[C101Yorkie]

Originally Posted by Gracie2006

Sorry to spoil such a sweet thread, but I trusted my head over my heart. I chatted with him via instant message today and he completely avoided or made up excuses for every bit of personal information I inquired about. He can't give me an APO address because he can't receive mail secondary to a mail bomb. When I asked him what his job position in the military was (I expected commander or mechanic or something) there was a very long pause followed by "can we talk tomorrow? I have to go.") I kept thinking I had seen a couple of his pictures somewhere. I found a website where you can upload an image and it searches the internet for like images. Two of the 5 he sent me matched stock military photos. I found a program that traced this guy's computer to ONTARIO CANADA! Fortunately I was smart enough to give him my cell phone number which was changed today. Be careful out there and do your homework before things go very far. Don't correspond with anyone who uses a free email address, they are very hard to trace. And if you meet someone at an online dating site, only use that site's email service to make contact.

I'm going to keep playing with him and see if I can get more info for the authorities. I have already reported him to his ISP. When I'm ready to let him know that I know what he is up to, I plan to play it up even more and tell him I am with the Internet Crime Bureau or something.

I'm sorry that you had to find out about him like that.

Originally Posted by IluvLucy

I was a divorced, single parent of 2 when my best friend told me she had given my tel# to a guy her husband knew. He'd seen me go in their house and asked about me.

He called me the next week and we set up our first date. When I opened my front door and saw him I thought "BINGO! This is the one".

We discovered that we'd gone to high school together - he remembered me from study hall and thought I was hot

We actually dated 7 (yes, SEVEN) years before we got married, but during that entire time, neither of us dated anyone else. We just weren't in a hurry We were married 13 years when he died in 2005 and those were the BEST years of my life!

I do believe that sometimes you just "know".

Sorry for your loss...