Friend was scammed. Is there recourse?

[Aquabac 23]

My friend was scammed.
IMO This is a perfect example of why USCIS demands so much evidence 
Here's the background:
He met a woman online  years ago.
They got engaged like 6 or maybe 7 years ago and  while at the beginning I saw many red flags they seemed happy and it wasn't my business.
I even met the woman when I visited my  GF at the time and she seemed very nice.
She was certainly a drama queen though and always sick with mystery ailments.

She kept postponing her visa appointments due to illness and even lied about her CFO.
She told him that she failed because they asked her if she knew the Filipino consulate's phone # in the state in the US she would be in and because she did not have it memorized they failed her.  Yeah. BS
Then she got approval and my friend booked her flight and her mother supposedly had a stroke and was in a Coma. So it was further delayed.
Then her visa expired. He was mad and  they broke up  but kept speaking.
He thought she just didn't want to leave her family

He went on vacation to Thailand and she surprised him and met him there and they rekindled their relationship
They tried to reapply or reinstate the K1 visa but of course there were problems and more delays.

Then he was contacted by another American.

Seems he was dating her for several years too.
Gave her an ipad and for whatever reason he suspected something and checked it.

Turns out she was seeing 4 or more guys and had photos and correspondence on the ipad.
He found my friends info and contacted him.
Shared photos of her with him and the other guys to prove she was a scammer

He has notified USCIS and revoked his support for the K1 visa.

My question is this;
Does he have any recourse to make a fraud complaint with USCIS  so she is on file as a scammer?
This may help the next poor SOB  if she gets engaged to another American.
Does USCIS even care about this kind of thing?

 

 

[pushbrk 14,382]

No, not really any kind of recourse at all.  Unfortunately scamming foreigners is an actual industry in many countries including the Philippines.

[TBoneTX 49,425]

Your friend should not respond to -- but, instead, save and document -- any further contacts from her.

 

He could consider notifying the FDNS officer at his proximal USCIS office.  He would submit all backup documentation, including copies of the earlier I-129F petition.  He will never hear anything again, and never learn a final determination or outcome.  Up to him whether to proceed.  At least the information will be in USCIS's hands.

[Boiler 48,778]

He got away lightly, she could hace used her visa.

 

No doubt there are other nationalities involved, and seemingly she is in it just for the money.

[JeanneAdil 7,496]

His recourse would have been to explain the reason for withdrawal of the petition

and then her name would come up to USCIS if another petition is made for her 

i am so sorry for him or any others that this happens to 

 

We saw a post of a man a few years ago who waited for his fiancee at Atlanta airport

she started texting him saying CBP was making her return to her home country

and as he was leaving ,  he saw her in a car leaving with another person

 

We had a friend who waited at moroc airport for a USC and called us asking "can u check to see if she made the plane ?" and sent us copy of the ticket copy she emialed him / we had to tell him it was a fake ticket as there is no direct flight from Nashville to moroc (in that year) and the fake ticket had no gate number ,  no seat number and the flight number went from nashville to atlanta

 

Those stories will not make him feel any better but he did dodge a bullit as there are those who come on visas  and then divorce after green card comes sticking the USC with the I 864 agreement

 

I think the best to do is let your head think and not let the heart take over as this process takes a lot out of us from travel to meet, to  money for petitions and medical exams to airfare to bring someone here,,  to working on all the petitions , to time invested waiting for the process

[W199 561]

Many embassies have an email address to report fraud. I once sent an email to the fraud reporting email for the USA embassy in the Philippines.  They thanked me, and asked me to continue sending any more fraud reports.

 

Hence, if i was me, I'd email the fraud unit at the Manila embassy if it was the Philippines, and notify USCIS with the evidence.  It may not amount to anything, but it at least you did your part.