As I said before, this is terribly embarrassing and everyone is going to say that I am an idiot. So be it. She gave me a good story and my suspicion was drawn elsewhere. Let me digress a bit. On the day of my wedding I went to Unicento with two other Americans. We all went to a cash machine and got money. I got about $250 and I received a receipt which had a balance on it. All the other times I used cash machines down there the balance would say 00. The balance said I had $50,000 in my account.
I mentioned this to the other two guys. They all looked at my receipt with the last four digits of my account and the balance . They said I was rich. We went to another machine beacause that one had stopped working. The second machine would not give out a receipt. At the second maching I remember a Colombian guy slightly bumping into me. I remember I either had the card in my hand or in my pocket. Not my wallet because I wanted to use the card again at the machine to see about a receipt. But one of the guys said it was not printing any receipts. So we left because I was getting married about two hours later. But looking back I thought well maybe some guy did pick my card off me while I was standing there. Because I wanted to believe Vanessa Garcia.
I am going to skip over many of the details about her in Cali until we departed to the US. Suffice to say that many red flags popped up and I did not see or want to believe any. As I said earlier, this is very hard to write about.
I want to mention her that I personally know of 8 Americans that I met down there who had very similar stories. They dont post on this board because this is a crime that is hard to prove, investigate and prosecute. Of the 8 Americans I know, 6 of them had the same thing happen to them. That their wife got to the US and left shortly thereafter. Stolen credit cards, etc, etc. I personally went to three of these weddings. I talked to two of them in the last few days.
We get to the US and she is here with me for approximately two months. She gets on a chat line with other Latinos. She makes several long distance calls and I do mean long distance. London . I get my first phone bill and it is a couple of hundred dollars. Calls to Cali and to her sister in Bogota. Any many other numbers. There is also a call to London for a couple of minutes. And by the way it is cheap to call London. I asked her if she called London and she said no. I chalked it up to some billing error because it was only a few cents.
We were getting along pretty good. But many more red flags were popping up and hitting me in the face. Shortly before she left on June 7, I discovered some emails from her and to her. I was'nt snooping but she left her email account open one night and the next morning before I left for work I used the computer and saw some of the emails. There were a couple of love letters from a guy called Nacho. I printed them. After I got home from work I asked her about some emails from Nacho. She said she did not have any. She willingly let me see her email account. Guess what? There were no emails from Nacho. I said that is strange because I saw them this morning. She had a perplexed look on her face. I then reached in my pocket and pulled out the emails. I said here they are! That was a couple of days before she left.
Anyway she steals a credit card from me and buys walk up tickets to Paris, France. She leaves on June 7 from the Detroit airport. When she arrives in Paris she is detained by the police and deported back to the US. She did not have a French visa. She did not know she needed one. She calls up Nacho at the Paris hotel they were suppose to meet at. Nacho is a Spanaird. I am not sure exactly where he lives. She tells Nacho or the police told Nacho, I am not exactly sure on this point, that she is being deported. The reason I know this is that I talked with Nacho on the phone for about an hour after this happened. The day after Vanessa left I received my phone bill. Almost $1000. Many, many , many calls to London. So I call this number in London and an answering answers. My message is to Vanessa that I hoped you had a nice flight and whoever is helping you in this scam, I am going after. I leave my number. Nacho calls back and we talk for an hour. He did not know she was married, blah, blah,. Vanessa had told him that she was a singer and that I was her manager. Because he had called our house a couple of times and I had answered the phone. Vanessa told me that was her cousin calling.
I had discovered that she was in Paris by my credit card records. In the meantime I call her house in Cali to talk with the parents. I am not fluent in Spanish but can get by. My first call to her parents was when I did not know where Vanessa was. I talk to the parents through their neighbor who speaks fluent English. The parents did not know Vanessa was married and knew only of me as an American friend of Vanessas. She told her parents that she was in the US on a student visa and studying music. They were completely shocked when I told them the story. I could hear them gasping in the background. I believe they did not have anything to do with this. Vanessa had called them collect from the airport after she was deported. She only talked for acouple of minutes. Her parents were worried sick. Her father is a real nice guy and not the ogre that Vanessa said he was.
