Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend 464
An anonymous reader writes "A 48-year-old Illinois man has experienced an online scam that was particularly devastating, both financially and emotionally. A woman he believed to be his online girlfriend turned out to be a fake, and his money has disappeared with her. The scam was recently revealed because he went to the police asking for help to rescue the woman, insisting that she had been kidnapped in London. The online 'relationship' between the two began over two years ago, during which he wired about $200,000 to several different bank accounts in Nigeria, Malaysia, England, and the US."
The Internets (Score:5, Funny)
Where men are men, women are men, and children are federal agents.
Re:Thinking saves money!!! (Score:5, Funny)
why didn't she move to him and then he would know she's safe.
Um, because she doesn't exist....
Re:Can't Feel Pity For Him. (Score:3, Funny)
Tits or GTFO would have saved him from all this, you know...
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
See the difference between "screwed" and "laid".
Re:There's an old saying (Score:4, Funny)
There, but for having more than 2 brain cells, go I.
Big head... (Score:5, Funny)
...meet little head.
From my soon-to-be-published book "Dick: An Owner's Manual"
Rule #1: Your dick will lie to you.
Re:Can this be real? (Score:5, Funny)
When you take that devotion to extremes, you can make a lot of money and not have the time or desire to spend it on anything. And unless you work hard to avoid it, the "lack in other areas" is likely to include your love life.
How do you not know this?
Uhhhhhhhh........
2. A corresponding lack in other areas.
Anyone here divorced? (Score:5, Funny)
Admit it--You're all jealous over how easy this guy got off.
Re:The Internets (Score:4, Funny)
But who are small fuzzy things from Alpha Centauri?
Re:Sad (Score:5, Funny)
How sad
Yeah, as a Slashdotter, I don't get many opportunities to call somebody else's love-life sad.
Re:Can this be real? (Score:5, Funny)
Most of those guys end up blowing 99% of that on women, drugs, and vehicles..
And the rest just waste it.
Re:Thinking saves money!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can this be real? (Score:5, Funny)
Not necessarily, depending on what state/country you live in and how long you've been together. For most places, living together 6 months is the same as if you were married, and that means she gets a chunk of your income.
Not if the kidnappers kill her, she doesn't!
Re:Can this be real? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thinking saves money!!! (Score:2, Funny)
I don't like feeding trolls, but I'll bite it just this time....
Have you heard about inheritances.... I mean, the thing that allows Paris Hilton being, well, Paris Hilton, instead being employed in a 7-11?