18th of June 2023
The scammers are not just criminals, they are murderers.
They kill the victims mentally and emotionally.
Some victims are strong and they survive the scumbags, but others don´t.
Think about those who lose their minds, their homes, their everything, and even loose the believe in human beings. There are those who have to be in a hospital to recover.
The victims loose money, and many of them borrow money for the scammers to help them.
I am clever, intelligent woman, but I fell for the smooth talk and refused to listen to my friends or my gut feeling.
I knew in my heart that the scammer was not a decent good man who cared about me and was going to spend the rest of his life with me.
My friend told me that he was going to use me to get to Schengen!
I didn’t listen!
I should have listened and I did for a while but I fell for the scammer again and allowed the innocent face and the nice voice to capture my heart.
I fell in love with a dream, not with the reality.
I knew this deep down, I rose up again and again, but he managed to get me back and making me feeling guilty of being so mean and believe what my friends were telling me!
He told me it was because of what my friends were saying, that I did not believe him!
In a way that was true, but the pattern of a scammer was there.
He had some friends of his talk to me and try to convince me that everything was okey and he truly loved me and was going to spend the rest of his life with me, I just needed to help him with some money so he could get the necessary papers to get the Visa.
I spoke to most of those friends of his on video calls. I spoke to one that said he was a barrister and that he would do everything in his power to help, he just needed to be paid for his service.
When I finished talking to the barrister and called my scammer, the barrister replied! He told me it was the internet that did this! And I believed, almost. I see now through the lies.
I suffered a lot.
I suffered guilt.
I suffered losing money!
I suffered losing my piece of mind!
I am a good person and I have been helping people throughout my life as well as I could.
I believe in the good in people.
I can not take back what the scammer took away from me but I can make the most of the lesson I learned.
I was the loving wife, making sure everything would go smoothly for him while he was adjusting to his new home.
I was preparing and doing it with love a passion.
He lied to me every day.
He used me every day.
I am the victim but it is not going to destroy me.
I will survive and manage to build up my confidence and trust in other people. I am lucky to be extremely strong person, who have gone through a lot and always survived and coming stronger after each tragedy.
It feels sad, hurting and angry, to have been stupid and believed the lies and the innocent looks.
I took the final step at the end of last month and cut me free from the abuse.
I am healing and every day is different from the last one. Sometimes I am completely content and some days I am angry or hurt and sometimes not seeing how I will be able to continue my life as it was before I came the victim.
All this is normal.
The criminal called me yesterday and I did not reply.
I have nothing to say to him.
He is out of my life and everything that reminds me of him is going away.
In a way some good will come out of this.
Some good people will use what was supposed to keep him warm and make his life easy here in the cold winter. I am happy about that.
I did really prepare, I did everything in my power to make this scam bag happy.
I cant change what was, it is gone, but I can have faith in what will be and that is my future, my freedom, my independence and my happiness is arriving.
Feeling grateful for my friend’s support is good.
Feeling optimistic is perfect.
I allow myself to fall down emotionally a bit but I rise up quickly.
The scammer is not worth my tears.
We think that the scammers are young, even young boys, but they are not. This one is almost 50 years old and I wonder what will happen to his next victim. I just hope she will be wise and not fall for the smooth talk and innocent face.
Hulda Bjornsdottir
