The search for love can end in a movie romance, but it can easily go the other way and end with a crash. This possibility is intensified when romance is sought through dating applications such as Tinder, since it is more than common for there to be users with the sole interest of scamming those who are looking for their better half.
The following story of deception is added to the more than extensive repertoire of Internet frauds, and although we know a million of these, rest assured that the one you are about to read is crowned as one of the most ingenious.
Suppose you are madly in love with an astronaut (from then on it starts to sound bad), he promises you the sky and the stars so much that he even assures you that he wants to marry you, and you foolishly fall under his charms and empty words. So you send him money so he can land on planet Earth, because he just happens to be stuck in space.
Well, the one that seems like a story starring Matt Damon actually happened to a 65-year-old woman in the city of Higashiomi, in Japan. Everything seems to indicate that the woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, met her love through Instagram, due to a man, supposedly Russian, who told her that he worked on the International Space Station.
What started out as a friendship grew to the point that the two involved began to develop strong feelings for each other, culminating in a romantic relationship and even a marriage proposal!
The one who is shaping up to win this year’s Oscar told his girlfriend that to fulfill their dreams together, he needed a large sum of money, because saving someone from being lost in space doesn’t sound cheap at all. For this, between August and September 2022, the woman sent him a total of 30 thousand dollars divided into five payments. Also, with all the nerve in the world, the man kept asking him for money because he, surely, made a stop at Jupiter. I mean, if you’re already in space, then take advantage.
At that moment, the woman noticed that something was very wrong, so she decided to alert the authorities, who are already working on the case. So far, it is not known if the scammer has used the same tricks to deceive other women, but if so, beware of any Russian astronauts trapped in space, because they are the worst.