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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. This may be callous... by xaoslaad · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but the only sad thing to come out of this story is that it was an old geezer who had a chance to breed and raise his retard children before Darwin got to him. Lets hope next time it's soemone younger that gets nailed; before they have a chance to proliferate their fouled DNA.

  2. Re:Simply Insane by nomadic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I really don't understand this mindset, the idea that you only feel sorry for someone's pain if they meet some arbitary level of worthiness. There's no point in arguing about it, I feel kind of sorry for you if you have to qualify your feelings for your fellow man that way.

  3. Re:Alive and Well by nomadic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there any especial reason you're capitalizing "spam"?

  4. What do you expected? by agoliveira · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not feeling sorry for this guy.
    If he was robbed or lost the money on a fraudulent bank or something like that them he would be a victim but he was asked to help on an *ilegal* transaction and was his greed what moved him on.
    For me, he is accesory for this crime, not a victim.

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  5. Woo Woo... NOT NEWS ... NERDS! by gmby · · Score: 0, Troll

    michael --

    Please stop falling for the Nigerian Spam posting...it's an old slashdot post that's time is over...

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