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Wow, I guess people still fall for this
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Seriously? I'm not even sure I feel bad for her. She had her entire family telling her the right thing to do and just ignored them.
Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam
Monday , November 17, 2008
SWEET HOME, Ore. —
An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark.
Janella Spears of Sweet Home says she simply became curious when she received an e-mail promising her $20.5 million if she would only help out a long-lost relative identified as J.B. Spears with a little money up front.
Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.
"That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"
Spears, who is a nursing administrator and CPR teacher, said she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account.
"The retirement he was dreaming of — cruising and going around and seeing America — is pretty much gone for him right now," she said.
She estimates it will take two years to clear the debt that accumulated in the more than two years she spent sending money to con artists.
Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.
The scheme is often called the "Nigerian scam" and it's familiar to many people with e-mail accounts. It still exists and it still works.
Spears first sent $100 through an untraceable wire service as directed by the scammers. Then, more multimillion dollar promises followed so long as she sent more money.
The scammers sent Spears official-looking documents and certificates from the Bank of Nigeria and the United Nations. President Bush and FBI Director Robert Mueller were also involved, the e-mails said, and needed her help.
They sent official-looking documents and certificates from the Bank of Nigeria and even from the United Nations, saying her payment was "guaranteed."
But it wasn't and now Spears is paying the price for her costly lesson.
"The hope is [other people] are not going to fall as hard as I fell," Spears said.
Seriously? I'm not even sure I feel bad for her. She had her entire family telling her the right thing to do and just ignored them.
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MY MOM WON THE LOTTERY
Veretas I think.
Poor bastard got told they'd won the lottery.
spanish sugar daddy
I'm going to stay single and not have any kids. That way no one but myself can blow my money.
It took one page until people started calling his mom a dumb bitch
anyways, am i reading this right and she went behind her husband's back to tap his retirement account, thus dooming him to work until the day he dies? what a bitch
And you'll have to use that money to get blown.
This is the best part.
Why do these stories always include something about how the victim believes that they aren't easily scammed and that anyone could have fallen for it?
Proving yet again, women aren't to be trusted.
Word.
that's probably equal parts stupidity and ego
Only marry a stupid woman if you are rich enough to waste money on trophy wives.
Isn't there any way he could have restricted her if he and the bank both knew this was a scam?
I think I'm feeling a little happy for the Nigerians here.
Depends if it's a community property state or not.
Well, I think there's actually a decent answer to this. You've heard that the first step in wisdom is admitting and fully realizing that you are unwise, right? The first step to knowledge is to know that you are ignorant? All that sort of thing. I think that it's that. It's people who haven't even taken that first step. They are so deeply foolish/ignorant that they don't even realize it. In other words, "they don't know what they don't know."
She just funded more "Nigerian bank" emails for the rest of us.
Well, not me, because I use GMail and my work email is pretty decently filtered. But, you know, lots of other people.
Also, I actually physically got one of these in the mail and I filled it in with Bogus information like this (first 4 are real, the next ones I can't remember):
HI YOU'VE WON THE EUROPEAN SUPER LOTTERY, PLEASE SEND $2,000 AS A RELEASING FEE SO WE CAN SEND YOU $2Hajillion. MAIL THIS TO SOME SHADY PLACE IN LAGOS NIGERIA.
Name: Bogus McFuckerpants
State: New Asshole
Zip Code: 90210
CHECK #: '; DROP TABLE Accounts;
Bank Account #: 7
Routing #: )
Social Security #: 1z$$-403-abc33-**4zz
http://www.419eater.com/
Honey, I think we should get you some more life insurance, in case those scammers come for you.
I'm such a hopeless nerd that I laughed more at your CHECK # than "Bogus McFuckerpants" :whistle:
Yes, I could use those 2 inch.
I am not a sucker or an easy mark.
Oh my god why is my penis turning yellow?!
same.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
well, assuming there is nothing stopping him from suing her, what good would it do?
sue her for all she's worth? she's got nothing left.
Can anybody explain this to me?
Other times I realize I would still have the same personality.