F.K. ultimately made 35 to 40 payments, sending money to accounts in the US, Turkey and the United Kingdom through the captain's many purported associates. — AZMAN GHANI/The Star
The relationship between a Japanese woman and a US Army captain stationed in Syria started online, through an international social network for digital pen pals. It grew into an internet romance over 10 months of daily emails.
It ended with the woman US$200,000 (RM838,000) poorer and on the verge of bankruptcy after borrowing money from her sister, ex-husband and friends to help Capt Terry Garcia with his plan to smuggle diamonds out of Syria.
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