Story out of Michigan is that an elected county treasurer is charged with embezzling money from the county to recover from the money he sent to a Nigerian scam. We have seen this repeatedly - upper middle class, well educated people falling victims to the Nigerian letter, or 419 scam. In other words, people who should know better. In this case, the guy's friends even warned him that he was falling for a scam, but he was convinced it was his chance to get rich.

It's easy to talk about these things as silly and obvious, and ask "who would ever fall for that?" But when you get that letter, you can fall for it and fall hard. There was a recent case of a retired psychiatrist who was sending so much money to these guys that his son had to take him to court to get him to stop.