WICHITA, Kansas, September 4, 2008 – The victim of an Internet scam is speaking out, hoping her story will warn others not to fall victim.

Police say last year Kansans reported losing $1.4 million to Internet crimes.

"He said he wanted to marry me, wanted me to move to Florida, he wanted me to meet his daughter,” Jananna Castillo.

Castillo says she met Kevin, an international businessman on-line. For the past four months the two built a friendship and romance through e-mails.

"It feels like somebody just broke my heart into a million pieces,” Castillo said.

She found out the man she thought she loved was a scam when police knocked on her door.

"It shocked me -- to have the police come knocking on your door saying you have stolen goods,” she said.

Those stolen goods were 26 boxes filled with electronics worth more than $23,000. They are now police evidence. Jananna says that in a recent e-mail, Kevin said he was overseas on business, but needed her to receive some shipments for him and mail them on. Police say every bit of it was stolen and Jananna was being used.

"If people ask you to receive money or property for them and forward it on, it's probably a scam,” said Lt. Russell Leeds with the Wichita Police Department.

Detectives believe the suspect isn’t from Florida as he claimed, but from Africa where many of these scams originate. They add that she’s not the only victim. Last week a 60-year-old man said he received $1,000 worth of college text books for a younger girlfriend he met on-line.

"Gender is irrelevant , ages from 20's to 70's have been involved as victims and duped by on-line lovers and asked to participate in these scams."

Police say the bottom line is to know who you’re dealing with personally and don’t simply take their word before conducting business deals.