by belonomore
Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:35 pm
Three years ago my fiance was looking for a way to make some quick cash and he had heard about rough diamonds from a friend. I'm not sure how the first correspondence was started, but he began emailing a man from Africa. The man sent picture of rough diamonds and wanted to start doing "business". He wanted money up front to cover the shipping cost etc. and in turn my fiance would be able to sell the diamonds here in the US for thousands. I immediately thought this was a scam and tried to get B (my fiance) to see how crazy this sounded. He went ahead and sent the money. Of course something would come up that caused the diamonds to be "held up" and more money usually under $200 was needed to finish shipment. These emails were so obviously fake (horrible grammar and spelling). This continued for months then years and I really cant understand why B never stopped. I think he was so far into it that he just thought "maybe this time" or he just wanted to prove to me that all the money sent wasn't in vain. It has been 3 years and $12,000 (that I know of) later and still he is being duped. I have threatened to leave and have left, but it seems like this is some sort of addiction now, that even I am no match to. This has ruined our otherwise wonderful relationship. Once, I made it clear that i wanted this to stop, he started creating new email accounts and hiding it all from me. The man that I once looked at as "the man of my dreams" now seems so gullible and weak. I have slowly lost all trust and he has made this a priority over our relationship, over me. I want to help him, but I just don't know how.....
