So someone fell for a Nigerian Scam

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And big time too.

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.

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.

They said President Bush and FBI Director "Robert Muller" (their spelling) were in
on the deal and needed her help.

They sent official-looking documents and certificates from the Bank of Nigeria and even
from the United Nations. Her payment was "guaranteed."

Then the amount she would get jumped up to $26.6 million ? if she would just send
$8,300. Spears sent the money.

More promises and teases of multi-millions followed, with each one dependent on her
sending yet more money. Most of the missives were rife with misspellings.

When Spears began to doubt the scam, she got letters from the President of Nigeria, FBI
Director Mueller, and President Bush. Terrorists could get the money if she did not help,
Bush?s letter said. Spears continued to send funds. All the letters were fake, of course.

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.

For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told
her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted.

http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html
 
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.
Well know, that's not really up to her now is it?

Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told
her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted.

Well, yes she was. A sucker, an easy mark, an idiot, a brainless half-wit. She is the very definition of an easy mark.
 
Little is not being considered in my mind.

Very is more of a word I am thinking of.
 
Im not so sure about the letter from Bush being fake thou.
 
now, now guys...this all happens for a reason!


so we can laugh our guts out :LOL: stupid bitch
 
yeah they got a bloody good deal that time, they'll never have to scam again!
 
What a dumb, dumb woman.

I feel sorry for the husband.
 
Man, it seems like Africans are really ****ing us up, aids, somalia pirates, nigerian scams and god knows what..

crazy continent
 
You do know that these scammers aren't actually Nigerian... right?
 
You do know that these scammers aren't actually Nigerian... right?

Many of the groups operate in Nigeria, and it actually originated in Nigeria. :O

But yeah I'm sure many aren't Nigerian, but then again, many if not most might be.
 
And that's why million upon billions of emails go out every month - because once in a while you get a sucker thiiiiiiiiiiis big.
 
Guess all that posing with fruit and bread rolls on their person is about to pay off big time. D:
 
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