I have an idea I am "arroyocarlo"'s latest scam. I believe the pics have been used for "Hensley Bale Alkan" as well. As I've learned these are the pictures of Dr. Mark S. I met this man on a dating site. He says he's 6'1", brown eyes, grey hair, quite a clothes horse and 54 yo.
For his James Hoch character these are his particulars ...
He's in Turkmenistan right now on contract for an oil pipeline job.
He's from Amsterdam and went to Indiana to settle in the U.S. then got this "contract".
He has one daughter (just turned 14 yo) in boarding school, "Tasha", in Amsterdam.
Father dead, mother has Alzheimers in old age home and one brother with a Canadian wife and 5 children. Doesn't talk to him tho...he'll explain later.
He first asked me for money 4 wks ago...I was mortified. I told him a real man would never asked someone he'd never met for money. He had no one else in the world, but this stranger he'd never met (me). We've been talking for 6 wks and he brings up money every now and again. It's about a "package of gold" that he sent with a diplomat to Ghana and the border guards won't let it out of the country unless he pays $10,000. I keep saying I don't have it and he keeps saying please...he loves me...he wants to make me his wife...he'll buy me any house or diamond ring I want...we'll get matching Range Rovers etc etc. but he has to get this gold to Canada (where I live).
Because I wouldn't give him the money he caused an oil spill and they won't pay him until he and his "team" clean it up. So he thinks he'll have to forgo the next destination to go to Ghana because I wouldn't help him out even tho he loves me like he's never loved anyone. For some reason he's stil talking to me even tho I've said if he mentions money again, I'm gone. No matter what happens, he claims it's my fault because I wouldn't "support" him.
Also, he isn't widowed, he's divorced (9 yrs) from a crazy woman he doesn't want to talk about and who has nothing to do with their daughter. The daughter has emailed me and calls me Mom. A little disconcerting.
The email he uses is
jameshochlovesnorma@gmail.com and her email is
tashalovelyme@gmail.com. Both very corny!
He uses a lot of Dutch phrases and if he can't get ahold of me, he says the signal is bad in Turkmenistan. Today he said he's sick and is getting a cold because of all this stress (of losing the gold and it getting traced back to him).
I can't find him on Facebook under his former aliases and he only shows up under the other aliases in romance scam websites. Today I sent him a bunch of pics I found here (but no mention of where I got them) of "him" and said, "look what I found". He was freaked out and wanted to know where I found them. I said online and he dropped the subject. At this point I'm just playing with him before I blame him for something and cut off contact from being "brokenhearted". Thank God for this site!
BTW, I got a call from Moneygram asking if I had contact with someone who had his story. He explained it was a scam from Acra, Ghana and not to give him any money. He's had to return a lot of money he's scammed from other women. So even Moneygram is onto him. I told him and he was furious I believed this man and begged my forgiveness. I gave him some criteria to match before I'd trust him and of course he hasn't done any of it.
Good luck!