Well, there was a great deal of truth behind the fraud e-mail that Gary recieved last month (the old post is here). I have also seen about 3 of these since he got his. It seems that a group of Nigerians has been arrested for fraud, allegedly members of a “419 email fraud gang” which is thought to have tried to con thousands of dollars out of their victims, according to the report. Police seized a large amount of drugs, as well as computer equipment and false dentification papers.
So, sometimes when you can imagine the worst… it’s not even close to how awful the truth really is. I guess it really wasn’t a good idea for us to set up a dummy account… they would have just taken the money and we would have been stuck looking at one another saying, “Yep, they took the money…” “Yeah, they sure did, didn’t they?” “Yep.” I can’t imagine the time we would have had trying to explain this to the Flint police… riiiiight.