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UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails (had claimed Reagan had diminished mental ability)
Los Angeles Times ^
| March 2, 2006
| William Lobdell,
Posted on 03/02/2006 4:01:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son.
...Louis Gottschalk, a neuroscientist, is the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UCI College of Medicine. He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that President Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980.
He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to measure speech patterns in Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential debates.
In 1997, Gottschalk gave $1.5 million to the UCI College of Medicine. In exchange, school officials named the medical plaza after him and his late wife.
More recently, Gottschalk coinvented software that uncovered a link between childhood attention-deficit disorder and adult addiction to alcohol and drugs. And in 2004, at age 87, he published his latest book, "World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 419; 419scam; drmengele; fraud; gottschalk; internet; internetfraud; ipresume; louisgottschalk; n00b; nigeria; nigerian419scam; nigerianscam; nigerianscams; notbrainsurgery; psychiatry; scam
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
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posted on
03/02/2006 5:42:59 AM PST
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(“Don't approach a Bull from the front, a Horse from the rear, or a Fool from any side.”)
To: cripplecreek
Sometimes they just get what they deserve. And it is a lovely thing to watch.
To: sittnick
Oh, that's just the beginning. You know you are in serious trouble when you it becomes:"WHAT are car keys?" ;)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Eight years of Clinton just seem to further this professors mental decline.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
A fool and his money. Except this fool knew enough to destroy records to cover up his foolishness. Sounds as if he may have thought that he was running a scam on his own.
45
posted on
03/02/2006 5:58:55 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: martin_fierro
Dr. 1337 has no mad skillz. JOO B PWN3D!!
46
posted on
03/02/2006 5:59:34 AM PST
by
EricT.
("I reject your reality and substitute my own."-Adam Savage)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Today, I am presenting to the world my new study: Sensei-Ern scales.
It has one question and it is to determine your gullibility:
1. Have you ever given money to a Nigerian Internet Scam?
(0 points for: NO) (1 point for: YES, continue to accumulate for multiple YES responses)
0 - You are not that gullible
1 - Oh man, that hurts
2 - I have some NOLA property you might be interested in
3 or more - Hi Doc! Isn't it sad when you maliciously attack the greatest modern president and it comes back to bite you in the behind?
Please feel free to take the test. There is a nominal fee to get the results: Multiply your score by $100...ie: Doc, just hand over the trust fund.
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posted on
03/02/2006 6:30:05 AM PST
by
Sensei Ern
(Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "I believe Hillary is the aunti-christ.")
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Louis Gottschalk, a neuroscientist, is the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UCI College of Medicine. He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that President Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980. Karma, Neh?
48
posted on
03/02/2006 7:45:41 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: Northern Alliance
Schaden-Freud, named after another famous psychiatrist.
49
posted on
03/02/2006 8:07:24 AM PST
by
expatpat
To: expatpat
LOL.
Sort of like Gottschalk-Angst.
Fear of not opening up enough Nigerian 419 Spam fast enough
50
posted on
03/02/2006 8:15:19 AM PST
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: martin_fierro
That's an easy mistake to make (snicker).
The prof simply didn't recognize the Nigerian's name------General Kachinga Cheatchusuckah.
51
posted on
03/02/2006 10:03:55 AM PST
by
Liz
(Liberty consists in having the power to do that which is permitted by the law. Cicero)
To: martin_fierro
52
posted on
03/02/2006 10:15:16 AM PST
by
Cecily
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I can't believe someone actually fell for that scam. This guy really is an idiot.
53
posted on
03/02/2006 10:19:59 AM PST
by
Cinnamon Girl
(OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
To: All
Click on the Monkey:
Ebola Monkey Man: Pissing Off Nigerian Scammers One At a Time!
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55
posted on
03/02/2006 10:43:35 AM PST
by
XR7
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The son, also an Orange County doctor, said his father Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk gave as much as $3 million over a 10-year period in response to an Internet plea that promised the doctor a generous cut of a huge sum of cash trapped in African bank accounts in exchange for money advances...The court documents, filed last month in Orange County Superior Court, allege Gottschalk even traveled to Africa to meet a shadowy figure known as "The General"...The suit alleges that Louis Gottschalk destroyed bank records to cover up the amount of his losses. "While it seems unlikely, even ludicrous, that a highly educated doctor like [Gottschalk] would fall prey to such an obvious con, that is exactly what happened," wrote Guy Gottschalk's attorney in court papers. $3 mil.
Un-frickin' believable!
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:48:43 AM PST
by
XR7
To: Cincinatus' Wife
...Louis Gottschalk, a neuroscientist, is the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at UCI College of Medicine. Even without a PhD, I learned at an early age that greedy people are those who get caught in con games. It's a human behavior thing that the Scam artists look for. Honest people who are not greedy do not fall for the bunko games.
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posted on
03/02/2006 10:55:54 AM PST
by
Ditto
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The only downside to this story is that the geezer still has some money left. I hope Britt Hume picks this up for his "grapevine" segment.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
I wasn't aware that the Nigerian Internet scams went back that far, but I have been aware as of a few months ago, that I seemed to have LOTS of new Nigerian friends---there would be at least 2 e mails a day almost EVERY day for a few months, it seemed. Always the same song and dance. These things seem to come in waves----about 3 years ago, I called the NYC FBI when they started appearing in my e mail/ Of course, they were nothing new to the FBI---they'd known about them for some time. But lately, man, that was an e mail TSUNAMI that I thought would never end. But it finally did. For variety, there was even one from a painter residing in England, who needed help in getting her paintings sold and delivered in the USA, with promises of a hefty cut of the sale price for willing helpers in the USA....I eventually looked up this painter, who had a website of her own, and the first thing I saw was MY NAME IS BEING USED BY A SCAM ARTIST ON THE INTERNET!! IT IS NOT ME!!!!
59
posted on
03/02/2006 11:13:42 AM PST
by
willyboyishere
(You'd better begin living the way you think, or you'll soon be thinking the way you live> Brecht)
To: willyboyishere
But back to the subject at hand, it is a wonderful and fitting cap to the story of this "professional" of lofty reputation who let his politics control his "science" and made those judgements on Reagan. TOO IRONIC!!
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posted on
03/02/2006 11:15:30 AM PST
by
willyboyishere
(You'd better begin living the way you think, or you'll soon be thinking the way you live> Brecht)
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