I think he's a scammer. Help please.

I met a man named Sgt. George Ayo Williams on Tagged.com. He seems very nice and we soon started chatting on yahoo messenger. He says he is in the US army on a peacekeeping mission in Nigeria. After a few weeks he said his mom was sick and needed surgery. He needed to send money to help her and claimed he was unable to access his account. I wouldn't send money and he was fine with that, but it freaked me out a bit. I quit talking to him for a few weeks. He had started telling me he loved me and wanted to meet me and maybe spend a life together someday. That all spooked me too. He contacted me again a few weeks ago claiming he missed me and loves me and wants to be with me and my kids. I started talking to him again and everything seemed ok. A few days ago he started saying he got leave papers to come home but he has to cash a check first and needs money before he can do so. It sounded odd to me so I refused. Again, he was ok with it. Then he told me a friend of his could help, but he needed to send me a check to cash and send him the money. Again it sounded odd so I said I can't. BY this time I was seriously thinking scammer so I looked at this and other sites. I tried some of the things suggested. He says he's unable to get on webcam and has no access to a camera to send pics. He sent older pics from before he went to nigeria. All are of the same guy and look right as far as age and all that. He claims not to have an APO address but sent me what he says is a military email address. His yahoo is [email protected] His other is [email protected] He claims he's not supposed to tell me that address though which also sounds wrong. His last email told me how disappointed he Is that I don't trust him . But that He still loves me and wants to be with me. My gut instinct is screaming scam. If he truly is I'd like to make sure his name gets out so he can't fool anyone else. Thanks for any advice..

HIs recent email: At first i ought not to send you this mail, but i gave it a second thought and to prove to you how genuine i am! i dont need to go through this much just to prove to you i love you and you dont have to ask for john F. kennedy's underwear from me to prove that i am for real.
still disappointed in you that you dont love me the way you said, because if you do, you will trust me no matter what.
how are the kids? my regards to them...
hope to chat with you soon
George.

You're correct in believing that he's a scammer.

There is no US peacekeeping mission in Nigeria and the requests for money are all based on lies and his real mission of scamming money out of you. Worse, his suggestion of you cashing a cheque for him would involve you in receiving and passing a forged cheque through your bank account. The consequences of doing that, for you and your family would involve you in losing money and possibly even being arrested for passing counterfeit paper.

He'll tell you any lie or make any pledge he needs to, to achieve his ultimate aim of thieving off you. I tracked one scammer off this forum and found he was even scamming as a female as well. He really won't pay much attention to you until you start paying and his personal sounding mails are usually copied from other forums and scammers.

Wished it was hello under happier circumstances christa. You have a PM.

Welcome christamomof3, I just wanted to say keep in mind that you are not alone. I came to this site many years ago because I met up with a scammer from a dating website. Hopefully your posting the information will help prevent somebody else from becoming a victim of a scammer using the same name and email address. Please feel free to PM me.

He almost got me too, he said he is an engineer in the UK and even sent me a pic of check for $150,000 and told me he cant cash it, then he accepted a job and now in Lagos Nigeria, he wanted his friend to wire me money and for me to wire it to him since his friend couldnt. I met him on tagged.com. then talked on yahoo messenger. He told me he loved me since he started talking to me and how he lived in Texas and got a big house, and how his dad died when he was 6, and mom from Spain. Thanks for posting this because I had a gut feeling and when I read this, I blew the lid on him and told him....the man is crazy.

He won't wire you any money. He'll arrange for you to receive a counterfeit cheque and then expect you to wire him cash by Western Union, thereby turning his worthless forgery into cash.

Wiring you money to wire him, doesn't make sense.

The bank will allow you to draw on it at your risk. I saw on another forum that someone else was having to set up a special loan to pay off £6,000 and they were currently being charged something like £5 a week for as long as they paid off nothing. Falling for this type of sea can be life-changing for a bad reason.

Needless to say that if what he said was true he'd have a bank account himself and it could be paid in to his own account. Then he could wire it out himself, but that won't enable him to steal your money and he knows that the cheque is worthless, not that he's from the UK or got a job in the UK.

One thing he told you may be true - that he's in Nigeria.