CbC, I suspect that most people here believe that you were ripped off to large degree, probably with a great deal of help from fraudulent activities. What people have a hard time swallowing, however, is that you have NO blame whatsoever in this situation. I’m with PD here; you probably had some degree of complicity – however small – in what happened here. And the reason is that you were greedy, plain and simple. That’s not to say that you and your co-plaintiffs deserved your fate, but were it not for such greed you wouldn’t be in this mess. Had you read all of the documents involved, done background checks on everyone involved – basically had you done proper due diligence – it’s unlikely you’d be in this mess. I wish you the best of luck – you were conned. But had greed, naivete, and – let’s say it – some degree of ignorance, not reared their ugly heads all at the same time you wouldn’t be posting here.

One question I’ve got, though, is where God was during this whole thing. This whole mess was His will, right? So, as a Christian, you should have nothing to worry about, right? Also, instead of pursuing these con men shouldn’t you just turn the other cheek and forgive them? Pope John Paul forgave that guy that shot him after all. What about that whole “to err is human, to forgive divine” thing? I guess I’m just having a hard time grasping the Christian angle in this situation.