I just registered on digg to comment on this after being a passive observer for years.I had several 'internet relationships' over the years before I got married, with varying results. When possible I always tried to get a good picture of the person before I agreed to meet with them, not just for superficial reasons, but to be sure that there was a glimmer of attraction before I got in too deep. It's just common sense.In those days webcams weren't so common, so you still had to take a 'photo' with a pinch of salt.While I can understand that this guy was upset, the fact that he posted this online makes him a hundred times worse than the girl who got caught in her lie. Sure he lost a lot of money, mostly through his own naivety, but it sounds like she genuinely had feelings for him. While he thinks her e-mail was written like 'a Harry Potter fanfic', it reads as a mature and heartfelt admission of guilt. While he may get a pat on his back from his friends for putting this private matter online, it could quite conceivably ruin the girl's life.Did he stop to think for a moment why she was so insecure that she felt that she needed to lie, and why it became increasingly difficult for her to admit to that lie? She clearly has issues with her appearance and understandably so. All this will have served to do is reinforce those fears for her, and make finding another emotional connection of this sort so much harder for her in the future.Yes, he got hurt. Did she really deserve public humiliation on a global scale though?That is of course assuming this is even real...