Scammer Scams Scammers: Aussie Woman Rips off Nigerian Cons, Pockets Thousands
Quick show of hands: how many Blaze readers have gotten emails from people claiming that they’re Nigerian royalty and that they want to give you a million-skrillion dollars?
If you’re like us, and we know we are, your spam box is loaded with these types of offers. But wouldn’t it be funny if once (just once!) someone turned the tables and scammed the scammer?
That’s precisely what one Australian woman did.
“A Brisbane woman fleeced Nigerian scam artists by stealing more than $30,000 from their internet car sales racket,” the Australian news outlet Courier Mail reports.
Sarah Jane Cochrane-Ramsey, 23, had been working as the Nigerian’s “agent” since March 2010.
