wow. If I was this lady, I probably would have tried to keep this to myself.
Sweet Home, Ore – An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn’t a sucker or an easy mark. Janella Spears of Sweet Home says she simply became curious when she received an e-mail promising her $20.5 million if she would only help out a long-lost relative identified as J.B. Spears with a little money up front.
Its hard to believe that anyone would fall for this scam, especially for this astronomical amount. It leaves one question to be asked, “Why would you send that much money to somebody you don’t know, distant relative or not?”
Well she didn’t just send over $400,000. Jeez that would be idiotic. She sent that amount over 2 years, starting at $100.00 a time.
“Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.The scheme is often called the “Nigerian scam” and it’s familiar to many people with e-mail accounts. It still exists and it still works.
The scammers sent Spears official-looking legal documents and certificates from the Bank of Nigeria and the United Nations. President Bush and FBI Director Robert Mueller were also involved, the e-mails said, and needed her help.”
Spears first sent $100 through an untraceable wire service as directed by the scammers. Then, more multimillion dollar promises followed so long as she sent more money.
“Spears, who is a nursing administrator and CPR teacher, said she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband’s retirement account.The retirement he was dreaming of — cruising and going around and seeing America — is pretty much gone for him right now,” she said.”
Of course I find it sad that there are people that would take advantage of someone like this, but in this ladies situation, I really don’t have any sympathy for her and her husband. If the schmuck was dumb enough to marry a broad like this he deserves to work until he croaks.
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November 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Wowsa! I cannot believe this lady! But at the same time, I suppose it’s like stockmarket crash syndrome. As you watch the market sink, and you’ve lost tons of money, you don’t pull out the rest and cut your losses because you are just hoping to GOD that something shifts and that lost money will miraculously be recovered. As this poor silly woman kept dishing out money, the more she lost, the more she refused to accept that she’s being scammed. The power of denial!! Unfortunately, denial never gets us anywhere positive. A HARD lesson learned!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Thanks Jenni!
I can definitely see what you mean. I can understand the whole Las Vegas Slot Machine Mentality of “I already put all kinds of money into this machine, I am going to ride it out until it hits”…..
But $400,000 over two years!!! $400,000 over two years!!
Speechless.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
What a beautiful retard!
November 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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November 25th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Thanks for the compliments!! Thanks for taking the time to come by and take a look at what we have going on!
November 25th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I didn’t think there were people actaully dumb enough to fall for that scam anymore let alone for $400,000.00
If you don’t care about being a lowlfe scumbag you could make a killing off of this…
April 15th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
May 1st, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Go ahead a post some of the story on your page just make sure you cite us and leave us a backlink!!
Thanks for coming by..
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
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May 4th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Thanks… and beware of email scams. lol. Don’t wind up a story on here lol