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Nigerian Scam Artists Taken For $33,000
smitty777 writes "An Australian woman who was being used by a group of Nigerian scam artists stole over $33,000 from the group who employed her. Her bank account was being used to funnel the cash from a dodgy internet car sales website. Irony aside, it makes one wonder how these folks ever got the nerve to go to the police with this matter. Those of you wondering, this article offers some answers to the question of why so many of these scams originate from this area."
.. you end up in jail and the money isn't yours either.
Hey don't blame me, IANAB
She didn't steal it from the scammers, she stole it from the victims and then just didn't forward the money to the scammers like she was "supposed" to. This isn't a story of comeuppance or anything... just someone other than Nigerians ending up with the money. And of course the Nigerians didn't file the complaint... the victims did.
My grandma went to the fbi after being scammed by nigerians. They told her to contact homeland security. She did and nothing came of it.
To offset political mods, replace Flamebait with Insightful.
Go read Wealth of Nations (the whole thing, not just the laissez-faire beginning) and stop trotting out this retarded meme.
Which has anything to do with however put that idiocy in the summary (eg a question the damn story linked to explicitly answers)?
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Why yes, it sure is a whole lot easier to try to scam people than be enterprising and clever and provide something economically useful.
Uh, yeah, actually it is.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.