Everyone needs a hobby. This Australian's is scamming the Nigerian scammers. I'd normally laugh at their silly spamming, but for an innocent man in Tennessee getting shotgunned by his wife over her sending them the family's money:
[Mary] Winkler said she and her husband had argued throughout the evening about several things, including family finances. The problems were "mostly my fault," she said, because she was in charge of keeping the family books.
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[Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent Brian] Booth said that shortly before the killing, Mary Winkler had shifted money between at least two banks in what he described as a "check kiting" scam. She deposited checks totaling $17,500 in family bank accounts from unidentified sources in Canada and Nigeria, he said.The checks and money exchanges were not detailed in court, but defense lawyers said Mary Winkler was the victim of a financial scam.
"In certain scams, you may have to send money to somebody that's holding money. You send them a good check. They send you a bad check," Winkler's lawyer, Steve Farese, said after the hearing. He declined to provide more details.
If anyone deserved to do a little snapping that night, it was her husband. Wringing her neck wouldn't have been out of line.
(Age story via Baron.)
Posted by floridacracker at July 1, 2006 11:44 AM