Sgt. Jack Thorton (or Sgt. Jack Thornton)

I have been foolishly lured by a man posing as an American Army Sergeant name Jack Thorton, as known to me, or Jack Thornton as he can also be found under. He contacted me in Dec. '10 on Metrodate. He claims to be 45 years old from California, though I also found a profile for him under Thornton claiming to be 36 from Georgia. The email he uses for me is [email protected]. He claims to have a friend named Neilson whos email is [email protected] and another friend who uses the email [email protected]. He claims to have a commander named Kelly Magill who uses [email protected].

I cannot figure out how to attach a photo, but I have a few to send to anyone who thinks they too have been contacted by this scammer. I know he had a profile on Facebook under JThorton. He has since removed that claiming too many past girls trying to get his "love" was contacting him and didn't want to make me jealous. He contacts me daily more than once a day professing his love. I have been fortunate enough not to give any pertinent information to him that could cost me in the long run due to lingering doubts (and rightly so as I substantiated these this evening.)

He claims to have a contact named Falodun Seyi David. Please note any of the names I have listed in here as other possible aliases this person may go by. I am a real person who just lost the "love" of her life.

Hello jl77boo,
thank you for posting this warning.
First of all, you are not a fool. These scammers do this for a living, they have years of experience and are trained by their gang bosses to push the right buttons and to spot caring persons who are the perfect mark.
You posted your email address: Is this your household address you are regularly using? Then please delete it. There are nasty programmes used by scammers which harvest addresses off the internet for further scams. You want a clean inbox in the future, don't you?
And as the scammer already has a working address from you, he probably has passed it on to members of his gang who will try to scam you from a different angle, for instance posing as law enforcement trying to recover your losses or to prosecute the scammer - of course for yet another fee.
Enjoy your weekend and recover from this ugly experience soon!
Katharina