Description:

Love Me, Send Me Money takes readers inside the emotional machinery of romance fraud, where manufactured intimacy, stolen identities, false promises, and repeated financial emergencies can transform an online connection into a devastating form of manipulation.

Michael Good explores why romance scams are about far more than money. Victims may be intelligent, cautious, financially responsible, and still become emotionally attached to someone whose identity, history, and intentions are completely fabricated. The feelings can be real even when the person behind them is not.

From the first message to the first request for help, this book examines how scammers build trust, mirror a victim's desires, create routines, accelerate emotional intimacy, promise a shared future, and slowly turn love into leverage. It also explains why warnings from friends and family can fail, why victims may defend the person deceiving them, and why walking away can feel like losing not only money, but a relationship and a future they believed was real.

This is not a book about foolish people falling for obvious scams. It is a look at emotional engineering-how trust is manufactured, how loneliness and hope can be exploited, how financial requests are disguised as acts of love, and how victims can begin separating genuine connection from calculated manipulation.