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And big time too.
http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html
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