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Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam'

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  1. Yonkers

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    She plans to pay for it with money she will get from her inheritance as a princess of Austria. She will need to send money to the Chancellor of Austria first though to prove her lineage.
     
  2. rocketsjudoka

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    She should've gone to these guys

    http://www.419eater.com/

    I heard about "Scambaiting" on NPR's This American Life about someone who convinced a Nigerian Scammer to go to a warzone to try to scam a church out of $200,000.
     
  3. Lady_Di

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    From reading the story, I honestly don't believe it was the correct name. The writer seems to be trying to cover up for her incompetency, so calling him a long-lost grandfather is a good way to do that.

    But yeah, either way she's a complete idiot. It says her family and law enforcement were even trying to warn her about it.

    And somebody gave her props for coming out with the story? I think it makes her even more dumb! She's not saving anybody else from this situation - everybody already knows!
     
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    Seriously! I've personally seen thousands of rumors about these Nigerian scam. :rolleyes:
     
  7. Tree-Mac

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    And she's a nurse?! Does anyone think that during the time she's scammed that she's too worried about the money, she probably injected the WRONG drugs to patients? :confused: If she's that obsessed, then I doubt she could concentrate on her work, especially if she's losing $400K! Stupid lady.
     
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    Well she is from a place called Sweet Home, Oregon afterall. I've lived in OR for 25 years and I have absolutely no idea where Sweet Home is. Never even knew it existed. She's probably never heard of the internetz and thinks Nigeria is a bank.
     
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    I thought Sweet Home was in Alabama????
     
  10. Lil Pun

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    No, but Alabama is a sweet home...I guess.
     
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    Some people should not be allowed to manage their own money.

    The scary thing is:

    She's allowed to vote.
     
  12. professorjay

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    I can't feel sorry for this person, no matter how hard I try. Everyone told her to stop, but her greed ultimately drove her to keep going.
     
  13. 3814

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    Just noticed this line...

    "She wiped out her husband’s retirement account, mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car. Both were already paid for."

    And then found on Fox News her quote:

    "The retirement [my husband] was dreaming of — cruising and going around and seeing America — is pretty much gone for him right now," she said.

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

    What a stupid beyotch! Imagine being married to this woman?!?! I can't feel sorry for her, but damn I feel terrible for him!
     
  14. ima_drummer2k

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    No, no, no. Your thinking of a song called All Summer Long which was written by Kid Rock.
     
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    haha if you go to the fourms and read some of the scambaiting those guys put through the scammers is hilarious.
     
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    The same can be said about gambling.
     

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