Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam

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.
Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive. "That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"

Spears, who is a nursing administrator and CPR teacher said she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account.

Good God! I only get about ten of these a week. How gullible can one be?

14 comments:

"Grammie" or whatever name he wants to call me!! said...

"she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark" so SHE says. I say she's a MORON! As is a president of a credit union here that fell for the same scam. Double MORON!

Koasa said...

"Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive. "That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?" "

OK, they were "persuasive"... So how come she sent them the money 4000 times?!!

Once would have been too much.

Heidi said...

On the theme of annoying scams, we got a call at 6:45 this morning. We never get any good calls that early, so we were braced for bad news. It was a scam impersonating the local credit union saying that our card had been deactivated and to enter our account number to activate it again. We don't do business with that credit union, but we would not have been dumb enough to enter our account number. We started the day off furious that we had gotten the call: a. it was before 7 am and b. we are on the do not call list. An email went out to everyone at my employeer saying that it was a scam and asking for the number that showed up on caller IDs (we don't have one). But they're never going to catch them.

Jimbo said...

I won both the Irish and Japanese lotteries last week.

Without ever having to by tickets.

Am I lucky or WHAT??!!!

Jimbo said...

Or is that "buy" tickets?

Schteveo said...

She deserves to retire, eating only cat food, and living in e refrigerator box, down by the river.

She gives morons a bad name.

Blue said...
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Blue said...

how long before some liberal democrat with african roots takes the side of the new pirates???

"we must give them aid (i.e. our tax dollars) so that they won't commit these nigerian scams"

Spider said...

I'll bet she qualifies for a piece of that Trillion dollar bailout. P.T. Barnum was oh so right!

Anonymous said...

Spider Missing Aboard International Space Station

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
By Tariq Malik

Why don't they just leave me alone!

Schteveo said...

Maybe the spider was hiding in the tool bag.

Jimbo said...

That spider might mutate into 'Alien' and start eating astro-knots.

Anonymous said...

Or astro-chics!

Anonymous said...

And she voted for Obama as well.