American Scammer       Nigerian Scammer

Sometimes that whole Anti-Intellectual, Anti-”Book Learning”,  Anti-Living in Reality… ”trust the word of Jesus” thing really comes back to bite you in the ass.

From CNEWS.COM: 

Churches, Ministers Targeted By Nigerian E-mail Scammers

Nigerian e-mail scammers are successfully targeting American churches and ministers, cheating them out of millions of dollars under the guise of spreading the word of Jesus.

“They are going after small churches, claiming someone has left them a lot of money to improve their church or help others,” U.S. postal inspector Steve Korinko told ABC News for an investigative report on the Nigerian scams to be aired Friday on 20/20 and World News with Charles Gibson.

The catch, says Korinko, is that the church has to pay a legal fee or a Nigerian tax to collect the money.

An offer of $41,000,000 to the Hickory Ridge Community Church in Sussex County, Del., allowed scammers to cheat a group of prominent Christians out of $350,000.

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