Police Investigator Picks Up the Pieces for Nigerian Scam Victims

[mandy]

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

[regic]

"Nobody's going to send a perfect stranger a great deal of money,"

What a crock. I know my $5 million check from General Tutti Frutti in Lagos will be arriving any day now.  :twistedevil: