Thanks for all of your posts.  I met the person at an internet site. I did not get a random  e-mail from him first.  Things were going good because he is alledgedly from the USA so I thought he was harmless.  Well after a couple of e-mails back and forth he gave me this cock and bull story about a girlfriend dying.....blah, blah

So I got suspious of him, that is why I wanted to know about scams.

Thanks again.