Ryan McClintock (aka SweetRyan) reached out to me via Zoosk.  He had one photo, claimed to be widow with a child at home, not a whole of info on the Profile.  Once I had responded, he wanted to get to phone #s immediately.  I was OK with that and we started texting what I would call normal conversational type texts.  Told me he had an 8 yr old girl, wife was killed in car accident 4 years prior - sent me a couple of photos with both him and daughter (he was handsome, a little rough around the edges - blue collarish; little girl was blond named Selene).  Claimed he hadn't really been dating, hard to under circumstances and was looking for something 'more', not just a casual type relationship.  He was very complimentary and told me he wanted to be in a relationship with me right away.  Red flag #1 immediately since we hadn't even spoken to each other, yet.  He was quick to say then let's speak.  Red flag #2, he had a strong accent - said he grew up in S. Africa (father was S. African and mother was American) - now lives in Atlanta (previously lived in New York and China and has travelled to many other places).  Red flag #3 - Phone reception was horrible - kept getting disconnected.  I was like, we're both in big US cities, not likely this should be happening.  Ref flag #4 - asked if he was on Facebook, wanted to see more of who he was - we friended each other and he had very little content about himself and no photos.  I asked him about that, he said he had to remove them, it was a long story.  I told him I was skeptical - he wanted to continue and said 'time will tell'.  I continued on as normal, but with my guard up.  He asked if I like poems and wanted my e-mail address so he could send me one he wrote.  I did and he did (don't know if he wrote it or not, but he claimed he did).  Sending sweet texts and 'poems', a photo here and there (not many though I kept asking him to send me more), would say 'soon'.  He slipped up one day and send me a photo of his privates with half a face in the shot (I say a face because it was NOT his face / the face of the man I thought I was talking to).  I called him out, he kept insisting it was him.  I knew better.  I asked him to verify who he was by sending me a selfie with my photo in the background.  It was an easy solution, I sent him one in good faith and it took not even a minute to do.  I said I will not continue if he could not do this for me.  If he was who he said he was and he really wanted to move forward with me and alleviate my concern he would have done it.  He made up an excuse and said he could, but he'd rather meet me in person (yeah right). I have read about too many catfish stories and saw where this was going and ended communication right then.  Did reverse searches for name, photos, phone #, e-mail address, facebook page (which he removed) and could not find anything for any of them.