When a Man Sends $30,000 to a Woman He’s Never Met

The Dating Story of Martin and Diana

Lioness Rue
5 min readJan 31, 2024
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Martin is convinced that his online relationship with Diana is far from the online trickery YouTube clips that he’s seen.

He’s been in a relationship with Diana for four years.

Martin can’t begin to think of his relationship with his overseas girlfriend as fake. There’s a tiny voice in his head that whispers, what if it works out with Diana? What if, after all this while, she is the one?

But his friends and family never cease to put pressure on him. They express their doubts about his too-good-to-be-true romance, and this leads Martin to reach out to an online investigation company.

Martin is an engineer in his sixties.

He enjoys watching movies on Netflix, riding his motorcycle, and spending time with his cats. He has been married twice before.

His first union lacked romance and chemistry.

He found his second wife beautiful and stayed with her for eighteen years, but he just didn’t love her enough to make it last a lifetime.

Loneliness slowly creeps into Martin’s life afterwards. So he tries online dating. “UkraineDate ~ Meet Ukrainian Singles”, the site reads.

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