Hello.
I'm an 18 year old girl living in Europe. Me and my boyfriend have been together over 2 years now, meeting only once a year because he lives all the way in canada. We were both saving up so that I could start living with him once I have finished my education, however, that has all turned around now.
At his working location there was this costumer that needed to borrow money, at first my boyfriend thought he meant borrowing from the shop... Turned out he needed to borrow from my boyfriend. Just $200, so that wouldn't be too much of a loss. The man, called peter, came back happily the next day with a cheque of $500. However the next day he needed money again, this time a much larger amount. The man had lost his wife, his cell phone and his money. My boyfriend, being a naturally good person, gave him the money again. The man paid back happily once again, but now it becomes scary.
Peter forces him to drive around, pay for peter in restaurants. All because Peter says he has to pay him something (which is true when you see that the guy pays him like $1,500 for the $1,000 he borrowed). In this process, my boyfriend lost $7,000... Because when the weekend was over, the cheques did apparently not come through.
I had no idea this was happening, I did not know of the existance of uncovered cheques and I thought my boyfriend was being paid in real money. The worst thing is, that the scammer did not just stop there, he kept on bugging my boyfriend with depressing stories for about 2 months! Also friends of Peter were stalking him.
Yes, he did get the police involved and they are looking for the men that scammed him out of all his savings. He has only just graduated from College and was looking for a good job while working in a convenience store for the mean time... Now he will have to stay at the convenience store. But the manager of the store was mad with him because Peter stalked him at work, so they moved him to a location which is a 40 minutes drive, rather than 2 minutes!
He can't pay for gas, any of his bills.. Because Peter brought him into the red numbers at the bank. His family helped him a little bit by donating to the problem to pay for the bills, but nothing more than that.
I feel so helpless over here. I'm not making enough myself to support him, going to school full time. I can see he is rather depressed over the situation and I'm asking myself if I should still come over to see him this summer (because that would take him from his job, resulting in him earning less money).
I just wanted to get this off my chest... 
-Mumbling
