Trailblazer
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If you are interested in reading the full story, you can read the other thread that I posted a week ago. This is a follow-up to that thread.
Con men on dating sites
There are a lot of con men on dating sites and so far, there are two con men who tried to con me into sending them money, William and Alan. There is a third man named Thomas who is possibly a con man.
To try to make my long story on the other thread shorter, the William saw my profile on a Baha’i dating site and he contacted me there and our communication continued via long e-mails and later texts for about three months. I was suspicious when he first asked me for a loan but I wrote it off to poor manners. When he asked me for money again and I still did not realize he was a con man. I simply thought he was desperate and emotionally out of control. All this time I thought he was a Baha’i, so that was the reason I continued to have hope for a real relationship that would eventually lead to marriage.
I finally decided to try to find out if he was who he claimed to be or not, and I found out from the Baha’i locator service that there are no Baha’is in the little town where he said he lived or anywhere near that town. I also sent an e-mail to the Baha’i dating site manager and the site manager e-mailed me back saying he knows of this man and he has asked other women for money and he has been banned from their site. It was at this point that I realized he must be a con man, and not a Baha’i looking for a relationship.
My communication with Alan via texts went on for only a week before he asked for money and I realized he was a con man, and as soon as I told him he would never get any money from me, he never texted me again.
I am still in contact with the third man, Thomas, and I plan to tell him of my suspicions given what happened to me with the other two men.
I am still getting short texts from William once in a while and I am responding to them. There is a part of me who wants to keep talking to him even though I know he is a con man, and I want know his true identity even though I know he will never tell me. I also think there is a subconscious part of me who wants him to be who I thought he was so I can continue with my fantasy, although on a conscious level I know that is not possible.
But why is he still texting me, that is the question. Today all he said was “Hello” and I answered “Hello, what’s up?”
Con men on dating sites
There are a lot of con men on dating sites and so far, there are two con men who tried to con me into sending them money, William and Alan. There is a third man named Thomas who is possibly a con man.
To try to make my long story on the other thread shorter, the William saw my profile on a Baha’i dating site and he contacted me there and our communication continued via long e-mails and later texts for about three months. I was suspicious when he first asked me for a loan but I wrote it off to poor manners. When he asked me for money again and I still did not realize he was a con man. I simply thought he was desperate and emotionally out of control. All this time I thought he was a Baha’i, so that was the reason I continued to have hope for a real relationship that would eventually lead to marriage.
I finally decided to try to find out if he was who he claimed to be or not, and I found out from the Baha’i locator service that there are no Baha’is in the little town where he said he lived or anywhere near that town. I also sent an e-mail to the Baha’i dating site manager and the site manager e-mailed me back saying he knows of this man and he has asked other women for money and he has been banned from their site. It was at this point that I realized he must be a con man, and not a Baha’i looking for a relationship.
My communication with Alan via texts went on for only a week before he asked for money and I realized he was a con man, and as soon as I told him he would never get any money from me, he never texted me again.
I am still in contact with the third man, Thomas, and I plan to tell him of my suspicions given what happened to me with the other two men.
I am still getting short texts from William once in a while and I am responding to them. There is a part of me who wants to keep talking to him even though I know he is a con man, and I want know his true identity even though I know he will never tell me. I also think there is a subconscious part of me who wants him to be who I thought he was so I can continue with my fantasy, although on a conscious level I know that is not possible.
But why is he still texting me, that is the question. Today all he said was “Hello” and I answered “Hello, what’s up?”
