FINALLY! Woman Goes to Jail for Nigerian Check Scheme
A 44 year old woman named Edna Fiedler was found guilty (confessed actually) to taking bogus Nigerian checks from an overseas contact and running one of those stupid scams where people are told they are helping someone overseas, and getting them to cash large checks, then return a portion to the sender. I’m amazed they finally got someone and put them in jail for this, but I still don’t believe this is the most unbelievable thing…the most unbelievable thing to me is that she’d already gottn over 600,000 in checks cashed…meaning there were enough morons out there to make this happen…WAKE UP PEOPLE! Jesus, they DESERVE to lose their money.
YOU CAN READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE
It’s been a wacky week in the news, to say the least. A rolling brothel was sidelined in Las Vegas (looking oddly like the one that was shown not long ago on CSI) - North Korea has blown up the cooling tank for their nuclear facility meaning either a: They are hiding all their activity somewhere, b: they already have enough bombs to blow us to kingdom come or c: Rock and Roll and LCD TV won another victory for the west and they are actually coming around … despite wack-job leadership with bad hair and a need of platform shoes.
Heath Ledger (who I remember fondly from A Knight’s Tale, one of my favorite movies) and Conway Wickliffe, a stunt man who died during The Dark Knight’s filming will be getting an on screen tribute at the end of the movie…
The Supreme Court made their presence known…but I’m not sure I wouldn’t rather they’d remained silent. BAD choice on Exxon Valdez, BAD choice on the raping of children…token victory on gun banning (the government that governs least is best, yes?)
I’m happy to be playing golf later today. On the golf course, none of this matters.
-DNW
06/27/08, 2:03 PM |
I’ve never understood people falling for those scams, but after I started posting a few of the funnier ones on one of my blogs and getting search hits on them I decided to start a blog with nothing but the spam/phishing emails I get from one email account only. I just mark them all as spam and point out some of the more obvious or funny signals, and hope it helps someone stay out of trouble. Yeesh, if the contact email is a hotmail account, they’re not a real government agency, or bank, team of detectives, or loan officers.
Sorry, I tend to rant a lot.
06/28/08, 8:48 PM |
I am the one who first alerted the Secret Service to this woman’s activities, and I am the one who helped them get evidence against her, including wearing a wire so they could hear and record HER talking about it.
What’s really sad about this whole thing is that EVERYBODY at work knew what she was doing, and I am the only one who came forward.
Angela Edwards
http://angelasdiscountmarket.com/angela.html
06/30/08, 6:40 AM |
P.S.
If you’d like to see a picture of one of the very checks that Edna sent out, you can see it here:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b355/avg1/walmartcheck.jpg