OK, so this man is an utter timewaster but seems valid at the beginning!
His name is David m*****, hes late 50s . He sent me a photo , which could of been him or not , but the man on the photo looked like he spent his days in an institute . All the same I thought past his looks and his flappy stuttery voice (bruce forsyth like) and gave him the benefit of the doubt. My gut told me "no" from the beginning of his mails , calls etc but I'm only a month in and thought maybe I was just being over fussy or too carefull (i know i know!!) so he tells me hes booked the king room at the Sheffield Hilton, requests i find somewhere that sells some kind of champagne (?500 plus a go) he wants me from 6pm-10am 16 hours at ?1200.
Thoughtout the week bells were ringing and i tried to catch him out many times. He says hes been away all his life (this may be true but not where he thinks hes been!!!!!!!!) recently come back to the UK and has a lifetimes experience with punting, mostly in the far east and Thailand etc.
He only confirms Thursday eve, after telling me he had booked the room a week before and had some business to see to up north and he would travel down to Sheff Fri afternoon. I told him that when we met I would need to see some id and would need his room number, booking ref and full name before i even set off for the hotel. He said would a credit card or two and a port card surfice? I said that would be OK. In the afternoon yesterday I had a strong feeling something wasn't right..i called him and explained that a few things didn't add up and my safety must be formost for me, as I'm sure he understood. He explained some stuff and it didn't make me feel good. he said he was on the train to Sheff, i asked what time he arrived, what platform he needed to change at etc. I was online and looking at train times etc. He story worked out so I think he was defo on his way. He then told me that he rang the hotel in the morning and somehow they had cancelled his booking and they were also full !!!!
I told him that I could see online that the king room and many many others were available !!!!!!! he said he would just find a hotel when he arrived and didn't know why they had cancelled but hadn't bothered to question it. I asked for the booking ref , he told me his briefcase was with his other luggage in the middle of the train .... !! and he couldn't get it. I rang him 10 mins later when he was at doncastor waiting to change and demanded he gave me the ref. He gave it me and i asked what name it was booked in "Malcolm j*** s****" he said, which of course wasn't the name he had told me, he told me he had booked it a week ago , i asked which of these manes it was booked in and he said his female friend had done it online with her card as he didn't want it to show up on his own credit card. I told him then that I would not be attending the booking. He didn't seem fazed and just said "OK don't bother its OK"
I rang the hotel and enquired (cleverly) they told me the booking was made a week ago but wasn't to be paid for until he arrived and that he had cancelled it himself at 10am Friday !!!!!!!!! they confirmed the booking was in Malcolm j*** s****!!!!!!!
So as far as my gut feeling went i was right to not go, but during the week i tried so hard to catch him out...hes very clever and has an answer for everything. If it wasn't for myself and my mates detective work I would have wasted an entire night or even worse been chopped up into little bits and out into his briefcase!!!!
He has brown hair, glasses, bad sense of charity shop/80's geeky dress sense. he says hes been away abroad for years, has a flappy / stuttering voice and a slight southern accent.
I'm sure he will try to book other girls, i have his photo but not sure how or if I'm allowed to post it here. Hes on forum x with the user name "machindavid88"
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