[Tuxedo]

The shoe store ad is priceless! Great photoshop job! I'm still laughing about that! It is so obvious that this attorney and "Gloria" are the same person. It's nice to see those yahoos are as gullible as some of the people they have scammed. What is the racket anyway? To get the $2500 and disappear?

[lowbridge]

Great photoshop job! I'm still laughing about that! It is so obvious that this attorney and "Gloria" are the same person

This is partly true. Whenever her "lawyer" wrote to me, his emails were suspiciously worded like hers and used the same font. However, I got voice mail from both her and her "lawyer", an actual male accomplice.

[lowbridge]

What is the racket anyway? To get the $2500 and disappear?

Depends on the scammer. Some do that, but others try to squeeze more out of the scammed.

[rwfromkansas]

No attorney would write as badly as that.

Obviously it is gloria "i can't capitalize my i's."

[kevkrom]

What is the racket anyway? To get the $2500 and disappear?

Multiple levels of scam:

• Identity theft: they ask for personal info that they can then use for credit applications, etc.
• Wire fraud: the bank acount number provided will eventually be emptied of any money in it
• Ever-increasing "fees": they start by asking for a significant but small (compared to the share of the "money" the target will supposedly get) "fee" necessary for the transfer ($2500 in this case). When the target pays this "fee", another, larger "fee" is requested for another stage of the "transfer"
• Possible kidnapping: when the target has enough invested in the scam that they feel compelled to see it through, they are asked to meet in person. At this time, additional information/money will be requested to accomplish the previous tasks. Failing that, the target is kidnapped or killed.