I will personally not even send 5 dollars to someone I met over the internet—even if that is to save him from being assassinated.I do not understand why some mature men and women continue to fall for online conmen/women by sending thousands of cash to them.
But then again, the word LOVE does a lot—the moment it sets in, it suspends your thinking faculty.
We must all read and learn from this woman’s story. Never send any cash to anyone you do not know personally—that is my motto!
According to MailOnline;
Kathleen Fortun snapped shut her suitcase and headed for her front door. With passport in hand and butterflies in her stomach, she jumped into a taxi to begin a journey to Gatwick Airport that would end in Los Angeles – and the arms of her new love.
Eagerly anticipating her arrival was Colonel Richard Allman, a 61-year-old military official in the U.S. Army.
Handsome, educated and eloquent, the distinguished soldier had exchanged hundreds of heartfelt emails with the lonely 68-year-old British divorcee since they were matched on a dating website five months earlier. So desperate was her paramour to lay eyes on his new love that he had insisted on booking her plane ticket so they could meet face to face.
Imagine her confusion, then, when Kathleen, a retired secretary, arrived at British Airway’s booking office in December 2012 to discover staff had no record of a ticket in her name – for that day, or any other.
‘I felt rising panic and then a deep, sick feeling settled inside,’ recalls Kathleen. ‘I went home, picked up my iPad, which had all my emails on it, and headed for the police station.’
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