Oh dear!! 
Stories like this seem to come up after few months when someone is REALLY gullible and ends up sending £1000s to someone apparently in Nigeria. The scam usually goes along the lines of asking for money to pay for funeral fees or legal fees. When these legal fees are paid then they can get the massive inheritance.
The latest is a postman who ended up losing £130,000!! (Not sure how he managed to get £130,000 ???). He became “friends” with someone called “Angela Gates” on the MySpace web site back in 2007. She first asks for money to pay for funeral fees and medical expenses. She then asks for money for legal fees which could free up land she had inherited which was worth $2m.
By the end of last year he had handed over his bank details and £100,000!! He said that he became suspicious when the woman stopped communicating with him and contacted what he thought was a website run by the FBI in America but which turned out to be another scam. (He really is very gullible/unlucky!!)
It turned out that the “woman” was actually a guy from America.
His problems didnt end though. A woman from America claimed she had also been caught in the scam. He helped her pay legal expenses and hired 2 ex-FBI agents to try and get the money back for both of them. It now seems that these people were also involved in the scam. He paid them £30,000 so that totals his losses to more than £130,000.
In a way I feel sorry for him but how can someone be that stupid! The message to people – DON’T send money to people you dont know!!
Tags: nigerian scam
