Reports :

REPORT N1 (added on September, 10, 2020)
Bridget (USA)

I was contacted by this individual on 7/20 through Plenty of Fish. I'm not 100% sure about him.

Romance scam letter(s) from Giovanni Conte Ricco to Bridget (USA) Part 1
Letter 1

Hello There I hope you're doing great? My name is Giovanni just stopped over to say Hi
Letter 2

Thanks for reaching out to me Bridget,
i went through your profile now and found it quite an interesting one especially music and dancing and a lively person. You look great too, pls don't forget to wear this smile always!
I am born Italian. I have dual citizenship, Italian and American. I have a daughter that lives away from home. She is presently in Italy with her grandma. I had my Masters in International Economic Relations. I am currently attached to Northern Trust Corporation as a Senior Consultant Fund Manager but would want to be self-employed in the near future. I like seeing soccer, movies and listening and playing music. I can play the piano and rhythm guitar in my leisure time to make my soul happy, as the saying goes (if music is the food of the soul why not play it). I like going to the beach and climbing the mountains though I have only climbed once in Dublin.
It seems you are not a frequent member of dating sites. I wanted to ask if you would prefer to email? as I do not frequent dating sites. Here is my personal email address giovanniricco75@gmail.com I would appreciate if you drop me a note or drop your email address so the discussion can continue efficiently
Letter 3

Hahaha........, you are such a funny princess, yeah, the opposite is deadly, it therefore connotes that as much we are still alive, we have to be lively and energetic .... you got me right there. I send you an email this evening or tomorrow morning. Do have a nice day. Giovanni
Letter 4

Good morning Bridget, Wow! Wow!!
Thank you for responding to my request on the site to contact you using my private email. I know it was unusual for me to request that you email me through my personal email when you do not even know me. I am glad that you did because it has given me the opportunity to establish communication with you today. I also want to say thank you for understanding that it was quite difficult to write much using the site. Anyway, that is by-the-way since I can now reach you via your private email. Once again, thank you.
I hope you are fine? this week will be a busy one for me as my office is relocating to a new building which is a permanent site. I have sorted my busy schedule out and now free so let talk about love. Lol.
It seems I have been meandering instead of telling you more about me as I promised in my email to you on the site. I am a bit religious, affectionate, outgoing, active, energetic, positive, generous man with a healthy sense of humor who is rediscovering all that life has to offer. I love to laugh as I believe that laughter can add years to a person's life.
Have you ever been in that moment when you think about the crazy, silly, and naughty things that you have done or said and just burst out laughing? LOL...
Life is beautiful when you know how to make yourself happy and then others! I do not smoke. I am a social drinker. I am a Fun-loving, humble man with the belief that a woman should be treated like a lady and that it is always ladies first.
I had my graduate degree and a Fund Manager by profession; a work I love to do the way I love to enjoy life.
I am generally a happy, upbeat person who has achieved much in life; professionally, financially, and personally. I am fun to be with and can be very romantic. I am positive about everything that life brings me. I believe that I am where I am at this point in my life for a good reason.
I am an honest and caring person who is very loyal to those I care about. I am a Christian (catholic).I have dual citizenship, Italian and American. I have a daughter that lives away from home. She is presently in Italy with her grandma as I been widowed for seven years.
I've traveled extensively in the course of doing my work. I speak English, Italian, Spanish, German fluently.
I am financially okay. I consider myself to be a gentleman with good values. I am comfortable in suits and tie as well as a pair of jeans. I am neat and clean in my living and my appearance.
I am 6.0'ft. Hazel eyes. I like pets and have a dog (a pug).
Oh, I almost forgot to add that I was born on May 22, 1958, and the only child of my parents. I've never lost a "Guess My Age" game at the amusement park. (They usually guess 10-15 years younger...
I am athletic and toned, and NO I haven't had any work done! My little secret is because I like to be fit and exercise.
I don't want to sound over-excited but I must confess that I am so happy to have come across you and I know that you would want us to take this slowly but I will try to be positive and consistent. I pray that you will not see me as moving too fast or being so direct. I know you will not understand after going through your profile for 30 minutes and I made up my mind to write you hoping that you will write back and you did.
I have come to understand that I will need a serious relationship in my life. People say that I play with everything except for my work. But what they don't know is that I can play with my work but not with my love for someone. This is why I prefer people that will appreciate my humorous attitude. I am fun to be with and believe in the saying, 'the older the wine, the better" so I don't believe in age being a hindrance in a relationship.
I like seeing soccer, movies and playing and listening to music; I can play the piano and rhythm guitar. I like going to the beach and climbing the mountains though I have only climbed once in Dublin. I am currently attached to Northern Trust Corporation as a Senior Consultant Fund Manager but would want to be self-employed in the near future.
I am a trained educationist too and learned the Fund Management trade under Robert Kiyosaki. I worked with him for seven years speaking on investing, fund management, and teaching on how to benefit from the content of his three major books, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant, and Rich Dad's Guide to Investing. It was while on a tour with him to Aberdeen Scotland that I was made an offer by Northern Trust Corporation. I worked with them for 6 years before I returned to the United States and now work as a Consultant Fund Manager. [So 1 year in the states then?}
I have to stop here so that I will have another thing to say in my next email. I have attached some of the pictures that I uploaded on the dating site. I took the pictures three months ago when my daughter came to visit me from Italy. She needed new pictures of me so we used her camera to take the pictures and she printed it on getting to Italy and sent these ones to me.
I believe honesty and communication are extremely important for a relationship to be successful. It's important to be a friend first and then see where it goes. All I can assure at this point is that you will never regret meeting me if it works out for us; my late wife never did, so you will not. I promise!!! Let's see how it goes.
Stay safe and enjoy the rest of your day ... Smiles.
Letter 5

Good Morning Bridget,
I must say thank you for the informative and comic email. I really enjoyed reading it and I found it informative as well.
Yeah, I have a nick name, my friends call me GIO...hahaha. With regards to the fun-topic, I believe you will be the host i be the guest...Lol.
You said I am cute, oh, thanks for the complement, I am humbled. I appreciate the fact that you created the time out of your very busy schedule to read my long email and respond to it and telling me more about yourself.
You may be surprised how I use to write you early morning, the answer is simple; I am an early bed and your name resounds in my dream, I try as much as possible to write you an email first before my daily engagement. It gives me enomouse joy doing that and I will continue doing that. I was trying to fulfill my promise of telling you all about me and nearly wrote a book.
I want to be open and hope that you will not misinterpret me that I say a lot. Men with no hidden skeleton say all about them without being asked. I have nothing to hide in life, I am also a believer, no criminal record. I am just a simple man living a good life with a good job and good pay.
All I need is a woman to make it complete and I will have my dream life because every other thing I need for my dream life has been achieved. Maybe I am sort of old fashion that I don't know the ethics' of starting a new relationship, Lol.
I have not been in any form of relationship for the past seven years so you will understand what I mean by being old fashion. I would be the happiest man on the planet earth to be in a relationship again.
I actually took the Northern Trust Corporation Fund manager's job the second time mainly out of loneliness when my wife died. I thought it was over for me in this life but in the long run, I felt that I should give life another try when my daughter registered me on the site. Today I am happy that I did because it has given me the opportunity to meet you.
I told myself the moment I got your response that I do not need the site anymore, which is why I have instructed my daughter to get me off that site, for I have found what I seek.
I don't live a confused life. I know what I seek in life and I know when I have it. Well, I have found you now, let me use all my energy to make you happy if you will let me as I really want a nice relationship that will lead to something admirable in the future. I think at this stage I should tell you more about me so that you will know me better.
One of the things that make me feel so happy is to visit the beach. I love to watch the sunset and play many games on the beachside. I love Para-sail and other activities on the beach. Do you know that water can speak to a soul? I will interpret it for you when we go to the beach together.
I was born in, Palermo, Italy which qualifies me citizenship but later came back to the US with my parents at the age of 6. My family has always lived in Fresno California until my mum moved back to Italy after we lost dad and my wife. I moved out of Fresno because it was lonely for me and the memories it brings to me of my family and my loved but lost ones. Anyway, let me not bore you with things that I don't wish to remember.
I left the United State at the age of 16 to attend school in Hamburg, Germany. I lived in Germany for 6 years before relocating to Robert Gordon University Aberdeen Scotland where I had my Master's degree. My long stay abroad makes people to say I have a German accent; whether German, Italian, British or Irish accent, all I know is that I speak English fluently Lol... I feel very young both physically and mentally.
I understand we have both may have had some good and worst experiences in our previous relationship but we should try to let the past go and focus on the future because there is hope only in the future.
Like I always say, Life isn't as complicated as some people make it. I don't like to dramatize situations.
I'm a bit of a clown playful and appreciate people that are sincere. I don't like games or lies and will appreciate that from my partner.
As a matter of fact, I have to send you this email now because I will be traveling to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania this morning. I finally got a flight ticket as it is quite difficult to get a flight ticket because of the coronavirus attack. I will leave here in two hours. I have an urgent meeting with one of my company investor today against our meeting with directors from The Vanguard Group tomorrow. I will be traveling with my laptop so I will always be in touch so the next response you will get from me will be from Valley Forge. I will be returning next week.
I believe that communicating here will help us know little about each other before we can meet anytime you want us to or choose for us to meet. Our meeting is for you to decide where and when and I will be there controlling the traffic for you before your arrival. Lol.
I will stop here till I hear from you. Do have a great day and keep our discussion alive. Hugs!
Letter 6

Dear Bridget,
Thank you for the email and content therein. I was so glad this morning when I opened my email to see that there was an email from you.
Oh, I had a safe trip and observed all the safety protocols. I had this little feeling of excitement that I could not explain. I don't know why I had such a feeling which made me start wondering why a man of 64 years old should be this happy over an email. I tried to ask myself the question but realized that I may have missed something in my life and about to have that back because nothing else could explain the excitement.
With regards to your question; Yeah, At the initial stage to be honest, I was not expecting such excitement, but right now, it is increasing in a geometric progression and I give you the credit. I am so happy we met. I just pray that this is real and that it lasts forever.
I am this type of man that has never had any relationship heartbreak in my life. I don't know how it feels and don't even want to witness it which was what contributed to my being out of relationship of any form for seven years so do not know how it feels. When I go into a relationship, I put in everything to make it close to perfect because I believe in one man one woman. My problem is that when I love a woman I love her blindly that nothing anybody tells me about her that will change or alter my love for her.
I will love to take things slowly with you on this relationship. I am this type of man that is focused on what I seek in life and I do know when I have them. It is because of this that I always protect myself from falling in love and the best way to do it has been to stay out of any form of relationship which I have done for seven years now. I have finally decided that I should give joy to my life again and the first and only person I wrote was you and fortunately you wrote me back and from that very moment up to today I have been so excited. I have found you so let me use the energy to make it work if you can let me as I really want a nice relationship.
I am presently in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. I got here yesterday like I told you but it seem that I will be here till next week Friday 7th of August to conclude the business my office has with our investors. If I will be here till Friday, it means that I will be leaving here on Saturday 8th and will be free for the rest of the weekend.
If it will be convenient for you; we can meet anytime from Saturday 8th or Sunday preferably. All you have to do is to let me know the place of your choice and time and I will be there twenty minutes before time to welcome you. I was not trained to keep a woman waiting. My Training as a fund manager taught me to make calls on appointment especially when it is your first meeting with the person.
Thank you for giving me your no. It's bad that my phone is not working since I got here but I will get another phone today and will give you the number as you instructed in your email. I need the phone to communicate with my office and people I am meeting with here.
We have shared emails and I have shared photos which is a good way to start. As a man that sincerely need a woman in his life, I will be glad if we can talk on phone. It will also be very nice if you can tell me the best time to call you; like I said earlier I was trained to make the first call on appointment. At this stage, I believe that being the one that initiated the communication on the dating site and as a man I should be the one to call you first.
It's obvious that there are things that you will want to know about me. There are questions that you will also like to ask me which even if you ask them in the email, I may not remember to answer them when I reply. We need to talk more and get used to ourselves. Questions like that are better asked during phone conversation so that you get instant and direct answer.
I know that I have shared little about me but there are still things we need to know about one another maybe through a phone conversation. That will help us decide how to move the relationship forward. It is also for this reason that I sincerely believe that a phone conversation will be good. Please let me know what you decide since we plan on how to meet. I received the bigger hugs.
Make it a great day! Hugs..
Letter 7

Dear Bridget
It is obvious that this week is one of the crazy weeks in my profession when 24 hours is not enough to complete my duty. After my last email to you yesterday, I got a call from my head office in the UK telling me that the confirmation and signing of the Vanguard Group contract have been confirmed for today in Malvern here in Pennsylvania so I left Valley Forge to Malvern yesterday. That is what they call a completely crazy week. It started with relocating our office after which I was notified about the meeting in Valley Forge and now Malvern. Anyway, let me not bore you with my business engagements.
There is no doubt that I enjoy our communication because the very first thing I do every day since we met is to check my email to know if there is an email from you. Every strong relationship started one day and became stronger as each new day comes. Let us hope that each passing day makes ours stronger. I am a man that has been without any form of relationship; serious or casual for the past seven years.
Now to your questions and concerns:
Yeah, its a typo, sorry for the oversight, take it from me; my birthday is May 22, 1958, thanks for the critical observation. You may not have known all Giovanni Ricco in your achieve records?. I am a simple man, I dont do public show of myself, I like to keep it low and simple.
When I lost my wife, it became obvious to me that the world was nothing. She was my friend, my partner, my pet, my angel, my soldier, and my pillar. She was everything to me and all that I owe her was to make her happy at any time and she was happy. May her gentle soul rest in peace; AMEN, Sorry if I have said so much but it's my nature to love strongly when I am in love because I believe in one man one woman.
The last word she said that broke my heart and made me think that no woman could ever be like her was what she said on her sickbed before she died. I will pray and want you to be better than her and for me, to love you more than I loved her because that was her wish for me; that I should do things that will make me happy. She said and I quote "I am dying a happy woman Giovanni, so be happy yourself, why is your face sad when I am happy. Listen, if you keep your face that way again then I will stand up from this bed now and give you red meat (because I don't eat red meat) be happy my dear and promise me that you will always bring the thing that will make you happy to yourself so that you will die a happy man like me" and she closed her eyes and died. We were married for 26 years and were blessed with a boy and a girl.
Thank you for giving me your phone number. In my last email to you, I requested that we speak on the phone this weekend. Here is my phone number +16012274478. I think this is the time to tell you more about this man that you have been communicating with via email and want to hear your voice. My Full name is Giovanni Ricco as you rightly observed . I was married to Valentino Ricco for 26 years and had a daughter Lucy Ricco and Lucas Ricco JR who died in an auto accident with my father.
My mother is Italian while my father has Spanish ancestry. My father is late while my mother and my daughter live with my mum sister (My Aunt) in Italy. My mum relocated back to Italy after the death of my father in a car accident with my only son. My daughter is now in an Aeronautical school in Italy. Lucy wants to be a pilot which has been her dream since she was 7 years old.
I had my education in Germany and Scotland but later came back to the United State to work with Robert Kiyosaky before I was employed by Northern Trust Corporation.
I relocated to Canary Wharf, United Kingdom when I secured the Job but only worked with them for 9 years before resigning from the job.
Thirteen months later they called me again and asked me if I can work with them as a Consultant Fund Manager from my home that it will only require me to work with them for 3 months, return to US and spend 3 months before coming back to work for another three and that will be all for the year. I realized that the arrangement was not time consuming and besides, I was not enjoying it again staying at home. I took the job and got myself into the fund management activities with major investors again. It was then that I discovered that this business is just part of me.
I am a man with no criminal records or hidden skeleton. People say that I have German accent while some say Italian which you will notice when we speak on the phone. I am a simple man that is comfortable with what I have and okay with what I have achieved in life. I am a man that has all that I need in life but lacks just one essential thing which is a woman to love. I have decided to find love and found you and will plead with you to open your heart and accept me the way you see me.
I am one man that will never hurt a woman. I will not like to sing my own praises but only time will tell if you open your heart and let it flow naturally. Like I said earlier and always, I want to be positive!! Let me not write another long email. I will tell you more when we speak on the phone. I wish you a lovely day my dear. Hugs!
My regards always