The signs were clear even at the outset but blinded by love, 80-year-old Diana failed to see the tell-tail strappings blinking red all over.
Her son had warned her of the danger and asked her to close that chapter - it was a scam, the romance type.
She paid heed briefly and paused the chats, but in no time she was back and falling deeper into the danger that posed as love.
She followed up on her would-be kidnappers' charm and landed in Accra, Ghana, where she had been directed, and then became a prisoner, caged in demand for ransoms she was finding too difficult to secure.