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Nigerian Scammers Claim Another Victim

Posted by michael on from the merry-christmas dept.

A Florida newspaper ran a story yesterday about a local retiree who fell hard for a 419 scam. The story goes into depth on the methods used to play on the target's beliefs and gain his confidence - in this case, the target (who lost $320,000) is still having a hard time accepting that they were thieves. Truly remarkable.

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  1. Re:It's not a scam by neosake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    AFTER ALL, NEVER TRUST SOMEONE WHO CAN'T TAKE OFf HIS CAPS LOCK!!!

    Whoops, was my caps lock button stuck?!

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  2. Re:$285K to clean the powder off the money??? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since when has being stupid prevented you obtaining money? Bush never had any problems.

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  3. Not that funny by Jesus+IS+the+Devil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Replace the Nigerian scammers with Christian pastors and the police as scientists and you have another perfect story.

    So before you laugh at him, please do reflect on yourselves...

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