Deborah Nelson

Oops, I Married A Con Artist, Final Episode



Posted: Friday, September 04, 2009

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Author Your Dreams

One More Time

The knock at my door on October 20, 2003 startled me. I opened it to a police officer whom Frank had corralled to come "get a jacket from my home." I was overcome with fear, and the officer had to calm me down so I could locate the restraining order. Although illegal for Frank to be within 100 yards of my house, he stood in the front yard and taunted me for hours. The con artist had cunningly applied one more legal ruse to violate the restraining order and avoid arrest-for the fourth time.

Once they understood Frank's game, police scrambled to arrest him for something-military license plates became their focus. Collaborating with the FBI, police were told not to arrest Frank for the plates. He had been in the military in1976! What? The OSI had earlier declined to arrest Frank for impersonation because they said he'd never been in the military! Finally the police gave up and wrote him a ticket for driving without a license.

Story Update

Despite documentation of fraud and impersonation of a military officer that was provided to the OSI and FBI, Frank has yet to be charged with any of these crimes. He is still not in jail. The Selective Service and United States Air Force records via the Public Information Act, verify that this man was indeed in the military (Air Force) from 1972-1976. But when I married him, he was no longer in the military and was certainly never a major.

I was able to get an annulment and was released from potential financial or criminal liability created by and during my marriage to Frank. Sophie graduated from college and has moved on to her career. I'm spending more and more time away from the city where this all happened and where Frank still lives. We are fine now, but are determined never to be duped by a con man in uniform or any other dress again. We are also determined to do everything we can to help other women avoid the pain of relationship fraud.

Red Alert

You need to know whom you fall in love with. But how can anyone really know? Should we run a background check on everyone we date? How practical is that? Over 50% of online daters present a fantasy or false persona. I don't want to fill you with such suspicion that you'll never fall in love again. But you must learn to discern the difference between your fantasy man and a real man.
 
Ms Nelson is the Inventor of Dating ID (http://www.DatingID.org) Founder of The Dating Passport (http://www.mydatingpassport.com) and nominee of the Entreprenerial Excellence Award given by WORKING WOMENS MAGAZINE and a Ms. Corporate America 2008 National Finalist.
 
Deborah S. Nelson an author/entrepreneur, is author of 7 books, her latest is entitled VROM-Vacation Rental Owner's Manual-Do it Yourself Vacation Rental Management. As a founder for Vacation Rental Guru, she is dedicated to bringing a higher standard of professionalism to the vacation rental business. If you are a vacation rental business owner, you may go to her site to get some powerful free vacation rental business tools. Http://www.VacationRentalGuru.org. And for her Dreams to Reality Series, you may go visit her site at Author Your Dreams.
Ms Nelson is a 2-time nominee of the WORKING WOMAN'S ENTREPRENEREAL Excellance award, and a 2008 National Finalist in the Ms. Corporate America Pageant. She is also the founder of Http://TheDatingPassport.com and author of  the her true story, "Oops, I Married a Con Artist!"
 
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