UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails (had claimed Reagan had diminished mental ability)

Los Angeles Times ^ | March 2, 2006 | William Lobdell,

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

ROFLMAO

[SusaninOhio]

Sometimes they just get what they deserve. And it is a lovely thing to watch.

[reformedliberal]

Oh, that's just the beginning. You know you are in serious trouble when you it becomes:"WHAT are car keys?" ;)

[Always Right]

Eight years of Clinton just seem to further this professors mental decline.

[FreePaul]

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.

[EricT.]

Dr. 1337 has no mad skillz. JOO B PWN3D!!

[Sensei Ern]

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.

[Mike Darancette]

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?

[expatpat]

Schaden-Freud, named after another famous psychiatrist.

[bwteim]

LOL.

Sort of like Gottschalk-Angst.

Fear of not opening up enough Nigerian 419 Spam fast enough

[Liz]

That's an easy mistake to make (snicker).

The prof simply didn't recognize the Nigerian's name------General Kachinga Cheatchusuckah.

[Cecily]

[Cinnamon Girl]

I can't believe someone actually fell for that scam. This guy really is an idiot.

[Mr. Brightside]

Book smart, life dumb.

[XR7]

Click on the Monkey:

Ebola Monkey Man: Pissing Off Nigerian Scammers One At a Time!

[XR7]

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!

[Ditto]

...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.

[ozzymandus]

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.

[willyboyishere]

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!!!!

[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!!