Henry Scot Alan Scot fraud by Western Union, Internet

I met Henry Scot on the Tagged website at the end of September 2009. At the end of October, I was told his father, Alan Scot, was having financial difficulties because he was trying to purchase oil for Henry to ship to him in Scotland where he is supposedly working on an oil rig. I was told the price for the oil had gone up considerably and he was running low on funds. I was told that because Nigeria is a third world country, he did not have access to funds via ATM. Because of that, in order to get cash, he was going to have to fly to South Africa to obtain it via use of his credit cards.

On November 4, 2009 I sent $3,000 to him in the care of a Victor Lawrence, who I was told was a security guard. After that I didn't hear from him for a while until he was getting ready to go to the port to check on the shipment before heading home, which I was told was Venezuela. I was later told there was no immigration records for an Alan Scot going in and out of the country.

After no word from him after leaving port after checking on the shipment, I became concerned. Chief Superintendent Jide Mattew Lookmon, a person I later found was a non-existant employee of Nigerian Customs, was on his IM stating that he was holding him for using fake documents to ship goods. He was to be turned over to the police.

After this news, I was asked to send a $1550 Western Union fee to file the court case by a Barrister Lynn Sharon of Garden Court North, who was also found not to exist, to a Jesusa Ramos of St. Augustine, Florida. I did not send this fee.

When I expressed concern as to the validity of the attorney requesting funds Western Union, I was told not to worry about it. He, Henry, would get the funds another way.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, he claimed to be meeting with his employer, ODFJELL Drilling AS, and trying to get them to release his funds being held in security until he finished the job. ODFJELL claims Henry has never worked for them as a contractor or employee on the North Sea oil rigs as he claims.

He was able to get them to release his funds of $4 million, which he placed in a joint account with me on it, listed as his spouse, which I am not. The email I got from the bank had no legitimate logo, but listed account numbers, pin codes, etc. The thing that bothered me was I was placed on this account without any verification of who I was.

But when push came to shove with the attorney fee, he was still insistent I pay it from my funds. His unrelenting badgering and harrassment for me to pay it went on for days. Still refusing, he promised not to bring it up again, but then he would bring it up again.

When I tried to get the funds from his $4 million account to pay the attorney, with his permission, the pin code didn't work. Then when I called back two more times, someone would just pick up the phone and hold it. Something wasn't right wth this account. I asked to be removed from it.

Later I learned he is known to be an professional con artist in advance fee fraud from Nigeria, so as many people as can be educated about this man and the people he preys upon as Henry S of Las Vegas on Tagged--please take notice and beware before he cons you, too.