[PJ-Comix]

And if you think my summary about her getting scammed made her look more gullible than she really is, then please read her entire tale of hilarious woe and you can see she was BEYOND BELIEF gullible. The type of scam that only a senile person with dementia, like Joe Bide, would fall for. A normal person upon hearing that the CIA is somehow involved with unusual activity in Amazon accounts would immediately be on alert. But not the financial advice columnist for New York magazine to the extent that she willingly handed over $50,000 in cash to a complete stranger because the CIA supposedly told her to do it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I didn’t read the story. A version of the Bank Examiner scam?

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe that some psychopathic robbers have the thought process that — “If you are dumb enough to fall for my con, then you deserve to lose your money to me. In fact, I’m doing you a favor. I’m showing you how not to be stupid so that, in the future, you don’t fall for this sort of scam a second time. You should say thank you to me.”

That’s a sick way of looking at the world. But with stupid people like this financial advice bimbo, I almost understand the thought process.

[Mustard]

I’m calling BS.

[Sicon]

DEI strikes again. This hair-brained fool shouldn’t be employed to give financial advice to anyone, in any capacity/forum.

[Nifster]

She should’ve sent it to me

At least then it would’ve been put to good use

[Liz]

I read the whole sordid story——its amazing she did not know the cia does not call people nor does the irs, or banks.

The scammers knew they had a “live one,” they raked her over the coals. they musta been toasting their luck having found her to scam.

There are very few who could be as naive and cooperative as she was.

she actually responded as if she was the guilty party......
there’s no other explanation.

[Ann Archy]

I think she’s LYING! Or else she’s the DUMBEST BROAD IN THE WORLD!

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Stupid should hurt.

[avital2]

not the brightest bulb. who ever gets a call from Amazon customer service - and then she’s switched over to the FTC? click then, for sure.

[Bubba_Leroy]

“If you talk to an attorney, I cannot help you anymore,” Michael said sternly. “You will be considered noncooperative. Your home will be raided, and your assets will be seized. You may be arrested. It’s your choice.”

This is what happens when the government raids homes and seizes assets of innocent Americans. It becomes believable that it will happen to you when a scammer calls claiming to be from the government.

[sergeantdave]

People who don’t believe that the elite can be stupid and gullible are themselves stupid and gullible.

[chaosagent]

Considering that they knew this about her,

The man on the phone knew my home address, my Social Security number, the names of my family members, and that my 2-year-old son was playing in our living room. He told me my home was being watched, my laptop had been hacked, and we were in imminent danger. “I can help you, but only if you cooperate,” he said. His first orders: I could not tell anyone about our conversation, not even my spouse, or talk to the police or a lawyer.

my first thought was that her computer HAD been hacked. Especially the part about her 2-year old playing in the living room.

[SamAdams76]

Well it is the NY Times, so the bar is set pretty low.