Debp Posted August 23, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,010 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,206 Content Per Day: 1.79 Reputation: 16,282 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted August 23, 2019 (edited) Putting this here so it can be seen by more people. Huge scam, many arrested in Los Angeles. Scammers operated out of Nigeria and Los Angeles. Eighty people charged. I guess many people are unaware of internet scammers. Just one case....a Japanese woman thought she was emailing a U.S. soldier in Syria. He was a Nigerian scammer and took her for $200,000. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-22/fbi-takes-down-nigerian-fraudsters-in-46m-case-based-in-los-angeles?_amp=true Edited August 23, 2019 by Debp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted August 23, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,989 Topics Per Day: 0.49 Content Count: 48,687 Content Per Day: 11.89 Reputation: 30,342 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted August 23, 2019 41 minutes ago, Debp said: Putting this here so it can be seen by more people. Huge scam, many arrested in Los Angeles. Scammers operated out of Nigeria and Los Angeles. Eighty people charged. I guess many people are unaware of internet scammers. Just one case....a Japanese woman thought she was emailing a U.S. soldier in Syria. He was a Nigerian scammer and took her for $200,000. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-22/fbi-takes-down-nigerian-fraudsters-in-46m-case-based-in-los-angeles?_amp=true I am glad they got them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unworthyservant Posted August 23, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 96 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 645 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 298 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/11/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted August 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Debp said: He was a Nigerian scammer and took her for $200,000. I don't want to seem insensitive and while it disturbs me every time I hear of such things, I can't help but wonder if the woman was a Christian. If so, I wonder if she had spent that $200,000 doing what Christ taught and used it for the poor, in the process who's to say that God might not have led her to the one that he had chosen for her and thus she would have never been vulnerable to the scam. It doesn't negate the horrible scams that are being perpetrated every day, and bravo for exposing them, it's just another angle. I'm all about all the angles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted August 23, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,010 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,206 Content Per Day: 1.79 Reputation: 16,282 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Author Share Posted August 23, 2019 5 hours ago, unworthyservant said: I don't want to seem insensitive and while it disturbs me every time I hear of such things, I can't help but wonder if the woman was a Christian. If so, I wonder if she had spent that $200,000 doing what Christ taught and used it for the poor, in the process who's to say that God might not have led her to the one that he had chosen for her and thus she would have never been vulnerable to the scam. It doesn't negate the horrible scams that are being perpetrated every day, and bravo for exposing them, it's just another angle. I'm all about all the angles. I don't think she was a Christian. Most Japanese are still non-Christian. I know a retired missionary who worked there for her lifetime. Of course, I don't think a person needs to spend $200,000 or any sum for the Lord to lead them to someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unworthyservant Posted August 23, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 96 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 645 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 298 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/11/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted August 23, 2019 6 hours ago, Debp said: I don't think she was a Christian. Most Japanese are still non-Christian. I know a retired missionary who worked there for her lifetime. Of course, I don't think a person needs to spend $200,000 or any sum for the Lord to lead them to someone. , only posed a what if scenario. At any rate it would have been a better use of the money, you have to admit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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