Certainly a Sign of the Times

Unfortunately, the author of this article about a man who used an online dating site to scam numerous women out of their assets romanticizes "con men" when in fact this guy is not a mere "con man" but an outright sociopath.  There is nothing--NOTHING--admirable or romantic about people who have utterly no conception of the feelings of others and take them for everything.

One family member of mine was taken in by somebody who was somewhat like this man though on a much lesser scale.  He had a few--very few--virtues, and he certainly didn't go around impersonating men who served in the military.  That of course is a crime, and this dude will no doubt will spend a few years in prison at least for it.  Too bad he gets away with scamming the women.

This is one reason why I haven't and never will use online dating sites.  I don't have any idea what is on the other end of the "transaction."  It is way too risky, and I think these scumbags like the criminal in the article are more numerous in the older age brackets.  These guys (and occasionally women scam men) take total advantage of vulnerable women, who still think they are worthless unless they have some man around.  They never learned what I learned at a young age that men are not necessary for women to feel "complete."  This criminal in the article never targeted never-married women.  No doubt he preferred the divorced or even widowed women because they were even more vulnerable to scams than never-married women.

When women are raised in the straitjacket called "femininity," they are sitting ducks for scammers.