The following day all I received was one short email from her and no reply email from the travel company.
She explained that she was angry because she had spent six weeks chatting with me and after all that time, she felt I did not trust her.
It was a compete change in her attitude; no sweet talk or niceties but only angry words.
I finally came to the realization that all was not as it appeared to be.
The girl of my dreams had just tried to scam me.
I was actually shocked by this. I recalled the six weeks that I knew my special lady. We had sent each other dozens of very long and detailed emails.
We had chatted daily for several weeks. Would this girl put that much time effort into a $400 scam?
How could someone make a living devoting so much work for so little money. As I told my tale to one friend, he explained to me that the living standards are very different in some countries.
That, $400 was more than the average monthly salary in the Asian country that my girl was from.
That she probably was corresponding with many guys in the hopes that every month she could scam one or two of them into sending her the money; thus making a living.

This certainly had become a boys chat learning experience. I had learned that a whole new world of potential love existed in Asian dating sites.
That there were dozens, if not hundreds, of Asian girls that were interested in dating a guy like me. But I also learned that there were dangers in this world.
That there were people looking to scam an American guy by any means. Well I was not completely soured by this experience and knew that I must be more vigilant in the future.
I had survived an attempted scam. I decided that I would lessen the chances of running into another scammer by being selective about the nationalities of girls I would chat with in the future.
Primarily, I would concentrate on Filipina girls. Since Philippine women were primarily Christian and reputed to be very sincere and moral.
These virtuous Filipinas were my plan for a scam free dating future. I had learned and would soon put my new plan into action.