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Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« on: October 23, 2022, 11:17:30 am »
Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
By Jonathan Lehrfeld
 Thursday, Oct 20
 
A Californian man pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing up to $1.5 million from nearly 20 victims by pretending to be a Navy SEAL, according to federal officials.

Ze’Shawn Stanley Campbell, 35, from Irvine, California admitted to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering for the online scams.

By alleging he served as a Navy SEAL in Iraq and Afghanistan, Campbell gained the trust of 10 individuals and nine companies between April 2014 and April 2020. He then reportedly swindled them into paying his personal expenses and buying him luxurious goods.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/10/20/fake-navy-seal-stole-millions-from-victims-to-fund-luxury-lifestyle/
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2022, 03:25:52 pm »
Stolen Valor.

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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2022, 05:14:22 pm »
Tip for those who don't already know, it's quite a rare thing for a real Navy SEAL to tell anyone he's a Navy SEAL.
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2022, 06:37:23 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on October 23, 2022, 05:14:22 pm
Tip for those who don't already know, it's quite a rare thing for a real Navy SEAL to tell anyone he's a Navy SEAL.
True enough, especially active duty. A lifelong friend who was on the original seal team six, showed me his plankowner's certificate, but that was years after he got out.
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2022, 06:56:13 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on October 23, 2022, 06:37:23 pm
True enough, especially active duty. A lifelong friend who was on the original seal team six, showed me his plankowner's certificate, but that was years after he got out.

He was one of Dick Marchenko's guys.
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2022, 05:49:44 am »
Quote from: Bigun on October 23, 2022, 06:56:13 pm
He was one of Dick Marchenko's guys.
Yep. Mentioned by name in Rogue Warrior (He'd been out for a while by the time the book came out). He passed a few years ago, but we'd been good friends for 55 years. Brothers from different mothers stuff.
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2022, 01:41:34 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on October 25, 2022, 05:49:44 am
Yep. Mentioned by name in Rogue Warrior (He'd been out for a while by the time the book came out). He passed a few years ago, but we'd been good friends for 55 years. Brothers from different mothers stuff.

You run with some good guys!  :beer:
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2022, 04:21:28 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on October 25, 2022, 01:41:34 pm
You run with some good guys!  :beer:
:beer: I have been privileged. 

We have all excelled, each in our own way, in the group of kids I ran with.

Some great, even heroic, and some went the other way, but no matter what path chosen, no mediocrity.
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2022, 04:42:11 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on October 25, 2022, 04:21:28 pm
:beer: I have been privileged. 

We have all excelled, each in our own way, in the group of kids I ran with.

Some great, even heroic, and some went the other way, but no matter what path chosen, no mediocrity.

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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2022, 08:57:26 pm »
POS was scamming people for 6-7 years. Lots and lots of stories but not a single picture of Ze'Shawn...I wonder why :pondering:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/romance-scammer-pleads-guilty-federal-charges-admitting-he-stole-hundreds-thousands
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Re: Fake Navy SEAL stole millions from victims to fund luxury lifestyle
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2022, 01:43:27 am »
Quote from: GtHawk on October 25, 2022, 08:57:26 pm
POS was scamming people for 6-7 years. Lots and lots of stories but not a single picture of Ze'Shawn...I wonder why :pondering:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/romance-scammer-pleads-guilty-federal-charges-admitting-he-stole-hundreds-thousands

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