I have experienced 2 scammers with the same reasons why they are asking money-they said Brittish customs official are charging them too much taxes for their goods and they needed to get the goods soon to avoid continous chargest.
I'm afraid they have other strategies than this one. At first ,they seem to be a perfect man. Then after few months the scamming tactics begins. The last one asked a lot of pictures frm me. I even added him on facebook. Now I'm worried they might use my photos on scamming!