Are you sure about that? Hmmm, let's look at it from the viewpoint of this original post, the American contact would be equivalent to the 17 year old brother.

 

Rephrase. The contact in America. THe person who is receiving the money from the 17 year old is probably a Nigerian immigrant who is in cahoots with the original scammer in Nigeria.

 

Lol, unfortunately the "Nigerian immigrant" is not an immigrant at all. They get the American contact to send stuff using DHL to Benin, which is (suprise-surprise) right beside Nigeria. In the Dateline story the scammer said she lived in Australia, but when Dateline checked the IP addy, they all originate from Nigeria.

So in short, Americans (and most likely Canadians too) are getting ripped off by people who are half-a-world away.

I always thought "Nigeria" was just a country that was chosen at random for the scams and that the real perpetrators were in North America. It turns out that this is totally false.

 

 

Unfortunately he won't get out of paying that $4300. The reality of it sucks but it's reality nonetheless

 

what western union location did he wire the money to? Isn't that how western union works? I've personally never used it. Was the other Western Union location in Nigeria? If so...that sucks dude.

I would "daydream" about messaging this guy that scammed your brother. Tell him that I wired the rest of the 4000 dollars to his western union location. And he would be expecting it since your bro already sent it the first time. When the guy shows up...I would be there with the justice hammer. Not that I recommend taking the law into your own hands.

 

Supposedly once u send money through Western Union, they can pick it up any location. Don't know if Western Union will disclose that to me. They just told me what time it was picked up and they'll give all the details to any authorities that ask.

Kind of Ironic, but this article was front page on Yahoo today: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...9-scammers.html

Too bad its a few weeks too late

 

He does indeed owe the bank. Sucks. but that is the reality of it.

 

Wow, I didnt think that anyone fell for those things....I hope he did learn from it though

 

sorry bro...bitch all you want...but falling for this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard.