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How three enterprising Chechen ladies took ISIS for $3,300
Houston Politics Examiner ^ | July 31, 2015 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 07/31/2015 12:29:16 PM PDT by Marcus

Yahoo Travel reported on Wednesday that three women in Chechnya took ISIS for $3,300 before getting caught. They are now under investigation for Internet fraud, which seems to be illegal even when committed against the most fearsome terrorist army in modern times. The scam seems to be a combination of the Nigerian Prince con, in which a mark is fooled into giving the con artist large sums of money and catfishing, in which the mark strikes up an online romance with someone he thinks is an attractive woman (or man depending on the gender and preference of the mark.)

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TOPICS: Humor; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; catfishing; chechnya; isis; scam

1 posted on 07/31/2015 12:29:16 PM PDT by Marcus
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To: Marcus

Hope they claim it on their taxes or obie will sick his IRS sycophants after them. He’ll probably do it anyways.


2 posted on 07/31/2015 12:32:25 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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I thought Chechnya was in Russia, and a little out of Obie’s reach.


3 posted on 07/31/2015 12:48:46 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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Whoops! I thought I read a story a few days ago that they were Americans who scammed isis. My mistake. I didn’t think to hard about the location in the title. Chechnya lol


4 posted on 07/31/2015 12:59:56 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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