So, I got an unusual email the other day:

Randy,

I am Mahana's husband. I thought you should know that she is not single but is married. She has filed for divorce after committing adultery but that divorce is not final. Just thought you should know.

Only it didn't say "Mahana" -- names have been changed to protect the parties involved.

Now, it came as a REPLY to the email that Paypal sends users when they pay to join Singlesaints. So this was somebody using the same email address as "Mahana", which provided further support to the claim of being her husband.

I replied with the following:

Mahana or husband,

Contact information? Divorce date? What's the story, folks? Mahana, I'll have to assume this is correct information, and will delete your account, if I don't hear back from you.

Randy

She didn't respond within 24 hours, so I deleted her account. But 24 and a half hours later, I got the following from a different email address, apparently the one the automated "You've been deleted" message was sent to:


I appreciate what you are trying to do but I wish you would have asked me about this before just cancelling my account. That email very well could have been from my ex husband, but yes my divorce is final. On the other hand it could have been from any of my ex boyfriends, since I have met a few men from this site, or just some jerk who thought it would be funny. Not cool to just cancel my account.

-Mahana


Apparently she never got my email asking for details, since she says she wished I would have asked.

Am I worried I deleted an innocent person? No, not really. She's not too vehement about getting her money back, which you'd think she would be if she felt like she'd been wronged. She didn't really even fight my decision.

My favorite part was "it could have been from any of my ex boyfriends". Girlfriend, what kind of lice are you dating?

I wrote back and said "I waited 24 hours after asking you to clarify the situation." That was yesterday; haven't heard back today. I'm thinking it's a pretty clear-cut case of pants being on fire, possibly even hanging from a telephone wire.

That makes her the third person who lied about their divorce being final in the 5 years Singlesaints has been around. Not too bad, I guess.