I had a fight with someone who had genuinely fallen for me. When I tried to end things by saying I no longer had feelings for them, they accused me of romance fraud and said their lawyer would be handling things from now on.
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We never had a physical relationship, and I never promised to marry them or anything like that. Could this actually be considered fraud?
Haha, yeah.
When you consider the cost-effectiveness, hiring a lawyer really isn’t worth considering in the first place. You might as well act like everything’s fine and confidently go along for the ride.
That said, even a verbal promise can be used as evidence in court if you can prove that the agreement was made, so you still need to be careful（笑).
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Lawyers don’t announce themselves in advance—they just show up.
There’s no need to tell someone beforehand, so it’s usually just an empty threat.
Not a single person who said, “I’ll go through a lawyer,” in conversation actually ended up using one.
If someone really intends to involve a lawyer, they’ll have the lawyer contact you without saying anything first. And if the other party is the one taking legal action, the first contact will come directly from their lawyer.
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Well, 90% of the time, they’re just bitter about being rejected and throwing out a parting shot.
If you search for “man in his 60s papa-katsu arrested,” you’ll find cases where someone made false promises and kept the other person waiting without paying. In situations like that, there’s a chance they could actually lose.
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To an amateur like Joe, it seems like if this were enough to constitute fraud, there would be fraud cases everywhere.
That said, lawyers are professionals. If this isn’t a bluff, your only option may be to hire a professional and fight back.
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