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Despite Resembling Troll, Dating Site Grifter Got Women to Send Him Big Bucks
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 29, 2010
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Ladies, pay no attention to this unflattering mugshot. (The lighting makes his neck look fat!) 57-year-old Solomon Nasser is quite the catch: He is a multi-millionaire with a private jet, he graduated with a PhD from MIT at age 22, he was a former CIA agent and advisor to President Bush, as well as a Navy admiral and an inventor with 80 patents. And look at that lush head of hair! Some lucky young lady's going to snatch him up any second unless you act now and help him out of his messy divorce. He just needs $125,000 or so. Any takers?
He has already received over $100K from two women he met on dating websites Match.com and Plentyoffish.com. Nasser—who in real life is not a millionaire genius inventor CIA spook, but just some guy who lives with his wife in Hastings-on-Hudson and drives a crappy Nissan—allegedly told the women he was divorcing his wife and his assets were frozen, so he needed loans. "He was totally convincing," one virtual paramour tells CBS2. "I want him stopped. Now I've learned you can't loan money to people. You really can't trust anyone." So cynical—next she'll tell us the Tooth Fairy's fake.
One woman gave him $115,000, and a second woman gave him $25,000. But he never did leave his wife and whisk them away on his private jet. And now he's charged with grand larceny and fraud, and faces up to 15 years in prison. And who knows how many other broken, disillusioned hearts lay in his wake?
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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