Posted on 01/16/2014 7:14:47 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A San Jose woman bilked out of $500,000 by a Nigerian scam artist on a dating website luckily recovered $200,000 from a bank in Turkey, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
The case of the 66-year-old woman conned out of her money through a meeting on ChristianMingle.com should serve as a warning about fraud schemes on international dating sites, Deputy District Attorney Cherie Bourland said.
“You get the love drug in you and you end up getting duped,” Bourland said.
The victim, a divorcee, joined ChristianMingle and befriended a Nigerian man who falsely claimed to be “David Holmes,” an Irish citizen working on a Scottish oilrig, Bourland said.
He used a picture he said was of him but was actually an image of a male model he downloaded from the Internet, Bourland said.
“There had been phone calls,” Bourland said. “He did not seem to have a Nigerian accent. He sent her flowers. But they never met in person.”
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“$500,000 to someone you’ve never met? What colossal stupidity.”
It never pays to be naive or desperate, or both.
These people are clever.
My sister met who she thought was a nice guy, he had always wanted a family so was “thrilled she had three kids and twenty grandchildren”.....blah blah blah.
He sent her little gifts, but my sis said there was something just not right.
When she told him, she wasn’t ready to date, he started harassing her.
The site blocked the guys account, with in days she received a wink from a different guy - same pic same story.
The site blocked him, returned her fee for the service, gave her a free membership - she said no thanks
Point is this guy probably goes from site to site setting up fake untraceable account hoping for a hit with a sucker.
Bingo! We have a winner!
I HATE sites that anywhere you happen to click loads some more damned crap. This one is one of them. Being in SF, there is no telling how many poor Gerbil stories you’ll come upon.
Suffice it to say, she didn’t earn that money. Her dumbass dead husband did, I’ll bet. He was a fool to give her access to the money, and she was a fool to think some guy on the internet wanted her. Dumbasses.
Reminds me of an old joke.
Did you know that copper wire was invented by accident? It seems a Scotsman and a Dutchman spied a penny on the ground the same time, picked it up simultaneously and neither would let go.
Thanks..LOL...hadn’t heard that one before..made my day...
No kidding!
A fool and his / her money are soon parted.
hitting “like” button :D
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