Bill,
I just want to relate a story that occured here in Ashburton, regarding this type of fraud.
We had a livestock firm here in town that it's Managing Director, had hooked up with this crowd in Nigeria.
He used all of the money, that was supposed to be paid to local farmers, for stock sold through his company, it amounted to NZ$1.3million and gave a "donation" to this crowd in Africa, it was to buy some sort of liquid to clean up this dirty money,which would be paid back to this guy, +interest, believe me, it was really dodgy!!.
When the local farming community found out what had happened, he skipped the country and was found dead in a Hotel in London, 3 weeks later.
But how on earth could you be so gullible to give away such a large amount of money to someone you don't even know and what makes it even worse, the money wasn't even his in the first place!. [Linked Image]