The point about securing the passport is that it makes it much more diffucult for her to bail. If she refuses to let you secure it for her I would ask her why.
Anyway, she is deported back to the US and arrives in my hometown. She has a crisis number that she got from one of her friends and they pick her up at the airport and hide her away in a neighboring town. I found this out by tricking Vanessa into calling her parents. I emailed her and said her parents were worried because they know now the whole story. I emailed Vanessa a calling card that we had used. It has a $50 per month limit. The best one I have ever used. About 16 cents a minute. Anyway a few days ago I discover that all the calling records for this card are accesible on the net. A gold mine of information for me. I send V the number and pin and lo and behold she takes the bait. She makes a call that lasted about an hour. Does she call her mother who is worried. NO. She calls a number in Medellin. I called that number and a man answers.
Although the next day she did call her mother. Some of the other calls that were made were interesting. They were many calls to a guy named Manuel in Arizona. I called and talked to him for a long time. The same story. He did not know she was married, blah, blah, blah.
Also I had a bunch of her email addresses. I sent them all the same message. " I am the husband of VG and that she took a plane to Paris. She was deported back to the US. I have not been able to contact her. Please contact me if you have any info."
A guy calls me from Italy. He was Hispanic and said he knew V in Cali. A received a couple more emails from different men.
The bottom line is she scammed me for over 10k in cash, a few thousand on the credit card. It is interesting what she took when she bailed. Almost nothing. She left behind an old photo album and almost all of her clothes and make up bag. But she did take her wedding dress. When I talked to the other two Americans, they told me the same. Their wives took little but both took the wedding gown. Amazing coincidence.
The authorities are almost useless. The local police say this is a domestic and they are not sure if it is a crime to forge someones name on a credit card if they are the spouse. The INS did not seem too concerned either.
