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*
posted by Aliza Geretz @ 7:15 AM
35 Comments
35 Comments:
Comment from Thorn Tree, Dec 4, 2006
thanks for the warning for this Eduarto!
Hopefully I didn't meet him or any other person like u describe.
I am so much trusting people and I have to get a bit more suspicious with people.
good luck!
Ian Munslow emailed me on Nov 30:
Saw your post about Edaurdo,nothing to add, but just wanted to say sorry you met such a rotter and hope you have better experiences in the future.
Ian
hi, my names witek n i was robbed by eduardo perez too :))))))))) in
barcelona, last summer. we shared an apartment n one day he just left
with my luggage :D
a month later my friend found him, called for a police n i get some
stuff back. unfortunately spanish police seems to support the
thieves, so they let him go :/. as far as i know the case hasnt
started n his his free, robbing people all the time.
good idea, this webpage
good luck!
witek
ps i deleted his coach surfing account :D
Hello! I was also robbed by this guy with stupid nick name Coco. I took me money from the bag, when I was staying in Barcelona in the same appartment. Maybe it wasn't huge amount of money, but for atourist like I was, it was almost everything.
I wish everyone good luck, because untill he is still feeling comfortable with what he is doing noone can feel safe.
I just hope that this insane ( not charming at all-sorry but here I cannot agree)man will b punished soon.
Take care
Brandon Holland emailed me on 2/2/07:
I know Eduardo pretty well. He also stolen from me and tried to charge all my cards but I just figured it all out and then found your site. Thanks for making it. I think I have the email addresses of his brothers, ex-wife or other family members. I am going to write them a letter with a link to your site and some of the details I know about him. I will send that to you also. Hopefully, he is in jail somewhere by now but I doubt it, he is probably still robbing people.
Roberto Pinto emailed me on Feb 5:
I met Eduardo in Barcelona Mar Hostel in august 2005, I was backpacking with two friends.
He stoled a digital camera from us and a credit card from a british girl that we've met in the hostel. By that time we were very suspicious about him and after reading your blog I'm sure he is guilty. He is very friendly till he gets what he wants.
There was one night when he asked me and my friends for some money, we denied cause we already had 90% sure that he had stolen our digital camera. He became very anger and started to curse us. We did not get into a fight with him, cause he was completely drunk and it would be vey easy to beat his ass up.
Thanks Aliza! I too was robbed by Eduardo, twice!! I am obviously too trusting. It was the same both times, he copied my account numbers and made large cash withdrawals, and while I suspected it was him, I didn´t have proof until this January. I met him at the Hostel Home in Barcelona in 2005, then last saw him October 2006 in Barcelona, where he was arrested for stealing a laptop and an Ipod then released. Brandon, do you remember me? I met you in October ´05 as well, at the Hostel. Thanks for the email, but sorry it even had to be written. When I think back on all the lies and stories he told me, so much of which I doubt is true, I really do feel sick that I allowed a person like that into my life and home. Learned a valuable lesson though, at quite a cost!
The saga continues... I received an email from Kirill on Jan 5, 2008:
I ran into him at a hostel in valdivia, chile this past december. On the night of the 18th he drugged me, found out my pin and withdrew one thousand dollars over the next two days. He is doing Chile now, specifically the auracania region and the lake district. German Ovando an emloyee of the hostel where me and barross-perez met, knows barros-perez' relatives as he is from that area. He has been tremendously helpfull in trying to get info about this guy. Email him for futher info re Barros. I filed a police report, and found Barros' file in the system as he had a recent driving under the influence arrest in chile. My record of the name on the police file is Eduardo Ernesto Perez Barros with chilean id # 11713867-4 he went by Enrique and Quique when I knew him. I filed the report in Santiago, it will be forwarded to police in Valdivia and it will be up to them to investigate further.
Kirill
I received an email that Eduardo was seen in Puerto Montt Chile on January 29:
ESTIMADA:
CONOZCO A EDUARDO DESDE LA NIÑES ASI ES QUE LO CONOCERIA CON LOS OJOS CERRADOS; LAMENTABLEMENTE SIGUIO LA VIA DE LA DELINCUENCIA. TE PUEDO AFIRMAR QUE AYER 29 DE ENERO LO VI EN PUERTO MONTT CHILE EN LA CALLE RENGIFO; ME VEO EN LA OBLIGACION MORAL DE CONTARTELO PARA QUE TE COMUNIQUES CON LA POLICIA DE CHILE.
Yet another incident comes to light, Kos wrote to me on 6/20/08 to say:
I know Eduardo. I met him in Ecuador in 2000 and travelled with him for a while in 2001 in Colombia where he robbed me.
I may have his home address in Puerto Montt at home somewhere. Would it be of any use to try to find it?
Do you know if he has been caught yet?
If he is in the US and he gets caught being naughty the local police would inform the immigration authorities with all of their "BIG BROTHER" surveillance system in place. It is just a matter of time that he will try to scam the wrong person and he/she will turn him in to the law.
On December 9, 2008 an Anonymous poster wrote:
I met "Enrique" at a party this weekend and he mentioned he was being tracked by the Dept. of Homeland Security. He even gave me a tour of his house (his new wife's house). He lives at [...], Denver.
Anne says, "Just found your blog warning about Kike Barros. I met him traveling in Buenos Aires in 2007. I've forwarded the link to a few friends who also know him. Thanks."
Este wey lo vi en Acapulco hace tres semanas , tuvo un accidente borracho y perdio el dedo indice. Estaba saliendo con mi hermana que le pago el medico, hospital y todo. Luego desaparecio y ahora supimos que esta en Miami. Paso el tunel con coyoteros en Sasabe, estamos seguro que va a Denver con un camionero Colombiano que transporta Carros
Se encuentra en Ancud Chiloe desde el 2010. Tiene un hostal junto a su pareja rusa
He robed me as well!!! in the year 2004 in peru!!! atleast i had the changes to hit him verybad in his face! hope one day he will get his punishment
Confirmado. Actualmente vive en Ancud, Chiloé, Chile. Tiene un hostal llamado Terramar. Lo he visto varias veces en el centro de la ciudad.
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Confirmed. He currently lives in Ancud, Chiloé, Chile. It has a hostel called Terramar. I've seen several times in the center of the city.
I met him 2004 in Peru. he has stolen my bankcard and get my pin..took about 3000$ of it!!! I brought him to gail. Only for a night, because he paid the police to get free. I have also a police report if someone can use it?
Thank for this blog... hope justice will get him.
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yo conoci al coco, hace mas de 16 años , incluso tuve un hijo de el, el cual mi hijo esta por cumplir 16 años en diciembre, el cual el nunca reconocio, bueno y desde que quede embarazada nunca mas supe de el y ahora mi hijo busco en internet para obtener alguna foto de su padre biologico y me encuentro con esta sorpresa de que es un delincuente, por suerte mi hijo tiene un padre adoptivo y ya no quiere ni saber de su padre biologico , solo se averguenza y le da gracias a dios por haberle dado el padre que tiene hoy (mi esposo), ya desde esos años en que saliamos tenia esas mañas, como por ejemplo que se me desaparecia plata de la cartera o siempre andaba pidiendo plata prestada, lastima que haya caido tan bajo.
yo tambien tengo un hijo de el tiene 2 años, me dejo abandonada y mas encima infectada de VIH afortunadamente mi pequeño esta sanito y el no reconoce ni me ayuda. Ahora que esta en la carcel espero que pague todas sus culpas ... !!
Ahora se encontraron pruebas que participo en un robo a un cajero automatico (alunisaje) efectuado en la cuidad de Santiago en el mes de Enero.
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ME ENTERO POR UNAS AMISTADES DE EL QUE ACTUALMENTE SE ENCUENTRA EN PUERTO MONTT, OJALA LE SIRVA ESTOS DATOS, ME ENTERO POR UNA AMIGA QUE SU HERMANO LO CONOCE Y ESTUVO HABLANDO CON EL EL 22 DE AGOSTO Y QUE LE DIJO QUE SE ENCONTRABA EN PUERTO MONTT, OJALA LES SIRVA ESTO.
ESTA EN PUERTO MONTT ACTUALMENTE PERO QUE SE PUEDE HACER ..... INFORMAR A LA PDI??? NO SE...
EL TIENE UNA HOSTAL TERRAMAR EN ANCUD, Y VIAJA CONSTANTEMENTE A PUERTO MONTT.
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We met recently in Iquique, Chile. He stayed in Hostel La Casona 1920. I personally didn't have a problem with him, we just went pclubbing all the time.
But a Australian guy said he used a credit card with a different name. Well... right now his "wife stays" in the same hostel and he is on a trip in Venezuela.
But he will return to Iquique some day soon...
Well... i hope this helps to track him down and stop his doing...
tengo entendido que anda de viaje en Isla Margarita, Venezuela, segun el "NEGOCIOS"
estubo de viaje en isla margarita pero ya esta en chile nuevamente... creo que llego los primeros dias de diciembre segun lo que me entere...
I JUST found an email where I wrote this guys name down. I can't believe I am finding this site SO many years later. This guy traveled with me for 10 days and stoke 5K off my cards. Every time I left the room he was stealing and then paying for more and more things. We stayed in a fancy Morocco hotel together that I paid for. He also was super creepy and was trying to hit on me all the time and acted like my boyfriend. He got really drunk and kept apologizing and calling his dad. THis is un real.
This is the whole story: 6/13/2005
The police report I filed today in Marrakesh, Morocco is in French I thought a small supplement might help your investigation.
I met Eduardo Enrique Perez Barros, from Chile in a youth hostel in Granada Spain. He was travelling to Morocco Africa with three boys from New York. One New Yorker invited me to come along, and in the spirit of travel and hosteling I went with them.
When we arrived in Morocco we registered with the police and we all used the ATM to get money. I now suspect that I was watched, although at the time there was nothing suspicious. We all stayed together at a small guest house.
We carried on to several other places in Morocco. He started confiding things like he was dying of throat cancer, and how sad he was his mother died. He said he wanted to stay in a nicer place, and he would pay the extra. So we stayed in some nice places, and he started spending lots of money. I didn't use the ATM at all/ I used my card only two other times here, on Amazon, and also to purchase some train tickets. .
This morning, while I was having breakfast he left. After I I realized the room was wiped out, I looked for my cash to discover 615 Euros (USD 756.00) was missing. He had given me 500 Euros for breaking my camera and the other money I withdrew previously in Spain.I frantically looked for my Citicard and was relieved to find it. Upon further inspection it looked bent and dirty. I went to check online and discovered that he had been using my card in all the locations we travelled to to withdraw large and small amounts of money. The total is still unknown, but it looks as if it is a little shy of 5000.00 USD. At this point, my account has even gone into checking plus, something it has never done since the account was opened.
Then the tears fell.
I have spent all day at the police station, and we are hoping to stop him at the border. They have alerted all the stations. Since you are forced to register here, the hotel was able to provide a copy of his passport. This guy is an absolute liar and scam artist, but I would be happy to give any information I can from overhearing his conversations.
The police are very nice, but they speak French, so calling them with a French or Arabic speaker available will prove much more useful.
Thank you so much for your help. Please feel free to contact me with any updates or questions. As I am travelling in Europe without a phone email is the best way to contact me directly
Sincerely
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