{"id":79944,"date":"2018-06-12T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79944"},"modified":"2018-06-12T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T13:41:51","slug":"western-union-comps-scam-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79944","title":{"rendered":"Western Union comps scam victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK’s Daily Mail<\/a> reports that Western Union has compensated 77-year-old Fred Haines for the $110,000 that he sent to a Nigerian prince;<\/p>\n

Fred Haines, 77, will get back the six figure sum that he wired between 2005 and 2008 to scammers who had promised him $64 million in inheritance from a Nigerian prince, if only he could pay the fake fees to move the money. <\/p>\n

Last year, Western Union admitted in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to knowingly looking the other way regarding employees who had been helping scammers to steal the money of its customers, including Haines.<\/p>\n

A $586 million fund was created to pay back victims, throughout the US and Canada. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lure of $64 million was too much for Fred to resist;<\/p>\n

‘Those Nigerians know how to talk.’ <\/p>\n

Haines shared that the prospect sounded too good to be true, but after investing so much time and money, it became too difficult to believe it was all a lie.’ <\/p>\n

‘It got to the point where they were showing me that the President of Nigeria had sent me a letter. It had his picture on it and everything,’ Haines said. <\/p>\n

‘I looked it up on the computer to see what the Nigerian president looked like, and it was him.’<\/p>\n

Haines kept one email which appeared as if it was signed by Robert Mueller, who at that time was the director of the FBI, and called Haines ‘B-DOG’ as a code name. <\/p>\n

That email read, in part: ‘I wish you can remove doubt and suspicious and go ahead I assured you that you will never regret this fund release.’ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article claims that B-DOG is one of 344 Kansas residents who have been compensated from the pool of money created from the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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