Victim or just plain dumb?

Posted on 15. Mar, 2007 by DeanHunt in Business Advice

This morning I read an article about a work from home mother who was scammed whilst using CareerBuilder.com.

Basically, she wanted to work from home, so she submitted her CV to the site and got a reply back soon after:

The reply said that “They just need people who already had bank accounts set up, so we could cash the checks for them.”

According to Donna, “a company called Global Healthcare Inc.,out of London, sent her a contract asking her to cash checks and wire them the money. It was supposedly quicker than doing it overseas.”

Now is it just me, or are the alarm bells already ringing in your head?

I am not for one minute condoning the actions of these scammers, but could it also be possible that the victim in this case has been very stupid?

I also appreciate that many scammers taget the elderly or un-informed, but look at what Donna says: “It looked legitimate I mean I went to paralegal school and I knew some contractual law and so the contract looked legitimate, but it wasn’t evidentially.”

You surely don’t need to go to paralegal school to see that this was an obvious scam?

It would appear that Donnas greed and desire to get rich quick without any effort is the reason she got scammed, so is she the poor, unfortunate victim, or just plain dumb?