concerned for a friend personal safety & $ **update pg 17**

[ChickyLove]

I am not nice. That is my disclaimer for this post.

The man is a con artist through and through. I suggest that you have her ask for a photocopy of his I.D. card, a current bill with his name on it that matches, 5 personal references that she can contact in order to verify his lifestyle and claims, the name/s of the hospitals he is/has been employed with. Then she needs to do a check with the County Clerks Office in the city and state in which he lives in order to determine where or not he has a criminal record/outstanding/previous warrants. Then she needs to make danged sure that if everything checks out that she doesn't go ANYWHERE with him until they have met in person for well over a year and that her wherabouts are known at all points in time, that she has a safeword in place so that if anything DOES go wrong she can dial her friends and give the safeword.

Perfect paranoia is a surefire way to not end up dead in Aruba.

 

[sonew123]

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I'll be turning 40 and I've never heard of those games either???

 

[Criskin]

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I'll be turning 40 and I've never heard of those games either???

World of Warcraft, Everquest & Ultimate Online.

DH is 3 years younger than me but he had never heard of them until I came along. I say it's because he's outdoorsy. He says it's because he's not a dork.

 

[redhen]

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[greenacresinNE]

OK, everything medical about that guy is COMPLETE malarkey. I am an MD, I did my Residency and Fellowship at Georgetown Med Center in DC -- there is NO WAY to be a resident in Florida and STAFF at the same time somewhere else. George Washington and Georgetown are two entirely different programs and separate hospital facilities, he seems to claim he is associated with both -- impossible. AND, no one would have time to any of the other stuff he has listed while you are a resident. No medical society in the world has any interest in a resident as a "consultant" for anything. If he is a resident, he won't have his own office either, so I would suspect a fake set-up if someone answers the phone "Dr So-and_so's office". It is easy to look up medical licenses for individual states -- look up his name for the DC Medical Board and Florida Medical board and see if he is even in there. I would also notify those boards that there is someone impersonating a physician out there under his name, that is a serious offense. It should also list a physical address, which should be his ACTUAL residency program if it exists at all. Lastly, no physical med and rehab doctor would be presenting at a PLASTIC SURGERY conference. Get the name of the conference and call the organizer for a syllabus.

 

[Dar]

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HECK YES!!!!!!

one problem I am having and its also a blessing is we are talking about a Girl/Woman in Canada and a con in the USA... so for me yo do all the checks its kinda hard... but the blessing part is she does not have her passport so she cant just on a fling drive to the USA for a lil somethin something (wink wink) and he cant get her across the border.

 

[KenK]

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Is this a made up school? http://www.lecom.edu/

They seem proud of the recent graduate. http://www.lecom.edu/search.php

 

[mom'sfolly]

Here's a link to the medical liscense...but no picture. It also expired last month, and it wasn't even good for a full year...but I don't know what that would mean.

Again, the resume or interviews or both are full of lies. The ages, dates and things accomplished don't match. He lists George Washington University but has a link to Georgetown University and neither one have him in their directory.

http://ww2.doh.state.fl.us/irm00praes/prasindi.asp?LicId=2456&ProfNBR=1902&Lookup=TRUE

 

[HHandbasket]

I have not read all the posts here but have read many.

I met Farmer Lew nearly 10 years ago in a Yahoo chat room. He was very up front about who he was... ex-military, ex-prison guard, working at Home Depot, no degrees, no money, old beat up car. PERFECT GUY FOR ME!!! Before we met in person, I talked to his children (who were little kids back then) and to his ex-wife. And I was NOT about to travel half-way across the country to meet him! (At the time when I was single, even when I met local people online, I would meet them in a place of my choosing, always a public place, with a friend inconspicuously watching from across the room and awaiting my signal that everything was cool.... I also never went ANYWHERE with someone I just met, period, and if they didn't understand that, I would not meet with them).

That being said, HE took a big chance, and after a few months of daily phone conversations and online conversations, HE got on a Greyhound, rode for 2-1/2 days, and came to California to meet me. As soon as he got off the bus and our eyes met, I knew he was the one. I remember thinking to myself, "Stick a fork in me because I AM DONE... done looking, that is. This man's my future." Dunno how I knew it, but I did. We were smart and fortunate.

If this guy your friend "met" online was legitimate, what would stop HIM from going to meet HER? He's a fake if he's unwilling/unable to go where she is. Big phony baloney.

 

[mom'sfolly]

The school appears real, however, it almost sounds like you can get an independent study DO...

This is from a Pennsylvania medical school website:

LECOM offers student-centered learning pathways at three locations: Erie and Greensburg, Pennsylvania and Bradenton Florida. LECOM students also choose from traditional lecture-discussion, small group problem-based learning, and independent study curricula. The new Primary Care Scholars pathway provides a condensed three-year track to becoming a family physician.

And this doesn't even show a lot of the stuff people would look for in a medical school:

http://medical-schools.findthebest.com/directory/a/PENNSYLVANIA