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"Nigerian E-Mail" Scam Tricks Oregon Woman Into Losing $400,000
allheadlinenews ^
| November 17, 2008
Posted on 11/18/2008 5:05:14 PM PST by JoeProBono
A woman from Sweet Home, Oregon is mired in debt after losing nearly $400,000 to Internet con men in a scheme called the Nigerian scam.
Janella Spears, a nursing administrator in Lebanon and church volunteer, took the bait of the e-mail scammers in August 2005 by wiring them $100 on the promise she will get $20.5 million for helping straighten out the finances of a fake relative.
Spears continued giving small payments despite warnings from banks because she thought the people communicating with her were honest and real relatives and representatives of banks, credit companies, the police and the FBI. She also wanted to recover the money she had wired to the con artists claiming to be from Texas, Canada, Africa and other places.
TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: email; nigerian; scam
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To: JoeProBono
She did not lose it. She gave it away.
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posted on
11/18/2008 5:32:16 PM PST
by
nufsed
To: JoeProBono
Obama supporter??
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posted on
11/18/2008 5:36:58 PM PST
by
LA Woman3
(Democrat slogan: "It's your money and I need it now!")
To: aWolverine
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posted on
11/18/2008 5:42:17 PM PST
by
KKing
To: JoeProBono
Wouldn’t there be a way to withdraw everything they put in and close the account?
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posted on
11/18/2008 5:44:49 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
To: KKing
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posted on
11/18/2008 5:48:40 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I think I first heard of this scam around 95 or 96. How stupid can people be?Hmmmmmm...President-elect Barack HUSSEIN Obama... let's see, how stupid are people?
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posted on
11/18/2008 5:58:15 PM PST
by
dware
(3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
To: omega4179
amazing how if you put something in print how gullible these people are.
she is probably an obama supporter too.
To: JoeProBono
If she really believed that $100 was going to net her $20.5 million, then she deserves to get taken.
That is not innocence or naivete - that is sheer greed blinding one's senses.
Lesson learned.
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:28:23 PM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: television is just wrong
she is probably an obama supporter too.Jamella Spears?
Yeah, I would think so.
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posted on
11/18/2008 6:29:19 PM PST
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: JoeProBono
Oh good, another "Proud to be an Oregonian" moment.
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:39:23 PM PST
by
BruceysMom
(My heart is healed. Thank you Lord!)
To: wideawake
Her name is “Janella” and Sweet Home Oregon doesn’t have a large African American population. If it helps any I saw her picture and she IS Blond. ;>)
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:41:55 PM PST
by
BruceysMom
(My heart is healed. Thank you Lord!)
To: BruceysMom
Blonde?
![](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/tikisgirl/hottie1.jpg)
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posted on
11/18/2008 7:56:55 PM PST
by
KKing
To: KKing
OOOOPPPss Sorry different pic in the local rag.
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posted on
11/18/2008 8:14:22 PM PST
by
BruceysMom
(My heart is healed. Thank you Lord!)
To: BruceysMom
OK bad day at work today, my sense of humor is on hiatus. ! NOW I GET IT. I’m heading for the short bus now.
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posted on
11/18/2008 8:16:30 PM PST
by
BruceysMom
(My heart is healed. Thank you Lord!)
To: BruceysMom
Not a problem at all... I enjoyed your calling out a rush to judgement.
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posted on
11/18/2008 8:27:05 PM PST
by
KKing
To: steveo
Not really. With the Nigerian scam, if you don’t get fooled, you don’t get harmed. With the Kenyan scam, we Freepers weren’t fooled, but we’re still gonna’ get screwed.
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