A Confession on Behalf of a Wayward Friend

Recieving that letter couldn't but help remind me of a scam that I actually, foolishly fell for. Here is a confession of how I was decieved, with a plea for the repentance and thus forgiveness of the misguided deciever-

A previously very trustworthy friend of mine, with whom I have had very good times and gone on several trips around Japan, called B******, got sucked into a Forex company operating in Tokyo called 'Toyo' , which he had been convinced, and then proceeded to convince me and another friend, was totally above board. He promised us a taste of the 'trillions of dollars' that are being traded world-wide through forex and that experienced experts in his company would limit the risk to 25% and produce massive profits, the like of which we had only dreamed of. It turned He emphasised that, being inexperienced, he was only a salesman and that it was a long-established company, which had deeply knowlegable staff that would do the Forex trading.

Yuko warned me that such companies are 'fly by night' entities and I made the tragic mistake of believing my friend over her, not knowing that he had been thoroughly brainwashed. What actually happened is that they let him do it, with next to no guidance, and he promptly lost a large sum of money of ours in just a couple of months and then suggested that I put more funds into the account and give him a chance to try again!

I was furious for weeks yet it is emotionally hard to press charges at a friend, even though I knew full well that he had been lying, be it under duress from the notorious fraudsters he worked for. So, in what was for me and hopefully him a dramatic resolution of the problem I forgave him for the lying, wanting him to make up for it through the good nature of his repentant heart rather than through legal duress- images of him languishing in a Japanese jail cell werer touubling to behold- if it would actually ever come to that, which I somehow doubt. (He since admitted that it was wrong to decieve us about what was gong on and says he is working on earning back the money he took through other investments, though this was about two years ago and I haven't seen a penny since!).