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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on November 18, 2008, 07:16:42 AM
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Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam
SWEET HOME, Ore. — An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark. :whatever:
Janella Spears of Sweet Home says she simply became curious when she received an e-mail promising her $20.5 million if she would only help out a long-lost relative identified as J.B. Spears with a little money up front.
Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.
"That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"
Spears, who is a nursing administrator and CPR teacher, said she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account.
MORE (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453125,00.html)
Nah, she wasn't an easy mark. :whatever:
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Another Obama voter?
(http://media.katu.com/images/janella_spears2.jpg)
If I'm her husband, I'm invoking the "3-S's"...shoot, shovel, STFU.
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Another Obama voter?
(http://media.katu.com/images/janella_spears2.jpg)
If I'm her husband, I'm invoking the "3-S's"...shoot, shovel, STFU.
Heh, bet she's in line for a bail-out.
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Unending greed and unfathomable stupidity are NEVER a good combination.
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and ran through her husband's retirement account.
"The retirement he was dreaming of — cruising and going around and seeing America — is pretty much gone for him right now," she said.
She estimates it will take two years to clear the debt that accumulated in the more than two years she spent sending money to con artists.
Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.
Where exactly was the husband during all this? He certainly was not duped by a pretty face.
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Where exactly was the husband during all this? He certainly was not duped by a pretty face.
That must be the husband's photo. Where's the wife's?
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The woman needs to be culled from the herd.
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It is dumbasses like this who cause me to have to sift through 300 bogus emails a day to make sure I'm not missing one from a legitimate client.
Thanks stupid bitch.
KC
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SWEET HOME, Ore. — An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark.
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Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.
Alright ma'am, and at what point did you realize that you had put more than $100 dollars into this?
:loser:
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I can't believe that this woman is whining about her own stupidity........ :thatsright:
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Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.
*cough*
What's her DU name.
KC
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That must be the husband's photo. Where's the wife's?
Please tell me there's no basement in that house..."It puts the lotion on its skin..."
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I guess I just WON!!!!
Microsoft® Award Team/Claims Office
Microsoft Corporation
#1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052.
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Dear lucky winner,
This is to inform you that your email has won a consulation prize of
the Microsoft Corporation EMAIL DRAW Today. Your
email has won you £1,000.000.00 (One Million Great british Pounds)
To claim your prize, please contact your fiduciary agent Barr.Arthur James
Esq
with your Batch #:409978E and Reference No:FL/668530092 and
contact
him via email immediately within 24hrs.
with the information below.
Barr.Arthur James Esq
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Head Winning Claims Dept.
Tell:+44-703-191-9360
Email:barrArthurjames@hotmail.com
==============================================================
CERTIFICATE OF PRIZE CLAIM(Receipt Official Notification Letter)
==============================================================
1.Full Name:..............
2.Address:................
3.Marital Status:...........
4.Occupation :..............
5.Age:..............
6.Sex:..................
7.Nationality:...........
8.Tel:..............
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We
wish you the best of luck.Thank you for being part of our promotional
award program and commemorative Anniversary Draws.
Sincerely,
Barr. Arthur James Esq
Head Customercare Service
Microsoft Promotion
(The email address this was sent from is: townandcountry@rtol.net) That's a legit email address from Microsoft, right ?!!?!? ::)
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I guess I just WON!!!!
(The email address this was sent from is: townandcountry@rtol.net) That's a legit email address from Microsoft, right ?!!?!? ::)
Holy shit .... I've never actually known an LBillionaire before!
:lmao:
KC
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I about died when I heard her steadfast insistence that she wasn't a sucker or easy mark!
Than I thought more productively... and started typing an email to her... :uhsure:
LOL! :rofl:
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I about died when I heard her steadfast insistence that she wasn't a sucker or easy mark!
Than I thought more productively... and started typing an email to her... :uhsure:
You're a day late and she's a dollar short. Better luck next time.