There are many stories of love scams, which happen every day around the world, and some of them are very famous, such as "Amy's Story". Amy is a 57-year-old American woman who lost her husband to cancer. Her children grew up and left her to start their own lives, leaving Amy alone in her home in a small town in Virginia, USA.
A year after her husband's death, Amy registered on match.com, one of the earliest dating websites in the world, and met Devin, who the website's algorithm confirmed was 100% suitable for her.
Devin told her that he was of British descent (a big weakness of Americans), was born in Manchester, lived in North Hollywood, California, but was currently working in Malaysia.
In fact, after a series of messages and conversations, Amy was completely fascinated by Devin and found that he was the man of her dreams. They sent messages to each other almost constantly and talked on the phone for a long time. Amy was mesmerized by his British accent, and her infatuation grew when bouquets of roses from him began to arrive at her house, along with short, powerful messages like “My life was nothing until I met you,” and emotional songs that expressed his need for her, his love, and his yearning for her. She felt like she was living in a dream of a love she had never imagined, and that God had finally answered her prayers.
After a few weeks of passionate courtship, they agreed to meet, but he told her that he needed $8,000 to pay his employees and that he would return the money to her when he met her a week later.
Amy sent the money, but a week later he told her that the Malaysian immigration department had detained him and demanded a $10,000 bribe to immigration officials because his visa had expired, which Amy sent him.
In order not to bore the reader, in the months before she discovered the scam, Amy transferred a total of more than $300,000 to Devon, but he never met her because he encountered a “disaster” before each meeting that required more money to resolve.
