CO Mother & Daughter busted in dating scam

| June 26, 2012

ABC News reports that a mother and daughter team in Colorado were indicted in a Nigerian dating scam which used profiles of military members to entice women into sending them money;

Tracy Vasseur, 40, and her mother, Karen Vasseur, 73, of Brighton, Colo., about 21 miles north of Denver, face a hearing on Tuesday in the Adams County District Court. The Colorado Attorney General, John Suthers, said the two were part of a scam since 2009 that “lured unsuspecting women to internet dating sites by posing as members of the U.S. military serving in Afghanistan. The Vasseurs’ 374 victims over a three year period were based throughout the United States and from 40 other countries.”

Yeah, and if you look at their pictures, they’re pretty hot…or something. The scams were expensive to the victims – $10,000 to $59,000 a shot. These scams aren’t limited to the internet. Someone called my mother pretending to be my son. The scammer told her that he was in Ecuador and needed $5000 for car repairs. In a country where $5000 would buy a new car? My mother didn’t fall for it, and the local police wouldn’t do anything because she didn’t give them any money.

The call came from California, you’d think that they’d at least trace the call and let the criminals know that they were being monitored, but I guess police won’t do anything until there’s a crime committed, which almost makes sense. So I guess the only thing I can do is let folks know that these scams are out there.

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AW1 Tim

I got a similar call from someone claiming to be my son, who was in Bamberg at the time. It sounded a LOT loike him, though there was background noise and a bit of scratchiness, probably intentional to help mask the actual voice.

Anyway, the caller said he was in Amsterdam on leave and had been mugged and needed $2000 dollars to pay for transportation and expenses to get back to his base. He had to have it within 24 hours, via wire transfer so he wouldn’t be awol.

The scammer was very convincing and had actually thought this through, and might have gotten away for it but for the fact that my son was home on leave at the time, and sitting in the next room.

It pays to be alert for these things, and I’m hoping there is a special place in hell for these folks.

PintoNag

AW1 Tim: The only thing I’d add to what you said about there being a special place in hell for these people, is they need to get there a lot sooner than they currently are.

Gary

How is attempting fraud not a crime? If I try and defraud a person or organization, but I am not successful then no crime has been committed?

Former3c0

I had something similar happen to a friend of mine. Some people called his grandmother pretending to be Canadian police saying he’d been arrested with a DUI in Canada and that he needed 5,000 dollars to bail him out. Luckily when the poor old unsuspecting lady went to transfer the money at her local grocery store, the clerk told her it sounded suspicious and begged her to please try and call her grandson, which she did, and found out he’d never left Europe let alone been in Canada.

Sick people out there who’d take advantage of a poor, trusting old lady, or anybody for that matter.

Devtun

POTUS Kenyan Obama needs to be enshrined in the scammers hall of fame for what he and his henchmen ( David Axelrod & Valerie Jarrett ) have perpetrated on this country. This damn maroon is the greatest fraud of all time – swindeling $5 trillion BIG ones in just 3 f*ckin yrs. The biggest benefactor? The GREATEST criminal organization in modern history – The Labor Unions. Yes sir, we need to invest in infrastructure, cops & teachers, high speed rail, all code word for – Union payoffs.

BTW Stockton, CA has declared bankruptcy – big culprit? Yep, labor union contracts, where retired police officer collects better than full salary in retirement – Like $150K !

Joe Williams

Detun is the winner