Doctors who fell for the Nigerian scam artists

January 29, 2007

Gullible physicians who ignored multiple red-flags on route to being duped.

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Anonymous January 29, 2007 at 11:04 am: Maybe this is a false impression, but it seems that physicians get taken in financial schemes more than most other professions.
2 Anonymous January 29, 2007 at 3:07 pm: How do you turn a doctor into a millionaire?

Give him a billion dollars.
3 Anonymous January 29, 2007 at 6:35 pm: the first guy was a foreign med school grad. Not that that matters.
4 Anonymous January 29, 2007 at 8:00 pm: “Maybe this is a false impression, but it seems that physicians get taken in financial schemes more than most other professions.”

Of course. To begin with they got taken for 200k for medical school, then 3-7 years of additional indentured servitude.
5 Anonymous January 29, 2007 at 10:15 pm: Make that 37 years of servitude!
6 Anonymous January 29, 2007 at 10:23 pm: There is a chapter in a Russian children book when a couple of shady characters - a fox and a cat - told the hero that if he buries his money in the Field of Miracles located in the Country of Fools a tree would grow with leaves of golden coins…

Amazing how many adults are willing to bury their money in the Field of Miracles.