Victim has travelled to meet scammer

I received this information from a victim who has contacted me while she is Amsterdam, where she went to meet with scammers. She has had no cooperation from law enforcement in Amsterdam. She has asked me to post it here for the benefit of others.
She is currently in transit, returning home from having met up with a scammer. To the victim who sent this to me, please stay safe!!

Hi Jillian-

I am presently in Amsterdam, Netherlands and am surprised at the apathy of law enforcement officers at taking a police report of a victim.

I was asked to travel here to claim a bequest from an deceased friend from the UK (and I do have friends in the UK). When I got here on 03/30th, I was asked to pay a storage fee of 5,250 euros to the holding company. After they showed me the shipment, I found that the bills were marked and non-negotiable for deposit. They explained that there is a "special" chemical that will erase the marks to make it legal tender.

They told me to cash one $100 bill at the bank and asked me to wait for 2-3 hours while they are cleansing the bills. At the end of the afternoon, they told me that they had run out of chemicals and that I was to pay another 5,250 euros. At this point, I went to the police, to ask them for help in the recovery of my money. They said that there was no crime committed. So I checked out of my hotel because the criminals knew where I am and I did not want to be kidnapped. I went and am now staying at a friend's house.

Today, I called the US Embassy at the Hague for assistance. Hopefully, tomorrow a police report could be filed and I can be reimbursed my lost money.

This is a terrible crime and I am posting this for everyone's benefit in your website. Please protect my identity post it Anonymously since I still have to get back safely to the USA.

Disgusting (in more than one respect)

It´s well worth reading just another very personal and frustrating account of an encounter with scammers...but it spoils the mood of the reader, who usually classifies himself as being able to stay above the becoming-too-deeply-stricken-into-the-personal-fates-of victims.
(And I know it would hardly be different in, say, Berlin )

Yes, Johann, it is awful.

Just to update, I have heard back from this victim and she is home and safe.

Thanks for the update

Good news that she is home safely, such a shame she was put through that ordeal by heartless thieves.

I know of others through this site who have been through similiar circumstances and thoroughly believed the whole act and began to pay money, last I knew, 1 was still paying money.

So glad that was not the case this time