When will people quit falling for these scams?
A LONELY postal worker has landed himself in huge debt – after handing over £130,000 to a string of internet scammers.
Shane Symington started sending cash to the fraudsters in 2007 after he was contacted by a woman claiming she needed funds to help her sick mother.
The trusting postie agreed and started sending money from an inheritance he had received when an elderly relative passed away…………..
Shane, Shane, Shane. No alarms went off? Since when does the FBI ask for their victims to fund their investigations? I feel sorry for you but I’m disappointed that nothing ever seemed “off” with this whole deal.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2131643.ece
The credit union I work for had a situation recently where a lady came in and made a deposit to her account. She told us she’d won the lottery and was really excited. Come to find out she wired out the majority of that money because she’d fallen for one of those internet job scams – we’ll send you this check…all you have to do is wire us back a portion and keep the rest as your commission. Anyway, her husband finds out and he’s furious because we didn’t ask his wife questions. He thinks we’re at fault and should have asked her more questions about the transaction and wants us to take the loss. Um, no!
It amazes me the number of people who fall for these schemes. And it’s a large amount. It’s even more amazing that people want to blame their financial institutions when we have signs posted around the lobbies saying not to fall for these scams. We can’t hold your hand every minute of every day. People need to pay attention to this stuff!