His name is Ben Jeffrey Sherrod. According to him, his Dad was killed by a drunk driver when he was 13. His Mom (Michele) & Brother (Michael) live in Paris. His Aunt (Lisa) lives in North Carolina where he lived before moving to Seattle.

I have met him on the BBWPersonalsPlus dating website. He supposedly lived about 40 miles from me. He works for a computer company in Seattle and had to fly to Arizona and then Lagos, Nigeria for business. He talked bad about going to Nigeria and didn't want to go. He needed money to keep his internet connection so we could talk. He didn't have a cell phone. Am I a complete idiot?!?! So, I sent money to someone in Arizona via Western Union for his internet. He got to Nigeria and wanted to send a package for me to send to a friend in Nigeria to earn some extra money. So, I let him send it to my house and I sent it to some guy in Nigeria. What a waste of money. He convinced me to buy him some flip flops and send my IPod along. I also intercepted money from someone in Massachusetts and sent it down there for him.

The news hit Friday: Honey, I didn't want to tell you. My work gave me money to come down here but I only got a one-way ticket and spent the money on my Mom's heart meds. Can you help me out so I can get back home? Bait & hook. I sent two separate money transfer orders to his friend, Jimmy Pat in Lagos. Luckily, I canceled those before they were collected.

I confronted him lat night and he gave me a guilt trip of how I could do this, etc. and how disappointed he was in me.

So, I was reading about this IP address thing. I checked the first email he sent me in which we exchanged pictures on July 17. Yep, it's from Nigeria when he was supposedly still in Seattle.

I was reading about scammers: Wow, all the warning signs were there. I even said to him during chatting "were you present for our conversation last night?" as he didn't remember what I had told him.

it’s just good that I have figured it out.. some of his personal information are as follows:
His yahoo email address is [email protected] and he chats on yahoo instant messenger as well. He also chats on Windows messenger under the same email address. His email address originally had the name "Ben H" on it but he changed it to "Ben Sherrod".

His phone number is 011-2348029990525.

His contact info for sending money to Nigeria was to Jimmy Pat, Lagos, Nigeria 23401. I sent a package to Salami Olakunle Saheed at 3 Ojileru Cresent off Beger Bus Stop in Lagos, Nigeria 23401.