He targeted wealthy; smart women – doctors, lawyers, authors. For each online conversation, he took on a new persona that offered him a challenge in conquering women. One doctor for example, believed he was a cardiologist! There are none so blind….

He claimed to be an agent. And he seemed wonderful: kind, successful, a man of the world. Was meeting this man on America Online the beginning of a romance? Excited, I wondered if the time had come to fall in love again. A few days after our first conversation, I gave him my phone number. He followed up by sending a $100 bouquet of flowers. That began a whirlwind, nine-day romance, filled with phone and e-mail flirtation … and then POOF!!

My excitement turned to astonishment the day I received a call from a police detective. Turns out, Mr. Wonderful was a notorious con artist. He was wanted for a minimum of eight counts of bigamy and fraud for bilking millions of dollars in life savings from scores of women. When the police caught up with him in Chicago and went through his records, they realized I was his next target.

I knew him as Andrew Farr-Condon, but he goes by many other names. He’s been hunting women for 30 years. But about a year ago, he discovered cyberspace –