Postman loses ?130,000 savings to Nigerian man on Myspace

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Just saw this posted on garry's blog.

Story HERE

The guy gets the chat on with a woman over the internet.. and it turns out she's in some kind of financial trouble, so he helps her out. He ends up giving her about ?100 grand before she stops talking to him.. and then he gets a message saying it was all a scam.

To most people this would be the end, stop trusting everyone, call the cops, whatever. But then another woman contacts him saying she's been scammed the same, and he feeds her ?30 grand to help out!

The story is written like it wants you to feel sorry for him. But how can you? What a dozy bastard.
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Common sense doesn't hit some people... people need to learn never to trust ANYONE online.
 
I didn't think anyone could actually fall for that anymore. But having looked at the guy's picture, I'm not AS surprised as I was just reading the post.
 
That man looks infected. Like, early stages of the T-virus infected.
 
Darkside55 said:
That man looks infected. Like, early stages of the T-virus infected.
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That zombie died and left himself an inheritance of $1.2 million dollars. All he has to do to claim it is pay $10,000 for a transfer fee.
 
This story is obviously fake. No postman has that kind of cash.



I mean shit, he probably stole his uniform off a corpse in a car and went around delivering the mail in the dead postman's bag to nearby towns in exchange for food and shelter and then eventually he came to start a real postal service based around his lies only to have it suffer a crushing blow when everyone find out his lies but actually the postmen he recruited are passionate enough about what they're doing that they continue delivering the mail, despite the fact that they are getting shot down and murdered by a renegade man and his army of post apocalypse bandits but eventually the postman and his loyal recruits take the fight to them and manage to kill Bethlehem and they can go on re-establishing a new American government.


Jeez guys, its all so obvious.
 
If this guy has any cash left, I have a pyramid scheme he may want to invest in.
 
Krynn72 said:
I mean shit, he probably stole his uniform off a corpse in a car and went around delivering the mail in the dead postman's bag to nearby towns in exchange for food and shelter...

...go on re-establishing a new American government.

Jeez guys, its all so obvious.
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Yeah, sure. And my name's Ford Lincoln Mercury.
 
This happens to so many people, and they all deserve it if they're stupid enough to fall for it.
 
Hell, it was his own fault for trusting somebody on the internet.
 
Daily Mail source. I wonder if it did actually happen.
 
Krynn72 said:
This story is obviously fake. No postman has that kind of cash.



I mean shit, he probably stole his uniform off a corpse in a car and went around delivering the mail in the dead postman's bag to nearby towns in exchange for food and shelter and then eventually he came to start a real postal service based around his lies only to have it suffer a crushing blow when everyone find out his lies but actually the postmen he recruited are passionate enough about what they're doing that they continue delivering the mail, despite the fact that they are getting shot down and murdered by a renegade man and his army of post apocalypse bandits but eventually the postman and his loyal recruits take the fight to them and manage to kill Bethlehem and they can go on re-establishing a new American government.


Jeez guys, its all so obvious.
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I read the story in my paper yesterday.

Sadly, it's not fake :p
 
Oh shit a photo of a random guy IT MUST BE TRUE!
 
Thats definatly a postman , I can tell by the eyes. So its not a random guy. But they could well have got a picture of a random postman for the article. Besides , the amount of people that fall for this stuff is alarming.
 
G(ordon)-man said:
What kind of a idiot that postman is.
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^This.


lol @ postman.

EDIT> Last year, my parents nearly fell for one of many Canadian sweepstakes scams saying they had won $67,000 and to send them $60 dollars to pay for the security bond so they can send them their winnings. LOL

Glad I was there to call out that BS. My dad nearly fell for it and was about to go to Wal-mart to pay for that bond.
 
Uh, you're still having a problem understanding that I'm skeptical of anything that's solely reported by the Daily Mail?
 
Well assuming the story is fake they'd hardly use a photo of some gray-haired distinguished gentleman sitting in an armchair by the fire in his tweed jacket smoking his pipe while reading Dostoyevsky.
 
Oh man, you guys are going to add insult to injury by making a meme out of him.
 
There's already an action figure made after this guy? That was fast.
 
Granted, that was very naive of him. However, when you really think about it, what a sad world it is when kindness is punished.
 
It was not "kindness" at all. He only sent the money because he is desperate and they were "chicks" (or so he thought). If he knew it was some dude in Africa he would never have sent the money. But thats besides the point because it is still his fault for being too trusting , who else would trust what a person in a place where people all over the world go says? Especially when they say they are a hot chick who needs a shitton of money for one reason or another.
 
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