It was actually too good to be true. But isn’t that how the best romances begin? And shouldn’t you sometimes dare to take a risk for love? Ingmar thought so. So when he got a friendly text from a beautiful woman in Brazil, he decided to respond. And when her messages became warmer in tone, he sent hearts and compliments. And when she needed money for an English course and a plane ticket to the Netherlands, he was happy to pay for it.
Who exactly that money ended up with remained unclear Scam alert: don’t fall for it! (RTL) a mystery. At least not with the woman with whom Ingmar thought he was in contact. Together with a few ethical hackers, presenter and former police officer Ellie Lust discovered that the scammer in question had used photos from someone else’s Instagram account. This is how it always went in the new RTL program: Lust heard the stories of people who had come into contact online with someone who had promised them nice things. True love, beneficial investments. They were always disappointed.
Despite her permanently stern facial expression, Lust remained patient and understanding when she had bad news conversations with the victims. “You want to believe it too,” she said. “You don’t want to see your own dream shattered, so maybe people still believe against their better judgment.” Who knows, Ingmar might have noticed the warning signs, but they simply weren’t worth the beautiful brown eyes on his screen, and the heart emojis before bedtime, and the fantasy of romantic trips to Brazil – against the chance, however small, that the love of his life was actually waiting for him there. If you want to believe in that badly enough, you can sew all those red flags into a nice pillowcase to continue dreaming on for a while.
Human design coach
A channel further away was on On the way to love (KRO-NCRV) to see how it was made very difficult for Milou to continue dreaming. Or to sleep at all. For a few days, the 31-year-old human design coach (I wish I could explain what that means, I believe it has something to do with an energetic blueprint and the position of the planets) was the only love candidate traveling in the van. vanlifer Henno (37). The observant viewer now knows that Henno has a preference for both mantras and tantra, prefers to wear white blouses and loves to focus on his root chakra. Milou knows that too and sees Henno as a suitable man to perform cocoa ceremonies with.
But recently she has had competition from life and business coach Aukje (39), and three people in one van is just too much. In Wednesday evening’s episode, Milou woke up grumpy after an almost sleepless night.
Nor did it improve the mood that on that windy morning Henno appeared determined to take both his ladies on a boat trip, even though Aukje had already warned that she suffered from seasickness and Milou had subsequently indicated that she suffered from a phobia of vomiting. They went anyway. Henno stayed next to Aukje during the entire journey. It needed a masculine energy to ground itself, and grounding on the water, Henno knew, is very difficult anyway. Then it would be best to keep his energy with her for a while. Meanwhile, Milou paced back and forth across the ship by herself, among the vomiting people. No, the stars were not in a favorable position.
But later in the day she was still lucky: because Aukje, in addition to seasickness, also suffered from a little bit of claustrophobia, she drew the line at the second boat trip that Henno had planned, this time to a cave. This way Milou still had the undivided attention of her mantra man. It didn’t take long. But for Milou it was just long enough to keep the fantasy alive. She wanted it so bad.
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