http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/15/canadian_419_victim/
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They interviewed this guy on CBC radio yesterday.
What do they say about a fool and his money?
I can’t believe his family went along with it also.
It’s not a scam and since this guy didn’t claim the money it’s now yours - Just Western Union $10,000 to my Nigerian address and I’ll transfer his inheritance into your bank account - but hurry, the offer expires at 9pm today.
There’s an idiot born every minute…
…unfortunately, most of them live for a long time.
I loaned my bank acct. to a Nigerian Embassador who needed to transfer funds. I was paid 45,000,000 USD for the inconvenience.
Now I don’t have to buy and sell real estate with no money down, and I quit my envelope stuffing job too!
Oh it still happens…
The kicker: “For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted.”
You can lead a horse to water…
Two stories here one with 150K and one with 400K. How is someone bright enough to gather that kind of cash, but stupid enough to fall for something like this?
I can see “Mr average”, falling for it but they wouldn’t be able to scrape together the money in most cases.
I’m not saying poor people are stupid, but that in most cases in order to get money you have to have some basic understanding how the whole system works…and everything these guys do isn’t part of the “System”.
~Matt