The scammer will have already been asked that question by other victims and will already have a convenient lie worked out to cover it.
From the evidence, it's a pretty standard Romance / Trunk box scam.
Scammer meets victim.
Gets victim to fall in love.
Wants to send a non-existent package to victim containing either money or valuables and money.
Package gets stopped at a border somewhere (Hartsfield / Jackson airport).
Money is required to get the package back in motion.
This money can be for any of a number of things like a "Diplomatic Yellow Tag" or other bogus reason.
If the victim sends the money something else goes wrong with the package requiring more money.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Meanwhile the lover will keep fluffing the victim with lies.
Sooner or later the victim stops paying. Either because they're broke or decide it's a scam and quits.
Then the scammers often send an out of the blue E-mail from a fake Law Enforcement entity.
They will claim to have examined the package by x-ray or visually and found the money etc.
The scammer then tries to extort more money from the victim under the threat of arrest if the victim doesn't pay.
There is a lot of references to Hartsfield Jackson airport on our forum. Here's one in our romance forum:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=73325&p=181325&hilit=Hartsfield#p181325The scammer is using a female profile but the idea is the same.