Thomas Hastings

Dan's written English was rough for being a consultant, with things like misspelled words, words in the wrong order, and wrong words.

The letter had excellent English and grammar. I grew suspicious and copied a few lines from the letter and Googled it.

Almost 800 search results appeared with the words verbatim. It would appear that Dan was forwarding love letters to my mom, which he did not write.

I pulled his geographic data, showing that he was not in Washington, D.C. but in Nigeria. When my mom asked Dan about this, he ghosted her.

Thankfully, we could identify Dan as a scammer before she lost any money. Some are not so lucky.