It is a sad state of affairs when someone vulnerable and lonely falls for a sophisticated romance scam. It is even more sad when someone who can't keep their UberEats account secure feels the need to create a thread calling the victim dumb.
What was so sophisticated about this?
She never met the person ever. Surely that's as unsophisticated as it gets?
Had they met and he had played her along and showing her how he makes money by buying stuff cheap from a source and then she sees him make £200k from a £50k investment. She then decided to also do the same and hand him the £50k as the source doesn't trust new buyers, etc that would be a much more sophisticated scam than simply sending messages over the internet?
I know someone who fell for something similar, he was an alcoholic who worked 2 jobs (one for the council in their offices) and another cash in hand (for someone I know) a desperate for money polish bird saw him as an easy target she slept with him a few times and then she started telling him that she has a kid back home and she has to send money to feed him, etc. He then starts sending her money and then this goes on for a few months then she moves back to Poland. At this point he's not getting laid and he's still sending her money. When he told me all this I was like how could you possibly fall for this, he was an intelligent bloke but obviously mentally unstable and desperate and he played right into her hands.
This 100%, men are even worse with the 'Thai bride' brigade, someone I knew 'fell in love' with one, cost him over £10k to get her into the country and she has since fired out a litter of kids for him, had to laugh as when she came over for a 2 week visit he literally toured the country taking pictures to try and make it look like he had been in a relationship with her for years.
He had to do that to convince the authorities they had been seeing each other for years and it was a love marriage.
It's in the human rights act you cannot deny love to anyone so all these immigration policies don't mean squat and a lot of people have been playing the system through either money marriages, scam marriages or family / connection marriages.
Pakistani community does it a lot as they tend to marry their cousins so they get their daughters married off to cousins from back home. They keep doing this until the whole family is now over here as they cannot get over through other means.
At least the Thai bride has intentions of staying with him and seems like love if she's popped out several kids.
She could have after she got her green card said bye and gone off to do her own thing.
