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The Atlanta Journal-Constitutionreporting
[h1]Woman loses $400,000 in Nigerian e-mail scam
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Associated Press
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
SWEET HOME, Ore. - An Oregon woman who is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam says she wasn't a sucker or an easy mark.
Janella Spears of Sweet Home says she simply became curious when she received an e-mail promising her $20.5 million if she would only help out a long-lost relative identified as J.B. Spears with a little money up front.
Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.
"That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"
Spears, who is a nursing administrator and CPR teacher, said she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account.
Y'know, I understand how some people are able to fall for stuff like this when they don't know any better or no one's around to setthem straight but:
Her family and bank officials told her it was all a scam, she said, and begged her to stop, but she persisted because she became obsessed with getting paid.
C'MON LADY!