People Actually Fall For This??

[Jade Tigress]

I didn't think it was possible. Wow. Just wow.

A Naperville man has been scammed out of $200,000 after wiring money overseas to an online girlfriend he didn’t realize was fake.


The 48-year-old male victim called Naperville police at about 7 p.m. Wednesday to ask for help rescuing the woman whom he believed had been kidnapped in London, according to Sgt. Gregg Bell of the Naperville Police Department.

Bell said the man was looking to call Scotland Yard in England to report the kidnapping, at which time, police officers had to explain he was scammed and the woman was fake.

Bell said the man had numerous e-mail or chat conversations with the woman he met through an online dating website. However, he had never met the woman in person.


Bell added the scam artist, at one time, proved her existence by sending over a Florida drivers license that was lifted right from the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles website as a sample license.


“You know those sample licenses online that say “Jane Doe” and have a picture,” Bell said. “The victim thought that was the woman.”
The victim told police, he had wired the $200,000 to several different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England and the United States.

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[Touch Of Death]

Yes, people are basicly good, and criminals know that.
Sean

 

[Ken Morgan]

Pam....is your way of telling me you're not sending me any money? :angel:

 

[cdunn]

When people want something to be true badly enough, they do a great job of ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

He could have bought a dozen RealDolls and taken then all out for dinner with that kind of cash.

 

[granfire]

He could have bought a dozen RealDolls and taken then all out for dinner with that kind of cash.

ROFLMAO!!

for that kind of money he could have had himself a date with a real woman, professional, maybe, but real!

 

[Xue Sheng]

All this does is prove what I have always thought about the majority of the human race

 

[Bob Hubbard]

ROFLMAO!!

for that kind of money he could have had himself a date with a real woman, professional, maybe, but real!

Real women are scary.

 

[girlbug2]

All this does is prove what I have always thought about the majority of the human race

Spell it out for us Xue

 

[Xue Sheng]

Spell it out for us Xue

Nah… I am rather annoyed with people today and anything I say beyond that will likely be used against me in a court of law… and/or give MT’s vulgarity filters one heck of a workout

 

[granfire]

Real women are scary.

LOL, I heard that!

 

[Jade Tigress]

Pam....is your way of telling me you're not sending me any money? :angel:

Oh look! You are smarter than the average bear.

I can't believe someone who actually has that kind of money to send is stupid enough to fall for it...

 

[Touch Of Death]

Real women are scary.

This is true.

 

[Touch Of Death]

At least I know my little Ludmilla, working in a slave camp in Siberia is real. She sends me Bathing suit photos all the time. She has never answered a single direct question, but she says she is falling in love with me, and that is enough.:ultracool

 

[CoryKS]

ROFLMAO!!

for that kind of money he could have had himself a date with a real woman, professional, maybe, but real!

Just one? He could have had a Charlie Sheen fantasy weekend.

 

[granfire]

Just one? He could have had a Charlie Sheen fantasy weekend.

I don't think the untrained guy can survive that....

 

[Kacey]

Oh look! You are smarter than the average bear.

I can't believe someone who actually has that kind of money to send is stupid enough to fall for it...

Even stupid people can inherit....

 

[granfire]

Even stupid people can inherit....

But a fool and his money soon doth part...

 

[Big Don]

I don't think the untrained guy can survive that....

I'll volunteer to try, as long as we leave the drugs out.

 

[Big Don]

Correct me if I'm wrong, Xue, but, your basic opinion is:
While an individual person may be intelligent, people as a whole are remarkably stupid.
Is that it?