Who Is the Richest Man in the World?

Until now I thought my Aunt Marion was an intelligent, worldly woman. Wrong! She has fallen in love, and it's the richest man in the world. Sure, that would be wonderful at first.

But something is badly wrong here! She fell in love online, and with an American at that. The good man lives in Florida, where he owns a big white mansion. He also drives a Porsche and has a private plane.

On top of that, he owns about 40 houses around the world and countless castles, properties and who knows what else. My aunt is sure he is the richest man in the world. And that is exactly her Prince Charming. She met him online on a dating site. She deliberately looked for a man in the USA, because she wants to leave Europe. She gave no credence whatsoever to my objections that he could hardly be the richest man in the world.

Love Is Blind, Even with the Richest Man in the World

They have never seen each other, and he keeps putting her off about meeting. This has been going on for four months now. I suspect it won't be long before he asks her for money. He will set it up cleverly:

• First he's in an emergency
  
• Accounts frozen
  
• Credit cards lost
  
• he'll pay her back very quickly
  
• etc.
  

To me it's a clear case of fraud, and to her it's the great love. The richest man in the world isn't deceiving her. She has gathered too much evidence. The photos are real, she says, and his children live in Europe. He's coming to visit soon, and then he'll come to her too. The rest of us just shake our heads and feel somehow powerless.

Richest Man in the World - The Big Day Seems Near

Now he's supposed to come next week, this man of means. To our lovely suburb outside Munich, Germany. I don't believe it, but saying something is really pointless. So we let her carry on with her wealthy husband-to-be. She even bought a new couch, since the old one wasn't good enough for him anymore. She now has plenty of appointments: hairdresser, beautician, pedicurist and everything else you can imagine. It's a wonder she hasn't had a facelift too; that would be the last straw.

It turned out the way it had to: he can't come. Problems with his company and his accounts are frozen. Four of us from the family grilled her. Would she finally understand that he is not the richest man in the world? She just didn't want to believe it, but we showed her plenty of reports from other women who had been scammed. In the end she slowly woke up.