I had spotted what appeared to me to be an absolutely beautiful, clean, well dressed young woman on a dating site several years ago. Within a day, she asked me to leave the site and to move over to Yahoo Messenger. Almost from the beginning, something didn't seem right. I embarked on a nearly 24/7 intense, obsessive-compulsive search for answers to things that came up during different conversations that made no sense, contradicted themselves, were illogical, untrue and flat out lies. I soon discovered she was a known scammer (but not until I sent her money in Ghana). Over the next few months, I kept noticing her 'picture' on various dating sites, replete with different profile data. When I confronted her, she explained that she had 'modeled' some after 'college' (it was probably 'Trump university' because her spelling and grammar were atrocious), and that tons of her photos had been stolen. She always had some cockin-bull excuse each time I mentioned it. Despite this, I believe I had fallen in love with this individual. I found her main website in her real name, discovered her on a number of scammer websites that track known internet and romance scammers, and when I contacted her about this, she mysteriously, without notice took down her facebook page. Despite this, I continued to do something I may end up regretting for the rest of my life, and if ANYONE in America should have known better, it should have been me. See, I am former law enforcement with a degree in Criminology and Social Psychology. I had also attended two different graduate schools in an effort to get an advanced degree in law enforcement. However, the kicker is, I have been a practicing attorney for over 20 years, and have worked closely with the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, The U.S. Federal Police, The U.S. Treasury Department, The Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Border Patrol. How do I turn this woman in and not screw my future because I suspect she's been running an illegal black market electronics re-shipping and re-selling business purchasing electronics in the U.S. using stolen credit cards and seeking my help sending them to Ghana for resale, ostensibly by her "sick" mother. For one of the only times in my life, I feel cornered and stumped.
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