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| Twice-divorced Sarah has already sent $1.4 million to her online lover in Africa |
Twice-divorced Sarah has already sent $1.4 million to her online lover in Africa who she has never met.
Sarah met Chris Olsen online 18 months ago and since then she sent him an enormous sum of money to help him come home so they can be together. The mysterious told he moved to the United States 18 years ago but now in Africa on business. The man is said to be detained on false charges and keeps asking her for money so that he can come home so they can be together.
When they met he said he was in South Africa. After a brief stint in Nigeria, he relocated to Benin. Sarah insists she is ’95 per cent certain’ that he is telling her the truth. The naive woman tells her love story in details, “An attractive person came on there and said ‘you look like you wouldn’t hurt a fly’. I thought ‘wow, this guy is really handsome, I can’t believe he’s talking to me.
Chris has a way with words. He’ll say ‘how is my queen doing today. He’s very poetic when he talks to me. He writes ‘Mrs Olsen, I love you and I cant wait to be with you.When I first started talking to him he sounded Italian, now his accent’s kind of changed I don’t know if he’s adapted to where he’s at… in Benin. I have questioned several times whether or not this is a scam. But I’m 95 per cent certain that Chris is telling me the truth. I still believe in love.”
Sarah has now sent him $1.4 million in total for hotel bills, calling cards, lawyers, an expired visa, stolen credit cards, and bail. The woman even had to sell an apartment she owned to wire him $550,000 bail. Online versions of the scam originate primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria, with Ivory Coast, Togo, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Spain. There are many variations on the way the scam works – employment scams, lottery scams, online sales and rentals, and romance scams.
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