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Nigerian fraudsters have relieved a number of Edmonton women of a total of $300,000 in what the local Sun describes as "an online dating scam". One unnamed middle-aged divorcee - who admitted to losing "a lot" of money - was baited last September by a text message purportedly from a US businessman buying antiques in Nigeria. …

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  1. Graham

    Graham

    "Yes. Yes, you are."

    No. No he's not, you insufferable git.

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  2. Ascylto

    Job Vacancy

    This woman should be recruited by the UK Government. She lost only 300,000. Most of our Ministers can lose that amount in ten minutes, not three months!

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  3. Trevor

    And from me home town!

    Ouch. It stings when something like this hits anywhere near home.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Heart

    Crazy little thing called love

    It’s been medically proven (Karachi Medical Gazette) that when you fall in love, you go crazy! Crazy I tell you! All cognitive reasoning goes out the window!

    It’s the giblets you know. They go crazy for the giblets!

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  5. Roger Heathcote
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    Agreed...

    @ac "Sometimes you lot make me ashamed to say I'm a Register reader."

    Here, here. Some people are just thick, that's often not their fault and unless they then go on to be a deliberately malignant arse you should feel sorry for them not gloat about your superior reasoning.

    50% of people have an IQ <=100, people here seem to think they need be rounded up and shot or something. I swear it's getting harder to distinguish this El Reg's comments pages from those of the Daily Mail every day :-/

    Roger Heathcote.

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