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So this guy lost three million to 419 e-mail scams from Nigeria. How does somenone that gullible amass that much money to begin with? It's a sad commentary on the state of confidence schemes here in the US.

www.bugmenot.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/la-me-nigerian2mar02,1,7629930.story?coll=chi-business-hed

Here's a Nigerian song about 419 scams. Called "I Chop Your Dollar"

http://www.tlcafrica.com/I_go_chop_your_dollar1.mov

reminds me of Rocky. poor dude lost all his money...:(

Bumpski

they only need to find one rich fool

I wish I had the kind of money where I could "lose" $3 million.

A California nutcracker. Sort of tells the whole story right there.

Reminds me of a story in the papers here a while back, about a couple of women scam artisits. They went up to a middle-aged woman and told her that they could see the future and her son was going to be hurt or killed in an accident. But if they had some money (the more the better), the could bless the money and the son wouldn't be hurt.
So the middle-aged woman went to the bank and withdrew several hundred thousand, put it in a bag and gave it to the women to 'bless'. She was told not to open the bag until she got home. Surprise surprise, when she got home the money had mysteriously 'changed' into old newspaper.

I was left thinking, how the hell does someone that gullible end up with that much money in their bank account?


What made it worse is that it wasn't an isolated incident. The police finally caught the women, but not before they had scammed several other people the same way.

There's a lot of dumb ppl out there.

I was left thinking, how the hell does someone that gullible end up with that much money in their bank account?



I don't think it is as much gullible as it is what they are exposed to on a continuing basis. For instance, there is very strong evidence that the easiest people to hook into a sales pitch are salesmen themselves.
If a person is subjected to a steady diet of absurd pitchs and actually depends on them for their own living, then what is absurd to us will appear as perfectly reasonable. Politicians are famous for this very sort of graying the lines of right and wrong, reasonable and unreasonable.
On second thought. There sure are a lot of gullible people out there!
BTW, did I tell you about the dream I had? The poor demented hamsters. ;)

I know i may sound like i am repeating everyone else in the forum here but

JESUS CHRIST, SOME PEOPLE ARE FU*%ING RETARDED!!!!!!!

(deep breaths........)

I know i may sound like i am repeating everyone else in the forum here but

JESUS CHRIST, SOME PEOPLE ARE FU*%ING RETARDED!!!!!!!

(deep breaths........)
I get that all the time. and when I tell them how they screwed up they say I am gay... or retarded. Retards.:upyours:

BTW, did I tell you about the dream I had? The poor demented hamsters. ;)
Don't want to know about it!
Don't want to know about it!
Don't want to know about it!
<*puts fingers in ears and starts humming loudly*>

I Wanna Know Liver!:d

There's a fool born every minute...

There's a lot of dumb ppl out there.

What he said.