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Outrageous Scams: Woman lost $400,000

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Februarys
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Korea (South)259 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-20 05:24:07
November 20 2008 05:16 GMT
#1
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/11/19/pn.most.outrageous.email.scam.cnn

So basically, she thinks that her relative is in Nigeria and asks her for $400k. She thinks that the "relative" is going to pay her back in 20 million. The funny thing is, she wouldn't listen to her family, the bank, the FBI (who told her this is an obvious scam) and she did it anyway. She didn't listen to the FBI's recommendation that she should at least transfer the money to a traceable account. The funnier thing is supposedly she got two letters, one from the president of US and one from president of Nigeria who asked her for her help, and the letters were all misspelled and everything. lol

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The things people do for money, human greed blinds everything I guess + Show Spoiler +
Even the black reporter told her that she doesnt have a relative in Nigeria lol.


On a side note, the 2nd scam is even funnier. Plumber comes in to warn an old woman that the house is going to explode if she doesnt stand there and keep holding the flush down and goes over her house to steal $3000+. I wonder why the old lady didn't think "Hmm I hear the plumber going through the rooms in my house and I hear stuff being opened, I wonder what kind of job the plumber is doing??"

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ilovejonn
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada2548 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-20 05:21:50
November 20 2008 05:20 GMT
#2
LOL? How dumb can she be... shit.

Wait, that's pretty fucking dumb LOL! I'm guessing everyone wants a relative from Nigeria. xD
Snowflakes in January, Heart warm like February, I wouldn't ordinarily..
ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
November 20 2008 05:20 GMT
#3
I heard of it from my cousin. What an idiot. Pretty obious that it was scam. Way to listen to your family.
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blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
November 20 2008 05:25 GMT
#4
makes you wonder what a person of that intelligence is doing with $400k
blabberrrrr
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
November 20 2008 05:26 GMT
#5
Those Nigerian scams were so popular a while back and alot of people fell for it. I don't know what to say about the plumbers lol
Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
November 20 2008 05:28 GMT
#6
trickle down economics for the win
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Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
November 20 2008 05:29 GMT
#7
Read this on another forum

She is fucking stupid
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SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
November 20 2008 05:36 GMT
#8
can someone explain to me

why nigeria
posting on liquid sites in current year
Conquest101
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States1395 Posts
November 20 2008 05:39 GMT
#9
The scammers are from Nigeria.
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
November 20 2008 05:43 GMT
#10
On November 20 2008 14:39 Conquest101 wrote:
The scammers are from Nigeria.

all of them?

man that's such a weird fad for a country

"HEY GUYS I THOUGHT OF THIS AWESOME IDEA LETS ALL PRETEND TO BE NIGERIAN ROYALTY AND OFFER MONEY IN RETURN FOR MONEY TO GET MONEY"

"FUCK YEAH LETS COLLECT SOME EMAIL ADDRESSES"
posting on liquid sites in current year
Night[Mare
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Mexico4793 Posts
November 20 2008 05:45 GMT
#11
after what she did, she deserved it
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MetalMarine
Profile Joined June 2007
United States1559 Posts
November 20 2008 05:46 GMT
#12
Bitch deserves to lose that money if she is that stupid
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7465 Posts
November 20 2008 05:51 GMT
#13
t.t I wish I just just a little less morals...
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
November 20 2008 06:05 GMT
#14
On November 20 2008 14:46 MetalMarine wrote:
Bitch deserves to lose that money if she is that stupid

If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14899 Posts
November 20 2008 06:15 GMT
#15
lawl what a moron
SpiralArchitect
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2116 Posts
November 20 2008 06:32 GMT
#16
On November 20 2008 14:20 ilovejonn wrote:
LOL? How dumb can she be... shit.

Wait, that's pretty fucking dumb LOL! I'm guessing everyone wants a relative from Nigeria. xD

I want my damn digital watch!

Thats fucked up for that lady but if the FB fucking I told her not to and that it was obviously a scam then she prolly deserves what she got.
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Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-20 06:45:18
November 20 2008 06:44 GMT
#17
haha, okay here's a funny one that happened to a relative of a friend of mine...

They woke up one day and their grill was stolen. They didn't do anything about it, and the next day someone CAME BACK with their grill, and said, "I'm so sorry, I live down the road and our grill broke and we were having a party for our daughter and some of her friends came and took it" So the person gave them tickets to a local baseball game as 'compensation' for the fact that their daughter's friends temporarily 'stole' their grill.

While they were at the baseball game the people came and ransacked the entire place, stealing prettymuch everything.

lol =(

edit: ALSO, what the fuck? Why are they -ALWAYS- from Nigeria? And why do they use the same damn 'prince' scam everytime? ... They need some new management or something. lol.
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Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
November 20 2008 07:38 GMT
#18
On November 20 2008 14:46 MetalMarine wrote:
Bitch deserves to lose that money if she is that stupid

Not everyone can be Admiral Ackbar.
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
November 20 2008 08:10 GMT
#19
Nigeria must have lax banks or something, so that they can scam pretty much everyone on earth.

Or maybe they just have isp's that allow a lot of spam. Either one.

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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-20 08:12:35
November 20 2008 08:11 GMT
#20
Not everyone can be Admiral Ackbar.


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