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Originally Posted by nikkival
I wondered the exact same thing so I had a look at the consumeraffairs.com website that the post was taken from. The scam took place in America last year and the money was 'wired' to the fake grandchildren who obtained false ID's to cash in the money.
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So quite simply how many grandparents would 'wire' money . By this we mean use of things like Western Union. I mean its very name is now synonymous with scammers. You send cash to someone who can be anywhere in teh world and have no control over who picks it up (In these days of fake Ids or a dodgy cashier its not exactly hard to do).
I actually nearly wet myself a couple of years ago as I was watching African Cup of Nations football and teh match of Nigeria(spiritual home of the scammer) vs someone else was sponsored by WU.