A few years ago, I was active in an another online forum. This “guy” named Valyn routinely posted about how hard his life was. He had a blog, but needed to keep changing the url because “his” “dad” was abusive and kept locating him.

Valyn had autism and cancer. He was so sick, he could never leave his house. People felt sorry for him and ordered food to have it delivered to his house.

He described himself as tall with long black hair. He was Greek with an olive complexion. Oh and he had violet eyes.

He conned so many kind people. A prominent writer fell hard for him. She’s the one who discovered “he” was actually a middle aged woman.