General

When you talk to scammers as often as I do, you start to see patterns and you can recognise when the switch from just the getting to know you part into the emotional manipulation.

that they escalate their affection start love bombing you and they also isolate victims they create urgency and they can build a fantasy they help victims to build a fantasy of a future life what life will be like when they come home when they get married etc doing this as well though like I've said I see the other side to it where I'll get contacted quite often by family members trying the hardest to stop somebody from being scammed sons and daughters friends just asking for my advice they can see the danger and they can't get through to the person who's trapped inside that scam see and that's exactly what happened with Susan Susan contacted me because she was really scared for her 82 year old mother Her mum genuinely believed she was in a relationship with General Kevin Meeler.

He's a real US Army General, but his identity gets stolen by romance scammers.

And despite Susan warning her mother, and despite the police getting involved, her mother wouldn't listen.

She was sending the scammer money, she was speaking with him on WhatsApp and Telegram, and she was completely convinced that this man was real.

see if they can chat with him and in the hope that that friend would be able to get a message that could be shared with Susan's mother to convince her that she was speaking with a scammer and so my friend did contact him and he chatted with her and he chatted with her for quite a while and eventually he told her that he loved her just the same as he'd done with Susan's mother And they started planning, and I think he even mentioned marriage, just the same.

Same sort of story as Susan's mother.

And as soon as the declaration of love and marriage was on screenshots, then I forwarded those to Susan so that she could show them to her mother to prove that General Mylar, or the guy pretending to be General Mylar, was also chatting with somebody else.