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Complaint Review: Sara Hoverk - Lewisham, Internet

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  • Reported By: MuttleyMan — Greater Baltimore Maryland United States of America
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  • Sara Hoverk 900 Edric Road Internet United Kingdom

Sara Hoverk Sara Heinzain Hughes Claims to be in UK shelter, begs for money, promises love forever, gives forwarded phone numbers Lewisham, United Kingdom, Internet

*General Comment: you are not real

*REBUTTAL Individual responds: I am real

*Author of original report: Never lost a dime; learned about UK and phone scams

*General Comment: DO YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS

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My experience with this scam started on August 29, 2009 when I received a message from a "Sara H." on "Tagged". I replied and started an email conversation with her, where almost every day she told me she loved me and wanted to be with me forever. Her profile said she was from Michigan but later she said she was in a shelter in central London and needed my assistance to bring her back to the US where she would be my companion and wife.

The emails were very persistent and my initial investigations did not show anything, although I found one hit about a scam on a search. She told me her email account had been hacked and she had nothing to do with the scam. Eventually she told me she owed about 4000 pounds but she said she could get out of England if I sent her $3000 by Western Union, and she gave an address of 900 Edric Rd.

I found an Edric Rd using Google Maps and it is in Lewisham, a suburb of London, and the address is beyond the range for that street. She provided a phone number for the "Shelter Officers" but it had a number of +44-702-xxx-xxxx which I found to be a "Personal Phone Number" which actually forwards the call to another number anywhere in the world and often at rates of $1/minute.

She said she went to a local Church of God and gave me a name of her minister and his number which was also similarly forwarded. I contacted Lewisham officials and inquired on Shelter.org but they did not know of a shelter there. When I told her of my investigation she got disturbed by her privacy and suggested I meet her in the UK. I also contacted a nearby Church of God, and their minister did not know of any such local church.

"Sara" begged me for a "small" monetary gift of about $400 for Christmas, and I was going to send just $50, but after my suspicions were confirmed here I plan instead to contribute that amount to a real church or charity.

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#4 General Comment

you are not real

AUTHOR: twistedoliver - (United States of America)

POSTED: Saturday, March 26, 2011

if you are real, why didn't you come when i sent you money?  and why have you used the pics of 3 different women and claim they are you? Admit it.. you are a scammer plain and simple.

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#3 REBUTTAL Individual responds

I am real

AUTHOR: Sara Hoverk - (United Kingdom)

POSTED: Thursday, March 24, 2011

i have read the reports some hornie dogs wrote against me and I am saying in one word that I am honest, sincere, a good christian, I am never a scammer and I will never be such. The people I communicated with online was not able to get my p***y because I told them my plight and they started writing rubbish about me. I am here in London and I am real person not a scammer.

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#2 Author of original report

Never lost a dime; learned about UK and phone scams

AUTHOR: MuttleyMan - (United States of America)

POSTED: Sunday, January 03, 2010

I really don't believe I was played very hard, as I suspected a scam early on, and I never sent any money. It did seem preposterous that a beautiful 35 year old woman would genuinely love a 60 year old guy she knew only from my website and email communications. But it was fun to entertain a fantasy and I did my homework when she started to beg for money.

It was a learning experience in that I found interesting information about Lewisham, UK, and also I discovered that +44-70x numbers are forwarded to international numbers which may be high toll calls up to $1/minute.

The other two members who fell for her scam and actually sent money or plane tickets were "played hard". And this scam artist is rather savvy and convincing enough for one of them to reverse his original claim but then finally doing more research and learning the truth.

I wonder what would have happened if I had accepted Sara's last plea for me to meet her at the Heathrow Airport and take her to a motel room? She may be working with accomplices and she may have arranged for them to rob me or even kidnap me while sleeping. Who knows how far a criminal may go to get "some bucks".

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#1 General Comment

DO YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS

AUTHOR: panther - (USA)

POSTED: Sunday, January 03, 2010

 they are always warning people in the United States about scams from people overseas. You got played and played hard maybe you learned your lesson only time will tell.

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