Anonymous
Springfield,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, December 31, 2008
Every word of this report is the truth. Walter has had me fooled for months. We met online and he had me swept away by his sweet words and his intelligence. Little did I know that he was a mental patient and a con artist. At the beginning, he seemed a little too good to be true, but he didn't ask anything from me he was just kind and charming. He must have found a new mark for his game (whom I think is the original poster of this report) because I stopped hearing from him for awhile. Then suddenly he resurfaced with metastatic Stage IV pancreatic cancer! I was taken aback by this and immediately suspicious. It turns out that, after some discussion, I found that he contacted me once the woman who posted this article got wise to him. He moves pretty fast! He had quite a story to go along with what had happened to him. He had moved out of his high-rise apartment and into a house with a woman who was a nurse and who, out of the kindness of her heart agreed to care for him until his untimely passing. But then he was appalled that this kindly woman wanted rent from him and required a lease (whether or not he actually lived in this house or not I have no idea). He was calling me all hours of the day and night asking for help, a place to stay, even though I live 600 miles away! He wanted me to fly down to Atlanta and pick him up and we would drive back to my home in his car. He was planning to leave behind all his worldly possessions in this house because, as he said, "she would steal them from me anyway." He went so far as to call me in the middle of the night and tell me he was ending his life, the cancer pain had become so severe and he just couldn't go on. He said he carried potassium pills with him in case he decided he just couldn't deal with it anymore. This is a sick, sick person that would potentially put another person through that kind of emotional hell. Fortunately, I was suspicious of him all along, even though I played along to see where it all went. I also reported him to authorities and decided to just let him keep going with his con and see if he hung himself with his own rope. In fact he did when, while an inpatient at a local mental health facility, he declared himself cancer free and in remission! From Stage IV metastatic cancer of the pancreas, which had supposedly spread to the lungs, kidney, bones and lymph nodes. Remission! Oh, he exclaimed, it was the power of prayer! I couldn't hold it in any longer and declared his whole act bullshit. The person who posted the reply to the original report has missed the point entirely when he says that Walter never hurt anyone. Walter is an emotional mess and he drags everyone around him through the dirt. In addition, if I or the woman who posted this report had been less astute, we would have becomce financial victims of his con. He was ready to move in with me! He admitted to me (for what that's worth) that he indeed did not have cancer and that he had "problems with reality" although from where I sit, regardless of his mental state, his contact with reality seems just fine. He was able to play me for a fool for almost six months before I figured out his game. If he hadn't gone so over the edge with the cancer, who knows how long it would have gone on? I wish I could contact the person who filed this because we certainly would have a lot to talk about, and maybe even a good laugh eventually. But women need to be on the look out for this kind of con artist, intelligent, good looking, charming and who says everything you want to hear. His contact with reality is better than most sane people I know; he is extremely talented at what he does and there are many willing victims out there who could fall prey to this kind of person. From what I can tell, he is now out of the hospital. I have no idea where he will go or what he'll do next. But according to Walter himself, he's got three racing bikes, two horses and property out in the country. Not to mention science books (to support his nuclear physicist career) and lots of gorgeous furniture...not that he cares about material possessions, as he says, he just likes nice things. In any case, I could go on and on about this character. I'm just lucky that I didn't end up being his victim. Who knows what he will move on to next!
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Tobyhanna,#3Consumer Comment
Thu, December 18, 2008
Let me see..he did not rip you off for money or possessions. He spoke nice to you and did not mistreat you. Hmmmm other than asking you for a place to stay, I cannot see what he did that deserves this type of defamation Lying is done on all dates, I have heard women tell lies much worse than that just to get money from men. I think you are just another woman scorned. "Hell hath no fury" babe.