received numerous romantic emails from this person

says he liked my profile on christiannet.com and I am the only woman for him...says he lived in kenton,Ohio and has a 12 yr old son and his wife was killed in a car accident five years ago... after chatting with him on yahoo mesg. alot and him sending me numerous poems and love messages always on yahoo...address...when I asked him what nationality he was he said irish and american...his only picture up once in awhile and on facebook did not look like american or irish...more middle eastern. he said he was morman and when I told him that would not work with me he changed his status in the christian net from asian to white to baptist. He said his name was Jim Bright and his sons name was roseman. I made a mistake and gave him my phone number. he called me several times and it always showed up private or unknown...he kept saying he was going to text me the number but never did...then he said his son accidently put his cell phone in the wash so it was ruined..
I told him my son is a policeman and wants to run a check on anyone that wants to get next to his mom...he wanted my sons name and email so he could email him...I told him no and if he did not have anything to hide than he would give me his phone number and address so my son could be okay with his mom even communicating with him...he finally sent me an email(attached) with an address but never a phone number...
then he said he needed prayer to get this contract in construction...so i prayed with him...whenever he called he never would leave a message...then he said he got the contract and he had been calling his son my son...said he was leaving on this last wednesday but would be in contact with me...

I did not hear from Jim until this morning at 4:30am...he called me 3 times and finally I answered the 4th time. on my cell phone. the number that shows up is 2348087838260 and he says him and (my son) his son arrived safely and he misses me and will keep in contact with me...as he works on constucting some buildings. I am including the emails he sent me as to where he was supposedly going. He said he wants to come to me when he returns to the US...his accent was very young and african every time I spoke with him...
I told him on the phone today that my son has already been running a check and please do not call me anymore or internet me....and I hung up...he called back and I did not answer...he called again and I answerd and told him to please not call me ever again and I had already reported him...
I am very concerned as he has information on me...what do I do now....help me...

here are the emails...

My Trip and Schedule
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:18 AM
From: This sender is DomainKeys verified"Jim Bright" < [email protected] >
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Hello my Royal Queen,how are you today and i am sorry i have not been able to call you today cos i am busy and i cannot to that place i call this morning,yes i need a visa cos i am going out of state and also,tell your son i need to know him,email me his namd and his email address and let me talk to him so that he will kn ow that i am real and also that i want nothing from his mom except her Love.

The Contract is going to be executed in Somewhere in (WEST AFRICA) I'm to design and build a Management.constructions of Home Re-modeling,Commercial Building,Foundation,Roads for (3--4Weeks).I and your Son Roseman will be leaving Very early today because the Traveling document and papers have been put to place.We'll be checking into a Hotel called Skelly Suites we wont loose communication a bit because i will be going along with my laptop with a Multi connection server,I have also planned my return trip to be destined towards your place so that i can be able to get to meet you,Ruth and your son.I love you so much and i want you to know that i'm doing this to build up our career and making sure we have a wonderful future.I miss u so much and i wish i was already there with you.To hold u, kiss u,touch you,carese you & Hug you tight and close,go on vacations with only you just like been on our honeymoon.In life, we receive a wonderful opportunity, and that is to love. Love comes in many forms. You love people in different ways and for different reasons, depending upon how they have touched your life. Love is a very powerful word and can describe a multitude of feelings, but its main context carries the same meaning I want to tell you that the love I have for you is undying. It is a love that is strong and enduring and will stand the test of time. I truly feel blessed that you have become a part of my life and I cannot wait for the day that we can join our lives together. I want to lie next to you at night and fall asleep in your arms, only to wake to your beautiful smile. I want to share in your joys and sorrows. I want to be your everything. You are everything to me.You are everything I do. You see and bring out the best in me. You are the one I want to share everything with - my thoughts, hopes and dreams. Thinking of you makes my heart feel full. You are such a source of inspiration for me. I will forever be indebted to you for all you have brought to my life. So, to repay you, I promise you my heart and all the love in it for the rest of my life.I love you so much! To say this a million times is not enough to express how much I do. I love you dearly ... beyond the stars.Will get in touch with you immediately i get there and get my laptop connected.Love you very much and you mean the world to me Mellisa Bright..LOL!!
Love always
Jim

Quotes added for Clarity - Michelle

From: Jim Bright <[email protected]>
Subject: Good News and Celebration
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 10:15 AM
Hello My Love,

we should entrust our questions of 'How?' and 'Who?' and 'When?' into His tender Loving care.Love should go beyond any kind of emotion. For takers, it's never enough. For givers, it's abundantly fulfilled by His Grace."If we love each other as much as we do say and mean it then we shouldn't dwell on "Firsts" shared with another, for there are a lifetime of "Firsts" to spend with each other.""If we can't solve it, it isn't a problem - it's Reality. And sometimes reality is the hardest thing to understand and the thing that takes the longest to realize. But once it hits us in the face we'll never forget it.. It will always be there in our memories and sometimes that is the best way to look at it.We should Never take ourself for granted. We should Hold each other close to our heart because we might wake up one day and realize that we've lost a diamond while we were too busy collecting stones.""Peace will come when the Love of Power is replaced with the Power of Love.....I appreciate all the love and the CPR....lol which you've shown to me,you've been so Loving and Caring to me.Despite the fact that we havent met in person yet,but someday soon before we get to know we will be together,I'm short of words to express my feelings! my heart is so Full of Joy and i dont know what else to say than to thank God for giving you to me,You're such a special blessing to me & my life.I got an email Confirmation Yesterday afterrnoon about the pending contract that i have been telling you about,I've been working on it for the past two and the half month now,After this contract honey i'll be getting retired so that both of us can be able to spend the rest of our lifes together and make each other happy and we start a new Business..We've to make plan of a solid and wonderful future ahead of us,they have confirmed the award of a contract to me which will be involving me travelling on Wednestday Evening infact i was shocked and marvelled that for all this while they have been in process with my Visa !! Love is the binding that holds us to our dreams. Love does not come over us, rather we choose to love. Only when we choose to love each other forever and we stand by that dedication of love will you truly love for life and live happily ever after.we can live magnificently in this world if only we know how to work and how to love unconditionally and undying.I was so full of joy and i wish you were here with me,so that we could have celebrated this together.I can't wait to be with you.Well i need to make plans and get prepared about leaving tomorrow Evening...My Visa has been already been processed and issued.I'll be leaving with your son Roseman and it would be quite a memorable experience for Him....Adventure isnt it!!! The main reason that i've to take him along with me is that theres no one to take care of him while i am gone and how i wished he could have come down to you while you take care of him while i am gone..but time wouldnt permit ! we'll be in contact all along and i'll make sure you dont miss-out in anything that happens over there! I've also planned something special for my returning back home which would be the greatest meeting because it would involve us spending the rest of our lives together.I love you and I'll miss you for the time being,My Love Everything in life has reasons and Purposes to happen,so it's the lord's willing and and your prayer for me to be able to get this contract Awarded to me,We should learn how to cherish each others extant in our life, rather than fantasize about who we will meet tomorrow.God is love and if you lose yourself in him you will find yourself.""Love is like wine; the older it gets, the better it is."A person without dreams, is a person without life, because without dreams, what is there to live for?
Good Morning to you my Angel and have a wonderful day also thanks for your receiption over the phone this morning! !
Hugs and Kisses
I love you so much honey.....

From: <e-mail address removed> - Michelle
Subject: Re: Good Morning
To: "Jim Bright" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 9:52 AM


do you own the property or someone else.,there is no such address in kenton but in another town...so which is it...also you have not given me your phone number....i am not playing...if you are not the same person....than please do not email me anymore or call me...thank you and God bless

<Name removed> - Michelle

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Jim Bright <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Jim Bright <[email protected]>
Subject: Good Morning
To: <e-mail address removed> - Michelle
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 6:00 AM


Hello My Royal Queen,i am so sorry i have not been able to talk to you all this while my laptop crashed and i just got another one,honey i am so happy to hear your sweet charming voice yesterday and also to let you know i have really missed you so much,but one thing you do that i don't like is you telling me i gave you a wrong address and i want you to email me now and tell me you are sorry for that and also my Love i have a good news for you and we need to celebrate honey,pls email me back when you get this message.i have missed you and i cannot wait to talk to you,i send a million of kiss to you and i am looking at your pics here drives me so crazy that i couldn't even control myself,you are all i think of all the time.

My Charming Princess,No single words can describe my feelings for you and i will always love you till my dieing day.hope to read from you soonest and Roseman send his regards to you.

Warmest Regards,
Jim

--- On Sat, 8/14/10, <e-mail address removed> - Michelle


From: <e-mail address removed> - Michelle
Subject: Re: Sweet Dreams My Love
To: "Jim Bright" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 4:03 AM


please understand that you have wrong addresses listed. I pray for you in whatever situation you are in nothing is impossible with our God....King Jesus is the real thing and without him you do not have life....God/Jesus/Holy spirit bless you and save you from anything and everything that is not from him....bind up anything that is not from God and pray over it all to be delivered and set free from it and embrace only Jesus as your personal lord and savior

<Name removed> - Michelle

--- On Fri, 8/13/10, Jim Bright <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Jim Bright <[email protected]>
Subject: Sweet Dreams My Love
To: <e-mail address removed> - Michelle
Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 3:07 AM


What does your love mean to me? I'd give you the oceans and the seas I'd give you all Eternity if I could Make life easy for you, I would.I would take away all your pain Bring you sunshine instead of rain I would take all your hurt away Your sky would never be gray.I would offer you the moon and stars But you see I can't, they are not ours All these things I would give to you But My Darling, these things I can't do. I only have my love to offer you A love that would always be true I love you more than you will ever know With all I do for you, I hope that it shows.I hope that my love will be enough for you Bring you happiness your whole life through And In the end when my time is due My Darling, I will still go on loving you.

Here's my address.....3799 maple grove rd Kenton, oh 44691
pls i will let you know when i have another phone i think you remeber that i told you your son spoilt my phone.

I am about to leave work and will post a little more later tonight or in the morning, but I can tell you for certain:

This is 100% scammer.

The best thing you can do is to cut off all contact with him. Do not take any more calls from him, ignore or block his emails, just walk away.

I can't believe I fell for something like this...there were a lot of emails prior to these...I guess I trusted that it came from christiannet.com and thinking someone that read my profile would not do a scam like this. I tried to tell him that I was being honest and he kept saying he was real but never answered my questions about his nationality...american...right a lot of people are american but why a accent like that...he said he got it from living in ireland for 25 yrs....after these last calls it sure did not sound like an irishman..I hope and pray that this ends...thank you so much for listening and helping me through this as my heart was skipping thinking there really are nice guys out there...sorry about the long emails but I did not know how to delete mine and get my name off them...take care and my brother in law did the research and found something that was similar to this guys MO...thanks againg and God bless you all for this type of work to help us out...sonlightconnector

It's a typical romance scam using content found on the Internet.. 2348087838260 is a Nigerian phone number, where he's been all the time.

and get my name off them

It's been done for you. Once you've copied and pasted them here, you can edit them as they are part of your post.

I'm sorry that you had to learn that your online romance is a scammer. It's never good to learn that someone who appeared to have so much potential has been lying all along.

Some studies say that 1 in 10 profiles on dating sites belong to scammers. The good news is that if this is true, it means that 9 out of 10 are not scammers. Unfortunately, scammers actually approach far more people than real members of dating sites do, causing your odds of being approached by scammers to go up significantly.

As Arnold said, the person sending you have been in contact with is not American--he is Nigerian, and he has been in Nigeria all along. He is out for one thing and one thing only--your money. The letters he sends you are scripted; and he is sending the same scripted emails to other women. He won't hesitate to use religion in any way he has to in order to "hook" you and get you to send money. Unfortunately, many of these scammers live in a very warped world, one in which they not only believe that God condones scamming; they go so far as to pray for God to send them victims! When their victims are out of money, they will even push them to sell their possessions or borrow money from family and friends to send to them, and they have been known to prey on people who they know are severely ill or even suicidal.

As far as the letters go, all of these things tell us this is a scammer:
-poor English alternating with decent English, which correspond to his writing versus copied things.
-when he is writing, the types of mistakes are very consistent with an African.
-the scenario is textbook--typical scammer scenario includes wife who died (or he caught cheating); a child who is supposedly the center of his world; leaving for a contract in Africa.
-emails are very scripted. Notice the parenthesis here: "Somewhere in (WEST AFRICA)". This was a part of the script where he was supposed to put in a country, only he was too lazy to update and remove the parenthesis.
-Referring to your children as his or his children as yours are also very typical scammer tactics. Normal people do not do this with children of people they have never met; scammers do this all the time.
-"Hello my Royal Queen"--excessive use of nicknames or terms of endearment is also very common with African scammers. They do this (a) to reinforce the whole idea of love and (b) because then they can just send the script out to all of their victims without the trouble of having to update their emails with names!

There are other signs, but these are a few of the more common. Scammers can be remarkably persistent, and will continue to lie long after the victim is aware of the truth. They do this because they have learned that with persistence, some victims who really want to believe in the relationship can be won back. Plus, lies come to them more easily than the truth. Occasionally the scammer will "confess." In reality, this is just another tactic that ultimately is intended to get you to pay.

You need to ignore him at this time. Block his email address and block him on messenger. If he calls you, don't answer. If you accidentally answer, just hang up. Don't bother to try to talk to him or to make him feel guilty, because he is incapable of empathy or caring. As far as him having your information, it is not likely, but it is possible that he will use your name and address in future scams, but there is nothing you can do about it and no point in worrying. As long as you haven't given him your important information--social security number, bank info, credit card numbers, etc. the damage he can do is extremely limited. He is not coming to see you--the truth is, he is not leaving Africa--so any threats or promises to visit you should be ignored.

thank you so much....I was reading a book called "Captivating" and it is about unveiling the secrets of a womans soul and this came almost 2 weeks after I was really in the book...Even after I told him my son is a police...he really is...he still was persistent..I mean this is crazy...I am so glad my brother in law alerted me to this website and I was able to cut this off before it went too far...Thank you so much and I hope I am able to help someone else out there...to not be scammed....God Bless...sonlightconnector

I too have been receiving the numerous romantic emails, texting and phone calls. The words in your emails are almost identical to my emails!!! We met on Spark.com and he said that his wife passed away but that he has a 12 year old son and a 9 year old daughter. He was saying all the right things to romance me and kept trying to get me to say that I love him. He said that he was in love with me and that he prayed to God for someone like me. He said that he was a Geologist and that he won a contract worth $1.87 million dollars. Couldn't find him on Goggle then on July 22, 2010 his picture is on the website for Steven Lewis Raw Gold and Stones. This is when I looked up this the validity of the web site that Steven Lewis had. He had emailed me with several photos and said that his home was in N. Miami, Florida. He said that his name is George Reindorf and that he is 54 years old. I was dumb enough to send him $725 for a laptop after he said that his power pack was ruined in the outlet in West Africa. I became angry and suspicious when he asked me for $1000. to complete the documentation of the work he did in West Africa. He was on Facebook last week and since I called him and confronted him regarding Steven Lewis, he disappeared from Facebook. He pretended he didn't know about Steven Lewis and then in his last email this morning he said that the case is in court and George said but what about us? The email address he used was [email protected]
This was some of the first emails,

Hello ______,good morning my dear one,how are you doing...?i miss you baby how was you day...?i hope you are doing well how i can guest,_____ i want to show you something which is very interested, and i am very happy and i hope when we meet we shall plan for our wedding,_____ this company has awarded two contract for me at the same country so i need to go there and later come back to the state that is very huge amount _______ i want you to promise me that you will wait for me...?and you wont go to any other dating site again cos you are the one whom make my dream comes true,and i always dream about you,i am doing celebration here i am haven red Vodka here with my friends but _______ i will been travel on Sunday,so i hope you will wait for me cos i can promise you from my heart to be faithful to you and i want you to promise me that you will wait for me till i comes,did you receive the ring...?let me know if you have and you are wearing it or you can snap a nice photo with that ring for me...have nice lovely day and blessed day i like you and i love you too.._____ i am drunk...
Your Faithful Lover
George Reindorf

This is one of the emails,

Hello My Angel,
how are you doing?what its going on what happen to you...?i am soo worried about you.____ today was my first sadness day in my life since i was born..why what wrong with you...?i cant do anything becos of you,take care and please talk to me My Angel please don't hide anything from me cos you are always on my mind.

This is a poem he sent me,

I wish i could see through your eyes so i would know what you like to see. i wish i knew your wishes, so i could give you everything you want. i wish i dreamed the same dreams you do, and together we could make them come true. i wish i knew what makes you happy, so i could make you the happiest person in the whole world. And lastly, i wish i were a cell in your blood, so i would be sure i was somewhere in your heart

Now I'll have to change my phone number that I've had for 15 years and I learned an expensive lesson.
The phone number he used was 011233279961062.

Hi notanymore, welcome here.

I wish it was under nicer circumstances. Sorry to hear that you lost money to him, but I'm happy that you now realize it's a scam. Don't feel that you're dumb by falling for him. It happens to many people. The scammers are generally very good at what they do.

About your phone number: It might not be necessary to change it. When he realizes that you know he's a scammer and won't send him any more money, he'll give up on you and move on.

What you do need to do is to cut all contact with him.
Don't reply to emails and texts, just throw them away without reading them.
If he calls you, don't pick up, or immediately hang up as soon as you realize it's him.

Only if he keeps harassing you on the phone or if you're afraid you won't be able to resist him when he calls it is a good idea to consider changing your phone number.

Edited to add:
I assume you paid him through Western Union or MoneyGram. In either case, there's really no hope that you can recover your money.
Beware for people that claim to be able to recover your money. That's just another scam where they ask for a fee upfront. They just take the fee, but never do anything to get you your money back.

Also, please post the email address that he used. This may help other potential victims when they search for that email address.