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lynn P. · Dec 10, 2009, 06:47 PM

Good for you Elysium. My mother used to have this saying "there's a fool born every minute". You would think with all the warnings that people wouldn't fall for these schemes, but there was a young man in our county who fell for a similar scheme. They emailed him and told him there was a long lost relative who had millions, but died and wanted his distant relatives to get his money. All he had to do was transfer 10,000 to secure the money. It's a long story that went on for months and the young man borrowed more money everytime they came up with a new reason. He even flew to England to make the final transfer of money. He ended up losing $100,000.

When we first started looking for a dog I came upon an ad for yorkies with an email address. So I emailed them and within a second I got a response. It said "thank you for your interest, me and my husband are doing missionary work in Africa for a Christian Mission and we don't have the time to take care of our baby 8 week old yorkie. If you would be nice enough to agree to adopt we will give you him free and all you have to do is pay the shipping costs of $400" Can you believe they wanted me to believe, they would ship an 8wk old yorkie. A couple weeks later I saw in the newspaper a story about several people in our area fell for it.