Dumbest scam victim ever?

[grrl]

Originally posted by: Baked
You can't teach stupid.

LOL. You definitely can't.

As PT Barnum supposedly said, "There's one born every minute."

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: illusion88

What crime could they charge her with? Being a victim?

Eh...there is the question of where exactly she got the $400k (wiped out her husband's retirement account? Was he aware of this? Did he sign off on it?). There's also the whole "funding terrorism" thing, which although ridiculous (they're Nigerian sleazeballs, not Al Qaeda) might well get good play in this day and age.

The sad part is that she can make a colossal mistake like this to the tune of $400k, she's able to make it back in "3-4 years", and now some corrupt scumbag Nigerian is living like a king for the rest of his life using his ill-gotten gains to lord over the many desperately poor whom the money could actually help.

Originally posted by: sindows
How can a person who commends a relatively high salary be so stupid?

What does money have to do with intelligence?

The highest paid people around are the football players, not the theoretical physicists.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: illusion88

What crime could they charge her with? Being a victim?

Eh...there is the question of where exactly she got the $400k (wiped out her husband's retirement account? Was he aware of this? Did he sign off on it?). There's also the whole "funding terrorism" thing, which although ridiculous (they're Nigerian sleazeballs, not Al Qaeda) might well get good play in this day and age.

The sad part is that she can make a colossal mistake like this to the tune of $400k, she's able to make it back in "3-4 years", and now some corrupt scumbag Nigerian is living like a king for the rest of his life using his ill-gotten gains to lord over the many desperately poor whom the money could actually help.

Originally posted by: sindows
How can a person who commends a relatively high salary be so stupid?

What does money have to do with intelligence?

The highest paid people around are the football players, not the theoretical physicists.

Maybe they could charge her with being a knowing accessory to the perpetrators of the scam since (apparently) she's aware of it now.

 

[Mucho]

PT Barnum "There is a sucker born everyday."

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Okay... so seriously. Nuke Nigeria's Internet infrastructure. We don't need any more god damn Nigerian scam artists.

My African friend calls Nigerians dirty bastards.

not just dirty bastards... but rich dirty bastards.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: CRXican
Can't believe people ever fell for this stuff.

Fixed

 

[Kroze]

It's not that people are dumb, it's because they are greedy.

 

[CptCrunch]

Originally posted by: CKent

Originally posted by: CptCrunch
dear god, thats it i'm done, i can't understand how we are all still alive with idiots like this still around.

You sitting down? Ok, good - here it comes. These are the people breeding the most.

what? nnoooo!

 

[LS8]

Fucking moron.

 

[oddyager]

Originally posted by: Kroze
It's not that people are dumb, it's because they are greedy.

Sometimes they aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[captains]

wish i had a job that would get me 400K in 3-4 years

 

[sdifox]

Wonder if she's related to the more famous Spears

 

[imported_Lipton]

Wow, it amazes me how stupid can one be.
OMFG wow.... i mean why would you.... wow.... retarded.

 

[jemcam]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
She sounds like a republican.

Actually, the whole idea of getting something for nothing is more of a Democrat idea, not Republican.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: jemcam

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
She sounds like a republican.

Actually, the whole idea of getting something for nothing is more of a Democrat idea, not Republican.

$400,000 is not nothing.

Democrat idea is more like the free ipod scams IMO.

 

[dakels]

Originally posted by: CTrain
I can't say anything else that haven't been said already.
I can see someone get scammed once for a large sum of money but this moron kept sending money for 2 years without getting anyhting back.
How does someone this stupid have access to $400K to begin with ??

Read the article. She took out loans against her house and car and everything she had basically. Her life's savings and capital.

People fall into a psychological trap of trying to swim out of quicksand by pushing harder and sinking faster. The first $100 was easy, but it kept escalating and she didn't want to cut her losses and walk away losing. She held on to a hope that it would all pay off somehow. It's a type of desperate delusion where people convince themselves that even the most improbable of outcomes may be achievable. It's probably the same rationale of gamblers losing their houses where the odds are greatly stacked against them. It's easy to mock the apparent stupidity of these people but regarding the conditions and motivations behind it can make it seem a bit more understandable.

 

[geno]

Noooooooooooo....stop feeding the scammers! This will only bring more of them out of the woodwork.

 

[Tiamat]

what an idiot.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
She's religious, but also apparently super greedy. Awesome. To the MAX.

I see this as she is very religious and so she is very giving.... You know like all religious people are....

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: jemcam

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
She sounds like a republican.

Actually, the whole idea of getting something for nothing is more of a Democrat idea, not Republican.

Did you even read the story? 400k isn't nothing.
You must be republican, reading ftl.


*edit*
burnitdwn beat me to it.

 

[wheresmybacon]

She's from Sweet Home. If you were from around here it wouldn't be that surprising.

 

[alkemyst]

how did a nurse get $400k in a couple years to send?

 

[thegimp03]

Funny, but I do feel bad for her and her husband. How would you feel if you were the husband? I think she'd disappear quicklike.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Haha!

Now, Spears has gone public with her story as a warning to others not to fall victim.

EVERYONE was telling her it's a scam! EVERYONE else already knows! Ugh, stupidity really has no limits.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I'd love to have her as my nurse. She'd give you a sot of morphine, then come back 15 minutes later and give you another one, and she wouldn't stop until you were dead. She could have police there restraining her and she'd still be making a beeline for the corpse, syringe held in her teeth like a pirate, grunting like a distressed rhino, completely convinced that just one more morphine shot and everything will be fine.