She even wired him money.
A friend of mine works in a firm where one of her colleagues is a middle-aged administrative assistant. Recently, this colleague, with whom she is friendly, shared increasingly alarming stories about her dating life. The colleague, who has never been married, met a man on an online dating site. After a couple of days, the man professed his love; after two weeks, he claimed to be on a business trip abroad and asked her for money, saying he needed it for business and would set up a foreign bank account in her name and return the funds when his trip concluded. This woman obliged and wired the man hundreds of thousands of dollars. She obtained the funds by emptying her retirement account and dipping into other savings. |
The woman shared with my friend that her parents, with whom she lives, warned her that she was being scammed. My friend also believed early on that this was a scam but didn’t say anything to her colleague, as she felt giving that “advice” to a much older co-worker was inappropriate. Last week, the man stopped corresponding with my friend’s colleague, who now fully realizes that she has been scammed. This woman has taken out a loan against what collateral she has in order to replenish her retirement account. |
I feel secondhand guilt on behalf of my friend, who knew for several weeks that her colleague was being scammed but didn’t intervene. My friend might have been able to prevent this woman from losing her life’s savings. My friend argues that she didn’t need to say anything, because the woman’s parents warned her of the scam; she also didn’t want to offend her colleague by implying that her love interest was being deceptive. Was it her responsibility to speak out? |
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