'Peter Monty Emu, 28, of Portsmouth, and Adewunmi Nusi, 27, of Hermitage, Berkshire, were convicted of money laundering. Chukwuka Ugwu, 28, and Emmanuel Oko admitted the same charge.'
Oh well, at least these hapless women saved the airfare to Gambia - thanks to the wonder of the net.
I understand that Andy, how the hell can you love someone you ever met only through Date site's & the other person is from the other side of the World? there has been warnings after warnings for lonely females to be be alert to these scams only to hear some one else has been ripped off, a friend of my wife's is going out to Nigeria for 6 months, she fell in love with someone on the web "Watch this space, another hits the dust"
TWR, people can have others around them, but this sort of loneliness emanates from a deep seated need to love and to be loved. Those who feel like that will often grasp at any straw, which is why we often see people rebounding from one disastrous relationship to another. It's very sad really.
naomi24 - "TWR, people can have others around them, but this sort of loneliness emanates from a deep seated need to love and to be loved. Those who feel like that will often grasp at any straw, which is why we often see people rebounding from one disastrous relationship to another. It's very sad really."
Exactly my point.
It is very easy, from a position of secure relationships and a fulfilling life, to look down on the desparately lonely who are blind to the pitfalls of such long-distance relationships.
People will convince themselves of the veracity of all sorts of relationships if that is going to distract them from the all-consuming lonliness they live with twenty-four hours a day.
Scoffing is unkind - some empathy and a little caring is a more humane response in my view.