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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Selina Co’s explosive memoir, I’m a Romance Scam IT Detective, Selina, an IT consultant in Australia, begins a steady online exchange with Frederick Chong, who claims to be a civil engineer working from New York. She quickly fixes their future around a meeting overseas, followed by marriage. The contact becomes part of her daily routine, affecting how she organizes her time, work decisions, and plans that now revolve around his arrival. When he asks her for money tied to a claimed project deadline, she does the transfers while continuing to test his identity through independent checks that never produce firm confirmation. After tracing his digital activity to West Africa and linking his photos to another person, she keeps him engaged to collect evidence.
Selina Co’s memoir, I’m a Romance Scam IT Detective, lays out a situation that many people think they would handle one way until they’re actually in it. She’s an IT consultant in Australia, trained to verify information, yet she finds herself in a long online relationship that keeps pulling her between what she can prove and what she’s willing to believe. You see this play out when she spots location data that doesn’t line up with a phone number, and still keeps the conversation going. You see it again when she starts arranging a future meeting through a church, even though questions are still unanswered. What makes Selina interesting is that she doesn’t shut her brain off. She checks images, tracks background details, and compares company records that don’t exist where they should. At the same time, she keeps engaging, weighing each new claim as it comes in. That tension is where the real lesson is. If you’re reading this book, you’re not just getting a story; you’re getting tools. She shows how something as simple as checking a domain or lining up timelines can tell you a whole lot about what’s real. This is for adults who want a straight look at how decisions happen when emotion and evidence are both in the room.
