This is not the first year that Internet users have been surprised by the bad luck of a man who made radical personality changes in order to meet his former soulmate again. However, the girl revealed the deception. We decided to check if this story is real.

According to numerous posts on social networks and on various websites, the hero of the plot is 40-year-old James Mack. It’s not clear exactly where he came from: either from London, or from Australia. Online publications report that he was sentenced to six months in prison for stalking his ex-girlfriend. girls, or wives, and after his release, Mack was forbidden to approach her. However, he found a way out: he had plastic surgery, changed his first and last name, and started a relationship with his passion again, seeming to be a different person. Usually the story ends with the girl simply dumping Mac, saying that he looks like her past boyfriend. But meets and an extended version, when she declassifies the past of her new boyfriend thanks to old documents, after which the man is arrested. The posts are accompanied by two photos that allegedly show James before and after surgery.

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The primary source of the news is the World News Daily Report (WNDR) website, where the publication appeared no later than December 2018. Below is a complete translation of the original text.

A New Jersey man who went to great lengths to win back his ex-girlfriend despite a restraining order was arrested this morning after his scheme was uncovered.

40-year-old James Mack from Camden (there is one in London district Camden, and in Australia city under the same name, but the text refers to the USA. — Approx. ed.) was sentenced to six months in prison in 2017 for stalking his former lover, but the sentence clearly did not calm him down. And although the court forbade him from contacting or approaching his ex, Mac began an extreme transformation in order to violate the ban without consequences. He legally changed his name to Jason Monroe, had 37 plastic surgeries to change his appearance, and even had major surgery on his vocal cords to change his voice.
According to Sarah Lopez, Mac's ex-girlfriend, she had no idea it was him when she met him at the gym. “I just saw a handsome guy who had exactly the same tastes as me in terms of music, movies, food - everything. It was like he was sent from heaven. It was like a gift from life to compensate for everything I had been through,” she said.
Miss Franklin says everything was fine for a few weeks, but gradually she began to feel that something was wrong with her new boyfriend: “Sometimes I felt like he knew too much about me, my family and my friends. And this morning he accidentally let slip about when we first met, and I realized who he really was.” As soon as Sarah recognized him, she called the police, but he ran away. The man was eventually arrested less than 30 minutes later while hiding in the bushes a few blocks away.
Monroe is in custody for violating the restraining order, but may face more criminal charges. James Mack already faces up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000, but could also face harassment charges, according to the Camden County Police Department.

As our regular readers may remember, WNDR is a well-known satirical site, meaning all the stories there are made up. You can verify the satirical nature of the resource by reading slogan publications “Where facts don’t matter” (“Here facts don’t matter”) and disclaimer: “WNDR takes full responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictitious nature of their content. All characters appearing in the texts on this site are entirely fictitious, even if based on real people, and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is a mere miracle.”

In the photo collage that illustrated the plot, there are actually two different people. A photo allegedly showing James Mack after surgery appeared in an article in the publication Men's Journal: It shows a man who underwent surgery to change his jaw.

The “before surgery” photo shows a man who has undergone rhinoplasty. The photo is posted on website Dr. Parfitt Facial Plastic Surgery Center.

In addition, the WNDR material also contains a photo that allegedly shows the heroine of the story, Sarah. According to the caption, she was 34 years old and it took almost five weeks to recognize her ex. In fact, this is an ordinary stock photo that can be meet and on other sites.