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Man loses $200,000 to fake 'girlfriend' met online
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article published on 26 February, 2011
The Chicago Sun-Times posted a remarkable blurb this week, one in which a man from Naperville, Illinois was conned out of $200,000 by his "online girlfriend."
Last week, the 48-year old man called Naperville police because he believed his girlfriend had been kidnapped somewhere around London.
In explaining the situation, the man told police that he started the online relationship ... [ read the full article ]
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26. February 2011 @ 18:10 |
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Lol, now that's a news story.
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Mysttic
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26. February 2011 @ 19:37 |
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never meet people online and give the $. Even after you meet them in person don't give em $. Let them give you $, then at least you know you ain't conned. Or at the very least ain't conned first.
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26. February 2011 @ 19:48 |
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SomeBozo
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26. February 2011 @ 20:22 |
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26. February 2011 @ 20:26 |
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Ouch!!! That must have sucked.
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ivymike
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26. February 2011 @ 20:26 |
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Seems he has lots of money to spare considering he's from Naperville. Serves him right.
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26. February 2011 @ 22:34 |
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When officers told him he had been conned and his girlfriend did not really exist he "was in disbelief."
How does someone with the IQ of a humming bird get $200K?
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27. February 2011 @ 06:35 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
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When officers told him he had been conned and his girlfriend did not really exist he "was in disbelief."
How does someone with the IQ of a humming bird get $200K?
That's what I was wondering! lol
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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27. February 2011 @ 10:19 |
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Wow what a moron...
Just my $0.02,
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SomeBozo
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27. February 2011 @ 12:06 |
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Originally posted by Jemborg:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
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When officers told him he had been conned and his girlfriend did not really exist he "was in disbelief."
How does someone with the IQ of a humming bird get $200K?
That's what I was wondering! lol
Inheritance.... I remember there is a passages in Ecclesiastes a father works and saves to build his wealth over his life, only for his son to inherit and waste it...
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27. February 2011 @ 13:23 |
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The comment above regarding 'inheritance' is just dumb. Stay relevant and spare us next time.
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27. February 2011 @ 13:47 |
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Nothin better to do and out 200k what a waste.
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27. February 2011 @ 14:57 |
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Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Inheritance.... I remember there is a passages in Ecclesiastes a father works and saves to build his wealth over his life, only for his son to inherit and waste it...
Originally posted by lissenup2:
The comment above regarding 'inheritance' is just dumb. Stay relevant and spare us next time.
i thought it was relevant. clearly states the stupidity of people who get a windfall of money. i had a friend who inherited a great deal of money when his mother died. he didn't really have anything before that no job or anything. he had joked about completely blowing it all in a short amount of time. 60k of it in particular on a stripper named Kandi.
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27. February 2011 @ 15:08 |
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Originally posted by Ryoohki:
Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Inheritance.... I remember there is a passages in Ecclesiastes a father works and saves to build his wealth over his life, only for his son to inherit and waste it...
Originally posted by lissenup2:
The comment above regarding 'inheritance' is just dumb. Stay relevant and spare us next time.
i thought it was relevant. clearly states the stupidity of people who get a windfall of money. i had a friend who inherited a great deal of money when his mother died. he didn't really have anything before that no job or anything. he had joked about completely blowing it all in a short amount of time. 60k of it in particular on a stripper named Kandi.
I think it is only that the objection is that it comes from the Bible. Typical of people that say they are "Open minded" but really closed to anything that might come from the Bible, regardless if the point is true or not. Very typical of people that are open to only there close minded opinion.
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27. February 2011 @ 15:26 |
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Some people with money are too stupid to have it. He may be a lonely @ss and disconnected from the "Online-Girlfriend" but he is also a moron, in a Never-Never-Land !
Live Free or Die.
The rule above all the rules is: Survive !
Capitalism: Funnel most of the $$$ to the already rich.
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27. February 2011 @ 15:57 |
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Originally posted by lissenup2:
The comment above regarding 'inheritance' is just dumb. Stay relevant and spare us next time.
hey,no need to be nasty.this isnt exactly a tech question.he was answering the question of the poster before him.i would say that is relevent enough for this discussion.
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27. February 2011 @ 22:23 |
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Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Originally posted by Ryoohki:
Originally posted by SomeBozo:
Inheritance.... I remember there is a passages in Ecclesiastes a father works and saves to build his wealth over his life, only for his son to inherit and waste it...
Originally posted by lissenup2:
The comment above regarding 'inheritance' is just dumb. Stay relevant and spare us next time.
i thought it was relevant. clearly states the stupidity of people who get a windfall of money. i had a friend who inherited a great deal of money when his mother died. he didn't really have anything before that no job or anything. he had joked about completely blowing it all in a short amount of time. 60k of it in particular on a stripper named Kandi.
I think it is only that the objection is that it comes from the Bible. Typical of people that say they are "Open minded" but really closed to anything that might come from the Bible, regardless if the point is true or not. Very typical of people that are open to only there close minded opinion.
I didn't mind a reference to teh Bible, even though I'm a fundamentalist atheist, it's still part of western cultural history... especially it's quotes. Even Dawkins agrees.
@Ryoohki, lol, if you've never had money it's seems hard to hold onto. There are tons of stories of people with huge lottery wins (in the millions) who, astoundingly enough, manage to blow all it in a couple of years. Kandi (communist?), probably had utter contempt for him too, heh.
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27. February 2011 @ 22:35 |
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lissenup2, SomeBozo's post is relevant so knock it off as i'm not in a good mood at the moment.
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28. February 2011 @ 08:56 |
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Meh at the end of the day you can only be responsible for your actions. Don't blame others for your own failings do what you can nothing more nothing less.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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plazma247
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28. February 2011 @ 11:34 |
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Its sad to say these gangs have long used dating sites to lure and then scam people to death.
Im not sure how this guy feel for it, every time they have tried it on me its been a poor attempt at a scam, ive turn the tables on them, told them where they really were, strangely they go away after that....
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28. February 2011 @ 12:04 |
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Originally posted by plazma247:
Its sad to say these gangs have long used dating sites to lure and then scam people to death.
Im not sure how this guy feel for it, every time they have tried it on me its been a poor attempt at a scam, ive turn the tables on them, told them where they really were, strangely they go away after that....
I rent a rooms in my house and i would say 10% of all inquiries are from scammers asking what are the expenses or 'x' months and damage deposit... Not sure why but they want to send a package to me, i assume with some of there stuff in it (right)... Long story short I play along with them too, but i'm just too lazy to head down to the police station I gave for my address :)
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plazma247
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28. February 2011 @ 14:07 |
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hehe :)
Yeah, thats a good one man. lol also a good ones is get some spoofcard credits, not sure if this is legal in all places in the world...
... but call the scammers with a spoofed number and make sure they have the caller id and plan to call you back on it.
:) although ive not used that one in while.... its great fun seeing who you can get them to call up .... hehe
At the end of the day if you know you got scammed it wasn't a good scam or you were tooo blind to see it, largely the idiots playing the numbers games like this poor fool that fell fowl are probably going to have a collective IQ in digits lower than ive got fingers.
LOL the best one ever was the bloke who scammed the Nigerian gold scammers back for gold, that was pure class.
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4. March 2011 @ 12:04 |
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I,ll be your girlfriend, but I need £100,000 for a "Make Over"
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4. March 2011 @ 12:57 |
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TonyElyod... OK... let me just add you as joint signatory on my bank account and send you a credit card...
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4. March 2011 @ 13:25 |
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Dont forget to include your pin number, account code, sort code and internet loging password so the aherm special checks can be ran.
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