KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City police are seeking victims of a man who they said told women he loved them and wanted to marry them, and then took off with their money.

Prosecutors charged Jerome S. Sternlieb, 74. It wasn't immediately clear what charges they filed against him.

He defrauded at least four women, according to police, and police said they believe he may have scammed others.

Investigators want any women who believe they were victims to call Detective Randall Rund at 816-437-6260 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

Sternlieb often used an alias with the first name of Michael and last name of Salerno, Kane, Lanelli, Roberts or Warren, according to police.

In February, a 60-year-old woman who had met Sternlieb through a telephone dating service contacted police and told them that Sternlieb spent the night with her, and when she woke up, Sternlieb, her checks and her rental car were gone, according to investigators.

"It's not a whole lot different than armed robbery, except he uses his mouth instead of a gun," one of his victims, who wished to remain anonymous, told KCTV5's Amy Anderson.

The other victims, whom Sternlieb also met through a telephone dating service, cashed bad checks for Sternlieb, according to police. Sternlieb told the women that he loved them and wanted to marry them, according to police.

He claimed to have been an attorney who was new in town and had not yet opened a bank account, according to police. Sternlieb was actually a convicted felon on parole for forgery and stealing. He'd escaped from a halfway house in downtown Kansas City, according to police.

Sternlieb gave the women checks he said were from his clients and asked them to cash the checks for him.

Police arrested Sternlieb on June 13 after a woman who had met him for a date at a restaurant called them and said he seemed suspicious. Detectives figured out that the man she met, who called himself Michael Salerno, was Sternlieb, so they staked out the restaurant and took him into custody there.

Prosecutors in Platte County, Mo., filed charges against him, and he was being held on $50,000 bond. More criminal charges could be filed against him in Kansas City and Johnson County, Kan., according to police.