victims and revenge (Jiří Pasovský)

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 Feb 2014 Posts: 42

Note: the Nigerian Consul was innocent and had nothing to do with scams.

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One 419 scam that ended in murder occurred in February 2003, when Jiří Pasovský, a 72 year old scam victim from the Czech Republic, shot and killed 50 year old Michael Lekara Wayid, an official at the Nigerian embassy in Prague, and injured another person, after the Nigerian Consul General explained he could not return the $600,000 that Pasovský had lost to a Nigerian scammer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scams

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3078489/#.U6G2fyh9njE

1. Does anybody know the full story? How was Jiří Pasovský actually being scammed?

2. Are there similar stories like the above mentioned where innocent people are getting killed?

3. Has a victim ever found the real scammer and done something bad to him? (something like going to another country to find the scammer)?

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:06 pm

Here are some details of that very particular scam:

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/freed-killer-of-nigerian-diplomat-reported-to-have-been-communist-spy

http://www.praguepost.cz/archivescontent/40740-nigerians-demand-gov-t-apology.html

Not quite a Newb Joined: 17 Feb 2014 Posts: 42

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One victim who went to Africa to hunt down this fortune was captured by his con artists and tortured, according to the British report.

I wonder how he found these scammers?

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Not to his liking, I suspect.

I would say the scammers found him, in actuality - he was lured there to meet them for what was most likely a wash/wash (black money) scam or possibly a 'gold investment' scam, and it went horribly wrong.

Many, if not most, of AFF victims are not physically hurt. Instead, they are emotionally and financially ruined and their lives destroyed.

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 4:31 pm

Most scams depend on an apparently cordial relationship between the scammer and their victim. Aggression, suspicion and loss of trust will endanger further payments. Scammers tend to work from a distance where possible. If they can smell money though, they will travel or send a hired, local agent to meet a victim face to face to run a "convincer" such as a wash-wash or to show a gold sample. This is a very dangerous phase for a prospective victim as they face being sucked right in at this point. A victim who visits a scammer in a foreign country will be visiting a less experienced, less connected criminal who may not be able to put boots on the ground local to the victim. He is likely to make bad, impatient decisions. He may already have decided to go for the fast money and go for kidnap/extortion/ransom, and this brings many opportunities for a very unhappy ending.

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