You Have Been Catfished

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