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Metairie woman scammed out of almost $200,000
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:28 am
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:28 am
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I understand you're looking for love but who sends that amount (or any) to a person they don't even know? You have to be seriously disturbed to believe a story like this guy is telling. Amazing.
I understand you're looking for love but who sends that amount (or any) to a person they don't even know? You have to be seriously disturbed to believe a story like this guy is telling. Amazing.
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Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:29 am to ALT F4
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but who sends that amount (or any) to a person they don't even know? You have to be seriously disturbed to believe a story like this guy is telling. Amazing.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:30 am to ALT F4
The victim told deputies she had never met the man she knew as "Derek Reork" in person, nor had she ever spoken to him by phone. Yet he conned the women into sending a total of $195,212 dollars in 13 wire transfers between July 16 and Sept. 25,
WTF? I need to find me one of these.
WTF? I need to find me one of these.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:33 am to ALT F4
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Reork told the woman he had found $50 million while out on a mission. He wanted to mail the money to her house and asked for $3,455 to cover the costs, Fortunato said. The woman wired the money to London on July 16.
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The woman told Sheriff's Office investigators that she took out a total 15 loans to provide the money, but did so because she believed she would soon have a share of the $50 million, Fortunato said.
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The [FBI] received 5,883 complaints of confidence/romance scams in 2014, with victims losing a total of $86.7 million, according to the department's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). About 76 percent of the victims were over the age of 40, and 69 percent were women.
This is sad. Pitiful and sad.
Financial Darwinism, though.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:43 am to ALT F4
A fool and her money are soon parted.
This is really a special kind of stupid.
This is really a special kind of stupid.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:53 am to LeonPhelps
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A fool and her money are soon parted.
Sounds like she took a bunch of loans, so techincally it was a bank's money.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:55 am to ALT F4
link won't work while I'm at work. So is this a crime or just a life lesson? I really don't see it as a crime. She willingly gave it to him.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 7:59 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
There was a young Barksdale airman who fell for a Nigerian love scam a few years ago. He totally believed it was a chick, even AFTER the Feds indicted him for cashing bogus money orders that "she" sent him.
Ne grew up in a sheltered/religious environment and was gullible as hell.
Ne grew up in a sheltered/religious environment and was gullible as hell.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:15 am to ALT F4
Sadly, some people are born that stupid and some get that stupid due to aging. They're as handicapped as a person in a wheelchair and unfortunately it's up to decent people to protect them from predators.
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