Tricked into drug trafficking
By Porcospino
@Porcospino (31366)
Denmark
February 23, 2013 11:09am CST
Tonight I read about a woman who became a drug mule without knowing it. She had met a man on an online dating site and she had fallen in love with him. They started to plan their first meeting and the man asked her to pick up some documents in South America before their meeting and she agreed to do that.
The "documents" that she had to pick up were drugs, but she didn't know that and she was shocked when she was arrested for drug trafficking and sent to prison.
When I read the story I was very surprised that she agreed to pick up some things from a man she only knew from the internet. I guess she was in love with him and trusted him, but I still find it hard to understand that she agreed to pick up those things for him.
What do you think about the story? How would you react if a person you met on the internet asked you to go to another country and pick up some things for them?
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8 responses
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
23 Feb 13
Shame on them... This used to happen in mexico alot years ago. Doesnt anymore as everyone goes through an x ray machine to cross from mexico to usa. But boy did it happened 15-20 years bad. Sad...
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@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
23 Feb 13
wow just anouther thing to write about on dating i have a post on my page here about online dating sites if you care to read
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
23 Feb 13
Thanks for the friend request 
I think that I have already responded to a discussion about dating started by you, but I am going to read some of your other discussions soon.
I think that I have already responded to a discussion about dating started by you, but I am going to read some of your other discussions soon.
@rockydam83 (846)
• Italy
26 Feb 13
I would say that it was her bad luck. My experience of internet based friendships is amazing. I met so many peoples over internet and then we had real time meetings as well and it was fun.
I always try to meet new peoples from different regions of the world. There is always a risk involved and we should be careful but i think life is more enjoyable when we take risks for new things.
i have read in a book that a bad experience will give you a good lesson for your future life. I would give him a favor but i will try check that parcel as well.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
26 Feb 13
I am happy to hear that you have had positive experiences with internet friendships. I also met two of my best friends on the internet. In the beginning we were online friends and chatted and exchanged emails and after a while we decided to meet in person and since that time we have been close friends offline. It is true that there is a risk involved when we meet people that we only know from the internet and it is important to be careful, but on the other hand that kind of meetings that also lead to a lot of positive experiences as we have both experienced. We might miss out on a lot of great experiences if we the risk stop us from meeting people from the internet.
@redredrose (1105)
• United States
24 Feb 13
I do sympathize with her in a way but then again in a way i don't because she should have known better than to do something like this for someone she didn't know. If someone i knew only over the internet asked me to do something like this i'd say he** no because i don't know you or what you want me to pick up. Now i guess i can see her being in love with him but meet him before you do anything like that for him. Get to know the person before you say yes to anything because you don't know what kind of person they are or what they have. I do feel for her but she should have known to be more careful.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
25 Feb 13
When I read the story I thought about the same things. I feel story for her, but it also surpriced me that she had agreed to go to another country and pick up a bag for a person she only knew from the internet. I think that is very risky thing to do and if I had been in that situation I would have refused to do it. I would have been afraid that it was something illegal, but I guess she trusted her online boyfriend and didn't think about the risks when she agreed to pick up the bag.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 Feb 13
Yep they could be blinded by love but there are also other reasons,lots of people in my country get tricked or trapped in to this with a promise of a better life marrying a foreigner from a supposedly rich country(?). I wonder when some people will ever learn, didn't there mamas taught them never to trust strangers from a very young age?
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
24 Feb 13
In my country I have also heard about that. My country is considered a rich country and sometimes women from other countries marry men from my country because they hope get a better life here. Some time ago I watched a documentary about some women from Thailand. They had chosen to marry men from my country in order to get a better life here, but many of them were very unhappy. The didn't love their husbands and they found it hard to be so far way from their families. They are in a rich country now, but they aren't happy.
@inopiratum_a_medio12 (877)
•
24 Feb 13
poor girl! she just met the guy through net and I guess even they chat that long that won't be a good basis to really gain trust since everything you may say from the net is not really 100% true since purely strangers for start that we meet and also don't know each others personal business in life. This will serve as to be careful whom to trust and do not give 100% trust to perfect stranger from the net.
@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
23 Feb 13
unlikely to trust someone with whom you are talking on the internet.
pka but anything is possible.
because this woman is suspected that the man to fraud.
so we have to be careful who you're talking to writing.
nice day.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
24 Feb 13
I think that it is true that we have to be careful when we talk or write to people from the internet. I have found some very close friends on the internet. They started as online friends and today we are close friends offline. I think that is possible get a lot positive experiences when we meet people from the internet, but we still have to be careful when we meet people for the first time, because some people are very different when you meet them face-to-face and they hide their real intentions while you are chatting to them on the internet. This woman trusted her online boyfriend too much and agreed to pick up his bag before their first meeting and unfortunately she got in deep trouble.
@Ollanna11 (371)
• United States
23 Feb 13
You just never know a person. Just sad that this women had to learn a costly mistake because she was naive. I sympathize with her because there are scum bags out there that are cowardly and prefer to use an innocent person to do their dirty work. I hope that justice prevails for her.
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