She put her heart on the line, online, and ended up losing thousands of dollars.
Police are calling it a love scam.
A Winnipeg woman met a man named Leland Fikes through popular online dating site eHarmony.
"I miss you so much. I don't know how to do anything else besides loving you," she reads from a love letter.
The woman who has asked to remain anonymous fell in love but found out too late Leland Fikes was too good to be true because he was not. He was a scam.
He told her he worked in the mining business.
They planned to meet in Halifax but Leland Fikes did not show up.
"Which was kind of strange and when I got there I got an e-mail saying I'm sorry I had to go to London urgently for business," she explains.
He told her he got his hands on expensive diamonds and needed help.
"He asked me for $1200 to help insure some of those diamonds as he'd used his money to pay for a flight so he could come and see me," she says.
She sent the money. Then he asked for more and even more after that. Each time she wired him the money.
All this even after eHarmony warned her not to communicate with him anymore.
In total she sent about $125,000.
"I felt almost like an addict like I felt like it was an addiction I was doing all kinds of strange things that weren't typical for me," she says.
Winnipeg police say this kind of love scam is not uncommon.
The online fraudsters usually prey on women who desperately want to meet Mr. Right and get married.
It is not just happening here. Police in Edmonton say women there have lost a total of $300,000 dollars in similar schemes.
"The request for money doesn't come right at the beginning. It'll come after some period of building up some confidence and trust," says Detective Shaun Veldman from the Winnipeg Police Service Commercial Crime Unit.
eHarmony has several warnings on its Website on how to protect you from fraud. It even has a dedicated full time team tracking the Website for any fraudulent activity.
eHarmony has advice on what red flags to look for if you are dating online.
If your match professes love quickly, asks for money or has a lot of spellings errors be careful.
"Afterwards when you see who it is you're like oh my god what on earth was I doing," says the victim.
As it turns out this woman's scammer is from Africa, and more specifically Nigeria.
She is now financially tapped out. It is a hard lesson for a woman who just wanted to find love.
eHarmony apologized to the woman and the fraudulent users account was closed immediately.
Police say they have no jurisdiction to charge the suspect because he lives in Africa, and they have no extradition laws with that country.
The victim did manage to get $20,000 back.
With a report from CTV's Rachel Lagac�
