
She was fascinated because she loved children and working with children. He told her about his volunteer work at an orphanage in Phnom Penh.

And then she found herself in conversation with Precious Max. On Tagged, Yoshe started to meet and talk to people from all over the world. "I had been all by myself for a long time, four years, just me and the kids," says Yoshe in An Innocent Abroad, the first episode in ABC Australian Story's new season. (Supplied)Ī friend suggested it was time she tried to meet someone. Yoshe Taylor and her two children, Archer and Kahlyla, in happier times. "The kids here are asking when I will bring my wife too. On another occasion he told her he was at the orphanage where he helped out. "Hello love, just wanted to say goodnight and sweet dreams … love you so much and forever," he wrote one night.

The messages that flew between the two through 2013 were intense, detailed, loving.Īround the same time, the Cambodian-based fraudster was sending similar messages to a Melbourne woman, who only wants to be identified by the pseudonym Kay Smith. "You have a busy day in the morning," he reminded her. He worried about whether the Queensland teacher and single mother was sleeping. "I hope you have eaten hon," he said in another. Just as simple as that," a man who called himself Precious Max told Yoshe Taylor in an online message.

This is how vulnerable Australians are being lured into carrying illegal drugs for a powerful international cartel.
