04-24-2006, 10:43 AM
Quote:The files stacked up on Tom Polhemus's desk at the Fairfax County Police Department chronicle human gullibility.
A man who was corresponding with a woman on the Internet wired $6,000 to a bank in Nigeria after she sent him a check. The check he received turned out to be counterfeit.
A woman wired more than $11,000 to Canada, supposedly to pay taxes on winnings from a lottery she had never entered and from which she never saw a dime...
full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01162.html