Someone fell for it? $400k fell for it!

http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html

A registered nurse, who teaches CPR, is a reverend and fluent in sign language, this moron wiped out her husband's savings, re mortgaged their house and took liens out on both of their cars, to the tune of $400k and wired it to Nigeria over the course of two years.

I realize people are stupid, but $400,000 stupid? Remind me never to get sick in that part of Oregon. She'd probably let me die of dysentery.

$400,000.00 is alot of stupid

Dammit mydogfarted, why do you have to make us look like Oregonads?

My ex once showed me a music video done by a Nigerian comedian making fun of Americans for falling for this crap.

Pissing Off Nigerian Scammers

Hilarious.

Ohgodogod that was funny!

you can also go to http://www.419eater.com/

In the forums people post thier correspondences with these scammers. My favorite is the girl who had them going for months entirely in a character based on the Swedish Chef from the muppets. Every email would be peppered with um de gorsh's, bork bork, bork's and such. Pretty damn funny.

That is stooooooopid!

Ah, greed. Very sad. Also, very stupid.

Good job, dumbass!

Nothing really surprising. A con-man's job is to convince rational, intelligent people to part with their money. They're very good at it, and there's a reason scams such as the 419 are still in use. They work.

And anyone who thinks they're too smart to fall for a scam...I've got a deal I'd like to tell you about.

A lot of people fall for it, or it wouldn't still be done. Except I've never heard of someone falling for it that hard. Usually after the first 10-20k is lost, the person smartens up or at least asks for advice and is informed of the scam. To keep the ruse going for two years is impressively sad.

Never underestimate the power of greed, even amongst the most rationally minded. On the bright side, it could be worse. A lot of folks actually fly to Nigeria and are kidnapped and held for ransom. At least she's still alive.

Wow, if you watch the video, the investigator says that a lot of people warned her; he did, the local authorities did, even her own husband pleaded with her and she just kept sending them money.

I wonder if she has an illness of some sort?

Edit: Looks like not, now that I think about it. It's simply a horrible example of someone chasing her losses.

None of these takes that much in the way of critical thinking to accomplish.

There are lots of amusing postings on Craigslist about these scammers...

Bo Luke and the Nigerian

Engineer Robson

Justin Credible and Miss Bea Haven

My favorite John Bigbootie

wow...just wow.

She didn't. She used what they had in savings, raided hubby's 401K, mortgaged the house that was already paid for, and picked up a loan against a car that was already paid for as well.

Some of them even require that a certain amount of critical thinking is not exceeded.

Can we maybe say she might not be stupid , but she is surely lacking in common sense ?

i got canal smarts, bitch

We tend to call that gambling addiction.

Father Will U. Tuchme and Sister Anita Hanchob