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underwater wrote:
Claradoon wrote:
My neighbour actually fell for this scam. She's a welfare single mom. She sold her car to get the money to prove to his officer that *she* was in good faith and sent it by International Money Order filled out by her bank with her there and this "officer" on the phone, identifying himself as Captain Somebody of the Whatever Military. There was nothing the bank could do if she was determined to send and she was. The soldier in question was supposed to arrive the next evening at the International Airport and, to my astonishment, he did! They talked a long time outside but he didn't come in. I didn't intrude; it was too late. Towards dusk I saw another neighbour walking her, sobbing, to our elevators with his arm around her kind of protectively.
I forgot to say: when he got off the plane he would have her $2000 (from selling the car) in cash to give back to her. He would marry her immediately the same day (military law would enable this, she said) and she would become half-owner of his $2,000,000.00, which he had saved from all his years in the military, where they pay your room and board and he just banked his pay. He had "married the army" as they say, was retiring and wanted to share his life.
She absolutely believed all of this, I sat with her and listened and there was nothing I could do - the car was sold, the money was sent to Nigeria and she believed that by noon the next day she would be a millionaire.
I beg of you! Disconnect from this scam!
I forgot to say: when he got off the plane he would have her $2000 (from selling the car) in cash to give back to her. He would marry her immediately the same day (military law would enable this, she said) and she would become half-owner of his $2,000,000.00, which he had saved from all his years in the military, where they pay your room and board and he just banked his pay. He had "married the army" as they say, was retiring and wanted to share his life.
She absolutely believed all of this, I sat with her and listened and there was nothing I could do - the car was sold, the money was sent to Nigeria and she believed that by noon the next day she would be a millionaire.
I beg of you! Disconnect from this scam!
I think I remember a newspaper article where a psychologist was asked to comment on why people fall for these scams. She said that the majority of people really know better, but that they disable the critical voice inside them because they for some reason are desperate and want to believe. Loss of spouse, job, health, certainly overwhelming loneliness.
A similar thing happened to my mother recently. She was very lonely after my father passed on and found a romance scammer from Nigeria on a dating website for seniors. The scammers took her for about $15,000 over a two year period. About six months in, she finally let me know that she was chatting with someone on the internet. I suspected something was up, alerted her it was a scam and contacted the authorities with all of the information that I had on hand. She denied that she had sent any money, just presents for his birthday. (That is usually the starting point of those scams, they see if they can get you to give them a token present, then move on to the money.) I went so far as to remove the chatting capabilities from her computers. She got mad at me for interfering in her personal business, but I was trying to do the right thing.
Unfortunately, she fell right back into that scam because they gave her a sob story that she believed. She was sending them money orders each month. Well, they upped the ante by sending her a $6,300 cashiers check that she was supposed to pay for some stuff for them. In the process, the check came back as forged before they could get the money out of my mother's account. The bank contacted my mother about this because her account was frozen. She was too ashamed to tell me the whole story, as she had planned on recouping some of the money she had paid them with the cashiers check. I tried to protect her, but she trusted the scammers more than her own son, which disappoints me tremendously. My sister tried to use this situation as an excuse to get control over my mother's bank account, but I stopped that from happening. I did not want to see my mother scammed again (and my sister would do that for her own gain).
I hate scammers.
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