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Northeastern student learns: Never trust anyone over 30
By adamg on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 7:13am
The Huntington News reports a middle-aged Northeastern student became friends with a more typically aged Huskie - and convinced the kid to lend him "several thousand dollars," allegedly to claim an overseas inheritance or lottery winnings. After stalling the younger student for several weeks over repayment:
One day, the man told him that he received the money and convinced the student to put the entirety of it, in the form of a check, in his bank account and take out what was owed. The bank later called the student to tell him the check did not go through and that he owed $40,000. NUPD is currently investigating the whereabouts of the older student.
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Comments
heh
Was this "middle aged student" from Nigeria?
(because this is typical of a Nigeria Email scam)
File under . . .
. . . something you should never tell anyone you fell for.
Show this to your kids
Calculus, AP Chemistry, and a little reality education: all needed as college prep!
Apparently they aren't
Apparently they aren't teaching common sense at NU.
I don't know which is worse
The student victim's complete naivete in this situation, or horrible writing like this:
"A student reported that a classmate who is a middle-aged student, with whom he had struck up a casual relationship with, agreed to loan him several thousand dollars, which the older man claimed he needed to use as a fee in order to claim either an inheritance or a lottery winning overseas."
When first reading that, I thought the middle-aged student was the victim!
The victim...
.. in this case is the dear reader.
Unbelieveable
who this day and age would fall for something so obviously deceitful? speaks to the naivety of college aged students.
Ahh Nigerian fraud in real
Ahh Nigerian fraud in real life
What, the kid never rented The Spanish Prisoner?
You see, it pays to be a Mamet fan. "Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired."
$100
I' d bet anyone $100 that when this moron graduates, he stays here and becomes a Boston resident. He probably can't parallel park either.