Anatomy of an Alleged Con Artist Performance by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

As a preface I was on the dating website ZOOSK for a few months recently. An individual whose alleged name is Susie W. Alexander got in touch with me via my email address.  My first contact is dated October 15, 2020. She sent three pictures that she alleged were of her and perhaps her daughter. She told me a good bit about  herself before things started looking like a con artist performance on November 2 – 4, 2020. I think the pictures she sent to me were probably stock online catalog pictures or were staged to show a good looking and affluent individual and perhaps her daughter.

In her emails she alleged that her mother was Danish, and her dad was from Saxony, a state in Germany. She stated that she adored her father, and he was a somewhat famous civil engineer. She relayed the information that her father worked on the bridge-tunnel system over and under the Baltic Sea from Copenhagen, Denmark to a town in Sweden. She also said that she was a civil engineer. She made the remark that she grew-up in Germany then went to the United Kingdom for further schooling. She said that while working in Australia she met her only child’s father. The father, her husband, supposedly died of leukemia around five years ago.

Supposedly in early November Susie made a business junket from New York City to Cape Town, South Africa. On the flight over to South Africa and two-thirds of her luggage, two bags, turned up missing. That means four bags arrived intact and contained a cash stash to pay her construction day workers. The two missing bags contained expensive electronics including a smartphone and laptop. She emailed me asking that I pay for replacement electronics until her next payday. At that point I knew that perhaps Susie was a con artist and I had been targeted to be played like an out-of-tune violin.

Since the Susie episode I have been online accosted by a Lisa from allegedly Bristol, Tennessee (or Virginia). This Lisa character wants me to join a website with pornographic images of probably underage and perhaps sexually trafficked females. I have stated negatively twice to Lisa about logging onto the website. I now believe that Lisa is perhaps a pornographic bot that a hacker or law enforcement hacker created to legally, but unconstitutionally, entrap me.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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