conversations but I was already doing my investigations even from the beginning.

When he said he’s gonna transfer to another country, I was on alert status already. I just went with the flow trying to catch him. It took me a month to finally know the real owner of the photos and quickly message him in messenger to warn him that somebody’s using his photos to scam people. I hope he was able to read it. I respect the real owner’s privacy, I decided not to name him here.

Oct 15, 2020
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BS
by: Anonymous

He asked you for money? And you didn't send it. How is he then a scammer? What's the proof he is a scammer. You don't post people's pictures up with such allegations.

Oct 14, 2020
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Holy Hell
by: Anonymous

Thanks for posting. I have been in contact with this "guy" through Tinder as well. He lost me with his lack of "personality" and for me the conversations died before getting to the falling-into-an-oil-rig-and-requiring-3000-dollars spiel.

There's something else posted here that is a huge red flag for me - it makes me wonder if this is just the "guy" I was supposedly talking to pretending to be another person reporting a fake scam, which, if true, is seriously bad.

God, everything makes so much sense now.

Sep 20, 2020
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TinEye
by: Anonymous

I used TinEye to search if the passports were of Armani Chang Wei and got 35 results of different passport images. Many of the passports are held up with identical hand (hang nail in middle finger). On closer examination the passport number 431276122 appeared more than once.

Sep 20, 2020
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RE: Reverse image search
by: Akiko

Thank you for the information. Did you mean you found this guy on TinEye? I have tried it but no results for these pictures.

I know I should put this awful experience behind me and move on, but if I can let him know, that's the only thing I'd like to do for this matter.

Sep 20, 2020
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Reverse image search
by: Anonymous

I have tried TinEye and got many results with the passport image. Zero results for other pictures.

Not much luck with Google Image Search and Yandex.

Haven’t tried SocialCatfish.

Sep 19, 2020
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Credibility of his pictures
by: Akiko

The scammer sent me similar messages like you got however, I doubt the pictures of him are not real. He refused face time chat, so these pictures of him are stolen from somewhere by the scammer. This guy might be a victim as well.
I'm wondering if there are some ways to find this guy on the picture and let him know he is used by the scammer.

Does anyone know how to search the guy from pictures ( I tried google image search but couldn't find him ) or can anyone find this guy?

Sep 19, 2020
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Sample love message from a catfish
by: Anonymous

The sweet nothings, the late-night talks, and the little memories have taken over my heart and soul. I can't wait to create more with you. I want to wake up to your beautiful face every morning, taking in all of your positive energy.You're my last prayer at night and my first thought in the morning. Your love is all I need to stay motivated throughout the day. Thank you for being so inspiring. Your shining light is more essential to me than the light from the morning sun. You bring out the best in me when I think I have limits. You push me harder, you show me how to break barriers, and you inspire me to get ahead.I never really believed that true love existed until the day that I met you.Every night I go to bed hoping to have sweet dreams of you, and when I wake up, I’m so happy that those dreams are true.You are the kindest, most talented, and most beautiful person in my life. I love you with all my heart.Every day brings me a new opportunity to make the day more memorable for you. To show you how much I love you, to remind you how special you are, and to make you smile.Good morning my darling.I want you to know you mean so much to me and i would give everything in this world to be with you.I love you my heart desire,good morning my happiness.No matter the words and no matter how long my messages are,they can never explain how much you really mean to me.I love you so much and i want you to know i will always love you ❤️💋🌹🍔👑😍🥰😘👩‍❤️‍👨👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨👫💍

Sep 19, 2020
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Stop being scammed
by: Anonymous

You have the good sense to recognize a scammer and avoid heartaches and financial losses.

More people should learn about these oil rig romance scams. It is a well organized crime operation and big payouts for these scammers.

I didn’t find out until after I was victimized.

Here are links to my posts:

https://www.watchforscams.com/oil-rig-scam-armani-chang-wei.html

https://www.watchforscams.com/more-pictures-of-fake-oil-rig-engineer-armani-chang-wei.html

https://www.watchforscams.com/acw-oil-rig-romance-scam-more-pictures.html

https://www.watchforscams.com/more-pictures-armani-chang-wei-fake-oil-rig-engineer1.html

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