Woman in S'pore thought she met man of her dreams online but was cheated of $100,000
Posted on 29 May 2016
By Jo Upcraft
herworldPLUS
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
"The first time David* e-mailed me, I didn't take much notice.
It was late and I was tired after a long day at work.
After being divorced, dating, but still single for the past 10 years, I was used to receiving online messages regularly from strangers.
"A few days later, I re-opened his message.
Unlike the usual e-mails from suitors, David's was different.
For a start, he'd written a lot.
He told me he was 45 - just a few years older than me - and originally from Chicago but lived in Singapore.
He told me his Singaporean wife had passed away from cancer three years previously, but he was remaining in Asia for the sake of their 12-year-old child.
"I was immediately drawn to the fact that he was a 'family man', and as I have kids myself, I could relate to being a single parent.
David was chatty and remarkably open, even telling me his home address.
"He also attached photos. Tall, fair-haired, tanned and masculine, he was attractive - and even more so in the photos that included him with his son.
"Being a veteran of online relationship sites, I'm not the type to get excited so quickly.
I wanted to fall in love again one day, but I certainly wasn't desperate.
A week later, I dropped him a casual line saying it would be nice to be friends.
"David replied after a few hours saying he was flattered that I'd got in touch, and we exchanged numbers.
When he called a few days later to invite me for coffee, his voice was friendly, charming and with a thick American drawl, but the timing wasn't great so we agreed to meet another day.
"The next night he rang and we chatted for 20 minutes about our day, our children and our jobs.
He told me he did contract work in shipping as an oil engineer on rigs in the middle of oceans.
I joked that I didn't have a clue about shipping!
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