Speaking of scams

Someone in Facebook contacted me about a Gold Star Mom who had a bizarre encounter on the memorial page for her son, Paul Cuzzupe II, who was killed in Afghanistan on August 10, 2010. It began last week when an Indonesian woman came to the Facebook page and asked Paul’s mother if Paul was dead. And of course the mother answered that yes he was for nearly two years. The woman responded that it was impossible because she had chatted with him almost daily on her Blackberry for weeks.

Well, it turns out that someone was using Paul’s picture to get something from the Indonesian woman. What isn’t exactly clear at this point.

Mary from POW Network has sent me several of these cases to check on their active duty status on AKO, so these scams happen more often than we’d like to think. Mostly between American victims and American grifters. The Indonesian woman claims that her scam artist is from Nigeria, so it’s outside the norm. But it goes on, and now you know.

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