President Obama and his birth certificate…

Ok, President Obama had an interview in the last couple of days:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38914715#38914715

In this he says, and I paraphrase, he doesn’t time to go around with his birth certificate plastered on his face.

My question is, has it ever been shown yet, to the people of the US that is, and why does he think we want him to plaster it on his face, rather than in newspapers, and on the air? In a manner that we can verify that he was in fact born in the US, and not in Africa as his Doctor that was there has said, his Grandmother has said (early on, now she says Hawaii), and those that were there have said?

The Scammers, Part Two

A new friend of mine was recently hit by a scammer going by the same name as my sister, but with a twist, one was Paul James, and the other was James Paul. Same basic story, with a few twist in the story line, but in general the same story.

This person got hit in a MUCH bigger way and for a lot of money, which put her in a tight position with her family and with herself.

These folks MUST be stopped! We know where they are, we know how they are doing it, we even track some of what they are doing. (We being our federal government.) Why are we not protecting our citizens and stopping this from happening?

In this case, I know that it is a different person than the one that went after my sister. This guy took it another step and when my friend confronted him, he came back at her asking for more money “if she really loved him”. Guy, wake up, SHE REALLY LOVED YOU, but YOU DIDN’LOVE HER! In snooping around I found that he is stringing along six other ladies, and two guys. Swings both ways on the Net. He just want’s the money!

Ladies, if you are talking to a man in Nigeria who says he works for Shell as a consultant, tells you that he can’t cash a check there because the banks are too bad, needs you to wire him some money to help him till Shell finally pays him, or some other excuse for needing money, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AS FAR FROM HIM AS POSSIBLE! This is a scam that is bringing the Nigerian Scammers a large amount of money.

Just in the past week, I have seen it bring them in over $28,000 US which is a LOT of money there. (Not too shabby here either for a weeks worth of work!)

Please think before sending anyone you haven’t meant in person money, except for bonified charities, and even then look into them carefully, and before you give them your heart and soul. Make sure they are legit, then meet with them once. If they are giving you a sob story, it probalby isn’t 100% legit.

A scammer hits close to home.

My sister has heard of the great success of people finding their true love on the Net, and has been checking it out herself. A couple of months ago, she meet a guy by the name of James Paul via a match making web site and they started chatting. They became very close, without having meet, the guy’s story was compleing, and they began talking marriage and happiness together.

Seems the guy was in Africa, from Dallas, working for Shell. Seems Nigeria (WARNING ALARMS!) doesn’t cash “out of state” checks, so he asked Jennifer if she would cash a check for him and send it to him via Western Union.

When the check came in, it came in with an interesting letter and the name of James Williams to send the cash to, via Western Union. I called the bank that the cashier’s check was written on before she tried to cash it, at his request at a “fast cash store”, and of course it was not a valid check, in fact it wasn’t even the right check number series for that bank. The check was for $4,500 US.

When she confronted him by SMS on the cell phone, of course he was “insulted”, wanted to know why she was insulting him, then it turned to shock that his client, that was sending the check (which, by the way was sent from Nigeria as well, not form a client in the US as he said it would) would send him a bad check. After she pushed back on him some and explained that I was looking into it for her, and that I wasn’t getting positive information on the check, the cell phone number he uses (I tracked it down to a block of numbers in Nigeria that are suspected of being part of a large ring of scammers), and a few other areas I’ve looked into, he changed his tune to “sorry, I tried calling my client, and can’t reach him.” Shortly there after, using his Yahoo Instant Messenger ID (jamespaul328 (or something like that, I deleted it already)) and requesting a connection, he tells Jennifer that he had been booted from Yahoo and couldn’t get to his instant messenger. (I did some checking around, and he had been on IM with someone in New York from about 0030 hours to about 0400 hours using that same IM name.)

When she get’s another follow up message from him, via her cell phone and SMS, he tells here that she should forget him till he can come back to the states and make it right.

Why do people mess with peoples emotions like this? My sister is now heart broken, extremely sad, and just plain not happy about life at the moment. It is not fair to her!