Warning (updated 10/26/2011)

Eduardo Enrique Perez Barros is a professional con artist. He recently ran a hostel in Chile (in Ancud, Chiloe) called Terramar Hostel.  Click here for complaints on Lonely Planet Thorn Tree.

For the past ten years (at least since 2005) he has been stealing credit card numbers, ATM PIN numbers, and running various cons.  I have solid proof of his crime spree (including my own experience -- for which I filed a police report in Spain in 2006 -- and testimony from numerous other victims).  See the comments on this blog for more stories (click here). In some cases he drugged his victims.

He was living illegally in Denver, Colorado, USA during 2009.  He was in deportation proceedings with the Department of Homeland Security (visa fraud) and was ordered removed from the US on July 29, 2009 in Aurora, Colorado.  Now it seems he has settled in Chile (possibly the Puerto Montt area). 

If you have had anything stolen from you by Eduardo, it is urgent that you file a police report.

His old email addresses (no longer in use) were cocothesailor@hotmail.com, cocoperez2001@hotmail.com, cocoperez@yahoo.com, and cocoperez2001@yahoo.com. He has also used the handle "kikethesailor" and "cocothesailor."

He also goes by the names Enrique, Kike Barros, Eduardo Ernesto Perez Barros, Quique, Coco, and the slightly misspelled last names Berez and Parros.

On Facebook he went by "Lio Ros" for awhile...  He and his Russian "wife" (Dina) were on Facebook as "Eduardo Dina."

At the time I met him he claimed to live in Barcelona and was "training to be an airplane pilot." More recently he said he's an architect who was working in Spain.  In the past few years he has been to the following countries: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Romania, Poland, Germany, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Russia, Ireland, Scotland, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, the US (Denver), and Panama.

*POSSIBLY IN CHILE*