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To Whom it may concern:

I met a women named Carmen Porter in April 2011. We dated for a few months , and were very intimate. she told me about an investment opportunity in which we could invest $13,500 in a art exhibit in california. At that time I left the country to go back to work in South Korea. She emailed me a contract which I signed, but she had not signed. later she emailed me about another investment for $7000, this in-tailed a renovation project on lee street in Atlanta GA. She sent contracts for both investments, I signed but she did not send the contracts back to me signed and dated. Earlier in our relationship she had told me she had cancer, I was deeply sadden by this. My trip over seas lasted four months, and she spoke to me everyday via email, and we got to know each other better over the phone and internet. I wired her the money for both investments to her Bank of America Account, which totaled $20500.00. When I had two weeks left before I came back to the states, she wrote me a long detailed letter expressing her love for me, and telling me that she had two weeks to live. Again I was deeply sadden by this. She had stated that she was in Chicago IL being taken care of by her aunt Tanya Lewis. She claimed on numerous occasions that her Aunt Tanya was rich, and that she was a private investor. The money I sent was sent to Tanya Lewis's Bank of America account. In desperate need to see Carmen before she died I flew from South Korea to Chicago to see her. I keep sending emails to her Aunt Tanya, because Carmen seemed to be on her dying bed. While in Chicago I waited in a hotel for two days to hear from Tanya about Carmen's health. One morning I received a email from Tanya Lewis telling me that Carmen had died, and she invited me to the death ceremony in Port St. Johns South Africa. I could not afford to go, although being that I cared for her I would had. There was no need for me to be in Chicago, and I never met her Aunt because she claimed to be too busy to meet me. So I headed to Baltimore MD, where I continue to correspond with her aunt via email. Oddly, Carmen's phone was off two weeks before I got to Chicago. Tanya told me that Carmen was very fond of me and that she left left me over $1million dollars from her life insurance plan. Carmen talked about this money in her letter, and that she wanted me to have the money when she died. She also told me what she wanted me to do with the money, which was open up a children's center for poor kids, and other persons in need. Tanya said that she would take care of the investment details, and would send me the money that Carmen and I had agreed on. The next day I received another email from the same email address as Tanya her aunt. This time it was from a women named Shannon, and she claimed to be Tanya's assistant. She stated that I would be working with her from now on, and she would take care of the investment details. I replied to Shannon's email, and never heard back from her or Tanya ever again. I conclude, that I believed everything, until I never heard back from Tanya. This compelled me to look Tanya Lewis up on the internet. I found videos of Tanya A Lewis on a number of websites including: Facebook,utube,Twitter,Meet-up, Myspace and others. When I saw the videos of Tanya A Lewis , it was the same women I had been dating. Evidently there never was a Carmen Porter, or a Shannon, but Tanya Annette Lewis deceived me for the $20500.00 I sent her. I spoke with co-workers, family, ex - boy friends , and friends and they all know Carmen as being Tanya A Lewis.
She left me in debt, and behind on my mortgage, and full of hurt. I continued to to try and contact her, because she knows the condition she left me in, and not even once has she gave me a dime of my money back.

Regards,