Possible Army imposter

[brfd557]

If you military guys can give some advice I would appreciate it. A coworker of my wife and friend of the family, met a guy online and I believe he is full of sh%$. She has only seen pics he has sent and they have been "dating" for about 4 months. They talk on the phone every day and last week he was scheduled for leave & suppose to come to visit and he said his convoy was attacked and six were killed and he was injured and needed to have surgery etc. I call BS from the get go and she doesnt want to hear it. He said he is Army Special Forces and can't give alot of detailed info, he said he had to buy a secure special phone and when he makes a call it has to come up as blocked. His "boss" calls her to give her updates when he cannot, and his boss is suppose to be a marine general. This guy has a British accent and is from Ohio! She said he hasn't asked for $ but I'm don't really know, is there any way we can verify his story or see if this guy is legit? I have his name and DOB as well as the "marine general". I know this sounds silly and a load of BS to you guys as well but she is a good friend and a great sweet person with enough problems (child with life threatening med problem) of her on to be led on by a POS. Thanks guys

 

[Sugarbug]

Yep. Wreaks of scam.

I anticipate him asking for ticket money to come see her soon.

 

[MyTFAL]

total ********

 

[hunter5567]

Really, what marine general has time to make updates for his underlings and their love lives. More like a Moron general or general moron.

 

[IfItFliesItDies]

Sounds pretty sketchy. Is he claiming to be Army or Marines? PM me his name and DOB and I'll look him up on AKO.

 

[Sugarbug]

Sounds pretty sketchy. Is he claiming to be Army or Marines? PM me his name and DOB and I'll look him up on AKO.

Army SF

 

[brfd557]

Pm sent If it flies

 

[IfItFliesItDies]

So I found two guys with the name he sent. One in CO and one in SC. Neither is SF, one is a recruiter the other an engineer.

I have a plan that should catch this guy red handed. Have her confront him about him not being on AKO somehow. I'm sure he'll say something to the effect of "because I'm SF and classified blah blah blah I'm not on AKO." Well, then tell her that he didn't show up on SFID (Special Forces Information Database) either, which can only be viewed by someone with security clearance. If he makes an excuse for that, then she knows for sure he is full of ****. There's no such thing as SFID, I just made it up.

 

[X Zombie]

give me his name and I'll look him up on AKO. sounds pretty fake. I guess most folks would say whatever to get the attention of a girl. too bad that Stolen Valor thing got shot down.

 

[brfd557]

give me his name and I'll look him up on AKO. sounds pretty fake. I guess most folks would say whatever to get the attention of a girl. too bad that Stolen Valor thing got shot down.

Asitflies took care of that for me, thanks Zombie.

 

[Cat]

Really, what marine general has time to make updates for his underlings and their love lives. More like a Moron general or general moron.

BINGO!

Most women are lonely and extended themselves, either on time (full time working mommy) or money or both. The best thing that needs to happen to her is a friend pulling her away from her responsibilities and flinging her into society. Join the Junior League, a women's church group, something, anything. Meeting people, making new friends as hard as it is (and this is where a current friend would be good at holding her hand the first few times), and building her self confidence is probably the only way she's going to escape this without being taken advantage of.

Stop trying to rationalize it. Just get her out of the house, away from the computer and into life. The rest should take care of itself.

Just my stray two cents.


Just finished reading your post. I'm sorry, I was quick on the draw. She sounds extremely stressed, as any mom would be. She's probably exhausted. Fantasy is easy, he's building it for her without any work on her part. She probably doesn't even recognize it. I still think she needs to decompress away from responsibilities on a semi-regular basis. Men hit up women when they're at their lowest. She sounds like she's pretty low. Bless her. Keep us updated. I hope you nail the *******.

 

[leVieux]

No need to "verify" !

This is ******** !

Tell your friend to RUN ! As fast and as FAR as she can !

leVieux

 

[charlie12]

It's ********

Tell her to tell him to join Bayoushooter so we can have some fun.

 

[MyTFAL]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but a "Marine General" wouldn't even be in the same unit as a Army SF guy,....? That just screams ******** to me.

 

[S&W4ME]

It's ********

Tell her to tell him to join Bayoushooter so we can have some fun.

I see a new sticky in the future

 

[RyanW]

While there is some occassional branch to branch comingling, this is total ********. The guy is a liar. Dig up as much info on the piece of **** as possible and burn the dogshit out of him.

 

[robinfly]

Have her watch this video. Do a google search for "online military dating scams" there are tons of hits.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/28/online-dating-scam-us-military_n_801691.html

http://www.topix.com/forum/business/online-dating/T16HO22NL1F8UV4MQ

He should be asking for money soon.

Thats my H.O.

 

[Jack]

So, how did a nigerian make it into the army special forces?

 

[X Zombie]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but a "Marine General" wouldn't even be in the same unit as a Army SF guy,....? That just screams ******** to me./QUOTE]

still seems like BS to me but the ISAF(International Security Force) Commander is a Marine General, General John Allen.

 

[jmanrogers]

PM me his info and I'll run it as I am MI6 and I am G14 classified. I don't mind, but it might take me a while because the other night when I was leaving Taco Hell, my car broke down and I was stranded for 2 days and I'm currently catching up on reruns of Fear Factor.