Charles proceeded to tell me that he was an American Nigerian residing in Las Vegas and an employee of Exxon Mobile oil & gas Company. I told Charles that I was a Canadian Liberian residing in BC. His messages kept coming one after the other but I quickly ended the chat. The next morning , I got more messages from Charles stating that he lost his wife during surgery and he was a single father with two kids. He even sent me a picture of them. I expressed my condolences, ended the chat and thought we were done but the messages kept coming. Finally, Charles told me that he loved me and was looking for a relationship. I told him I wasn’t interested many times but he wouldn’t take no for an answer. Within a month or so, our conservation grew longer and a relationship established. One morning in January of 2023, Charles informed me that he was travelling to Australia for work and would be back in the USA in three weeks. We kept in touch via text messages and video calls. At the end of the 3 weeks, Charles told me his time in Australia was extended to 6 weeks in order to complete his job. He also promised to visit me in Canada right after his returned to the United States. Communications lines were still opened. We would talk about 3 or 4 times a day. Everything was fine, Charles mother and kids in Nigeria were also in touch with me, he was also introduced to my mother and they both communicated regularly. I thought things were fine until Charles called and said he needed help. His work has extended his time in Australia again, as a supervisor on the job he couldn’t leave, the money he sent his family in Nigeria was all spent, he could not send more money because he was in a remote area, his children will be kicked out of school and he asked me to help send $1,000 via Western Union or if I provided him with my bank information he would transfer the money to my account and have me sent it to his family. I initially refused to send any money but the constant cry from his children about not having food to eat broke my heart and I did send some money . Charles and I were still communicating till March. As a matter of fact, he told me that he wanted us to travel to Norway where he would meet my parents and ask for my hand in Marriage. I was excited and shared the news with my sisters Lucia and Joan. We started planning but also decided to do a thorough background search on Charles. My mother too decided to pray that God will reveal Charles to us. On March 13, 2023, my sister Lucia called me and said that she discovered that Charles Vincent was her friend on Instagram but he had a different name: "Christian Frank." I was shocked, alarm bells went off immediately. Lucia screened shot the Instagram page and sent it to me. I confirm that it was Charles but the fact he had a different name was confusing. Lucia then reached out to our sister Joan and the three of us started the search for answers. Earlier that day, I spoke to Charles who was still in Australia but his latest post on Instagram said he was in Maryland. Why would he lie about his name and location I wondered. So the search led us back to Facebook where we found more pictures of Christian Frank and we compared them to Charles photos and we discovered that the pictures were identical. We found few videos of Christian Frank and analyzed the voice in the video with the voice message from Charles Vincent. Unfortunately, the voices did not match. There was a huge difference in the accent. Finally Lucia decided to reach out to Christian Frank who informed her that his photos / identity were used in romance scams. I confronted Charles Vincent about my findings. Charles apologized, he begged for forgiveness, the relationship ended and I’m left with a story to tell.