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SITREP (which Rocket123 asked for) on my earlier post in here that others advised me on:

Posted by: accountant_4_Jesus (a.k.a ) on Oct 03, 21:53

Everyone who said that it was a scam is right. Following are the giveaways which are more than coincidences:

I asked her for her password for her email address, she claims to have forgotten it.

I asked her for a scanned copy of the front page of her passport, she said that she left her passport with the agent who booked the flight for her to scan and send to me, then she claims the agent went to the hospital (and is now nowhere to be found), and so she has lost her Australian passport (leaving me no way of identifying her).

She claimed to have a 40kg bar of gold that her grandmother had bought a while ago that she was planning to bring into the country to buy a house for herself, pay me back, etc (which she asked me to send her money so she could send here), and I told her 2 weeks ago to sell it, and she flatly refused; now because I haven't been sending any money to her she suddenly decides to "sell" it, and is suddenly "beaten and robbed" and "in the hospital" now.

I asked her to go around to the churches and ask for either a job or food, and she claims that all the churches in the area said they wouldn't give her any food (now I don't know about you, but any church that claimed to be a Christian one and refused to give someone food when they needed it definitely isn't a Christian one, either that or she's making up stories).

She claims that before she was "robbed", the hospital over there refused to treat her because she wasn't paying her bills. Now, any hospital that does that is absolutely atrocious and should be shut down anyway because it's of no use whatsoever, because nobody would be treated there.

Shortly after I'd started talking to her, because she wasn't really talking that much, I asked her if she thought I was boring, and she said yes. But then maybe 2 weeks later she started sending me love letters (ugh).

And probably the big giveaway: She originally gave me an address in the UK that she was living in (which I didn't remember she had done until after I posted on here and people questioned her story).

(For those of you who said that it could've been a man, you are wrong in that regard. I spoke to her on the phone 3 times, and she was definitely a female.)

So yes, I was scammed. But, I've learned my lesson, and now I can share my story with others so they won't suffer the same fate.

SITREP (which Rocket123 asked for) on my earlier post in here that others advised me on: accountant_4_Jesus Oct 03, 21:53

Did you actually send her money? A lot? {nm} HarryWarden Oct 03, 22:25

Yes, regretfully. accountant_4_Jesus Oct 03, 22:37

Your heart was in the right place, even though your head was not. People smarter than you have been taken for more, due to their kindness. {nm} PrezBO Oct 03, 23:20

Indeed they have. It's a horrible kind of scam that exploits our best quality, compassion. Jane_Citizen Oct 04, 17:29

I'm able to be philosophical about a lot of things because of my relationship with God. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Oct 04, 23:54

It's actually ironic, because for ages I thought "How could someone get sucked in like that?"... But now I know. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Oct 04, 23:54

I missed a lot. My biz partner had an employee from his old job that got suckered into this same thing. lobogotti Oct 04, 10:32

Now that you mention that, something similar happened to a friend of mine. Her fiance borrowed $5K from her dad for a down payment (con't) PrezBO Oct 04, 19:27

I'd heard of things like that before. That still happens here in Aus every so often. {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Oct 04, 23:56

that is insane. i have a couple scam horror stories in my day as well. {nm} lobogotti Oct 05, 05:15