I've Been Conned: Book for Dummies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780228875260)

This self-help book is based on the true story of what happened to me; it will help you and your family spot a con in time. It will assist you in the awareness of what you should look out for before it's too late. In reality, it becomes a domino effect that you lose all your money, lifestyle, family, dignity and self-respect. Knowing how to gain insight of what to look for will help you regain your life and save you from a world of betrayal and loneliness. Because of my inquisitive nature, I needed to know how he did this, and why it happened to me. Many people, mostly family, wanted to understand and help but became lost and unaware, only to find out the truth when it was too late.

When this all started happening to me I felt empowered and capable of doing anything. My emotions were high; I was in love and felt like I could achieve anything, do anything, get whatever I wanted. I felt high on life. I never realized how unhappy I was with my life and how lonely I really was.

But it came crashing down hard, leaving me devastated, broke, and alone. My family changed how they felt about me; I became labeled because in reality they felt robbed and cheated because of what the con did. They didn't know how to handle the pain and rejection, because I became someone they didn't know and the impact was traumatic and devastating.

I feel it is my duty to stop you from making the same mistake I made. It's surmountable and very lonely when you end up losing yourself, money, and your family in a blink of an eye. I guarantee it will happen if you do not look at the warning signs, and as hard as it was for me to write this book, I had to, because I believe that your life is worth saving. You deserve better than what the con is playing you for, because the outcome is that you end up feeling like a fool. You deserve better and I don't want what happened to me to happen to you. I never felt so empty, vulnerable, and alone, and sadly, when you are conned on the internet-even though at the time you think you're a princess or queen or a king in a fairy tale-you keep going. You don't want it to stop. I don't want you to believe every word they say.

Then one day what you perceived to be real with all your heart and soul becomes a darkness, a shadow that will haunt you with great remorse and suffering. I wanted you to see how hard you will or could fall if you don't stop, if you don't look for signs and warnings that it will be too late. You will lose yourself if you don't. My hope is that you will try to find out what these signs are before you become a victim of a terrible crime, because that is what it is: a crime, without any chance of ever seeing a cent of your money again. Everything you have, gone.

The worst part is what it does to your family. I was never a materialistic person, but I love my family with all my heart, and the fact that this happened and how they feel about me has crushed my spirits and left a hole in my heart. I just pray that you take time to think about the actions of what it will do to you if you don't look at the ramifications. Take the time to look at the consequences before it is too late, before you lose the most precious thing you have in this world: your family.

I wanted to create a self-help book to give you the knowledge to grow and become aware of what is really happening. I was na?e. I want you to have a better chance at life that the one I live in now. In closing, I don't what you to live in the darkness, I want you to live in the light, and most of all I don't want you to get conned. I want you to have the foresight and knowledge to be able to see past what I would have loved to have known before this happened to me.

You deserve better, remember that.