Before, it was an introduction through mutual friends, a blind date, or a meeting in a cafe. Now, more and more people find love through app on the web. Even many who live their own relationships for a long time without knowing each other physically.
However, when the day comes meet face to facefor the majority a great one fear it’s a lot Doubts: What will happen? Will the connection be the same as through screens?
While most meet expectations and everything works fine, there are cases that end in complete disaster. As an example, the Eduardo Villarreala man who He traveled from the US to Colombia to meet his girlfriend. and ended up being cheated.
He traveled to meet his love on the internet and got scammed
The Mexican Eduardo Villarreal he traveled from the US to Colombia to meet his girlfriend for the first time, who he he had met three months earlier on the Internet.
Excited, he planned everything for his trip to Santa Marta, capital of the Magdalena department and well known for its tourist spots; and he moved to the city with six thousand dollars in cash (about 30 million Colombian pesos) and his high-end phone.
What Eduardo didn’t count on was that he would meet a nasty surprise upon his arrival: met his fiancée when it landed in Colombia, yes; but also to Her friend.
According to what the protagonist himself told the newspaper The journalistthe man was delighted with affection and the acceptance of both women, at least until, suddenly, all of his money and device are goneworth as many hundreds of dollars.
After recognizing himself as a victim of the scam, the man reported the incident to the authorities, assuring that the friend of his alleged girlfriend had acted as an accomplice while his “companion” stripped him of his possessions.
“I was very excited about this trip, but I made a disappointment nice to realize that this woman was a crook”, confessed the man, who realized he had done it deleted their social networks and I even suspected it had left the city.
He added: “It was a very bitter experience. This situation has disappointed me, I don’t know who to turn to, or who to turn to. This problem didn’t allow me to enjoy or get to know the city well.”
He learned his lesson
After the sad episode, the man recommended people to have Attention when knowing “love on social networks” so that what happened to him doesn’t happen to them.
“I’m very inverted. Before embarking on a journey to discover love on social networks, take a good look at who you talk to. May the same thing not happen to him that happened to me because this damages Christmas, New Years and all the holidays “.
The avant-garde.
Source: Clarin
Mark Jones is a world traveler and journalist for News Rebeat. With a curious mind and a love of adventure, Mark brings a unique perspective to the latest global events and provides in-depth and thought-provoking coverage of the world at large.