Posted on 02/25/2011 11:06:51 AM PST by Graybeard58
A Naperville man is out $200,000 after wiring money to an online girlfriend he didn’t realize was a fake.
The 48-year-old man called Naperville police Wednesday to ask for help rescuing the woman, who he believed had been kidnapped in London, police said.
He told police he started the online relationship 2 1/2 years ago. Since then, he had wired about $200,000 total to several different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England and the United States, police said. An identification card the woman provided to him ended up being a sample driver’s license from Florida.
Police said when an officer told the man the “woman” he was sending money to didn’t exist, he “was in disbelief.”
Does Darwin Awards have a Financial category? If so, this man may be a winner.
Darwin, meet missing link.
Union?
A very sweet woman I know got taken in, for only a few hundred, but that was all she had. And the mess it made - because then everyone in her contact list got letters about HER.
Some people need a keeper all their lives....
How does someone amass that much dough while being blindly stupid?
MOST LIKELY... MOMMY AND DADDY.
20 or so years ago, some fellow put an ad in the New York Times. It read, Send me $20.00 to Po box whatever. No reason given, just send twenty bucks.
The cops finally shut him down after about 3 years and the person had pocketed a bunch of money.
Must have been an old single man, no family, with Altheimer’s.
This reminds me of the scene from Monty Python with Sir Lancelot coming to rescue the what he thinks is a damsel in distress. After killing half the wedding crew he realizes the damsel he was wanting to rescue was the King’s son. LOL
I know some of you Monthy Python cultists have a picture.
This reminds me of the scene from Monty Python with Sir Lancelot coming to rescue the what he thinks is a damsel in distress. After killing half the wedding crew he realizes the damsel he was wanting to rescue was the King’s son. LOL
I know some of you Monthy Python cultists have a picture.
Alzheimer’s? Horny, maybe. But not Alzheimer’s.
A pro can get you to wear their FReeper name on your shirt like lowbridge did with these Nigerian scammers back in 2004.
Yeah this guy had the same story. “Don’t tell Mom and Dad.” Said he had flown to Trinidad on a friend’s Mom’s ticket (you can’t transfer a ticket), had rented a car (you can’t rent a car if you’re 21), called her “Grandma” which is not what my son calls her.
But he managed to convince her that he didn’t sound like himself because his mouth was busted up and that the nurses were doing stitches. And unfortunately, my Mom would give her last penny to take care of her kids or grandkids.
Darnedest thing though, in my home county of about 17,000 people, about an hour after my mom wired the money, another woman...with the exact same name...did the exact same thing. You would have thought that the Western Union rep would have had enough sense to think...”hey...”
But no.
I can retire early now.
I recieved three emails last week. 1.9 million from microsoft, $800,000 from the estate of John Paul Getty, and 13 million in gold bullion stolen from Iraq.
I’m waiting for the check.
This is what gay guys get, right?
“He, of course, was really studying in his room at college.”
or at least in his room at college ;)
You know, someone hacked my Facebook account this week. A friend called me & said she got an email from “me” claiming that I’d been robbed in Malaysia and needed $1,800 ASAP in order to pay the hotel bill. Several other friends of mine got the email too. It’s infuriating.
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