Pete Jackson
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We met on a dating website in USA and corresponded by email and chat. He lived in Stafford, Texas and I live in Sierra Madre, CA. We corresponded for about a month when he had to go to Dubai to receive payment on a job he'd done for the government on an oil rig offshore. He was very kind and honest (so I thought) and professed to have fallen in love with me. I soon began to fall in love with him too. Once he got to Dubai he said there was an accident among his workers and 1 man died while 3 others had to go to ICU. He said he had 300 men working for him. He said that cost him $50,000. because he was the boss and they had no health insurance or coverage. So he said that the $50,000 was to pay the tax and clearance that needed to be paid before the government would give him his payment for the job. He said he agreed to work without payment until the job was completely over. Now the job was over and he didn't have the tax and clearance money. He asked me if I could get $10,000 somewhere - maybe borrow it from someone and he would pay it back within 7 days with interest. I felt bad for him and did look for someone to loan me the $10,000 for weeks but with no success. Soon he said he had to stay in Dubai until he could get the payment and pay the men. He then said that his room rent was up for the month and he needed $2,000 to pay for his accommodations and food for the month or they would ask him to leave and he had nowhere to go. He asked me for the $2,000 and said he would pay me back with interest. I got a loan on my car and sent him the $2,000. Then I continued to look for someone to loan me the $10,000 so he could get his payment, come home and come to see me in California. After several more weeks of no success in getting the money he said he had to go home and sell something to get the money. He told me to sell whatever I could so he could purchase a ticket to fly back to Texas (because his had expired). So the ticket was $1500. He told me whatever I sold he would buy back as soon as he got back from Dubai again with the payment money which should take no more than 7-10 days. He was to come to California to see me after he got his money. So, I sold my car (because he said he would get me another one) and only got $3,000. I first had to pay off the car loan which was $2500 so I had $500. left to send him so I took our a payday advance loan for 210. and send him $710.00 toward the ticket. He was disappointed and wanted $700. more to buy his ticket. I took out 3 more payday advance loans that equaled $700. and sent it to him on August 1, 2012. I really believed he cared about me and had never heard of a dating scam before. He went back to Stafford, Texas and then I didn't hear from him for 5 days at which time he and I chatted on MSN Messenger and he asked for more money to make up $30,000 which he really owed toward the tax and clearance. I had no more money and no one left to ask. He said okay and that he loved me and missed me. He said he would get the money somehow. Well that day my daughter was reading my email and told me all that was just a scam. Of course I didn't believe her, I believed Pete Jackson. She had sent him an email from my computer that said "You are a scam artist, you should be ashamed of yourself, and I'm reporting you to the police." Pete thought that I wrote that to him. I wrote an email to him and explained it was my daughter not me but he still did not respond. I feel it was a good excuse for him because I had no more money anyway. He said I was calling him names and so forth, even though I said I didn't. After several days when he would no longer email me or chat with me, I wrote him an email outlining the money I had loaned him and that I wanted it back within a week. He wrote back and said he would pay me but to give him a little time. I reported this to the Stafford Police Dept. who said he had picked up the money in Dubai with a Nigerian passport that said Pete Jackson. They also said they had no jurisdiction that I would have to report the crime in Dubai where he picked up the money. Well, I haven't heard from him. I gave him 2 weeks and wrote to him again about the money a couple of times ($3,910.) but he hasn't responded. I do not have his address in Stafford but I do have his phone number: (832)947-3167 which is his land line. This is where I am and I want my money back. Obviously I was scammed but I still want my money back. He will just do it again to someone else. He now set up a page on Facebook. What should I do?