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On Nov 20, 7:07 am, Pops Mear <PopsM...@here.usa> wrote:
>  FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH
> Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam
>
> Monday, November 17, 2008
>
> 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.
>
> Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her
> relative by name was persuasive.
>
> "That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you
> send over $100?"
>
> 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.
>
> She estimates it will take two years to clear the debt that
> accumulated in the more than two years she spent sending money to con
> artists.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> The scammers sent Spears official-looking 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.
>
> They sent official-looking documents and certificates from the Bank of
> Nigeria and even from the United Nations, saying her payment was
> "guaranteed."
>
> But it wasn't and now Spears is paying the price for her costly
> lesson.
>
> "The hope is [other people] are not going to fall as hard as I fell,"
> Spears said.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453125,00.html
>
>  Click here to read more on this story on the Web site of Portland,
> Ore., TV station KATU.
>
> http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html

She must have been born in Texas.