Internet love scams a woman worth P45,000

MANILA - Chinita Roxas, 49-year-old ex-OFW, who was scammed by an unknown internet syndicate group by promising a love relationship, taking away their hard earned money worth P45,000.

She was separated with her husband for 15 years now. She has 3 children living with her but most of the time, she's just alone in the house.

Out of boredom, Chinita went on the online world especially the social networking sites to make herself busy.

While she was browsing online, a foreigner added her in Facebook and immediately sent her a message stating how thankful he was to be her online friend.

Roxas had no clue that, that was the start which will lead her to some serious problem.

The online relationship between Chinita and the foreigner went well. The eldest son, Danny, was well aware of what's happening.

Her 27-year-old son is working in fish port as a porter. He's earning P300 per day.

Danny is keeping some from his earnings to regularly send her mom to the computer shop to go online. He just wants her mom to be happy that's why he's doing it, he said.

The online lover of Chinita suddenly told her that he wanted to give some gifts to her to show how thankful he was. He declared that he will ship some items such as cellphone, laptop, jewelry set, perfume, and an engagement ring.

Aside from those gifts, he included a whooping $45,000 inside the package box.

After 3 days since that conversation, Chinita received a call from a shipping company stating that the package had arrived but she needed to shell out a local payment worth P45,000 to get it delivered to her.

They don't have that amount of money but her son, Danny, did everything just to collect the needed amount.

But after the money was sent to the "shipping company", there were no package delivered to Chinita.

The company explained to her that she just needed to wait because there were some problems in the Bureau of Customs. They detected that there was an envelope inside the package that contains a large sum of cash.

Another call was received by her and this time she was threatened because the envelope contains $43,000 which is a very big amount that can put her in trouble if she wasn't able to pay the P45,000 fee.

Roxas went to Bureau of Customs to check the package, but that package never existed. They found out that they were victims of an internet love scam.

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Her son was instantly put into a great responsibility and doesn't know how they can get out of this trouble.