It's a personal gmail account - how would that get full unless he got spammed?
I agree, he's starting to look like a scam of some sort. I think I got lulled into a false sense of comfort by our video chats - I mean, I was talking to him in real time, could see that his apartment was clearly a single guy's apartment and could see his childhood bedroom when he was at his folks for Xmas - so those parts of the story checked out.
But I totally agree with you about meeting people IRL sooner rather than later. I bent that rule with him because for a long time I didn't actually think it would be a good idea to meet him at all. Never again.