How a supposedly intellegent person can get themselves in to such a situation. Every site I have ever been on warns of scammers. The news media is full of stories and warnings of all types of scams. Yet this supposedly intellegent man made national headlines.

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By Maria Danilova http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45329512

updated 11/16/2011 5:39:56 PM ET 2011-11-16T22:39:56
+-KIEV, Ukraine — The former write-in candidate for Arizona governor traveled to Ukraine looking for love. He ended up hungry and sick in a homeless shelter — the victim of an Internet dating scam.

Social workers were stunned to find Cary Dolego, 53, sitting on a city street last Wednesday, behaving strangely and suffering from pneumonia.

Dolego, who ran for Arizona governor just last year, had traveled to Ukraine this spring to do research for an engineering project and look for a wife. He says he met a woman named Yulia online and, hoping to marry her, went to her hometown of Chernivtsi.

She never showed up.

With nowhere to go and no money left, Dolego spent days roaming the streets of Chernivtsi along with other homeless men until he was picked up by social workers and taken to a shelter. He spoke to The Associated Press by phone Wednesday from a hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia.


"I was looking for a Ukrainian mate, a partner, somebody who would stay with me, be my wife," Dolego said. "All the Slavic ladies in this part of the world are absolutely delightful."

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Social workers were shocked.

"He looked bad — his clothes were dirty, he was dirty, he looked like a typical homeless man," said Anastasia Beridze of the Narodna Dopomoha (People's Help) charity.

A woman who acknowledges being Yulia says she had been unaware of Dolego's existence during the Internet fling.

The woman, who declined to give her last name out of fear of attracting publicity, said in an interview with the AP that someone had hacked into her account on an Internet dating site and had been communicating with Dolego on her behalf, charging Dolego for those e-mails.

The woman, who was contacted through a mobile phone number provided by Dolego, acknowledged that the account he'd been interacting with on the site was hers. She denied being part of any scam. "What happened is ugly," she said.

Yulia, a 29-year-old doctor by training, said that after she found out what happened to Dolego, she paid him a visit to express her sympathy.

"I went to the hospital and he started hugging me: 'Oh Yulia, oh Yulia!' I was shocked," she said. "He thought we were getting married."

Dolego confirmed that she visited him and he believes they could still be together.

"We seemed to hit it off," Dolego said. "She wants to continue with the relationship."

Yulia has a different take. "He is not really my type," she said.

Before his Ukrainian adventure, Dolego, of Queen Creek, Arizona, says he was pursuing a bachelor's degree in organizational studies at the University of Arizona.

Passionate about engineering, he claims to have designed a "lifesaving" method to keep ships from sinking and aircraft from disintegrating during a crash. He says he sold his house, truck and motorbike and left for Ukraine to further study the method here.

But Dolego, a twice divorced father of three, also had another goal — finding love with a beautiful East European woman.

After finding no support for his project in various Ukrainian cities and being evicted from a room he was renting, he said he boarded a train to Chernivtsi, hoping finally to meet his Yulia and settle down.

he arrived, Yulia stopped answering his e-mails. With his U.S. bank account frozen and no means of supporting himself, he said, he became a homeless man. He was reduced to sleeping on the streets and seeking shelter at a local railway station, according to social workers.

"Things befall people that they cannot predict," Dolego said. "I will work through it."

Beridze said that besides being understandably worn out and ill after days of living on the streets, Dolego was exhibiting abnormal behavior. "He talks a lot and gestures a lot. He is acting strangely."

Beridze's group has contacted the U.S. Embassy in Kiev and is planning to buy Dolego a train ticket to Kiev, the capital, from where he could fly back to the United States. The U.S. Embassy declined to comment, citing the Privacy Act.

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On one side of the coin I feel a tad bit sad for him, getting ill and having no where to go. Yet on the other side of the coin, sheesh what was he thinking? Was he really that desperate? And even after the one woman visited him, he sounds off his rocker. I know that delusion could be in part becuase of dehydration and the pneumonia, but it sounds like he was missing a few cards in the deck from the begining.

The really sad part about this to me is that I know of at least 4 people personally who have done this very thing and came back with wives and happy marriages. With all of this happening though these days it would be very hard to trust without a lot of research.

Probably for the best dat he wasnt elected Governor so ! :D

If I could add this as well. I think guys should be looking for the signs to tip them off. If money is brought up within a short period of time you can almost bank on a scam in the works.

Mega amounts of research. I think that your 4 people were very lucky indeed. Mostly lucky in their happy marriages. That alone is a very rare occurances.

I can't understand how people fall for things like this. I'm sure all of us have received emails from people on sites like this, where they live in another country and are looking for marriage. The first red flag would be that they're looking for marriage right away or even discussing it before meeting!

However, for some people, it seems they have no common sense whatsoever.

Plus it was over 5 years ago and I think the scamming has really come on strong in the last few.

Yes, once something is seen to be a good thing, there are folks out there just waiting to form a new con/scam and ruin it.

Well this is a very big thing for many business men, but I think the channels used these days are probably pretty corrupt.

I'm still a strong supporter of foreign marriages.

That's exactly what has happened.

I guess I am lucky that I am poor and not a business man.

But you have nice feathers.

Dolego's escapade is definitely going to catapult him into the Governor's job next election. After all, he has now international experience, he became well-travelled, and he feels the plight of the poor, which poor will soon form the largest voting block in every upcoming US election in the future.

Erm... if anyone you know is thinking about researching love with beautiful East European women... erm... please tell them that I am a well-trained research scientist.

Probably true. I was just about to go back and add, being a businessman no longer means well to do.

Thank you, I am trying to keep them nice, rough time of year for us turkeys.

Yep, I heard it's pretty cut throat out there.

Still, deciding to get married before even meeting is a bad idea. Anyone who falls for something like that is not thinking clearly or using any common sense.

someone probably stole her photo off the net & created a fake account

I doubt a physician really has time or need for dating scams

what I don't understand is why his bank account was frozen? Either he was in the red or or there had been suspicious activity on the account that he had not confirmed with them

because the obvious solution would be to simply come home - something else is wrong there because he was supposed to be working on funded research. so he apparently had an income. so there is more to the story - I'm sure

Just a little side note about the frozen bank account, Because of all the stolen credit cards, now a days if you are planning to use your card even in another state, you have to call the card company and let them know you are going to be using the card out of town. I had my card numbers hijacked from a "reliable, safe" site and the next day there were transactions from Oregon and Alabama with in hours of each other. A credit card monitering company called me and told me that they were going to freeze my account. I OK'ed it. If this guy was unreachable in another country they might not be able to reach him.