Woman out $400K to 'Nigerian scam' con artists (Investigator: Worst example of scam he's seen)

KATU-TV (Oregon) ^ | November 11, 2008 | Anna Song

[Slings and Arrows]

Janella Spears doesn’t think she’s a sucker or an easy mark.

WRONG!!!

[ME-262]

Does anybody know this ladies e-mail address? I may be able to help her recoup all her lost money and then some if she can send me a little bit of money to get started with the appropriate international court legal filings. I've also got some powerful friends in Nigeria's underworld who can trace where the money went.

[Stoat]

I would say that Obama proves that 52% of the voting public are still susceptible to these African Internet scams....

An excellent, essential point and I humbly stand corrected.

[thecabal]

What part of the planet has this woman lived on for the last 20 years.

Sweet Home is a special redneck vortex. (This coming from a guy who grew up in a similar redneck vortex not too far from Sweet Home...LOL).

[beezdotcom]

Does anybody know this ladies e-mail address? I may be able to help her recoup all her lost money and then some if she can send me a little bit of money to get started with the appropriate international court legal filings.

I'll bet you a ham sandwich she gets taken AGAIN within a year in EXACTLY this way.

[beezdotcom]

Maybe she marries deaf gay people.

[Stoat]

Maybe she marries deaf gay people.

LMAO

Perhaps her marriage services will pick up after this....it may become a point of cynical, sissified pride for deaf homosexuals to be able to say to their 'buddies' at the disco "we were married by the stupidest woman on the planet". 

[babygene]

My guess is that it didn’t happen... It’s a tax scam. Follow this:

She pulls out her husbands retirement which would be taxable at the highest rate. The money is stolen, and she gets to deduct most of the stolen amount from the tax bill on the retirement payout.

In the meantime, the money is squirreled away in the Caiman Islands....

[ME-262]

I'll bet you... she gets taken AGAIN... EXACTLY this way.

No way dude! This is honest. I'm a real loyer and I can help her with her leegal problems.

[marsh2]

My Dad is in his 90s with some judgement impairment and has been taken by several iterations of the scam totaling about $50,000. We have told him that it was a scam, reported it to the FBI several times and have had his city cops and social service do an intervention. We have taken him off the bank accounts and hid the account info. Nothing has worked. He now gets a credit card and borrows on it. My mother, who is also in her nineties is at her wits end.

They tell me I can’t do anything about it. As an adult, he has a right to dispose of his own money any way he sees fit. They told us my mother would have to have him declared incompetant. She is too frail to go through the process. We just hope they end up with enough to make it through their lives without Dad flushing it all to Nigeria. It infuriates me that the FBI will do nothing about it.

G*d damn these scammers. I hope they suffer in hell.

[Stoat]

It’s a tax scam

An interesting perspective, although after watching the video of her I have severe doubts that she is bright enough to pull off something like what you suggest.  An aura of breathtaking density and general dimwittedness surrounds her in a way so profound that I have grave concerns for the wellbeing of any patients under her care (she's an RN as well).

[ME-262]

I am a professional anti-scamming counselor. I believe I can help your dear father if you can give me his phone number?

[South40]

What an absolute idiot.

[Stoat]

I’m terribly sorry to hear of this. I gather that there is no way that you can be declared legal guardian of them both, considering that he is placing himself and his wife in jeopardy? What an absolutely awful situation.

My prayers to you and your family.

[PLMerite]

“An aura of breathtaking density and general dimwittedness surrounds her...”

Man, that’s awesome. I’m stealing it. I don’t know where I’m going to use it, but it’s too good to let get away.

[Allegra]

Odds are 5 to 1 she's an Obama voter.

That was my first thought. She has that "liberal look."

And if she falls for scams, I'm sure she fell for the BO scam.

[Kickass Conservative]

I think Jethro Tull said it best.

To be thick, as a brick.

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

"Stupid is as stupid does"

And to add to that old phrase, the newer one...'you can't fix stupid'.

[Stoat]

Man, that’s awesome

Thank you so much for your gracious and complimentary words and sentiment  :-)

 

[pennyfarmer]

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

Hey thanks for the tip. I got one for you. That email that has been going around telling you that microsoft will pay you to forward it....its a fake too. Us ignoramuses have to stick together.