There are all sorts of risks on the internet and police say one woman got scammed online but then started to participate in the scam. Now she's charged with forgery and theft.

Lori Melville says a trip to an internet dating site ended up causing her major money problems. She says someone on that dating site scammed her and convinced her to send e-mails recruiting other people.

"I was asked to do some stuff on the computer to help them out. Then after the fact after I thought about it, the damage was already done," says Lori Melville.

She says she sent a lot of money the people she met online.

"In a year’s time probably between $10,000 to $20,000 dollars," says Melville.

While she says she didn't steal any money, she says she wishes she never would have gotten involved with the so-called business.

"I thought what he told me was all legitimate so I went ahead and helped him out with what ever he asked me to," says Melville.

While Lori says she spent thousands of dollars of her own money, according to the criminal complaint filed at the Chippewa County Court House some of that money was taken from her family’s business.

Court records show her mother and brother went to the Chippewa Falls Police Department to report a forgery-identity theft case. The two told police two company checks, worth more than $1,800 had been forged.

The two say Lori Melville was, "working and participating in Nigerian Scams," and they think she is behind the forgery because she had been obsessed and had repeatedly fell victim to the scam but she says she's disappointed her family thinks she's a thief.

"I never took any checks or any money from my place of employment," says Lori Melville.

Lori says she's learned her lesson and wishes she could go back and change the past.

"It's after the fact and it's a very hard lesson to learn," says Melville.

As part of her bond for now Lori cannot use a computer nor have any contact with the people she's met online. She'll be in court December 15.