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It's Thursday October the 5 around 2:00PM and

Father, I thought I had lost you

One of the most depressing, yet humorous, stories I have read in months was in the Province today, also on News1130.com here. The article tells of a Coquitlam man that fell for a Chinese email scam. An ALL CAPS letter promising a big windfall for doing jack shit, just acting as a transfer point for $100K. Similar to the Nigerian Scam, the Coca Cola Scam or the letter from Health Canada telling me that I have a new strain of a Herpes/HIV blend. Something called the Herve. Good one...whoever sent that.

I can understand the bank taking back the $100K from this poor dude. But why is he left bankrupt now and why when I have deposited checks over $10K I had to wait two weeks for them to clear, yet his $100K goes through swiftly? You would think that when a Teller gets a check for $100K put in his/her hands and she doesn't think to raise a red flag or say "Sir for your own protection can you give us some background on what's going on here." Instead they don't, they are mindless drones that could care less about you and should be held just as responsible for the cash.

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