If you don't come from the YouTube video, about the scammer in central Europe, please watch it first, to understand what is the e-mail and experiment about.
Photos of László's face and IDs, at the end of the pasted e-mail.
Instructions of the experiment (e-mail Laszlo), at end of the post.
Photos of László's face and IDs, at the end of the pasted e-mail.
Instructions of the experiment (e-mail Laszlo), at end of the post.
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My name is Kata Oldal lieutenant. Your letter was recieved by my authority. Please write me the complete and particular story about LászlóFehér.
Yours sincerely:
Kata Oldal lieutenant
Budapest, XIII.th. district - Police Station
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Antony
3 Mayto Oldal
Hello, lieutenant Kata Oldal
apologies for responding late, I was very stressed and busy when I received your first email, and I was avoiding to think about the events
So, I will write here my experience with Laszlo, but if I need to complete a particular form or testify via phone, skype etc, please tell me.
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017, Edinburgh, UK
I'm Antony, a student of KU Leuven, in Brussels.
On Friday March 10th, at midnight, I took the last train from Leuven, to Brussels, intending to take a coach to Paris, at 2am, but walking away from Brussels central station, I realized I had forgotten my passport home.
Still, I kept walking through the center towards Brussels South Train station, intending to ask the bus driver if it'd be possible to travel with only the photo of my passport I had in my phone.
While walking, on a street near a man asked me if I had a cigarette. I sad 'no' as I don't smoke, and right after we started chatting.
I'm not good with gauging, but I'd guess he's about 1.62, and looks like in the photos I'm sending you.
He was carrying a medium-large backpack. And his clothes or himself did not look strange, smell bad/ alcohol, or anything. His English weren't of great grammar and syntax, but he was very fluent and sharp.
I do not remember how the chat started. Maybe with one of us asking 'where are you from', or something like that.
Laszlo said he had just come back from the airport where he had to miss his flight because he lost his bank card and had no money or someone to help him. He would have to spend the night in Brussels, waiting to go to the embassy or/and call his bank, the very next day.
He said he was in France, in Paris if I remember correctly, to have a hospital operation, and he came to Brussels just for his flight.
I realized I would most probably spend the night in Brussels too, as it'd be too expensive to get a taxi back to Leuven, and there were no night buses or any other cheap option.
He seemed very interested and willing to help me. He explored different options for me, but we concluded it'd be risky to be in Paris without identification, so I'd better just go back home, taking the 1st train to Leuven, at around 5am.
We started walking around, with Laszlo. He entered a hotel to ask about my case. If it'd be possible to get me in the bus without a passport.
He was comfortable with people.
He looked like he knows the center of Brussels very well.
He told me he has traveled a lot around Europe, and he proposed we stay for a while in the 24 hour Mc Donalds.
Place de la Bourse 3, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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We went there, at around 1am, or a bit later, had a cup of coffee each, and sat.
I took off my laptop, and started surfing the internet, but Laszlo was an interesting guy and we had many things to chat about.
He had been to my study city, Leuven, and knew a few things about it. I had been to Budapest, hosted by a man called Laszlo. We talked about cars, his home city, and, much more.
He didn't make a big deal about his problem. He never asked me to help him. He was constantly searching for flights and train rides to Budapest, by himself, on his phone. Soon, I started looking in my laptop too.
We found relatively few options, the easiest/less stressful of which involved an expensive train through Germany.
I was interested enough to figure how Laszlo would go home, so he didn't need to ask much. I was asking him who could help him, and he was always saying he just has no one, he can contact no one that would wire him money, because all his very few friends can't use the internet.
After so many hours of chatting with a calm, knowledgeable man, with common experiences and zero pressure or selling misery, I volunteered to help him book a ticket to go home, so I started asking him some questions to make sure he does have money, and would pay me back, though, at that point, I somehow was trusting him a lot.
Anyway, he immediately let me make pictures of his id, and other few documents. I didn't think it'd be smarter to book the tickets for him, rather than giving him cash. At that moment I was considering him very trustworthy.
The train tickets were 260-something euros. So I gave him 300, for food and in case something would go wrong.
I withdrew the cash from an atm nearby. I can send you the exact transaction from my bank account if necessary.
We both went to the train station at around 5 in the morning. We found our trains. I took my train first, and let Laszlo go home.
I had his photo, phone, email, and was trusting he'd be home next day.
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Now I feel too bad too keep writing. The days followed were the worst.
Laszlo started calling and emailing me about some urgent problems.
On Sunday, he came to Leuven to find me, looking very tired.
He had forgotten his ID at McDonalds, he says. He says the border control in Germany didn't let him in, and had to go back to Brussels, stay in a Hotel, so he was broke again, tired, hungry.
I offered to host him. I had cooked soup for him and made a bed in the living room, but he just wanted to go home, as soon as possible. But he had no money. This time he asked me. I was being very stressful and upset. He was always calm, though tired. We chatted for about 40 minutes, and then I gave him another 400 euros, to go away.
After that moment my brain was completely hijacked. Like, possessed. I couldn't think clearly. I was feeling stupid and crazy for giving a stranger 700 euros, I was feeling stupid and guilty for not trusting him, and for trusting him, I couldn't sleep. I was not thinking clear.
The next day he started emailing and calling me non stop, from Italy (yes!), my brain was too confused and stressed. Somehow he managed to convince me transfer him another damn 550 euros!!! I asked him to make a picture, like a contract with his face, and send me. I include it in the photos I sent you.
He was always calm when talking, except the emails. The next few days I was so stressed I couldn't sleep. He kept emailing and calling me. I had the phone off.
I was 100% sure I had been scammed, and started feeling better because the agony of the doubt was killing my brain.
Then, somehow, he kept emailing me, almost every day, telling different stories, from different places. The hotel he was living in Italy (if it was not him from other email address), emailed me to pay his bill. I suspected it might have been Laszlo, because of the broken English. I sent them he is dangerous, and he somehow learnt what I wrote.
I don't know how dangerous he is, what is his real name, and what his life is.
I sent some very honest emails to him, after realizing I was scammed, trying to ask what is going on with his life, but he kept lying.
I'm sorry I don't put clear days and events to the following days but if I would, I would need to consult all the emails, and it would all be extremely stressful.
If you happen to know where he is, and you need me to write explicit details for every step of the communication, to arrest him, or to have a sufficient testimony, I'd be more than happy to.
For the moment, I can only prove the money taken, by Laszlo's own picture, and that he has transferred nothing back, from my bank's transaction log, and testify this man caused me severe psychological problems for 6 days, and less severe to this day.
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I know my reaction may be ridiculous because some people experience much more serious conditions, like physical violence, death threats, etc, but in my personal life that's one of the most painful moments.
It's not about the money and the stress. It's about completely destroying my model of common sense, and realizing how someone can scam me being so calm, knowledgeable, look you in the eyes, and feel absolutely truthful.
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I include two attachments
1. A zip file with some photos I have, from his documents and the one I asked him before the last money transfer, by Western Union
2. A pdf with some emails from the 1st week of our communication, including the western union transfer, his pressure, some photos etc. I think the order may be a bit mixed. If you want a better version of the emails I will try again, with different software.
For the moment I'm in the UK, and the number I use is +44XXXXXXX (I also use whatsapp)
Please let me know if you have any information, or if I can help with anything
Kind regards
Antony K
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I was 100% sure I had been scammed, and started feeling better because the agony of the doubt was killing my brain.
Then, somehow, he kept emailing me, almost every day, telling different stories, from different places. The hotel he was living in Italy (if it was not him from other email address), emailed me to pay his bill. I suspected it might have been Laszlo, because of the broken English. I sent them he is dangerous, and he somehow learnt what I wrote.
I don't know how dangerous he is, what is his real name, and what his life is.
I sent some very honest emails to him, after realizing I was scammed, trying to ask what is going on with his life, but he kept lying.
I'm sorry I don't put clear days and events to the following days but if I would, I would need to consult all the emails, and it would all be extremely stressful.
If you happen to know where he is, and you need me to write explicit details for every step of the communication, to arrest him, or to have a sufficient testimony, I'd be more than happy to.
For the moment, I can only prove the money taken, by Laszlo's own picture, and that he has transferred nothing back, from my bank's transaction log, and testify this man caused me severe psychological problems for 6 days, and less severe to this day.
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I know my reaction may be ridiculous because some people experience much more serious conditions, like physical violence, death threats, etc, but in my personal life that's one of the most painful moments.
It's not about the money and the stress. It's about completely destroying my model of common sense, and realizing how someone can scam me being so calm, knowledgeable, look you in the eyes, and feel absolutely truthful.
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I include two attachments
1. A zip file with some photos I have, from his documents and the one I asked him before the last money transfer, by Western Union
2. A pdf with some emails from the 1st week of our communication, including the western union transfer, his pressure, some photos etc. I think the order may be a bit mixed. If you want a better version of the emails I will try again, with different software.
For the moment I'm in the UK, and the number I use is +44XXXXXXX (I also use whatsapp)
Please let me know if you have any information, or if I can help with anything
Kind regards
Antony K
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Photos of his face & ID.
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As far as I've come to understand, after 2 days of long-hour face to face interaction, and weeks of more than a hundred e-mails, Laszlo is a traveler scammer who probably has no friends or people who love and support him. How would it be if he would receive a bunch of kind, positive, supportive e-mails from different people, genuinely willing to motivate him?
This is why I invite you to message that con artist.
If you do, please, PLEASE
1. Do NOT include anything negative that explicitly or implicitly attacks him.
2. do NOT include anything that explicitly or implicitly links to me, the video, the blog post, etc.
If you sent an email, feel free to comment on the YouTube video. I'd be very interested in learning if and how he'll respond.
Here is some ideas of sentences you can use to construct that simple e-mail:
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[ Starting the e-mail: you can purposefully misspell the name for variation and authenticity ]
Good morning Laszlo
Good afternoon
Dear Laslo / Lazlo
[ body of the e-mail: ideally, you'd improvise some friendly, motivating couple of sentences, such as: ]
I wish you a wonderful Sunday / week / month /
I wish you good luck and success with your work / life / ventures
I just write to say 'hi', and wish you all the best.
[ or you can add an inspiring quote, or a short poem ]
|| INSERT POETRY ||
[ closing the e-mail: Something simple and cheerful ]
Cheers
Enjoy your/ have a great
evening/ day/ week/ summer
[ your first name ]
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Here is his e-mail address: feherlaszlo196910.15@live.com
Thanks for reading this post! See you back on YouTube.
Antony
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