British Postman Falls For Nigerian Myspace Scam (Twice), Loses Over $218,000, Is Sad
15 January 2009, 6:24 PM. By Camilla Rowan
Sad British postman Shane Symington fell for that worst of all internet scams: the Nigerian internet scam. The Nigerians have been busy this year, since it seems they’ve graduated from the “I’m the rightful Prince of Nigeria” email and gone on to bigger things, like pretending to be girls on Myspace.
Shane Symington fell for just that, and a year later had lost over $200,000 dollars, which is why we’re revoking his internet privileges.
He befriended someone he believed to be a young, pretty American named Angela. A year later he would discover that the pictures he saw on Myspace were of an anonymous model, and he had really been chatting with a scam artist from Nigeria. Shane said that soon after he struck up a friendship with “Angela,” she asked him for money to pay for her mothers’ funeral expenses. See kids, this is the point where you rip the ethernet cord out of the wall and fling your laptop away. Shane, instead, sent the “woman” over $160,000 and all of his bank account details. After a few more months of trumped-up sob stories, money wires and friendly Myspace banter, “Angela” stopped talking to him. He says he got a text soon after from “Angela” telling him it had all been a fraud, and that “it was all false and that Angela was actually a man from Nigeria.”
He didn’t specify the exact wording, but we imagine it was something along the lines of “LOL U GOT OWNED p.s. send more money.”
Shane became suspicious (finally) but then fell for yet another scheme after he visited a website he thought was run by the FBI. Of course, it was not, and after sending a woman he met on the site money to help her track down the original scammers, he realized that it, too, was a scam.
Shane is understandably upset:
I feel disillusioned, they have just played on my good nature. I’ve lost my life-savings, I have two loans and I’m in huge debts because of all of this. Before this happened, I used to go out every night, now I just stay in because I’ve lost all the self-confidence in my life.
Oh, little Shane, come here. Snuggle against our warm, nonjudgmental chest and take our advice: If a hot woman on the internet is asking you for money…she’s not a hot woman. On a totally unrelated note, who wants to pool some cash to help Shane get back on his feet? Just send us your banking info and we’ll do the rest!
Postman loses £130,000 savings to Nigerian internet scam after being duped by a friend he met on MySpace [Daily Mail]
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OMG! Poor guy but I mean c’mon! He didn’t notice anything fishy before or after? Fool, money, soon parted, you know the deal.
Anyhow my info is
BofA
acct # 5555565
Oh my goodness, it’s like so many [Spanish speaking] Native Americans and Black peoples falling into the scam of the “Latino/Hispanic” identity fraud. They actually make us think we are Europeans and we elect them fake leaders and sponsor fake civil rights organizations, and we buy fake music, and we grow up that there is such a race called “Latin” which is actually a language and culture of southern Europe.
Oh my goooood!!!
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i was also scamed, a man that said he was living in london, said that he was stranded in Nigeria, i was smart enough to only send $1500.00 via Western Union. People should not talk with people unless they are willing to add you as a friend on Myspace. Terry would not add me. It all makes sence now.