The Spam Cryer

Don’t lose your life savings to false ‘MySpace’ friend

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January 16th, 2009

They say you can be a dog on the Internet and no one would ever know.

That sad truth has bled Shane Symington out of almost $200,000 USD (£130,000) – all of his life savings – in a Nigerian 419 scam where they came after him not once but twice – the second time posing as a victim of the original scam to get him to shell out money to hire ‘ex-FBI agents’ in an attempt to ‘recover’ some of the original £100,000 taken by ‘Angela Gates’.

I guess you can be a dog and impersonate an FBI agent on the Internet.

More information on the Daily Mail website along with pictures of ‘Angela Gates’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1116067/Postman-loses-130-000-savings-Nigerian-internet-scam-duped-friend-met-MySpace.html

The warning to take from this is that no matter where you meet someone – in person or online – any deal that sounds too good to be true probably is.

- Shaun

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