about to meet c.j. grisham. he s are the soldiers whose pictures are stolen? right. hundreds all over the place. reporter: grisham is a military blogger, a master sergeant in the army who tracks the illusive impostors. they send missives to the women and make them feel special and there are instances where the scammers will send flowers and chocolates to their house shortly after they bring up the fact that they need money to be able to call them or to use the internet or, you know, i just got shot and i need this or that. there is no such persons a irwin kelley in the military. reporter: grisham says the imposters likely live in west africa, based on the e-mails he tracked. stacy chapman was never able to find her on line impostor and likely never will. i really sunk a lot into this
there are even instances where the scammers will send flowers and chocolates to their house shortly after they start bringing up the fact that they need money for to be able to call them or to use the internet or i just got shot and i need this or that. reporter: grisham says there may be thousands of victims and the impostors likely live in west africa, based on some of the e-mails he s tracked. stacy chapman was never able to fine her online impostor, and likely never will. i really sunk a lot into this man. i let my kids get sucked in by him. i put everything i had into him. reporter: what do you think about the woman who fell in love with your son s picture and profile? she wanted to marry him. well, she fell in love with a nice picture of a young man. he was worth falling in love
impostors. now the military does know about the scam but so far, nothing has been done to stop it. these are the faces of soldiers whose military photos have been stolen and posted on internet dating sites. this is specialist brian browning. his picture was also stolen and his profile completely made up. we came to a story in oregon to talk to his family because they had no idea that brian s photograph was being used by some impostor. some scumbag is using my son s good name and honor to pillage women. reporter: what s worse, the browning s son is not even around to defend himself. brian browning was killed in iraq three years ago. he was up in a guard tower. he just took a round and it killed him instantly.
ms. sherrod, but he should also apologize to the spooners, who he said the other day after seeing them on tv that they were impostors. eric, you wrote on your blog that both sides of the political aisle are engaged in a tit for tat war retribution and i get to quote, that war has casualties on both sides. ms. sherrod is the latest, it s not fair but that s how the left players and the right should fight on the offense or not fight at all. i don t get somebody who s not particularly partisan on the left or the right, i try not to view things through the lens of being liberal or being conservative. i don t get it just seems whether you re a conservative or whether you re a liberal and have a blog, it doesn t seem like the truth really matters. it s just, you say whatever you want to say, whether you re on the left or the right to prove your point, and if you re wrong, no one ever says they re wrong. no one ever seems to apologize? you re right. you know, the right is now having t
apologize to the spooners, who he said the other day after seeing them on tv that they were impostors. you wrote on your blog, eric, both sides of the political aisle are engaged in a tit for tat war retribution and i get to quote, that war has casualties on both sides. ms. sherrod is the latest, it s not fair but that s how the left fights and the right should fight or not fight at all. i try not to view things through the lens of being liberal or conservative. i don t get, it just seems like whether you re a conservative or whether you re a liberal and have a blog, it doesn t seem like the truth really matters. it s just, you say whatever you want to say, whether you re on the left or the right to prove your point, and if you re wrong, no one ever says they re wrong. no one ever seems to apologize? you re right. you know, the right is now having to deal with this conversation, and that s another conversation that needs to be had. i think the right needs to fight