Spanish Prisoner.
This con is as old as the hills.
We need a pic of the guy.
How does someone amass that much dough while being blindly stupid?
Some people are idiots. Others are really BIG idiots.
My Mom recently wired $3000 to Trinidad because someone posting as my son called and told her he was there in the hospital after a car accident. But she’s an 81 year old grandmother who was worried about her grandson.
He, of course, was really studying in his room at college.
Unplug Nigeria from the Net. If Egypt can unplug, and Libya can unplug, why can’t we unplug Nigeria?
Somebody hacked my FaceBook account and changed the password. He then contacted all my friends and told them I had been mugged in London and please send money. He changed the password at 0422 hours and by 0545 hours someone had called me at work to make sure I was OK. My secretary then got text messages from him until she informed him I was standing next to her while he was texting her.
I think the Chicago Sun-Times has 4th-graders writing their news articles for them. Check out the link for full article, it’s about four paragraphs and tells you absolutely nothing of substance.
Yeppers.
He is not only a sucker, but part of a small elite group of “Super Suckers”
My parents got scammed in a similar manner, but it was an email ostensibly from friends of theirs who’d been mugged in London, all their money stolen, could my folks wire them some money for plane tix. Then it was, “now we have to pay for the hotel”. The third time, my dad (an old intel type) finally figured it out. His loyalty and readiness to help out friends in need overcame his natural suspicion. Cost my folks $4K.
Colonel, USAFR
Does Darwin Awards have a Financial category? If so, this man may be a winner.
Darwin, meet missing link.
Some people need a keeper all their lives....
Must have been an old single man, no family, with Altheimer’s.
A pro can get you to wear their FReeper name on your shirt like lowbridge did with these Nigerian scammers back in 2004.
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.