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(CNN)   Scammer who convinced over 100 women he was their true love is going to prison   (cnn.com) divider line
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2981 clicks; posted to Main » on 11 Dec 2022 at 12:12 PM (15 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-11 9:58:47 AM  
Maybe his victims were simply struck dumb at the sight of his eyebrows and left defenseless. I bet if you shaved them off he'd be rendered powerless, like Samson without his hair.
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 10:23:19 AM  
Romeo?

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/more like Homely-o, AMIRITE??
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 10:23:58 AM  
Does he have the wing?
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-11 10:25:59 AM  
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brap [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 10:26:35 AM  
Whenever you're single and lonely, just remember there are a hundred someones out there for everyone.
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-11 10:36:35 AM  
Lowered expectations.
 
LadySusan [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 11:22:42 AM  
My first thought was, hmmm, can I get some action from this guy without getting scammed. Until I saw the pic. No thanks. If I'm going to get STD's let it be from someone better looking.

Note: I myself am an ancient, hideous crone claiming he has sharp knees.
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 11:48:23 AM  
He told them he was ready to settle down and was more interested in a woman's inner beauty than her outward appearance.

But federal officials say those were all lies

Can't get anything past those wily Feds.
 
MBooda [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 12:19:52 PM  
coaxing them out of more than $250,000 with false promises followed by requests for short-term loans that were never repaid.

Difficulty: he was a man.

/my ex only needed two suckers
 
EnglishMajor
2022-12-11 12:21:02 PM  
These stories pop up all the time: men/women scamming lonely men/women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with all kinds of lies.  Yet, people keep falling for it.  Besides the fact that this guy is just plain ugly, why can't people figure it out? Not gonna happen to them?
 
Salmon
2022-12-11 12:21:46 PM  
With looks like that, it's no wonder he got the ladies!
 
ArcadianRefugee
2022-12-11 12:22:41 PM  
Yeah, but just think of all the conjugal visits.
 
Harry Wagstaff
2022-12-11 12:23:32 PM  
Maybe he'll find true love in prison.
 
DarkSoulNoHope
2022-12-11 12:26:16 PM  

Naido: He told them he was ready to settle down and was more interested in a woman's inner beauty than her outward appearance.

But federal officials say those were all lies

Can't get anything past those wily Feds.


He would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling Feds and their dog too.
 
I Browse [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 12:27:39 PM  
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a perfectly serviceable can of spooge
2022-12-11 12:29:36 PM  

LadySusan: My first thought was, hmmm, can I get some action from this guy without getting scammed. Until I saw the pic. No thanks. If I'm going to get STD's let it be from someone better looking.

Note: I myself am an ancient, hideous crone claiming he has sharp knees.


EIP :D
 
whither_apophis [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 12:30:03 PM  
The takeaway from the article: Jersey girls are easy
 
Unda
2022-12-11 12:30:15 PM  

brap: Whenever you're single and lonely, just remember there are a hundred someones out there for everyone.


Whenever you're single and lonely, just look up that thread about people's divorces, as a reminder of why you're better off alone.
 
Monocultured
2022-12-11 12:31:40 PM  
This guy looks like every sub boss in Sega's Yakuza games who gets the shiat kicked out of him for abusing the girls at a club. Don't see the redemption arc happening though.
 
a perfectly serviceable can of spooge
2022-12-11 12:33:57 PM  

Unda: brap: Whenever you're single and lonely, just remember there are a hundred someones out there for everyone.

Whenever you're single and lonely, just look up that thread about people's divorces, as a reminder of why you're better off alone.


Going through a nasty slow motion divorce right now. This holiday season SUCKS.
 
i_dig_chicks
2022-12-11 12:34:11 PM  
He continued the scam while in prison.  Don't let anything stop you from your dreams.
 
BolshyGreatYarblocks
2022-12-11 12:36:44 PM  
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talkertopc [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 12:37:11 PM  
I'd throw stones but I was similarly conned once when I was 18. I was at a bar (drinking age here is 18), a girl my age started chatting me up, I asked if she wanted a beer, she said yes, I ordered her one, when she got it she went back to her friend.

Weirdly enough if she would have asked me to loan her the price of a beer then I'd probably have said no.
 
buntz
2022-12-11 12:38:08 PM  
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cfreak [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 12:45:37 PM  
$250k over 20 years? So he managed to convince 5 women a year.

Someone should have explained that the real money is in pretending to be a woman and scamming dumb cis dudes.
 
swankywanky
2022-12-11 12:47:18 PM  
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ctighe2353
2022-12-11 12:55:29 PM  

EnglishMajor: These stories pop up all the time: men/women scamming lonely men/women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with all kinds of lies.  Yet, people keep falling for it.  Besides the fact that this guy is just plain ugly, why can't people figure it out? Not gonna happen to them?


When someone is crushed and broken they are easy to manipulate.
My dad just passed away and his GF for 30 years is crushed and would make an easy target for this.  She's facing her last 10 to 20 years on earth without a partner and has $, luckily she's also somewhat intelligent so she should not fall prey to this but considering how distraught and scattered her thoughts are I could see it happening.
There are also people who are long time lonely, I have not seen my sister inlaw date anyone in the 25 years I have known her.  If somehow someone like this worked his way into her life I could see her falling for everything he says while having those love blinders on
 
maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-11 12:56:30 PM  
Seems like he probably got lucky a time or two.

Does he have a subscription website and book of techniques or anything?

/Asking for a friend
 
Mouser
2022-12-11 12:58:47 PM  
For his own protection?
 
ltdanman44
2022-12-11 1:04:13 PM  
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Trik
2022-12-11 1:08:23 PM  

johnny_vegas: Romeo?

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/more like Homely-o, AMIRITE??


Dude's fugly.
Which begs the question: "What do the women he scammed look like?"
 
BitwiseShift
2022-12-11 1:11:49 PM  

johnny_vegas: Romeo?

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/more like Homely-o, AMIRITE??


Just for those INCELS who seriously believe they're too ugly to ever have a girlfriend, have I got news for you.   The rest of the incels, you probably are better off.
 
Dodo David [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 1:13:47 PM  

Harry Wagstaff: Maybe he'll find true love in prison.


FTFY
 
ShutterGirl
2022-12-11 1:15:46 PM  
Glad he is going to jail but do not think this will stop him from doing it again once he is released. Seems like a compulsion.
 
Trik
2022-12-11 1:16:02 PM  

swankywanky: [i.imgflip.com image 475x562]


One of the older meme pics.
Pretty sure it originated on GeoCities where places like Something Awful got and meme'ed it.
It was from the dudes GeoCities web page.
Back in the wild west of the internet.
 
trippdogg
2022-12-11 1:20:02 PM  
...is going to prison
Where he will finally find his true love (named Bubba)

/now you know
//the rest of the story
 
NutWrench
2022-12-11 1:23:05 PM  
Send him to a women's prison. Just toss him over the wall and wait for the screams to die down.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2022-12-11 1:30:10 PM  
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scotchcrotch
2022-12-11 1:31:33 PM  
Larry!!!
 
Johnny the Tackling Alzheimers Patient
2022-12-11 1:33:30 PM  
Now if you could something about the one that convinced 74.2 million ...
 
BonoboJeezus
2022-12-11 1:36:51 PM  
Such a sad story. Not because of the guy; fark him. But because of all the older, probably homely, women who were so desperate to be loved that they fell for his BS.

When you point and snark at some fat, unattractive 'chud', take a moment to think about how it would be to go through your life being continually ignored, derided, avoided, sneered at, written off -and desperately lonely.
 
Feel_the_velvet
2022-12-11 1:40:05 PM  
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MattyBlast [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 1:41:48 PM  
This guy should be deported to Nigeria.  He'd be crowned a Prince there.
 
2wolves [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 1:42:50 PM  
There are occasions when you can judge a book by its cover.
 
lilbjorn
2022-12-11 1:46:18 PM  
So soon after losing the Georgia Senate race?
 
ClintonTyree [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 1:49:15 PM  

LadySusan: My first thought was, hmmm, can I get some action from this guy without getting scammed. Until I saw the pic. No thanks. If I'm going to get STD's let it be from someone better looking.

Note: I myself am an ancient, hideous crone claiming he has sharp knees.


You're not hideous, you're beautiful on the inside to me, and that's what matters most.

Oh, could you please lend me $1000 for an operation for my mother?
 
ClintonTyree [TotalFark]
2022-12-11 1:51:29 PM  

a perfectly serviceable can of spooge: Unda: brap: Whenever you're single and lonely, just remember there are a hundred someones out there for everyone.

Whenever you're single and lonely, just look up that thread about people's divorces, as a reminder of why you're better off alone.

Going through a nasty slow motion divorce right now. This holiday season SUCKS.


Hang in there, fellow Farker. Trust me, it gets better.  If you can, find just one thing you are thankful for and remind yourself of that.
 
stuffy
2022-12-11 1:59:12 PM  
Could have been worse. He could have been to marry them.
 
chitownmike
2022-12-11 2:06:04 PM  

BonoboJeezus: Such a sad story. Not because of the guy; fark him. But because of all the older, probably homely, women who were so desperate to be loved that they fell for his BS.

When you point and snark at some fat, unattractive 'chud', take a moment to think about how it would be to go through your life being continually ignored, derided, avoided, sneered at, written off -and desperately lonely.


You think farkers have to imagine that?
 
SamLowryDZ-015
2022-12-11 2:09:48 PM  
Seriously doubt he was dumb enough to use his own pictures in scam profiles.

He would have grabbed pictures of average responsible looking guys for maximum effect.  They've done tons of studies about it and women instinctively know the really hot guys are going to be bad partners.  They always want that person that person that will be loyal to them for life, raise good kids, take care of the family etc. Probably used their religious beliefs against them too.  Bet he had pictures and profiles in a rainbow of race/ethnicity.
 
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