| Help us get our money out of the country | | Date Created: May 13, 2006, 12:56 PM |
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Ever wonder what would have happened if you'd answered the first time you got one of those "I just need a little money to help me get my late husband's money out of the country" e-mails? Maybe like me you though you might have lost a few hundred quid on the scam.
Dr John Worley, a Christian counsellor from Massachusetts answered, hoping to get rich by helping someone. At first. Several years and tens of thousands of dollars later, he found himself in court: not suing the conmen but being prosecuted himself! He was sentenced to two years in jail and ordered to pay a lot more money in restitution. The New Yorker chronicles his story. |
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