promise to marry

It is difficult to imagine how a lady can be cheated the amount of RM300,000 by a man who she had not seen yet, and gained your trust by a promise to marry. Their interaction was only via the chat line.

This is one of the story, a sad story though and it reveals the power of the heart over the mind. She was so convinced by the man she met on the internet, who promised to marry her. There was non so blind that the heart cannot sense, clouded by the affection.

A local paper revealed that a consultant was cheated to the amount of RM 300,000 over the online fling that she had.The woman, who only wished to be identified as Azlina, 49, said she began visiting chat sites for companionship and was contacted by a man who introduced himself as Hassan Williams, 50, a Muslim American in October last year.

“He captured my heart. He knows what Malay women look for in a man and knew Malay customs very well,” Azlina said yesterday, adding that the online romance continued for a month before he asked her and promise to marry her.

“I believed he was sincere and was excited when he asked me to move to Atlanta, Georgia.

Life savings lost: Azlina speaking to Chong and Khairun Aseh about her experience with Hassan. After she had run out of money, Hassan’s friend called to tell her that he had recently died.

“However, Hassan then told me his business had run into some trouble and he needed some money,” she said.

She then took out her life savings, and in 25 transactions over three months transferred the money to several bank accounts apparently located in the Caribbean and Cayman Islands.

When she ran out of money, Azlina said Hassan stopped contacting her.

On March 17, a person claiming to be his friend called to tell her he had died recently and asked her to stop calling his number.

“At this point, I had already found out that Hassan was not who he claimed to be, but I still wanted to talk to him.

“And the person who called had an unmistakable African accent,” she said.

Because of his understanding of Malay customs, Azlina became convinced that the conman lived in Malaysia.

She then contacted MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Michael Chong to warn other women.

“When women my age can’t find a husband, some of us can get desperate,” she said at a press conference.

Chong said he had received reports of nine similar cases last year with loses amounting to over RM2mil.

“This year itself, I have already received three cases where the victims lost a total of RM305,000,” said Chong.

Also at the conference was Umno Youth complaints community bur-eau chairman Datuk Mohd Khairun Aseh who said he would bring the matter to the party’s attention

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It is believed that for each single case reported, there were 10 more cases gone unrecorded. Not many will be brave enough to announce to the world..." Look at me, I am stupid". The tactic of making promise to marry has a better statistic to success.