Ricardo Fonseca Alves is an identity thief and scam artists from Sao Paulo, Brazil. This site is presented to hopefully help other people from being one of his victims. Ricardo Alves also goes by Jose Alves, Ricardo Fonseca, Ricardo Alves, Jose Fonseca. Ricardo Fonseca has been involved in identity theft, robbery, confidence scams, credit card fraud, smuggling, and international bank fraud. His recent scam involves selling paintings, art, and antiquities. The victim is told to invest money in a piece of art that will be sold for many times the original price. He has been known to work in New York, Florida, California, and Texas.
Ricardo Fonseca Alves has created another website to discredit this one. DO NOT BE FOOLED, he is a sociopath and will do anything to get your money. An active campaign is underway in the US and Europe to get him arrested and brought to justice. Following are other peoples experiences with Ricardo Fonseca Alves:
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W, Texas
I first met Ricardo in Argentina 12 years ago on a business trip and we exchanged numbers. He invited me to visit him in Europe. Ricardo was living with <A> in Belgium at the time. He basically set me up for the next 10 years (we kept in touch and met occasionally on trips). After knowing him that long I figured he was safe and told him he could stop by my place on one of his US road trips. While he was in my house he walked off with all the personal information from my office (over $100K in credit card fraud later) and a bunch of cash I had loaned him for an "art investment". That was about two years ago. My wife had died six months earlier so I guess he thought that would be a good time to catch me off guard. He is definitely a psychopath and should be in jail.
A, Belgium
I've known Ricardo a little longer than you and during that time, he has convinced American Express in Brighton to give him a card in his name, but billed to me. He ran up $60,000 of charges before I even became aware of it, and it cost me thousands of pounds in legal fees to get American Express to credit my account, and then they wouldn't give me another card.
When I was traveling to the states, he called an art collector friend of mine in Paris (an older gentleman) to bring two valuable paintings to my house, because he had a collector that was interested. When this friend went up to await his collector, Ricardo took the two paintings and disappeared.
Another time he stayed at my house, stole two paintings of mine, and promised to give them back if I came to Paris with $5,000. I gave him the $5,000 he went to get the paintings and disappeared. If that wasn't enough, he recently begged me to stay and convinced me that he had changed. Not only did he not change, but he gained access to my internet, downloaded everything I received and sent, and saw some transfers that I arranged for a company. I alerted the bank that there was a possibility of something happening, but he had already sent wire instructions to forward $17,000 to his account at Banco do Brazil. Lucky the bank was able to get their correspondent, Bank of America to contact the fraud department at Banco do Brazil, and although the funds were in Brazil, they were eventually returned. He sent a second wire transfer, but the bank didn't react on it. On this same trip in December 2007, he broke into the safe in my home, and stole about €50,000 of watches, a sizeable amount of Dollars and Euro's and about 10 gold coins that were valued at the time at about €6,000 He then tried for a long time for me to send him money so he'd send back the watches, but that was all BS.
My name may have been on the email that you received from Ricardo last week, but I haven't received any emails from him for at least a month now, and I'm happy that way. I don't want any contact whatsoever from him. For me, I've finally learned my lesson and he no longer exists.
I still don't know if the insurance company is going to reimburse me for some of the watches that were insured; they are still waiting for documents from the judicial system.
P, Brazil
Police in Brazil aren't doing anything about this man.. he is free as a bird even after stealing the paintings from that gallery.
He is applying the same trick with people from all over the world, I can't believe FBI and Interpol has not tried to stop him yet.
Just in the US, there are victims in FL, TX and CA.
I'm afraid to identify myself, but I can give some valuable information about him.
Hope you can get somebody into it and put him on jail
P, California
I met Ricardo in 2001 while I was in Paraty. We became friends and he came to visit me in San Francisco in 2003. At which point, I loaned him a bunch of money for an “art investment”...an Italian painting from the renaissance. He even had a photo negative. I researched the artist and discovered that his “lost art” story actually was valid. Over the years, we saw each other in Paris, Rio, New York, Miami, etc. The painting never materialized and I figured I had been taken for a ride.
Finally 4 years ago, 6 months after my mother died, he came to visit (I let him under the mistaken premise that you keep your enemies close) and within one week had created two credit cards in my name, stolen two other credit cards and charged $40k worth of music goods. I got on to him when I received a call from a retailer but by the time I drove home from work he was on his way to LA and then Argentina. I still get calls weekly from the collection agencies.
Over the years, he has called me to tell me that he was sorry for what he did to me and admitted that he had done similar things to others. Today, after I emailed him the link to the article, he called. It’s the first time that he mentioned that he screwed <A> who he had always placed on a pedestal. He said that he was justified in screwing you and <A> but not me. Both of you had wronged him but I always had an open heart.
I wish we could do more. He needs to be banned from the US. I have a feeling that there’s another victim around Santa Barbara..i remember him spending time there with a middle aged wealthy divorcee. While he claims to have been in the US several times in the past two years, he claims to be scared to come to Texas or California.