Man With High-Pitched Voice Pretends To Be Model
A 24-year-old in a motel room in Texas used the internets and his squeaky voice to e-and-phone date men posing as model Bree Condon. Police found him with an iPhone and a small dog that were gifts from his suitors.
Justin Brown had put up a profile on SeekingMillionaire.com, pretending to be Condon and loaded with pictures of her. Condon was, according to the profile "just looking for Mr. Right." The LA Times reports that many men who responded were drawn into an internet and phone relationship with Justin, who they thought was Bree. One man, a doctor in Miami, sent Justin/Bree as much as $15,000.
The fraud came to light when the real Condon hired a private investigator. "We think there are a lot of other [duped] guys out there. How many, I don't know," Austin police detective Carl Satterlee told the LAT. The paper did some digging into online postings to see if they could find out:
Postings over the last two years on the website Who's Dated Who hint at the number of men who may have been scammed. After the site authors listed both actor Colin Farrell and professional basketball player Marko Jaric as dating Condon, a visitor calling himself Michael Curry wrote, "love the gossip but bree and i have been dating for months.
Um, sorry Michael. You were whacking off with a man called Justin who just sounded like a girl.