An American and His Pinay Girlfriend: A Love Story

Filipina love scams are not uncommon but this one really takes the cake. It has to be the most pathetic, I mean the most wonderful, love story I have ever read.

https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/08/11/american-lover-sticks-with-filipina-girlfriend-despite-kidnap-me-hoax-missing-money/

Once upon a time in 2015 in the mystical, magical land of the Arabian Nights an American and a Filipina met and fell in love.

Based on the background investigation, Estomo said the American and the Filipina met in Kuwait in 2015 and immediately fell in love.

Like many lovers these two planned out their future together. When the Filipina returned to the Philippines it was decided the American (names have been withheld in this story) would send money to be placed into a savings account. She would use some of the money to build a house and the rest would be savings to live on when he finally arrived.

When the Filipina went back home, the American started sending her money for their savings. Police found out that since 2015, the American was able to send the Filipina a total of $300,000, or approximately P15 million.

And since the money includes daily expenses and the construction of their house, the American thought that they have at least P5 million savings in the bank.

Finally in May 2019 the American decided to visit the Philippines and his lover so they could begin living their lives together. 

“It all started when her American boyfriend went to the Philippines in May this year and discovered that their savings in the bank was already emptied,” said Estomo.

Estomo said that when the American asked the Filipina victim to show him the bankbook, the latter refused and went ballistics. It was then that the American found out that what was left in their savings is P300.

From P15 million to just P300.  What a shock that must have been. But it was only the Filipina who "went ballistics." The American kept his cool and like any good Christian turned his cheek and forgave her.

But despite the incident, the American reportedly forgave his live-in partner and decided to forget everything by asking her to come with him to the United States.

The United States! It is literally the dream of the whole world to come to America. "On the boats and on the planes, they're coming to America." But this Filipina did not want to go to America.

The Filipino girlfriend refused and instead burned their house in Caba town in La Union. On Saturday, she went missing.

She did not simply not want to go to America, she didn't want anything more to do with her American boyfriend so she burned down the house they were building or had built together and disappeared. A little while later her daughter received a text message.

He said that it was the victim’s daughter from his previous relationship who received a text message that her mother was taken by two armed men and was taken to Dagupan City.

Kidnapped! By armed men!  What price for her release?

“They were also told to prepare P5 million in exchange for her release,” said Cereno.

But it was all another scam!

But when the victim was rescued in a budget hotel in Dagupan City, the AKG operatives immediately sensed that there was something wrong. It was during the strategic interrogation that the supposed kidnap victim squealed that it was all a hoax.

The Filipina was found at a budget hotel and it seems she emptied the savings account she had with her American boyfriend just prior to his arrival.

During the rescue operation, AKG operatives found several withdrawal slips indicating that the victim emptied their bank account with her American boyfriend.

She withdrew and squandered all that money on who knows what leaving a measly P300. Then she burned down the house and faked a kidnapping to earn back the P5 million her boyfriend expected to find. Did she really think she could fake a kidnapping and replace the money she stole with the ransom? Yes. She did.

Despite all this her boyfriend still loves her.

The American, despite the incident, would not press charges and was already reunited with his ‘abducted’ Filipino girlfriend.

What can you say to a story like this? It really warms the cockles of your heart doesn't it? Here is true love in action. Though this woman stole all his money and burned down the house he is still committed to her. Truly the love story of the year! I'm sure the song of his heart is "Keep on using me until you use me up."