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Gob
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A woman has defended her decision to sent $1.4 million to her online lover in Africa - who she has never met.

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Twice-divorced Sarah met Chris Olsen online 18 months ago. Though the mysterious man's accent has changed over time, and he keeps asking for money to be wired to various different countries, Sarah insists she is '95 per cent certain' that he is telling her the truth. Despite his numerous attempts to come home so they can be together, she says, he keeps getting arrested on false charges.

In an interview with Dr Phil, Sarah explained that they speak for hours on the phone each day. She described the moment they met on the internet: 'An attractive person came on there and said "wow you look like you wouldn't hurt a fly". I said "wow this guy's really handsome, I can't believe he's talking to me!"' He told her he was called Chris Olsen, who hailed from Milan but moved to the U.S. 18 years ago.

Currently, she says, he is based in Africa on business, and has been for more than a year and a half. When they met he said he was in South Africa. After a brief stint in Nigeria, he relocated to Benin, Sarah explained. Within seven weeks of meeting, he professed his love in a gushing email that referred to her as 'Mrs Olsen'.

And days later, he sent the first of many requests for money. She has now sent him $1.4 million in total for hotel bills, calling cards, lawyers, an expired visa, stolen credit cards, and bail. Last June, she even had to sell an apartment she owned to wire him $550,000 bail. However, she believes he is trying his utmost to make it home. Sarah concedes that there are suspicious elements to his story: 'When I first started talking to him,' she told Dr Phil, '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.'

But, she concludes: 'I still believe in love.'


“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Such a shame.
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Proof that you don't have to be smart to be rich. $1.4 million!

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It was the lawsuit against Kermit...
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Doesn't the use of the word "lover" connote at least some physical contact between the parties? Or is that just too much a 20th century construct. Perhaps the use of "online" before "lover" is sufficient?
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:It was the lawsuit against Kermit...
You're very shallow, Hal... :mrgreen:

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Guinevere wrote:Doesn't the use of the word "lover" connote at least some physical contact between the parties? Or is that just too much a 20th century construct. Perhaps the use of "online" before "lover" is sufficient?
I would think so; we have many uses of the term "lover" that require no physical contact--dream lover. art lover, money lover, even unrequited lover. And much literature is devoted to lovers who are kept apart (although some may have had some physical (and decidedly nonsexual) contact as children), or people who fall in love with the memory, or even the stories, of persons they never met; as well as many stories of platonic love (although some sort of contact may have occurred there as well).

In this case, I think "internet lovers" pretty much defines her view of things; and "easy mark" defines his/all the men with the different accent view of the situation.

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Expensive fantasy self-delusion.


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