Anyone dumb enough to fall for these Nigerian scams deserves to be taken to the cleaners.
Not that kind of scam. This one was a phish email.
Right-and THESE are the things the FBI successfully investigates?
Unfortunately too mahy of the victims are elderly people who are losing their mental faculties. My mother-in-law got caught in a scam where she bought storm windows and the contract had the clause where they would take her house if she missed one payment. Fortunately I caught it and voided the contract before the 72 hour waiting period was over. $5000 or $1200 worth of storm windows. We watched her very closely after that.
So while I generally think that people who get caught in scams deserve it, this modus operandi of targeting the elderly deserves the death penalty, IMHO.