Last month I gave a big party in Hiroshima. Like one of those parties we have in México at the end of the year. In a party hall with music, food and the most important complete families attendance. In Japan because of these spaces or maybe because children are independent at a young age, I really don’t know why, families don’t go together to parties.
it was a lot of fun, and people asked me to do a party for young people. Like a matching party.
I rejected because I don’t like the idea very much, but I thought we could give a party combining books, music and games for young people to interact in a more natural way. I personally think that in Japan it is not very common to have friends from the opposite gender and therefore the situation that I will describe below was raising. Hopefully now that many people have given testament of how some groups work, this will decrease. From my side I want to help giving some necessary “weapons” to fight it by actually making people interact the old way.
This morning I went to the theater to reserve the spot for my next party, and as I came out I saw a big sign across the street saying Infront of the police station: “Beware of romantic fraud”
Lately a lot of famous people have been victims of this. My myself had also a similar experience. Luckily not with that big amount of money as them. At that time I wrote to a magazine and newspaper to inform people but I don’t know if they took it seriously. Now I will take it from my PC and share it with you. I consider it as an experience for me to realize how much there is out there that we don’t know, so we have to build self love and confidence besides strong bonds with true friends
Here is the script.
The run away
It was a busy day. Traveling with three school groups from America starting with a three times round trip to the airport the get the group together in the traffic was not an easy start, but was good to get to know each of the group members and remember their faces.
After touring the amusement parks and the hectic capital city for three days, finally the group of 55 people was moving to Osaka by bullet train.
I finally had a chance to sit down and relax in the train. I didn’t buy anything to eat or drink in order to have my hands free to assist the tourists. When I sat down, I realized the train had stopped the food service inside the train due to the excess of foreign tourism. So, there was nothing to buy; nothing to eat, nor to drink.
Never mind. I sat down and as I opened my phone a message came in from a number I didn’t have registered in my WhatsApp. It was a polite message asking how I was.
I was sitting and relaxing in the only moment I had free for myself and there was this nice message.
I answered the message and the conversation went on as if the person really knew me. It was a nice way of getting away from the busy day and all the requests and things that happen when you are guiding a group in Japan.
At first, I wasn’t sure about who I was talking to. I asked, and he said to be a someone from Hong Kong. His name was a difficult long name, but his nick name was Allen. He sounded nice but I told him he might have contacted the wrong person because I didn’t remember having any Chinese friend. He apologized but then asked to become friends. We kept contact every now and then.
As crazy as it can sound, this is when I understood energy travels long long distances because when he said I send you a hug I could actually feel some kind of energy surrounding me. I understood what I once heard. That some people’s aura can cover a lot of kilometers, like Jesus’ aura.
It felt different from a regular person. He called exactly just the moment I was on a short free time during the trips or when I was sitting alone to drink my coffee. I even thought he was some kind of spy. Jajaja Maybe I wasn’t wrong and I should have heard my intuition.
Now that I think of it, it could have been artificial inte….., who knows
I finished my Japan tour and went back home. There were some things I wanted to do there. First open a new bank account so I could start saving again money in my own country and eventually buy a house for the future.
I had been thinking about it for a time and now since my children were already independent, I felt it was the time to move and start investing.
The first step was to open a bank account. I hadn’t done it before because everything has changed so much it had been a little difficult to catch up with the digital systems they use now.
During my trip while in Japan Allen suggested investing in digital money. We had already become “good trusting” friends. I was not a technology person. I even usually traveled without a cellphone,
One day, while in Mexico Allen sent me a message, when I was trying to register my account at the bank but couldn’t. He offered to help, and his advice was good, better than the people I was talking to at the bank. I could open my regular account.
He again suggested I invest in digital funds. He was an expert to show me. I thought I had nothing to lose, since I had another friend who had been doing it as well, so just started with a very little amount. He said the only condition was that I should donate ten percent of the earnings to give to an orphanage. He said he was helping children who had no one to support them. I was for a long time a volunteer doing a program for small kids. I told him I would like to visit those kids some day. I think that was his biggest charming point to me.
Allen became a good friend, and confident”. Now he was helping me with my finances. The accounts where under my name so I didn’t think something could go wrong.
He was a good influence because he made me not desist in my attempt to open my Mexican account. Systems are complicated, so I could have given up anytime.
Money started growing in a strange way. I had only taken some money but like in a magical way the regular bank account was also increasing.
In one trip to visit my college friends, I talked with a couple of friends about my investment in digital money. One of them, got very worried and told me not to get too much involved. I only had put what I had brought in cash and the amount I was not going to use during the trip.
I always stay at the hotel inside the College property, where access is restricted but my friend was so worried about my decision that he even suggested I moved to a different hotel, so we could talk longer. We talked almost all day and night. He said he could see how much love I had in my eyes and that he felt how I could easily be harmed by some guy.
He looked really concerned about me so I promised to be careful.
Time went by and I returned to my house in Japan.
I had a good relation with my husband, but not really a couple’s relationship, but we could share the same space in harmony and could also stay away from each other according to our activities. I think this is a very Japanese life style, though my friends say my relationship is much better than theirs. I had told him about the investment but he didn’t show any interest.
Everything was going fine until one day things started changing. One day, when I was cleaning my phone from old pictures and messages, I suddenly found that I had more than 12 contacts called Allen from different countries added to my Line address. This made me feel suspicious.
Could this be an organization? A Group of people behind this for some specific purpose? Some kind of AI system?
A lot of signs were showing up, but I didn’t know if I should believe or not, or how to quit as soon as possible with this situation. Systems in Japan dropped and people were not allowed to cash their money for a couple of days. This was starting to make me more attentive and try to give up on my “confident”.
I even had told my children I was feeling I made a mistake, but was going to solve it, so suggested them not to invest in digital money without knowing the source.
My daughter called me one day and said they had a situation with a woman from Mexico at her hotel. She said the woman had said she payed everything in advance with digital money but the hotels in Japan don’t have that system. She told me the guest was going to be taken to security but my daughter remembered what I had told her about my situation, so she explained to the hotel staff that maybe the woman had been a victim and that the hotel should let her pay again and not take her to the authorities.
After this, one day Allen asked me to invest more money. Since my bank was in Mexico and Japanese banks don’t easily transfer money to other countries, I could not invest more. I resisted a little, I was not sure of anything, but then thought of my friend. I told Allen I had a friend in Mexico who could lend me the money, but he was so suspicious he had asked me to prove I could get back my money in my regular bank account. Allen got mad with me for telling about my investment to my friends.
Anyways, he guided me on how to do the movements to get some of the money back. I did as he said and checked my account. The money was transferred without any problem.
I thought I had been overthinking, but at night, since I remembered the procedure I tried withdrawing the rest of the money. The app was blocked and I could not do any transfer. Next morning I received a message from Allen. He was angry for me doing movements in the account without asking him. His sweet words changed for words of anger. I thought this was my opportunity to leave and run away.
I asked him one last time if there was a way to get back my money and to mend our friendship without money involved, or if we should say good bye.
Allen’s reply was bye bye.
This was a little heart breaking, but at the same time releasing. It brought me peace to know the truth and how this groups work. I felt relieved that I could get away from everything safely and before it was too late for what I could afford to lose. I briefly told about it to my husband, and he just said “you are very careless with your money”, nothing else.
This situation happens mainly to women who are “single”, which made me think how the idea of women needing a man to protect them is making this world vulnerable. I decided to take this as an experience and tried to understand what I had to learn from it. This can also be useful to help other people. A lesson in the importance of self confidence.
The money was gone, so I just hope it went to do some good somewhere and I know it will come back some day. As I always say “What people take away from me, God brings it back to me” in different ways and moment, but I trust everything happens for a reason and for us to grow.
By then a good friend from Mexico called me and sent me a song. He said his dream was to someday come back and sing for the parties I used to organize. I told him about my story and he encouraged me to keep going on.
Along my life I have had the experience of people asking me to lend them money, some of them have payed back, but some others have never done it. With this experience I decided I would not lend money, and better use it doing what I like and enjoy. I can keep sharing my time and love with people who are in a similar level of conscience and stop sharing energy where I don’t feel worth doing it. which is actually more e precious, since time and love is something that can not be bought. (Time is money and the very simple single thing God uses to show us if we are on the right path or not). That is one of the reasons I went back to giving parties and organizing events for people to meet, have fun and interact in person. Make everyday a living experience.
By that time, I also reconnected with a very well-known teacher, who gave us some seminars. Difficult to explain, but then I talked with my husband. I told him I thought I didn’t come to Japan just to be his wife, I had the feeling I had a mission to do, so he must also have his important role. Since then our relationship started changing again for the good.
Now I wake up saying:
“Thank you God for this new day. I’m ready for the good things you have in store for me today!!”
Fantastiqueeerr 