Another Poser Just Looking For Love

Operator Dan | January 10, 2011

A ‘heartless’ Facebook fraudster has been using pictures of a dead Afghan war hero to seduce a string of women he met on-line.

Under the name of ‘Dylan Sorvino’ the conman used memorial photos of handsome Sgt Roberto Sanchez, a 24-year-old Army Ranger who died in combat in 2009.

The fraudster, whose real identify has not been determined, pretended he had grown up in New York then studied law and fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Typically he would wow them with tales of battlefield glory and promise to turn up after he got back from his next tour, only he never showed.

One email he sent to Carolyn Hinz, 37, a divorcee from Minnesota read: ‘Tomorrow night is my crew’s last Iraqi patrol and we start packing up.

‘I’ve been warned by command not to discuss my departure due to national security so we have to keep this talk to a minimum.’

So you got this clown pretending to be a dead Ranger who is clearly committing fraud by pretending to be someone he is not. You would expect federal law enforcement (particularly the FBI due to the fact that this occurred across several states) to be all over it…..not.

An FBI spokesman said it would not get involved if there was no financial loss involved, as was the case here.

So the question is if the FBI didn’t do an investigation how can they know for sure no financial loss was involved? What we at TAH have found with these guys is that there is almost always some type of financial angle for these fakers. It might seem silly to some to go after people who are telling fake war stories on Facebook, but trust me there is always something more. Take Jamie January for instance. At first he seemed just like some clown who stole boot camp stories and pictures from Major Jason Grose’s blog. However, as soon I posted that story about a half dozen people either contacted Jonn or posted in the comments section that they had been defrauded by Jamie January. As a result, Jamie January is sitting in a Michigan jail on fraud charges at this moment.

Hopefully this guy gets whats coming to home, just don’t expect the FBI to help.