I am a victim of the Nigerian Scam that has been seen on Dateline.  It started the first of September 2007 and just ended a few weeks ago. I don't know how they chose this small town in Georgia but they did. This was the most handsome man I've ever seen on _.com.  I chose to e-mail him and he responded back immediately. He took his time answering the questions the site has you send the other person so we e-mailed a few times on this site.  But after the fourth time, he wanted me to e-mail him to his personal address on yahoo or hotmail and gave me his cell phone number in London. I waited a few weeks before I did that because I was not comfortable with that idea. I noticed his picture had disappeared and a newer one showed up. I e-mailed him to see if that was the same person and he said he had to change it because some young girl was harassing him and that there were a lot of weirdos out there. He claimed to be a civil engineer contractor who did work for a German Company overseas and that he traveled all the time. He said he was half German and even gave me the name of the company he did work for.  He claimed to have moved to this small town a few years back because his father died and he was taking care of the place. Whenever I asked him the address or his phone number here, he would change the subject or say we'd talk about that later. He claimed to have a mother and son in Utah and wanted to move them here when the time was right.  He claimed to have been divorced since 2000 and said his wife cheated on him, so I could relate.  Anyhow, he shared the same dreams I had and sent the most romantic e-mails I've ever seen in my life. He would not call on the phone very much and I thought it was because of his thick accent. I later on realized it was not German, but Nigerian. He also had me sign up for Skype and we were on line early morning before work, during work, and into the wee hours of the morning.  He had reeled me in hook, line, and sinker. Things changed when he suddenly had to do business with Chevron (so he said) and had to travel to Nigeria. Four days later we were on line and he didn't come right out and tell me but he had been robbed and everything was stolen. He needed some help to get to the American Embassy and said he'd have to fly to another city to get there. I kept asking him why couldn't he get the people he had been doing business with to help him or his family.  He said his mom had traveled to Germany and couldn't be reached and that he was suspicious of the business people and that the country was disorganized over there.  I gave him a number to call to get help and he said he'd called them and was in safe hands and in the hospital but wasn't allowed to call me until they checked his information out.  We were supposed to have met two days later. So I did try to send some money but it never worked. Western Union does not allow money to be sent to that country. He told me who to use and how to do it.  That was a red flag. He'd obviously been through this before. So I did send some using Money Gram and it did make it, but when he called that morning and needed the correct name I used to send it, he forgot that I had already provided him that information. I called the 1-800 number on the back of my receipt and a man with the same accent answered and said I needed to cancel the transaction. Luckily, I did and I never heard from him since.  So I was definitely heartbroken by someone I thought was who they said they were. It's an emotional scar you carry for awhile if you began to have strong feelings for the person on the other end. It makes you distrust, that's for sure.

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