I am a divorced mother of two young men. They are thirty-two and thirty. Five years ago, I was scammed by a man that pretended he was in the army. They call it catfishing. At first, I didn't want anyone to know that I was swindled out of my hard-earned money. Then I thought about how many more people this has happened to; and I thought that if I wrote about what happened, maybe--just maybe--I could prevent someone else from giving their money away to someone who is trying to catfish them.

I was a medical coder, CPC, and COC and left the hospital to do insurance in New Hampshire. Three years ago, I drove to Tennessee by myself to start over. I am now a key carrier manager on duty and a customer experience coordinator for a Marshalls branch.

My primary goal is to get my message out to anyone that may be going through what I went through and have them keep their money.