RE: The New Yorker: THE PERFECT MARK - How a Massachusettspsychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.

[Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/is-this-man-just-incredibly-stup
id-or.html

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        THE PERFECT MARK
        by MITCHELL ZUCKOFF
        How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail
scam.
        Issue of 2006-05-15
        Posted 2006-05-08
        
        

        Late one afternoon in June, 2001, John W. Worley sat in a
burgundy leather desk chair reading his e-mail. He was fifty-seven and
burly, with glasses, a fringe of salt-and-pepper hair, and a bushy gray
beard. A decorated Vietnam veteran and an ordained minister, he had a
busy practice as a Christian psychotherapist, and, with his wife,
Barbara, was the caretaker of a mansion on a historic estate in Groton,
Massachusetts. He lived in a comfortable three-bedroom suite in the
mansion, and saw patients in a ground-floor office with walls adorned
with images of Jesus and framed military medals. Barbara had been his
high-school sweetheart-he was the president of his class, and she was
the homecoming queen-and they had four daughters and seven
grandchildren, whose photos surrounded Worley at his desk.

        Worley scrolled through his in-box and opened an e-mail,
addressed to "CEO/Owner."
        
        [...]
        
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