Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 2, 2015 @03:00PM from the this-message-may-come-as-a-shock-to-you dept.

MarkWhittington writes: Yahoo Travel reported that three women in Chechnya took ISIS for $3,300 before getting caught. They are now under investigation for Internet fraud, which seems to be illegal even when committed against the most fearsome terrorist army in modern times. The scam seems to be a combination of the Nigerian Prince con, in which a mark is fooled into giving the con artist large sums of money and catfishing, in which the mark strikes up an online romance with someone he thinks is an attractive woman (or man depending on the gender and preference of the mark.)

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Nice. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-02 15:07 · Score: 3, Funny

This is hilarious. I wonder why more people haven't tried it.
Re:This is a crap propaganda post by Culture20 · 2015-08-02 15:58 · Score: 4, Funny

This is a crap propaganda post. How much the state department is paying you?
*ahem* the politically correct word is poop. Please, think of the children!
Okay,
This is a crap propaganda post. How much the poop is paying you?
Better?