Sounds like what happened to this more mature lady at work, bless her, she's not the sharpest tool in the box, and we all knew what the deal was way before she even started piecing it together:
She's on this dating site and meets a guy who is English, has a son, and a dog and some kind of import/export business involving jewellery. They exchange emails back and forth, he's sending her some crazy-ass declarations of love despite the fact that they have only really 'known' each other for like two nano-seconds. He's reluctant to speak to her on the phone and when he does eventually ring she thought he was trying to disguise his voice - he sounded African apparently. Anyway, all of a sudden he's off to conduct some business in the States, next thing he's claiming that his hotel room was broken into and that they stole his laptop, phone, wallet, blah blah blah and could she do him a favour and transfer some money over to him? The cheek!
Still on the same dating site she meets another fella who is English, has a son, and a dog and some kind of import/export business involving, yep you guessed it, jewellery. They exchange emails back and forth, there are more declarations, he's not so reluctant to speak on the phone however she did say he sounded German. He then starts to get all demanding and says that to build their relationship and take it to the next level she should invest in him (??!?) - he wanted her to go halves on some business idea of his.
Yet once more on the same dating site (yep, some peeps never learn), one more English dude with a son and dog and, say it along with me, some kind of import/export business involving jewellery. More emails, more insane declarations, she conversed with him via web-cam, his was conveniently busted, and naturally he sets off for a business trip to the States, not quite sure what happened next, she didn't really tell us but one can only easily imagine.
It was all very entertaining at the time - I know, that's very bad of me! Were they all the same guy? Were they completely unrelated? Or were they part of a ring of con-artists operating together? And why the same background story? Is it just because they were plain lazy? Or downright unimaginative? Ah, so many unexplained questions!
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Love is like a merry-go-round: you get all dizzy, and then you feel sick!