U just can't be too careful when u fall in love online !! and i'll say nothing about the fact the guy was a sheep farmer from Australia !! Story from the BBC !!! A south Australian farmer has warned of the perils of falling in love over the internet, after an online bride scam almost cost him his life. Des Gregor, 56, has arrived back in Adelaide after being held hostage in the African nation of Mali for 12 days. He had gone there expecting to marry a woman he had met over the internet, and pick up a US$86,000 (£43,000) dowry. But instead he was held hostage, with his kidnappers demanding US$86,000 from him in ransom. 'Blinded by love' Mr Gregor, a sheep farmer, set off to Mali on what he hoped would be an exotic adventure, during which he would not only meet his African bride but pocket a huge dowry in gold. The target of his affections was a woman purportedly called Natacha, a Liberian refugee in her twenties whom he had met and fallen in love with over the internet.

Mr Gregor was picked up at the airport by men claiming to be Natacha's relatives but who turned out to be gangsters. After taking him to a flat in the capital, Bamako, they stripped him naked, held a gun to his head and threatened to chop off his limbs with machetes. They also demanded $86,000 as a ransom, or else he would be killed. His relatives sounded the alarm when they started receiving strange e-mails asking for money. At that point the Australian authorities decided to lay a trap of their own. They managed to persuade the kidnappers that Mr Gregor could pick up the ransom money at the Canadian embassy. It was there that he was rescued by the Australian federal police after being held for 12 days.

Stupid guy AND stupid kidnappers!!!!

Sorry girls after reading this I have decided to quit chatting online!

Should have been on TF, that silly sheep farmer...

At least he would have a fighting chance of not losing all his money in 1 shot, and he would have walked away a happier guy...

Live and learn I say.

At least he was one of the lucky saps that didn't die...

hahaha so funny to see it , so stupid also , but then again its a tricky thing ;D

Should have stuck with the sheep, not as pretty but you can trust them not to do you over with gangsters.

Wheres the pics of the **** with the ransom money.......Have seen what $86,000 looks like??

Dont worry, if u chat with TF girls they would just rape u till dead!!

thanks for all the comments ... thing i found difficult to understand ..... if he was an aussie sheep farmer why did he need a woman for a wife ???

"why did he need a woman for a wife ???"

.. how many sheep you know can cook ,clean, wash clothes, fix fences, change tyres...

saw on the news...tremendous...

see what happens when aussies try to mate with human kind....

stick to the sheep gents.

oiii i thought it was your story

>>if he was an aussie sheep farmer why did he need a woman for a wife ???<< coz he's not Welsh?

people are more gullible than one can even imagine.

Baa ram ewe to u too, Ciaran - hahahaaa

His blow up sheep doll got a puncture!!!!!

I often wonder why all these Ghana women (or men) are sending messages etc......nobody would be STUPID enough to believe them would they ???? hmmmm....Aussies ??

Have you ever heard story about sick buffalo and motorbike accident?

I think that's what happen in Thailand.

good plan!! I will make it beter wahaahaa lol