Sterling Scott still scamming

We’ve been writing about Sterling Scott since December, 2014 when he pretended to be an Army Sergeant Major to defraud the Coast Guard Mutual Assistance Program. In December, 2015, he was sentenced to ten months in jail after the judge caught him lying to the court. Well, according to Virginian-Pilot, he’s back at it, this time using his daughter and GoFundMe;

Sterling Scott’s “daughter” has horrible luck.

She’s been badly injured in a car crash in South Korea, left brain dead in a wreck in Mexico and killed in an accident in Texas, to name a few of the tragedies.

But don’t feel bad for the young girl Scott is hugging in an old photo federal agents found on an online fundraising page set up to help the former soldier pay medical bills.

The girl, the daughter of Scott’s ex-wife, is fine. And the stories he — or at least someone claiming to be him — keeps telling about the child are at the center of a new federal investigation.

He’s on his way back to US District Court, but he claims he’s innocent;

In phone interviews, text messages and emails the past two months, Scott told The Pilot he was not behind the GoFundMe page. He claimed his email and Facebook accounts were hacked.

“Somebody set me up,” Scott said. “I didn’t receive a dime from anyone and didn’t want to receive a dime from anyone.”

He offered a similar defense June 12 when confronted by Bissette about calls to the Nebraska charity. He said he lost his phone the month before and believed someone was trying to frame him.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? That’s the same excuse we hear almost every time we come across a pretender on the internet. I’m guessing there’s a “Poser-ism for Dummies” guide out there, because they all seem to have a copy of it.

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