My experience
Forget it. As far as I know Mandy has disappeared. I am NOT the type of guy who flames people online and I accept responsibility for my actions, but what happened to me hurt badly. I have personal knowledge of the women, because I thought we were becoming friends. She broke her cell phone over 3 weeks ago and has been having messages relayed to the motel where she was staying. Now the cell voice-mail message goes nowhere and she doesn't answer her e-mail. She may have returned to Botswana. It's a very long and somewhat embarrassing story, but it involves my good deed being well-punished and betrayed trust.
I am a guy with a disability. I am on a fixed income that has not increased in 10 + years. We met in non-business situation. I liked her and I wanted to help her out, because she was homeless. She took me for close to 1000 dollars before I realized it was gone. There's more to this story. E-mail me
jeffham29@hotmail.com, if you want to hear it.
I am hoping that this message will help me find Mandy. I debated going “public” about this, because of my reluctance to air dirty laundry and to give Mandy a chance to contact me, but this bumped thread boiled the pot for me. Perhaps my fellow TERBites would keep an eye/ear out for me and let me know if they become aware of Mandy’s whereabouts. Feel free to respond to this post or send me an e-mail with any comments or questions. Thanks for listening.
Jeff