Phoney one I did fiure out! Eric Hilton [email protected]

Ok, now I'm really going to sound dumb, this one I figured out fast, after about five emails, I don't know why I didn't figure out AKA David Gerlach. This one is Eric Hilton and I thought he sounded strange so I did call him on it and said what I thought when he said he was going to South Africa for a job contract. I got that one, why did the Gerlach thing slip by me? He is on DateHookup.com as "miskolo" You may want to check this one out too, thank God, I did see this one. His email is [email protected]
It DID sound fishy to me so I told him he was crazy when he asked for money in an IM, and told him to pack it. I checked out the address he gave my in Orlando and it was an office complex. Why did I catch this one but not the next one?

From: Eric Hilton ([email protected])
To:

Hello *****,
I am honored and pleasured to meeting you and do hope that this very start takes us somewhere..Its so nice to have read from you,I really enjoyed every bit of your words,Thank you,please always write to me,i would love to know you more intimately and only constant communication will tell...You know,We all in our innermost self have our true and real better half somewhere in the world..Its been long i had been intimately close to a woman,twelve years to be precise,and i would honestly say it was due to my past experience and great loss,But i guess 5years of loneliness is worth putting my past behind me and moving on,I do think we have a lot in common and that was why i could not help but contact you,i must confess that i was very surprised when i came across you profile on the site,i read through your profile more than twice,i think you are a mirror of me,i would like for you to come into my world and life.I was thinking about you after i had contacted you,wondering if you would write me back.I think of you to be a very good looking,nice and loving woman and i hope you don't mind my admiration. Looks don't really matters to me,the most important thing i can cherish in a woman is a beautiful heart, i prefer to fall in love with who you are inside,than for your outside appearance.

I was born on the June 8 1957,I was given birth to in Greece 1957 . I am the only child .My mom is an American while my Dad is from Greece .They met when my mom went to Greece for a teaching job.I lived there till i was 10 yrs old with my Parent .They later decided to relocate to Newark NY . I was so happy because i have always wanted to go to the US to meet my grandad because my grand mom died before i was born.By Occupation I am a Professional Structural and Civil Engineer and have worked with General Electricity(G.E) in Cincinnati,I live in Winter Park for over 10yrs before my wife died of cancer I met her in The University, I own my house.....I deal on all kinds of installation of Oil and Gas Turbines on contract basics too and PP"S(personal per times contracts).My job had made me visit different countries and met different kinds of people.I just got back from Spain last week.I'm a very caring, compassionate, giving and kind man.I give everyone a benefit of doubt.I'm not a racist or fanatic and i speak that which i perceive to be true.There are times when i tell people the truth and they either dislike me for saying the being honest or they prosecute me for telling the truth.Well the truth is always bitter. Lots of waters has passed under the bridge in my life. .The lost of my Wife is a part of my past that remains in me Forever.Her memories are still fondly remembered in my heart and i will continue to love her and pray her souls is accepted in heaven.I have a Son 'James' He is 21yrs old,He is studies Law in London.James have been my source of joy and we are best of friends.He is my happiness and brought so much joy to my life after the death of Wife,I'm ready to care and give hundred percent Love to my woman destined for me..I'm looking forward to a brighter and happier future with a good woman of substance and great heart.i think you are a very special woman for me to have gotten attracted to you.The reason we find ourselves on the dating site is to start up a relationship with that special person.I strongly believe that people could find their soul mates on the computer and i think it even gives us a good advantage of meeting people of various tribes,color, belief and culture and our search is not restricted to a particular area.This dating site is the first site i will ever join because i have never tried this internet dating, James forced me to go on here. We’ll have fun in sharing conversation, activities, interests,and experiences. Together we will entertain ourselves, learn from one and other,and have some good times.

I want to love with all my heart again with no hold barred if God say you are the woman for me,and as long as you are Faithful and very serious about settling down and will not play games with my Heart,i am ready to give you all of me.I'm a very kind man and my thoughts are of good and not bad.I have prayed earnestly to God to lead me to a woman who i can spend the rest of my life with.A woman i will be a blessing upon and she would be a blessing upon me too,a woman that i would make happy and love unconditionally, we shall be best friends, soul mates and lovers.A woman i would care and love with all my heart.A woman who together we shall walk hand in hand together sharing our deepest feeling and dream together.A woman who together we shall build a strong and lasting life together.A woman who will carry me along in everything she do or think and i will carry her along with me in everything i do.A woman that even while miles apart would still always have that strong and special connection with me.A woman that would be at home to welcome and love me when i'm back from work.A woman i can enjoy candlelight dinners,go dancing, camping and travel together with.A woman who will be the basics of my existence. A woman i will love for who she is without doubt but with great trust,all this i have prayed to God for and do Hope he leads me to my search,i just know time will tell my Dear.

Hope to receive an email from you soon telling me more about your heart desires, dreams and aspirations in life.Remain Blessed.. Please share with me anything and everything about you.I'm a very good listener..I really would love to stop writing here and do Hope to Hear from you soonest my Dear.....Sincerely Yours..
Eric

2nd:

Hello *****,
How are you today and how did you spend your day? I am fine just tired from working but thinking of you remove all the anxiety and tension. Thank you so much for taking your time to tell me about yourself. You have lived quite an interesting life .I can say that you have a good family . I will like to be the part of your family if this work out for good between us

I want to be totally honest like I have always been through my life and tell you everything about me. When I'm in a relationship with a woman, its only her there are no others and I give my most deepest love and devotion to her to let her know everyday that she is truly loved by me. Being this way I have found out through past relationship with women that just wanted to use and abused me and hurt me deeply. Where I tend to retreat to be alone with out this pain for many years. So I hope your still very interested in continuing our path.

I can tell you that am here for the same reason as you. To find a wonderful intelligent woman like yourself. I'm very glad your interested. I'm a very young man in heart and I'm in wonderful shape mentally and physically, actually I still feel like I'm in my teen but with so much more knowledge and being a refined gentle man. I would enjoy corresponding with you more to see if we both can find that true honest deep feeling in each others heart and soul to be the best of friends and maybe fall in love and build a very loving serious relationship between us. I hope you can feel some excitement within yourself as you get to know me. I'm very sincere in everything I say and I would not play any foolish games with your heart and am expecting the same honesty from you too. I'm very interested in getting to know what lye's in your heart and soul, your emotions and feelings of taught of the type of man you would cherish to be in love with. So anything you wish to ask. I will give you my honest answer. I will describe my life to you thus far and tell you of my personal values.

I have many interest to write about. I love to go to the movies, Horse Riding, concerts, sport events, art museums and wine tasting ,Basketball, Football, Swimming. I like to be active and I am most adventurous. I enjoy nature and going camping, photography and travel.
The three greatest hobbies that bring me the most joy are:
1. Shopping and hanging out with friend and going to the beach
2.Going out on boat fishing,Bike riding, Camping or out for a
picnic on a near by island.
I lost my 13 year old German shepherd recently.I eventually would like to get another one, but it's a bit hard to replace such a perfect dog. I love to travel.I love meeting people from different countries. Although I am only fluent in one language, I love learning words in other languages. I Well, I will end this mini autobiography, or else I may need to shop for a publisher.I am just a simple man with a lot of good attitude.


Now, what is missing in my life you must be thinking. The most important thing, someone special to share all these activities and to discover new ones
together for a life time. I want to find my best friend/soul mate, this person is kind, honest, faithful, caring, loving, sensitive, humorous, fun and adventurous.
I value patient, calm, strong and goal oriented people. My future soul mate will value his marriage and our children above anything else.
My views about life have changed the last couple of years. I guess as you get older you get wiser,more mature and truly see life a lot more different then when you are in
your 20's and you seek another path as you discover what is truly important. Well, I wanted you to know how serious I value life, family and
the woman I search to live a lifetime together with.

Now, I ask you to tell me more about yourself, your thoughts, dreams,aspirations, goals, family, friends, life and in general and what you are most passionate about.
I hope that my letter did not bore you too much. I don't like to write and I' am not very good at it. But I wanted to express my feeling, thoughts and what I have come to realize throughout my life. Hopefully you got a good feeling on who I am and your curiosity to know more about each other will prompt you to write back..I have added you on my yahoo messenger so we can chat live ok.
I will be so glad to hear back from you soon.
Have a Good day.
Eric

MsPinkFlamingo7, you are seeing now the world of scammers. Every one has just a little different flavor to what they do. My scammer did not appear like the "normal" Nigerian ones. He even had a phone from my area and said he was from my city. He then went to Canada before going to Kuala Lumpur. Pretty involved, lots of info on airlines, phones for each place he was at. They all try different things and you just have to keep your radar up. Remember they are professional liars and very very good at it once they have done it for awhile.
I'm glad you have tuned your radar to see the patterns. Many won't acknowledge being in Africa or anywhere other than where they profess they are, that's why we look at the IP addresses. I have seen some that send emails that are better at English than others. That is why so many of us get fooled. And why this site exists.

The trickster has not been very original either!
The text in the first e-mail (almost word for word) can be seen http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58102 dated April Twenty 13.
Any time you receive an email from someone professing to be an engineer, oceanographer or I'm out of the country on contract, be wary of such claims. Scammers try to make themselves sound important.

You have absolutely nothing to feel dumb about. With the first scammer, you really weren't aware of the existence of these scammers and how they work.

As time goes on, you will become more familiar with these scammers, and you will spot many in the first message, or even from their profiles. Then you can avoid wasting your time and energy on them and focus on meeting more real people.

I am amazed that I caught on to this one early on when he said his wallet got stolen when he went to South Africa for business and asked for $1,000 and was only carrying his debit card with him, no credit cards. I said "Sucks for you, you should have had credit cards, which I doubt you even have, they could be replaced easily". He had said he was from Greece and that he had lived in the US for, so at first I excused the way he wrote. But what really floors me is that I went on to actually believe the next one! David Gerlach. I am so done with trying to meet anyone on the internet. I had originally thought because they seemed to be local that we actually might go out for dinner or something, being newly divorced, I was very impressional. They both picked areas that were close to where I live. Eric Hilton's "son" [email protected] even sent me an email saying he was so happy his father had met me, What a crock. I thought I was so smart by picking up on him but really failed by believing the next one, David Gerlach. I was so impressed with how handsome they both were. I was reading a book by it's cover. What really bugs me is that "Eric Hilton" is still on Datehookup as "miskolo". I hate to think of who is being scammed now. I was so happy that I refused to send anything but really blew it on the second one. I doubt I'll ever do the internet thing again to meet someone.