British Military Officer - Kandahar, Afghanistan

I met this British High Ranking Officer on Badoo currently in Kandahar and acting as a consultant for the United NAtions.. We have been chatting ever since and he sounds like a total gentleman. He tells me that his wife died in a accident about 1 year ago and is very lonely and is willing to move forward with his life and he has a daughter in the UK. Everything sound nice ... in fact too nice. He tells me his miss me and all the things a woman loves to hear... He has been mentioning to me that he wants to retire soon... to be home with his daughter. Apparently, his first application for an early retirement was rejected as his wife died during that process. And now, he wants to apply for retirement again. The problem is, he needs to satisfy the requirement for a Next of Kin in his application form. He has sent me a so called sample form, which was written by another applicant for her fiancee's early retirement..

Based on the sample letter, it was also stated that there is some charges to be made for the change of the Next of Kin. I have asked him the same. Shouldn't the Government absorp such charges as you guys are serving the country. It does not make sense to me and i have done my research and i dont see any such requirements. And we are talking about $1500. We are still talking now but i am a little more cautious. As he said, since this is a trust issue, he has invited me over the Afghan to seethe truth for myself and that he is who he claims himself to be. .

I know, it sounds like a scam. Anybody here care to advice or share. Thank you so much.

[AlanJones]

It's a scam. Soldiers do not have to pay to change Next of Kin, retire, take leave or communicate with loved ones. Also, the military would not communicate with soldier's Internet pen pals, which is how you would be seen.

Please stop all contact with the scammer and don't tell him that you know that he is a scammer.

Can you also post all the email addresses that the scammer is using.

And this is the picture he sent to me!

I will post some of the letters later maybe some of you would also have read the poems... I hope by posting all this is not in vain and will help somebody from being scammed.

This is the picture of his "daughter"

This is one of the poems i got from him and how can you not fall for a guy that writes like that!!!

My Diary, a lonely wolf .................

There are these days.. days when my strength fail me... days when I arrange my successes - things I fought so hard to achieve - before myself and they don't make any atom of sense.

Days when the emptiness.. take this humanoid form, and glare at me over my shoulders... days in which getting the juice out fails to form any meaning.. no matter the inducement.. and then any effort at it becomes a labour in vain.

Then you wish you had this just one person.. anybody..somebody.. better if it's the person u ever wanted but right there your standing all by your self and your successes with not a soul to share memories and moments with.

Then you imagine how others did it.. do it!

Then you want to regret all the sacrifices you made to get here but no you refuse cos they still seem worth it.. if only there was just this one person!

Then u remember that when others were socialising and bonding, you were serving compulsory solitude perfecting what seemed to be the most important then.

Now you want to be like others and you have no idea how it is done and again and again, you make effort at being someone's 'the one' but all they see is desperation, lack of wit and a machine.. yes! The machine you have conditioned yourself to be over the years efficient at everything except LOVE

These lonely, cold and tiring nights make fun at you and enjoy how a well respected personality outside falls like a pack of cards inside especially at those times when you turn to your body for gratification.

I have pain.. deep.. inner pain.. that I wear this nice smile to cover always or so I thought.. as recently, I have started thinking people see through me and visualise vividly the emptiness that lies inside..hmm the way they look at me.

Then I convince myself that they stare at me cos they're seeing this fine person.. that lame excuse does get me through that moment.

I look hard and wish I could see the future and see someone and be rest assured that it will happen.

Cos I have been like this day after day, week after weeks, and month after months!!

And suddenly I realise how nice I have become to people but I wonder why it doesn't work .. probably cos they're seeing a 'nice machine'

I feel exhausted, and sometimes wonder why with my accomplishments I don't get someone walk up to me and make me feel needed.

Of course, i'm macho.. this is where I get to melt like "Margarine" in hot frying pan.

Sometimes I try to settle for someone around the corner but that fighter in me refuses to.. preferring to stick to my 'old glory' of getting the best and what I feel I deserve.

Maybe I deserve the best.. yes.. but not the best 'the one'..

Have a lovely night and beautiful morning today....

pics are stolen from Irish actor, model and dancer
MJ Sullivan
http://www.starnow.com/mjsullivan/