She believed the internet scammer – she lost 400 thousand. dollars
I'm not a loser or an easy target – the woman says, who transferred almost half a million dollars to the account of an unknown person. Fraud, claiming to be ”relative” he promised her over 20 million profit. Janella Spears of Sweet Home, Oregon, said, that she was simply interested in the e-mail from the mysterious J.. B. An unknown person pretended to be a relative of the American woman, who has lost contact with his family for many years, and now he needed a little help. In return, he promised to transfer money to her account 20,5 million dollars. The scammer persuaded Spears to make the first donation, giving the names of her loved ones. – That's why I believed him. And almost like that, why not send him an amount greater than 100 dollars? – explains calmly. The woman started with 100 dollars, and ended up on a mortgage, car loan and breach of her husband's retirement account. In two years it shed 400 thousand. dollars to the scammer's account. – Pension, which he dreamed about, sailing and traveling all over America. Looks like it, that he has to say goodbye for now – says Spears. Her family and bank employees warned her, that he is dealing with a trickster and they begged, to stop paying money. However, the vision of the promised millions turned out to be too tempting for Janella Spears. The obsessed woman made more transfers. In return, she only received e-mails asking for further payments and official ones ”documents”, which were supposed to testify to the involvement in the project of the Bank of Nigeria, OUR, and even President Bush and FBI director Robert Mueller.
The woman was the victim of a known form of internet fraud. so-called. a Nigerian swindle consists in sending spam with a proposal to participate in a fictitious transfer of a large amount of money from one of the African countries. The operation requires additional contributions from the victim. The desire for profit often turns out to be stronger than common sense. – The only hope in it, that other people won't get caught like me – says Spears sadly.
