Mike Peraino was sitting in his South Shore office on Friday, thumbing through his mail, when he came across an envelope whose return address in Oklahoma meant absolutely nothing to him.
But the contents certainly meant something: It was a check, made out to him, for $2,350.
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If you're stupid enough to fall for this I have no sympathy.
I find it really sad that you can be so mean! Where I come from, you get back what you give out.
My 89 year old mother-in-law was taken in by one of these Nigerian scams. But, what the heck, no skin off richstan's back.
The Free Market in action!
why can't more be done to prosecute this fraud ? - I'm glad this police officer made the calls to verify that it's fraud - how about next calling the FBI to take it further - I get fraudulent phone calls almost daily about so called deals that are being offered to me -
Let's pool our money and hire the Special Forces soldier who dropped Bin Laden to zip over to Nigeria and send his own special delivery. I hear he needs some help although oddly that story last only one news cycle.
Garbage mail and calls have every right to exist but I believe we also have a similar right to refuse them and that "no thanks" should only need to be said just once.
Kevin, No bigger scam than seeing my paycheck every two weeks and seeing my hard earned income being taken out to the clowns at the statehouse who waste it and get paid to do it on top of it!!! Plus get a pension. That is the biggest scam going, yet no one from the Globe exposes that!!!
Tax rates and state legislator salaries are public. You don't have to like them, but you can't pretend they aren't being reported on.
The waste of money, jobs being given to cronies, aren't!!
I'm sorry but you don't have to be a cop to realize this is a con. I imagine there are elderly and others that need to be protected from these type things, but come on, you mean a majority of adults would fall for this?
We are getting stupider...
The name and address on these things aren't invented out of thin air -- he was probably using his name and the station address to sell things on Craiglist or eBay. Or had an ad in the newspaper or signed up for some give-away deal.