The fact that a fraudster is abusing a relationship for financial gain seems to be becoming more common.
According to the Crime Prevention Council's figures, almost twice as many cases of social fraud were reported in the first half of 2020 compared with the previous year.
The increase is also reflected in the culture.
During the autumn, for example, SVT shows the documentary series Deceived on love and millions where both victims and perpetrators are interviewed and internationally, the documentary series Love fraud, where women reveal a fraudster, has been praised by critics.
Unusual with an inside perspective
But the fact that the victim himself describes the whole event up to the edge of the ruin is unusual.
One who now tells her dizzying story is the author Christina Herrström, previously known for having written, among other things, cult-declared Ebba and Didrik.
In her case, the perpetrator managed to get a total of 3.4 million with the help of convincing lies, psychological terror and threats.
It went so far that she got into debt and sold her apartment in the belief that he would soon pay it back.
Even today, she lives by small margins.
It is often just as difficult for an outsider to understand as it is for a vulnerable person to explain how things can go so badly.
But thanks to her diaries, Christina Herrström was able to describe the whole process, step by step.
Victims are charged like sexual victims
Her story challenges many prejudices about both the victim and the perpetrator, and she hopes to break some of the shame and silence that surrounds the crime.
A shame that is about losing dignity in front of oneself, but also about many outsiders looking down on the victim.
-I think it is similar to the shame that has existed around sexual crimes, and which still to some extent remains but not as strong because we talk about it, says Christina Herrström.
See a piece of the interview with the author in the clip above. The entire feature can be seen on SVT Play.