Romance scams are a real bump in anyone's life. It means the loss of money and valuable possessions. But most importantly, it means great emotional loss.
It's like a part of you is gone or torn away.
A friend of mine described her scam experience as being worse than the gang rape experience she had when she was a teenager. Another one said her experience was worse than losing a dearly loved one.
Many people who have experienced romance scams felt like dying immediately after their experience. Not a few of them lost their mortgage because they couldn't meet up with payments again after being scammed.
Well, let's fast forward the action to about eight months later, and what do we see? Most of these same set of people who were so forlorn then, are either married, or are about to get married. Most have found themselves in a new relationship.
They were able to find true love again after their sad experience.
Even the die-hards amongst them, who swore never to love again, are singing a different song now. They have found out that there is love after a romance scam.
A scam is a temporary stop to life, not a permanent one. It’s just like a bump on your way. Bumps are speed breakers on the road, they should not stop anyone from getting to where they want to.
My word of encouragement to everyone who has gone through this sad experience is that they should realise that after thunder comes rain. Their sad experience will soon go away and they will soon heal, especially as they interact with people with similar experiences.
With time, they will find love again after experiencing a romance scam. I'm not saying it's that easy, but it's what I've seen over and over again happening to many people.
Alan Prince has counselled and helped many victims of romance scams in recovering from their experiences.He has also encouraged many of them to find true love again.Read more about his work at http://www.elovedeceptions.com.You can also read his blog on http://www.romancescams.blogspot.com
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Welcome to My Blog-yours and mine
Hi.I am Alan Prince,author of the book “Internet Love Deceptions–how you can avoid romance scams from Nigeria and elsewhere.” It’s available on www.elovedeceptions.com. I also collaborated in writing the book “Cyber Love’s Illusions”.
You are very much welcome to my blog.It’s place for you and I to share our thots and feelings on the issue of romance scams.
More and more people are being affected by these scams by the day. It’s causing many people avoidable problems.
Some of the people I have met in the course of my research and interactions on this subject have lost their homes because they couldn’t pay their mortgages any longer.They lost heavy amounts to the scammers and were defaulting on the mortgage payments.
Some have lost their life savings amounting to several thousands of dollars. Some others lost their valuable property and some others got into trouble with the law.
And to add to the material losses, all have been hurt or wounded emotionally.The worst experiences have been the emotional trauma that these scammers have put them through.
This site is a place for people to learn and share their experiences.It’s not about selling a book.It’s about sharing information that could help people involved with these scams to know the truth.
If you and I can help someone from losing their money and their heart to a scammer, just by the information that we share here,then the blog is being useful and helpful.
That’s what this is about.
Feel free to vent your thots here and let me know what you think.
Hope you have a good time.
Alan
You are very much welcome to my blog.It’s place for you and I to share our thots and feelings on the issue of romance scams.
More and more people are being affected by these scams by the day. It’s causing many people avoidable problems.
Some of the people I have met in the course of my research and interactions on this subject have lost their homes because they couldn’t pay their mortgages any longer.They lost heavy amounts to the scammers and were defaulting on the mortgage payments.
Some have lost their life savings amounting to several thousands of dollars. Some others lost their valuable property and some others got into trouble with the law.
And to add to the material losses, all have been hurt or wounded emotionally.The worst experiences have been the emotional trauma that these scammers have put them through.
This site is a place for people to learn and share their experiences.It’s not about selling a book.It’s about sharing information that could help people involved with these scams to know the truth.
If you and I can help someone from losing their money and their heart to a scammer, just by the information that we share here,then the blog is being useful and helpful.
That’s what this is about.
Feel free to vent your thots here and let me know what you think.
Hope you have a good time.
Alan
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