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I honestly think David is like a community theater actor being paid to play the part of a desperate, in-denial American who's being scammed by an international chat site. I find the entire storyline really contrived. Same for Yolanda, to a slightly lesser degree...I think a lonely widow could be catfished by a "too good to be true" internet "boyfriend," but she hasn't been paying to talk with him and at least had phone calls & texts with him so his story was a little easier to see someone falling for. A guy David's age who had $100,000 in disposable cash (or credit lines) believing for SEVEN YEARS that a gorgeous woman 30 years his junior who will only chat briefly via a for-pay translation site is just too far-fetched, even for "reality" TV. I don't think he's making any trips to the Ukraine without a camera crew, and I don't think there's any danger of him assaulting any young blonde woman in a fit of rage.

A lot of people here seemed to believe (maybe still do) that Lana is an actual woman behaving independently who gave David a real address... and they were worried about her when he decided to go to the apartment. Lana is a composite character created in a warehouse by some entrepreneurs who run a "dating message site" that charges by the minute...she's "played" by some person, male or female, or may even be just a bot that can converse briefly with a human payor...short answers, mostly emoji responses, very impersonal, always evasive (can't meet because I'm shy! can't converse through ANY other means but this message site! do you want to meet at a restaurant and take a photo and start my emigration to the US?).

ake it all worth it. Poor thing has probably gone into hiding. It's most likely some anonymous catalog model or some such, who posed for short money for a photographer's portfolio years ago...just like "williams" profile photos were stock images. David's explosion at his friend who was translating the PI's findings was so, so pathetic.

He stated that Lana is "too shy" to communicate any other way than through the pay per minute messaging site...the video "chat" had no audio and more than likely was a recording. Lana doesn't exist. Lana is a bot, or a paid person who follows a strict script when responding to sad old men in order to keep that credit card revenue flowing in. David, I hope, is just an actor who agreed to portray an easy mark for the show. There is no way TLC would not have verified Lana's existence and gotten some backstory from her (like they did with every other overseas "boyfriend" or "girlfriend" with the notable exception of "Williams," who is also a fictitious creation of a scam warehouse) to lead up to the meeting with David.

https://meaww.com/90-day-fiance-before-the-90-days-david-lana-meeting-7-years-chatting-money-spent-catfishing-fans There was no audio in the video call. There is no "Lana." She is a fictitious character, one of dozens or maybe hundreds, invented by some old Soviet bloc scam outfit to bilk sad, desperate, lonely, wealthy, gullible American dudes. What man do you know who would, in seven years, be okay with never having a phone call, a direct email or text (I mean, Google translate does wonders; he's got a translation app on his phone FFS), etc. and just shell out money to have brief, superficial online exchanges? What man do you know who would accept ridiculous excuse after excuse for missed meetings, not the next town over, but internationally? Come on. Lana is not a person. TLC would have hunted her down.

Kinda bemused that there are a significant number of you who think Lana is a real woman who gives out her real address to her "internet boyfriend." There is no doubt that "she" is, at various times, one of a number of women posing as the character of Lana (maybe in the Ukraine; maybe in another area nearby, but of that part of the world) -- or men, posing as the character of Lana -- or, even, a well-programmed bot that can have somewhat-realistic "conversations" with a sad, desperate, lonely, and, apparently somewhat wealthy old American man, via a pay-per-minute English translation site -- to make money for a corporation who knows and exploits its target audience (sad, desperate, lonely. somewhat wealthy men from Western countries who are willing to scramble for crumbs). I hope David is just an old community theater actor who can't get cast in the Galena, Illinois summer stock production of "The Music Man" anymore and thought posing as a sitting duck on 90 Day would be a good paying gig, and not really the absolutely drowning-in-denial dimwit doormat he appears to be. Please do NOT worry that he is stalking an actual person. Even if David is for real, TLC would have verified the existence of "Lana" before traveling there to have him wait in train stations and cafes and go on a road trip to knock on a door. There is no "Lana." All David (or the character of David, please I hope he's an actor) has are the memories of $100,000 worth of typed messages that he can't even access, and obviously professionally-taken photos of some anonymous young model. No one is in any danger here except David's bank account and heart (IF he is real, but I hope for sanity's sake he is an actor).

It's. FICTION. And the writers have the end in mind when they start at the beginning, and that's not the end they had in mind. And do you really think a straight-laced LAWYER is going to wontonly shoot a cartel thug in her own home? Come on.

I wouldn't put it past her to say she is "like a doctor" because of her inexplicably inflated ego, but hospice caregiver I think would be something very easy to understand to someone from any African culture. I work in home health care, and death is not feared in African and Caribbean cultures -- all the agencies have staff who specifically request assignments to end-of-care cases. They consider it an honor. But I bet Lisa greatly exaggerated her job.

please refrain from insulting Phillip Seymour Hoffman's corpse

If you get an email threatening you with harm or blackmail and demanding payment, you're advised to contact your local police where an internet crimes detective will investigate. So if Yolanda (whose storyline HAS TO BE fake AH) doesn't report the emails, we know they're a plant by the producers (and she is in on it). They can't have her report the messages because the messages aren't real. Just like "wih-yimz" is not real.

ed's look of horror when rose told the merchant to "keep the change" (which was probably literal pocket change) was, pardon the pun, priceless.

You mean David, who is in the Ukraine, talking with his former online gf/now platonic friend Anya, while he's being catfished by Lana. Geoffrey is in Russia with Varya. So, Lisa makes $12-$15/hr if she works for an agency, and the hours are sporadic at best.

I didn't even recognize Lori...she looks younger...good plastic surgeon.

They're probably just being really, really obvious so that stupid couples don't act like, "I didn't know we both had to be here at the same time together!" The same reason there's a tag on your blow dryer telling you not to use it in the shower. Or, just poor writing skills put in place by some hack state worker decades ago who thought it sounded smart.

I watched over the weekend and literally did not recognize Lori.