Victim Stories

I've decided to do this as Diana L Garren has encouraged us to tell our story. I hope this will help stop my negative feelings and thoughts and...

Like many, my life hasn’t been an easy one. When l was 48, l lost my husband to bowel cancer. He had suffered for four years. He passed away in a...

My name is Charles, and this is my story of being scammed by a romance scammer. I am a writer by trade, so I hope you all will forgive the length of...

By the end of July 2021, I got a divorce from my husband after a long, unhappy, loveless marriage. The divorce was not pretty, but I still had the...

I joined the dating site Plenty of Fish in Nov 2021. I found this charming guy who seemed too good to be true. However, I believed him. We clicked...

It is very hard to overcome this pain and shame. Here is my story. I got out of a romantic scam on 1/28/22 when I realized I was scammed. It only...

I have been divorced since 2018. All of my friends in my divorce support group were online at different dating sites trying to find love; some were...

Well, I am new to this group and appreciate being allowed to join as one of a handful of men. Reading all of the terrible situations so many women...

This is my story. My scam happened between 2016-2017. My marriage was never ideal and worst at that time. I was used as a maid and serving staff...

My story begins with meeting this Man on a Dating Site. He claimed to be divorced and had a daughter named Pamela, who lived in Paris. He claimed to...

Wow, where to start...I met a man on Zoosk. I was very new to online dating and had no concept of being scammed. It wasn't even on my radar. I met a...

I met him on Instagram, and we became fast friends. He asked me to buy gift cards and told me he would pay for them on my credit card. He did pay my...

My story is long. The events lasted 2 years. She claimed to be a designer and musician working in South Africa, but from Spain. She said she had a...

Let me start with introducing myself, my name is Melissa, and I'm 41ys old, never been married, and never had children. As long as I can remember, I...

My name is Andrea.  I never thought I would be a victim of a romance scam because I am well educated, I knew what signs to look for, and I was (and...

On 2/20/2020, I received a message on Instagram from Maxwell Cyprian that said hello. I wrote back and said hello, but I told him I didn’t know who...

I met my guy on a dating site for BBW. His name was Christopha Furtado. His pictures showed a handsome man, dark hair, and tanned. He claimed he was...

I have been online dating for a while since my last serious relationship ended back in 2016. I was at my wit's end when I thought maybe let me try...

I was scammed out of most of my life savings, $479K, by a serial, seamless criminal who groomed me for a month with intimate bonding techniques....

My husband passed at the end of the year. I moved to be closer to a friend that I grew up with. After I got myself settled, it was a new year; I...

It started out so innocent and ended up a nightmare.  A picture appeared on Facebook of a nice looking [not handsome] man boarding a small...

I met this scammer on the Vietsingles website. His name is Andy. In his profile, he is 48 years old with a picture of a handsome mixed nationality...

It was back on August 21, 2019, when it all started. I was going through a breakup and was so heartbroken when my ex-boyfriend, whom I thought I...

My story started on Match.com. I really wasn't looking for love as much as friends to meet locally and enjoy lunch and movies and hang out. Before...

I had just finished taking care of my husband, who had cancer. Being a caregiver means that you put all the wants about YOU into the trash. I had no...

It all started when I had a friend request on Facebook. There was this picture of a handsome Soldier in Uniform, so I accepted his request. At the...

Hi Diana, thanks for welcoming me to the Victim Support Group. I just finished reading your book. I admired you for the work that you put in to...

My story started in 2017 when I decided to join a dating site mingle 2. From the beginning, right away, I was contacted by other women asking me for...

I started on Instagram, meeting a lot of interesting men. I was a middle-aged bored housewife. I enjoyed getting compliments from these men that...

My Story, where do I begin? I met my scammer on Match.com. It was right after I found out that my husband of 26 years was having an affair and...

Well, I am 59 years old. I don't work anymore since I get migraines almost every day now, and I spend a lot of time on the computer. I don't have...

I married a Russian woman after meeting her, and the people she said were her parents. She used the alias Ilona Dauksha or Ilona Arturovna Dauksha...

My story starts and ends like so many others. I was sitting in front of my laptop one evening on Facebook, looking at the posts by friends of mine -...

Hi, my name is Sandy, and this is my story. On October 30th, 2018, I met a man by the name of Levine Shaffer on Facebook. Within 24/48 hours after...

I met a man by the name of Henry Young on a dating site called Mingle. He told me he was from the USA and has been deployed to Nigeria. He started...

Ok... here we go.... to understand where I am coming from I have to let you know that I have been married to a very violent man. All this showed up...

I feel stupid and violated. I was scammed. I posted my story on a widow support group and got some really rude remarks. I tried just scrolling by...

Exactly a year ago I met a man online. He gave me the usual story how this was his last contract before he retired and then we would travel the...

I had gone through a lot in the past year, a divorce from the man that was my whole life, a layoff and the drama of the family. My husband and...

Hi, my name is Carina. I'm from Sweden. I only want to thank you so much as I cannot describe with words. Your story save my neighbor right now. She...

Ok, here we go! To understand where I am coming from I have to let you know that I have been married to a very violent man. All this showed up after...

It’s our children’s dream to make us happy again. My daughter Apple wanted happiness for me again after me being widowed twice. She heard about...

What did I learn from accepting a Friend Request from strangers on social media? Brings me to what my mother use to tell me when I was a little...

I was scammed by a white man who claimed that he lived in France, Bordeaux. He wrote and spoke to me in French. 20 August 2016 he wrote to me on...

I met my scammer on the dating site Plenty of Fish (POF).  We chatted for a week or maybe more when he wanted me to take down my profile on the...

I grew up in a solid family; supportive parents and I currently live close to my entire family and am connected with them. However, I know I have...

Scott Dale sent me a message request on Facebook messenger. He was a handsome fella with photos and friends. All looked good, but I told him I don't...

Hi, my story began in the Spring of 2017 when I met a man on Facebook. He claimed to own an offshore underwater welding company, and he was going on...

Hello Diana, I am the victim of a romance online scam. My name is Lynn, 58 years old, and practice as an advanced practice nurse, CRNA. I joined...

Aloha, may this greet you in the best of health. I have been asked to write my journey, my saga and my horror on this subject of online dating and...

I have been widowed for two years. On June 17, 2017 I met this guy on a dating website called Badoo. He told me his name was Rand Scott, and that he...

Hello Diana, I want to let you know your book arrived and I am about 1/3 way thru it and already. It has answered so many lingering doubts I was...

Last January, my began an online affair with a military romance scammer. Previously, She had come out of an illness where she was bedridden and I...

Thank you all so much for welcoming me to the group!!!! Mine is a looooong story, so much pain. I am thankful for you all! I lost hundreds of...

I am a 52 year old woman from Russia. I met my scammer on Facebook on 2th of February. He introduced himself as Randy Scott from LA California, USA,...

My name is Teresa. I live in North Carolina. I was 50 years old and newly divorced when I was scammed. I met my scammer in early 2013.  He...

To Whom It May Concern, My name is Elisabeth Vaughn. I'm a 63 yr. old Christian lady from South Carolina. In September of 2015, I received a friend...

My first encounter with Sergeant Kelvin Williams from Tucon Arizona and serving in the US Army was on 4th November 2015. I received a friend request...