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Private detective Sommer (locally well-known actor Manfred Lehmann, movie dubbing voice of Bruce Willis etc) interviews "his client" (Hula-Girl from this forum) in Philip Marlowe setting in his detective office. While she tells her story, the camera shows some typical emails and the money request (customs fees in Ghana) and films the client putting high Euro bills into the diplomat parcel to be sent to Ghana while Philip Marlowe´s sonorous voice comments "For my client it was the love of her life."

So, Manfred Lehmann is on to "catch" "that man".

The role of the shoudler-shrugging police official plays a LKA-interviewee.

So all on his own, the detective contacts a friend over VoIP, a journalist in Ghana.

Friendscout24 BTW denies being interviewed in person.

So Manfred Lehmann poses as a 50 yo white female profile on friendscout24 and happens to be asked very quickly to wire money to Ghana for the same reason as "his client". He asks for a "customs agent´"´s passport copy, which he gets, and the actor´s journalist pal says "This passport is real." and mobilizes the police down there and they catch him without any problems. He "admits" being part of a romance scamming gang there that´s doing it in an organized fashion for money, big cars, houses etc.

And Manfred Lehmann says "This money well is now shut. And I for myself rely on the old method of winning a woman´s heart..." and he walks into a flower shop.

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The wrong thing is the message, where the police can´t help, only a (paid) detective can. [Unless this was just TV theatre.]
The good thing is, they got the scam storyline part right. They way they told the story, I guess that´s TV...

this is the reason why I don't watch television. It is nauseating.

You are right, Marisa. Normally, I don't watch TV either. The only reason I did this, was to warn other people, to make them aware of these scammers. And if I have helped some people with this "TV-show", I have reached my goal.

Nevertheless, I feel a bit sad today, as some things didn't happen this way. The storyline was correct, as frumpy said, but there was no "glorious" dectective involved in this research. The video footage taken in Ghana really happened this way and I even recognized my scammer (I have seen him on cam before).

I don't want to tell about my role in all this, only that it was very painful for me to go through this again. I sincerely hope that all this is finally over.

I think you were very courageous

Thanks. I don't feel courageous at the moment, just a bit strange and also sad. I can't really explain why I feel this way. The few friends who have seen this, told me it has been touching and very informative, and very courageous of me . And they all hope that more people are aware of this problem now.

So, lets hope for the best.

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actually the daughter of my work colleague who has recently seen a broadcast on ZDF ( WISO )

Here is Hula-Girl´s report in her own words on how the TV filming actually went: http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewto ... 27#p361427" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;