Journal #13, November 23

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,453125,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/cybersecurity

Basically a woman gave 400k dollars over the course of two years to a horrible e-mail scam. Follow the link at the bottom to see how ridiculous this scam really is.

This is what gives me energy. I love reading articles like this. It's funny because fox news tries to be impartial. I bet the entire time they were typing this article they were chuckling and the entire floor talked about it all day. This lady just takes the cake. Basically the internet is boiling down to cyberdarwinism. This is when *only* the people have an IQ greater than five will survive the web. This lady gives a whole new meaning to sucker. She would be clarified as a sucker if she would have given the whole 400k right away. But wait, there's more! She paid over two years. How can someone do this? I don't even get her reasoning at the end. She says "The hope is [other people] are not going to fall as hard as I fell,". Listen lady, if you didn't stop when not only your family, but your bank said it was a scam, then how would an article on the news stop you? Personally, it seems to me like a failed attempt to get insurance money. She was probably sending this to a bank account that was being cleaned out by a relative and they were splitting the money, then hoping for reimbursement. Although this would be dumb as well, I can't logically see how someone would give 400 thousand dollars to an unknown source for two years. What's funny is how this e-mail scam is sent out in all caps. "An e-mail in all caps, of course it's legit". I wonder how her husband didn't stop this madness. It's not like $100 was being spent on frivolous things every now and then, but thousands of dollars were leaving.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp