Woman Loses $400,000 To Nigerian Email Scam

I bet she voted for the winning candidate in the last election.

Maybe she finally did come to her senses by election time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453125,00.html

ha ha! so she was a Bush supporter ?

Now its understandable!

Have any ak2'ers ever been scammed? Aside from the millions who previously voted for Bush TWICE!

A couple that moved into the apartments got scammed that way just before coming here. Not for that amount, but it was substantial enough to cripple their ability to pay for things.

Sadly, a fool and his money are soon parted.

On the back of a local Yellow cab (they paint stupid messages on their cabs):
A Fool and His Money Are Soon Partying

There was a feature on these scams on NPR tonight. It seems there's an effort being made to crack down on these scammers, most of whom are actually located in Nigeria. But most of the Africans interviewed laughed. They seem to believe that anyone stupid enough to fall for this deserve what they get. Much as I feel sympathy for anyone who loses substantial sums, I tend to agree -- how dumb does a person have to be to take this stuff seriously? I've gotten my share of e-mail come-ons claiming I could be a millionaire in short order. I usually just ****-can them without reading all the way through, or, if I'm feeling very virtuous, report them as spam to my ISP. Does anyone with an IQ above the double digits take this crap seriously? Apparently.

I just remembered this. A guy I used to work with bought himself a new computer - his family's first. After a few weeks of using it, his wife excitedly told me she had a rich relative and was coming into some big money. I told her husband to not let her get scammed like that.

Talk about psychotic detachment from reality:
if she thought that W was conspiring with the Bank of Niggeria,
the United Nations and the Director of the FBI;
(as if he needed that piddley little cash).

hmmm...

All I know is that if I'd seen anything on paper purpoting to be from George W., I'd have known immediately it was a scam. Especially if it was on undeniably genuine White House stationery.