A woman who came to Nigeria to meet a cheater who tricked herself

Maria Gretta, a 62-year-old Swede, got acquainted with a 57-year old Danish mother, Johnny, due to having an account on the online dating site for a while. Mr. Gretta, who had been traumatized for divorce several years ago, falls in love with the message exchange with Johnny, but in fact the person "Johnny of Danish people" does not actually exist, and on the InternetNigerian letterIt turns out that it was a 24-year-old cheat teacher using the technique called a fraudster. Mr. Gretta who is a victim is not punishing Mr. Johnny, but he tells the BBC that he took the option of going to Nigeria in Africa to visit the fraudster himself.

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Maria Gretta is a Swedish woman with a title titled Artistic Teacher, Painter, Artistic Therapy. One day, a friend of Gretta made a profile of Gretta in a dating site by playfully. The hectic Gretta seems to have not seen the website for a while, but when I read the message once received with a sense of mind, he was from Denmark and served as a British civil engineering and craft company and was dispatched to South Carolina, USA There was a message from a 58-year-old man who calls him Johnny (pseudonym) who has a son who attends the University of Manchester.

For some reason Mr. Gretta who was hired by Johnny's message came to keep in touch with the message. Mr. Johnny gradually began sending messages of romantic content such as "I want to see your eyes directly and see you once", but Mr. Gretta said, "No matter how you talk about me, I only disillusioned when I saw him, I am afraid of it. "I avoided actually seeing each other. After doing some correspondence, Mr. Gretta said that Johnny got a phone call from the UK phone number.

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Mr. Gretta, who has lived in various European countries, noticed Johnny's funny accent English and asked Johnny, but Johnny switched the story shortly. Later Johnny had planned to take over his Danish family home, but he talked about his retirement plan of giving his son a house and thinking of himself to immigrate to Sweden. Already, Mr. Gretta already has the favor to want to see Johnny, and he says Gretta says, "It was the most romantic among the men I've ever met."

After three months of message exchange, they agreed to date in Sweden. But Johnny told Mr. Gretta that Johnny and his parents had to go to Nigeria for job interviews before the date. Mr. Gretta received a phone call from Johnny departing from London Heathrow Airport, but a few days later Johnny got a phone call from "Lagos (city of Nigeria) hospital".

Johnny said that the robbery attacked the place where parents walked Lagos and the son was in critical condition as his head was shot with a gun. Johnny says, "Honey, if my son dies, I will not bear, I can not forgive myself who brought my son here, if he dies I will follow again." Together with a message saying, 1000 euros (about 113,000 yen) is required to continue treatment, but because the branch of his bank is not in Africa, it takes time to remit money, so treatment That is why I consulted Ms. Gretta that he was stopping.

Mr. Gretta, who heard this, said, "I have never been to a bank so quickly that way," I remitted two people and sent 1000 euros. However, after remittance Johnny came to ask for further remittance such as "complicated complications required more money," and Gretta says "something is wrong" after remitting thousands of euros As he noticed, he seems to have disconnected Johnny.

When three people stopped exchanging messages, two people received a phone call from Johnny when three weeks passed. At this time Johnny confessed, "I am not the person you are thinking." Mr. Gretta said "I already know" and asked Johnny to teach the real identity. Johnny revealed the true identity of a 24-year-old Nigerian who just graduated from college two years ago, a member of the fraudster group.

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Mr. Johnny said that he is "a devil who hurt a nice woman like you." Mr. Johnny, who got a favor with Mr. Gretta, ignored the warning from fraudster fellows saying "It is not good to put too much into the" client ", but struggle to cheat Gretta as a fictitious person He seems to have hugged. Mr. Johnny never asked for money at this time, but knowing the true identity, "I wanted to see him," Gretta said.

For Mr. Gretta, there was a strange event that "acquaintance becomes a different person", but in 2009, Mr. Gretta went to Africa for the first time in birth and the two who got acquainted from a strange relationship finally got to face each other It was. When he saw Johnny at the airport, Mr. Gretta seemed to have shed tears. Mr. Gretta stayed in Nigeria for two weeks with Johnny, and the relationship between the two changed from "romantic relationship" to "close friend".


Mr. Gretta seems to have seen other fraudsters, but I began to think whether healthy and respectable young people can not overcome the current situation in Africa where we must fraud. Mr. Gretta has been supporting international aid for many African artists to participate in European exhibitions, workshops, conferences and competitions for 6 years since 2011. Uganda also visited as a lecturer of art, and in 2016 he plans to visit Nigeria.


"Johnny gave me more than what I had stolen from me, I would have never visited Africa all my life unless I met him," Gretta says. Mr. Johnny promised "to stop fraud" in face-to-face meeting in 2009, got a university degree after finding assistance from Mr. Gretta, and found a job in the United States He said that he is living. Even now it seems that relations between two people are discussing each other's current situation.