万花筒 2010-09-28&09-30 老翁迷失网络桃色陷阱

You lost everything.
Ebhard Krier is a broken man with a broken heart. A widower¹ who thought he’d found love through the Internet after his wife of 34 years died of cancer a year and a half ago.
Did you really believe that this woman was in love with you.
Yes, this was, that's what I believed.
Heather Humphreys became alarmed when her father started becoming more and more secretive about e-mails, and other contacts he had with a woman calling herself Lisa Kelly supposedly living in the African country of Ghana, but it wasn't just that.
All told he spent how much money.
Let’s guess,I think it's about almost three hundred thousand dollars.
Krier now reveals he traveled to London 14 times over the past year thinking he would be rendezvousing² with his love who claimed she'd invested his money in accounts in Ghana.
And when she didn't show up, didn't something go up in your head that something was wrong here?
No, not even went in my head. I was in love with her, love is blind.
His last trip, the end of July.
Four o'clock in the morning I got a phone call saying he's in London, no way to get home, they picked him up walkingon the highway.
Krier was briefly³ checked into a psychiatric hospital by his family, by that time he'd lost his home to foreclosure, forced to move in with his daughter, her husband and their three children.
He was sending her 1600 a day?
While going through her dad's finances⁴. Heather said she got the shock of her life.
This was his pension.
This money, this 115,000 dollars is gone. They have it. It’s all gone, everything.
(How much money...)The family contacted us after we aired a story about a Yonkers man who had stolen money from his son, and then committed suicide⁵ after being victimized in a similar Ghana romance⁶ scam.
The only thing I didn't do, you know,i didn't steal or I did kill myself.
You didn't steal and you didn't kill yourself.
How do you look at these people?
Oh well, I think they are monsters. Why are these people getting rich on, you know, destroying families that destroyes families. Whatever already have told you it happens all the time, why aren't we doing things to stop it.
Heather says early on when she suspected the scam, she tried to get help even contacting the FBI.
When I called the FBI they were like, "We just tell him to stop". It's another country we have no jurisdiction⁷, there is nothing we can do for you.
They are asking why can't you do something.
The FBI can't go and arrest people in other countries.
And the FBI’s Richard kolko says Internet scamers come and go so fast. It's almost impossible to track them.
The simplest thing is don't fall prey⁸ to them. There is no reason to it. It’s an education thing, and that's what you can do today, your story will help us educate people.
Do you realize now this was a scam?

1 widower   

n.鳏夫

参考例句：

• George was a widower with six young children.乔治是个带著六个小孩子的鳏夫。
• Having been a widower for many years,he finally decided to marry again.丧偶多年后，他终于决定二婚了。

2 rendezvousing   

v.约会，会合( rendezvous的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Instead, they would go into around Mars, rendezvousing with one of its moons. 作为代替，他们可以绕火星环行，与其一个卫星相遇。 来自互联网

3 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

4 finances   

n.(pl.)财源，资产

参考例句：

• I need a professional to sort out my finances. 我需要专业人士为我管理财务。
• The company's finances are looking a bIt'shaky. 这个公司的财政情况看来有点不稳定。

5 suicide   

n.自杀，自毁，自杀性行为

参考例句：

• The number of suicide has increased.自杀案件的数量增加了。
• The death was adjudged a suicide by sleeping pills.该死亡事件被判定为服用安眠药自杀。

6 romance   

n.恋爱关系，浪漫气氛，爱情小说，传奇

参考例句：

• She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
• They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。

7 jurisdiction   

n.司法权，审判权，管辖权，控制权

参考例句：

• It doesn't lie within my jurisdiction to set you free.我无权将你释放。
• Changzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.常州隶属江苏省。

8 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。