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Thu 1 Apr, 2004 09:04 am
Quote:Harvard teacher bilks friends, falls for scam
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Posted: 4:58 PM EST (2158 GMT)
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Sometimes the scammer just turns out to become, well, the scammee.
A former Harvard University instructor of medicine who was arrested on Tuesday for conning friends, colleagues and Internet acquaintances out of $600,000 was himself duped when he trusted other swindlers with the money, police said.
Weidong Xu, 38, quickly lost his ill-gotten loot by investing it in a dubious Nigerian business offer he received by e-mail. The spam message promised gains of $50 million, police said.
"He's as smart as can be," said Boston police detective Steve Blair. "But greed got the better of him."
The rest of the story can be found at:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/03/31/odd.scammer.reut/index.html
Is this just a case of "You reap what you sow"?
So, there's a use for those Nigerian emails after all!
I can't believe anyone actually fell for the Nigerian email. Wow
That's pretty amazing. How can anyone so smart, at the same time, be so stupid? This doesn't seem to be a case of book smarts vs. common sense either.
It's almost unbelievable. If I were police, I'd dig a little deeper into exactly where that money went.
What goes around, comes around.
I know puh-lenty of smart slash stupid people.
Still, HA! :-D
Another illustration of why crime doesn't pay. Set knows the rest of it, and is fond of the saying, I believe.
so to find out who has been scammed, where's the cash?
sozobe wrote:I know puh-lenty of smart slash stupid people.D
I know soz. We all do. Educated fools run rampant. But doesn't this strike you as just too gullible to be believed for an educated liar and thief? Suspiciously gullible even?
For a humorous look at scam-baiting (the sport of drawing Nigerian internet scammers into long, idiotic, and ultimately futile e-mail exchanges with potential "marks"), check out
Scam-O-Rama
I never got a Nigerian e-mail...
Now I feel left out
Phoenix32890 wrote:What goes around, comes around.
What goes around, goes away...
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