Met a person named Robert Anderson at SENIORPeopleMeet.com. He seemed a little needy which was a major turn-off but I agreed to be a "penpal" figuring this guy just needed to reach out to someone. His profile listed his residence as Thermal, CA. I asked where that was and he replied he moved to New York due to a better job offer (never telling me where Thermal was). He would try to reach me via IM's twice a day for about a couple of weeks but usally missed me because I have a busy schedule. However, I would reply his missed IM's as a courtesy and suggested emails. When we did chat I noticed irregularities in his typing. Instead of "oooh" he would type "hooo" and this was quite often. He would repeat questions/comments from a previous message or from earlier in the same message. In our last IM he said his daughter, Helen, wanted to chat with me. I invited him to put her on. Now I have never met these people so this seemed a bit odd. Daughter went on to say her Dad told her all about me (which couldn't have been much since I just chatted in general with Rob). Rob had mentioned he got the bid on a contract that would send him to Africa. Daughter confirmed this but said she would have rather spend the time with me (again, this is the first time I was ever in contact with the daughter) but was excited about going. She also mentioned it was around her birthday and asked what was I going to send her as a present. (Excuse me? I don't know this girl from Eve and she's asking for a gift from a total stranger?) I explained I could only send her good wishes as I was on a tight budget. She replied with "Hooo" (RED FLAG) She suggested "a little something that I should be able to get but I asked "Why me?". Then she dropped the subject. We said our good-byes and I signed off. I have not heard from Rob since. Hmmmmm. About a week ago he expressed he cared about me and had stopped going to the web site where we met, that I was his only contact. Yesterday I went to the web site to block him and saw he had logged on that same day. As far as I know, he is still with SENIORPeopleMeet.com and uses the User Name of june1958. If anyone else has "met" this guy, I suggest you keep your guard up. And beware of his 15-yr.-old daughter Helen.
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