The scammer initiated contact.
He sent me an email on match.
We corresponded for nearly 3 months.
He asked for my address to use for a transaction to keep his name out of it. I caught on when an investor certificate was sent to me with the names of rich (and some dead) Canadian philanthropists.
No money was requested. I caught on in time thanks to other women who had posted on this website. Thank you!!!
No money exchanged hands.
I accused him of being a scammer and demanded proof of identity. He sent me a .jpg of the picture page of his passport. I asked how the elaborate plot of the past several months (mothery dying in Italy, Bain Investments, etc.) could have been on the Internet several years before he told me the story. He claimed his email had been hacked. He kept calling, but I stopped answering.