a scammer or just a wirdo??

I have been talking to this Guy on flirtbox.com.. "he is" a American, deployed to Afghanistan. It was the topical marriage, love, your the on talking.. we write a hole lot of mails there about me and about him.. i had to nag him do give me his email address n it took a long time before i got i.. (its a Gmail n can not track the IP) he was telling me about his leave for Christmas, and that i had to go to the UK and sign his leave n get his war report done.. we where talking much about hooking up before he goes back to the us.. i told him that i was going to hungry. 14 days after his arrival in UK.. he wanted to meet me there, n he would wait in camp in UK in the meantime. . He told me later on that he needed to get some money to pay a processing fee to get his 2011pay and leave allowance. . He never asked me about the money, but he was claimed to be very upset whit this.. i told him that i was sorry, but i wouldn't help him in any way, and he said that that was ok, and i wouldn't ask be for any money.. i ask about the Hungarian trip, and how he would get the tickets, he assured me that it was his number one priority, and he promise to meet me there.. i got a little cold feet n was thinking that this was a scam, n i started to give him the cold shoulder n acting up on him that this was a stupid idea n that i didn't trust him.. he was worried n ask what he could do to prove otherwise, n that he would be very upset if he lost me.. I'm the one bla bla. ..
Do i dear to hook up whit this Guy? Is there anywhere online i can run his name to a us register.. all info i have us that he is a us soldier,first and last name, and hometown. .

Pls help..

Moderator Note: I combined two posts about the same topic so all responses are in one location. ~Bubbles

No idea of a site that would let you check on military people, but just looking at what you've written, why would a soldier need to pay money to receive his pay?
He sounds like yet another scammer using a US soldier's name as a scamming tool.
You might get a hit if you just google his name, if its been used by a number of scammers then you might get a hit.
As an example I put 'Sgt. John Samuel' into www.google.co.uk
The first response was a reference to www.419baiter.com, he is also known at www.419eater.com

If he really is in the UK then he'd have no problem in sending you a photo of himself holding a copy of today's newspaper. If he tries to dodge the idea, then he is 100% a scammer, if he sends you a photoshopped picture, same again.

A scammer, why would he have to shell out to collect his pay?
If he really wants to prove himself, he'd be able to send you a photo of him holding today's newspaper.
You could try and google his name,
I tried : Sgt. John Samuel
a known scammer, and got hits at two sites.

You'd do well to ban him from your email receipt list and steer well clear of him.
To the best of my knowledge there are no lists you can check, you might also see if he is on Facebook.

He he,that was a good idea.. i emailed him the instructions; )
I've tried the googel 100 times, but nothing comes up, last name,first name ++ I've been up n down Facebook n he has two Facebook profiles. . One in uniform whit 4 friends n that haven't been active for a loong time, and he have one in a Jersey whit 41 friend, n it looks to be activ.. I've also checked Facebook,Google to try to find a soldier by the last name so i can see if pictures n name has been stolen, but it all runs back to the profile pictures / profiles i found..

He called me once n he spoke good American whit a bit of south accent.. his from Idaho..

I played with the Inspectors information above and see how far it goes using chunks of message text. You can do this too.
http://www.no-limits.biz/sgt-john-samuel-t3635.html
Enough said here below. The "mouldy suitcase of money" scam.

Hi,
My name is Sgt John Samuel serving the U.S. ARMY and my World
country in the most honorable way I know I can, in IRAQ right now, in
a nutshell, I am an American soldier serving in the Military with the
Army 3rd infantry division. With a very desperate need for assistance,
I found your contact particulars during my search and email picked up
courage to contact you for your assistance.

Some money in various currencies were discovered in a room at a farm
house near one of Saddam's old palaces in Tikrit-Iraq during a rescue
operation, I happened to be one of the soldiers that did lead
operation that day so it was agreed by the General Edward Ballanco
head of our battalion that some part of this money will be shared among
both of us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw the
money first. This was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what?
No compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives
in this hell hole, my brother in-law was killed by a roadside bomb just
few months ago, and I can not count how many times GOD has saved
my life down here. I would like you to read the article below so you can
confirm what I am saying.

http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/ ... 20-1-1.cfm


Now i found a very reliable way of sending a metallic trunk box
containing the amount of one million United States dollars worth Twelve
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (U.S. $ 12.5 million) as you must agree
With me it has been hell on earth trying to keep this money safe from
people's eyes for all these while with this opportunity and all I need
is just someone I can trust 100% capable I can send to the box.

So if you can assure me of your honesty I want to go ahead and send the
box to you for safe keeping till I am back home and I will gladly give
you 50% of the money.
If this okay with you please get back to me with the following so i
the box can get across to you.
First Your full name
Second Contact address
Third Telephone number.
Waiting to hear from you.
Yours in Service.
Sgt John Samuel
U.S. ARMY
.

http://www.voy.com/146938/13708.html
He becomes Sgt. David Thompson.
Date Posted: 23:28:45 11/25/11 Fri
Author: Camp MXP-512 Third Infantry Division Unit(T.I.D.U)
Subject: Sgt. David Thompson
SAME RUBBISH TEXT.
http://419awareness.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/hi-9/
[email protected]
[email protected]

Tikrit-Iraq during a rescue
operation, i happened to be one of the soldiers that lead that
operation that day, so it was agreed by Brigadia General Edward
Ballanco

Many hits.
http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?p=1058068544

My name is General David Petraeus US ARMY serving the World in the most
honorable way i know i can right now in IRAQ With a very desperate need
for your assistance. Etc

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/resistanc ... sage/48405
196.12.157.26 address: Kigali, Rwanda
[email protected]
[email protected]
Join Date: Dec 2004

A fellow from China sent me this recently:
Return-Path: < [email protected] >
Delivery-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:31:11 +0100
Received: from User (unknown [119.36.138.131])
by mail.sidex-wi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B501029E98;
Sat, 5 Nov 2011 00:30:17 -0500 (CDT)
[email protected]
[email protected]

A quick name change again
http://www.paris-chartres.fr/2011/12/hoping.html

Sgt. Mary Johnson
Camp MXP-512 Third Infantry Division Unit(T.I.D.U),
Abul Uruj,Bagdad,Irag

[email protected]

yes google his name see if it comes up why would he have to pay to get his pay all crap no soldier pays to get his pay thay get paid like everyone else they dont need satelite phones either if anyone asks for money to get them something they are trying to scam you jsut deleted the total loser