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Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks
Reminds me of a phone call I got last week. My best friend told me his recently widowed mother-in-law sent $600,000 in Bitcoin over the last few months to some guy she met online "who loves her but can't access his bank account because he's working on an oil rig and will pay her back as soon as he gets off". $600,000, vaporized. The guy (who she never even actually spoke to) coached her through withdrawing the cash and opening a Coinbase account. FBI told my buddy she'll never get a penny of it back. All the life insurance money she got from her husband's death plus she took out a home equity loan. Will have to sell her house in Queen Creek AZ and move back to Springfield and live in a room in her sister's house.
She apparently kept insisting the guy was real even during the meeting with the FBI agent. When reality finally hit her, my buddy said she was so depressed and humiliated that they had to remove the gun she had in her house and basically put her on suicide watch.
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That's horrible and all but I have a really tough time feeling sympathy for people that dumb.