Jack was on the computer again, it was morning and breakfast time and it was a welcome opportunity. He had a holiday and there was nothing better to do than to see what was arriving. Yes, she was there again, and was looking forward to meeting him. A young lady had been in contact, and everything was going well. However, this was different. She had money problems and needed ten thousand to pay her debts. It was all legal she said and even gave a connection where he could transfer the money from his country to her. It really looked legal so where was the problem. Afterwards, she would meet him and this was the part he was looking forward to.

In the afternoon he transferred the money, no problem. It was a finance institute in his country. And then he heard nothing more. Yes he did. a week later a mysterious message arrived from the police. Not in his area, but further east in his country, telling him he had been swindled. He immediately wrote back and got the information from the police. This was legal and the young lady was now ten thousand richer with his money. There was no further contact to her, no meeting in a restaurant and afterwards, who knows.

He was shattered, what should he do? It was then that he had a guilty conscience, he must tell his wife. He could not avoid it as the message from the police was on a site where she would see it. The police had no direct contact address to Jack and now he wife asked what this was all about.

“What is this strange message from the police?” she asked.

“I have something to tell you.” and then he told her the sordid truth.

At that moment she was swamped with this and had no immediate reaction. After a few days she realised what had happened. That her husband really though what???? A secret meeting bought with the money from the bank? No this could not be and the police had their connections and discovered this fraud.

“You must report it” she said.

But he was ashamed that it might go further and more people would know what he did through his stupidity and he did nothing. The blinds were now hanging obliquely in the relationship. The money had apparently arrived somewhere on an island, Cyprus apparently. The lady who Jack was hoping to meet one day was not a lady, but a man, probably a few men, and they were ten thousand richer, Jack being ten thousand poorer. There is no happy end here, it is just a secret that no longer is a secret with Jack and his wife.

FOWC with Fandango: Verismilitude