I’m so terribly sorry that this happened, John.
If someone asks you for money immediately like this, it’s not good, and especially if they’re looking for a wire transfer of money, too.
There have been wire transfer money scams happening on the Internet for a very long time, now.
One of our friends almost got scammed by someone on a well-known Internet dating site. She was asking me what I thought about someone who had contacted her.
She thought that this man had seemed so kind and caring. He wanted to meet her, and then he gave her a story about how he was away in another country on business, and how he needed some money to come back home here.
It turned out he was trying to scam her, and she reported him to the dating site. His profile was taken down.
A family member was also scammed too. She answered a different kind of advertisement, and it turned out to be another money transfer scam. Her bank alerted her when she went in to the bank to get a money order for the transaction.
I’m glad that you were thinking that something didn’t seem quite right.
God bless you, John.
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