On 2011-07-23, Ed Huntress wrote:

"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
Not likely. Thinking you can out-scam those guys, that someone else is
really dumb and you know how and why it couldn't happen to you, is
exactly the kind of hubris the Nigerian scammers rely on.

The more immune you think you are, the easier you are as a target.


There's nothing in the linked article to indicate that he was trying to
outsmart them. Or that he even knew that it was a scam.

Oh, wait ... from
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/...d_currency.htm
quote
Secret Service agents discovered Elion after he deposited large sums of
cash into a Chicago bank account linked to the Nigerian criminals and in
December, 1997, warned him that he was a victim of a Nigerian "advance-fee
fraud" and urged him to stop sending money, but he ignored the warning.
/quote

There's plenty in that link to indicate that he was an idiot and a crook.
Ph.D's CAN be idiots.

Bob

The articles don't tell the whole story, which I'm not about to get into.
They're mostly about what happened after he had lost his money. Suffice to
say that Glenn didn't think these guys could outsmart him. That's usually
the big mistake.


I call that condition a "dumbass".

Seriously speaking, he may have been smart at some point when he
invented (or stole inventions of) those ion powered gyrocopters, but
later he became stupid or outright crazy.

He was not convicted for sending money to Nigerians. He was convicted
for being a fraudster himself, which he was.

i