Posted on 03/03/2006 11:58:15 AM PST by E-Mat
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.
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."
Gottschalk — who at 89 still works at the UCI campus medical plaza that bears his name — said in court papers that the losses were caused by "some bad investments."
[...]
In the Gottschalk case, both the amount of the alleged losses and the reputation of the victim set it apart.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
"Note to Self: Perform self-test before making financial decisions."
Sounds like the old guy has lost it eh?
Maybe he just needs a new tinfoil hat?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
LOL, there's someone who actually fell for the Nigerian bank account scam?? LMAO! And needless to say it was a Reagan hating looney tune.
I always wondered why those patently absurd Nigerian emails kept making the rounds.
Large amounts of money for nothing? Still sounds darned good, doesn't it?
Sweet irony.
Buy any lottery tickets lately? The Nigerians only wish they could run a scam as good as that one.
I think "Physician, heal thyself" certainly applies here!
THE NIGERIA THING IS A SCAM?????? OH CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!
Man, if he's been doing this for "a period of ten years" he was sure smart getting in early. LOL!
Doctors are consistently the WORST investors. They can never believe they're wrong.
Do not invent your own headlines for articles. Always use the one at the source you've put in the link.
What a shame.
Holy brainless Batman!!!
The Nigerians probably moved in on this guy right after he came out about RR-when he 'outed' himself as a total moron.
Always good to see another liberal dupe.
This only reinforces my beliefs about psychologists AND university professors.
The lottery is a tax on people who flunked high school math, and at least when the numbers were run by the Mob, they gave out a 100% payoff.
"I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie."
Sounds like you did'nt attend the Fri. nite dinner at the CRP Convention! (Arnold spoke.)
I call it karma.
no fool like a damned fool
Calling Dr Howard, Dr Fine!
"Sweet irony."
Sweet irony indeed. I remember when The jabbering idiots of the MSM were all atwitter over how age had softened Reagan's brain, which of course was defective to begin with.
Good to see revenge biting the ass of the experts now and then.
This set off the alarm on my BS meter.
Has the Nigerian scam email really been around 10 years?
Say what you want about Reagan, but he never fell for Nigerian scams.
Agree. You make your own luck, for the most part.
Sorry.
"Remember Dr. Gottschalk, who said President Reagan suffered diminished mental ability?..."
just seemed so much more relevant than,
"UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails, Suit Says"
If you've ever listed something of value on ebay...you can almost be certain that you'll get a nigerian to buy it. It is therefore a no brainer, to exclude bids from this country.
I had one guy send me a hand ful of Walmart Money Orders to pay for the item.
Snicker....
What a Maroon!
LOL, I just got another one earlier this week. Can't believe these 'college educated' people are falling for this stuff.
I'm looking at the headline, and it appears to match the column headline as well....
Yes, absolutely. The Nigerian scam has been around in some form or other since the 1980s. It used to be run primarily through the mail before the WWW came along.
Here's a thread for you.
A few have indeed. One involved a secretary to an attorney a few years ago, and IIRC, she dipped her hands in the till to get the funds to do it.
Remember too, that altruism is not what drives the Nigerian scams, greed is the key.
The nutty professor got a bit too greedy.
The moderator changed it for me.
It used to say, "Remember Dr. Gottschalk, who said President Reagan suffered diminished mental ability?..."
Is there a way to add a subtitle that can be viewed in the browse list?
Me personally, I would never fall for such a stupid scam.
I'm too smart for that. Everybody knows there's no money in Nigeria. It's all in Liberia!
I have all my money going to help transfer $10 million from LIBERIA!
I believe the proper term is "whale." If you are in the confidence game, this is the kind of guy you want to me. Lots of people are gullible, but not with this much money.
Add to the title (in parentheses) . . . or following ellipses.
Rich, Greedy & Naive.....a brilliant combo.
I hear Anna Nicole wants to marry him.
My friend, I have 20,000 Nigerian National Lottery tickets being held in a safe deposit box in the name of my uncle, the former Solicitor-General, in a bank in the Cayman Islands.
I need the assistance of a trustworthy person to assist in accessing that safe deposit box....
Gottschalk. There used to be a guy here in San Antonio, known as the Thong Man.
Yep.
Used to ride his bike around the city wearing nothing but a thong. Claimed he was sane.
Couple of months later... he threw himself - butt naked - off a mountain in the Big Bend.
Don't mean to disparage anone name Gottschalk, but you gotta wonder......
On a serious note, I cringe to think that stupid people or I should say unknowing people are allow on a computer.
No really, we can't stop them as they have freedoms but they only have enough knowledge to be dangerous to themselves.
With Scams and all, I won't answer my cell phone these day, nor do I have a land line.
And yet...Ronaldus Maximus still managed to outclass his Dem opponents and Gorbachev! It's a crazy world.
That's the source of the doctor's national 'prominence'? Oy!
Each day they keep sending this crap out. I guess the answer is that (as I delete the latest Nigerian scam, I ask myself why as P.T. once said), there's one born every minute.
Yes, you are right. But the scam was known long before the Internet.
This type of scam was sometimes known as a "Spanish prisoner"
scheme, because, in the early 20th century, it often claimed that
someone was being unjustly imprisoned in Spain (then ruled by an
autocratic regime), and would richly reward anyone who helped him
escape.
So he's a college professor? One of the real smart ones molding the minds of our young?
His political decisions and beliefs are probably just as good as his financial ones.
"See, capitalism doesn't work, it cheats the working man!"
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