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He’s in town for jury duty, his fiancée just died and it’s his birthday.

These are just a few of the stories used by a con man who has been frequenting restaurants all over Calgary, but according to wait staff, he’s lying through his unusually large moustache.

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In each case, the man — who usually gives the name Michael McDonald — has been walking out on his bill.

In Kelly Mandeville’s case, he left with her phone as he was leaving her co-workers with the tab.

She ended up seated next to him at Cannibale, where she also happens to work, on the evening of June 6.

“I was sitting right beside him,” she said. “I talked to him for about 40 minutes. I asked him a bunch of questions just to get to know him a bit.”

She said at one point in the evening, he got up to use the bathroom and never returned. Mandeville soon realized her phone had gone missing around the same time he left.

Mandeville wasn’t able to track her phone because it had been turned off, so she reached out to Calgary police.