The Prince Who Dislikes Luggage

Remember the movie years ago, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks called "You've Got Mail"?

Well, this story is more like the spin-off version called "You've Got Conned", but warning, no point clicking if you don't understand Chinese.

We all get charmed easily by hot, sexy and adorable people on the Internet but sometimes, when stuffs are getting a little too much and too unbelievable, you just gotta be really dumb to keep on falling.

I read the news yesterday, there was this woman in her 30s. She met a guy through a popular networking website and they hit it off in a month claiming they're "in love".

Her prince charming, someone names "Raymond Walter", is an architect, British, 35. Since they "loved" each other so much, he told her he wanted to marry her so he planned to pay her a visit on the 20th of July.

Yeah, like one month meeting in nothing but a virtual chatroom, sending nothing but virtual kisses (with the stupid emoticons) and having nothing but virtual sex is enough for you to be sure you want to marry someone.

Apparently, that guy did not like luggage very much as he sent her a lot of his important stuffs by post, which included a gold watch, 2 gold necklaces, an mp3 player, a mobile, some clothes, a laptop, a bouquet of roses and £10,000 in cash.

Yes, a parcel, gigantic parcel apparently, posted.

3 days after he informed her about this huge parcel, she got a call from some rip-off FedEx saying she needs to pay RM16,000 to redeem it.

THEN...
She got a call from a "Mary" who claimed to be from the tax office, Virgin Mary told her she needed to pay RM3500 for it.

In order to get the parcel from her prince charming, she loaned RM11,000 from her sister, along with her life savings, she transferred those money to the above douchebags.

So, almost RM20,000 paid, she still hadn't received her prince charming's Godzilla. As for the Ray dude, he later kept texting her asking to pay RM3,500 as he was detained by the immigration officers in Malaysia, luckily she "ignored" him "this time".

She told the press, she thought it'd be "different" meeting guys online as her exes lied to her and took a lot of her money. The Ray dude looked really handsome in the pictures and spoke English with a British accent, she thought he was serious.

I never knew by looking handsome and speaking English British-ly mean you're serious with relationships.

I find it really unbelievable reading the news, while feeling sorry for her, I can't help but think she's really stupid.

If she's not stupid and the above incident appeared to be really true which is least likely to be possible, then her prince charming was very stupid to post her those stuffs.

How logical is it, that someone would "prefer" to send his mobile to another country instead of travelling with it? How is it possible someone would "post" a laptop?? Besides, the bouquet would probably wither before it got to her hands. Let's not forget, if the guy sends her £10,000 in cash, that would be £100x10x10, quite a pile of money, along with those stuffs are almost impossible to fit in a box and unsafe to post.

That's really bad planning, perhaps he wanted her to see the swimming and floating stuffs, as the water from the bouquet would definitely leaked inside the box.

It's just stupid to think all those stuffs have no better way to send, like FedEx works better than a secure online bank transfer or flower-delivery. Hey, maybe he surprised her by posting a British pizza too!

It's one thing to believe in the fucking nonsense but it's another to actually go along with it. Why did she even spend so much money in order to redeem those stuffs that had nothing to do with her??

This is not Indonesia, Vietnam nor Korea with small currencies, RM20,000 is a huge amount of money!

Spending RM20,000 on someone whom I had never met before? I don't think so.

I wouldn't even do that if he had transferred me a bit amount of money online to redeem the stuffs, you can't guarantee you won't get into deep shit for it.

Don't those people have a sense and question the logic of it?

"I love you" on the Internet? It's just make-believe and stupid.

... and you actually believe it when someone says he wants to "marry" you, online?

No wonder people lost money on the Internet, whether the "I-love-you" cons, the "penis length-increasing" procedures or the "Nigerian-inheritance" job, it's amazing how gullible people are.

After all, "gullible" is the longest word you could find in a dictionary.