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James Altucher: Claudia Is Worried I Will Be Killed For Posting This
- patio11 13y agoApropos of nothing: One of the classic elements of successful frauds is making the mark believe that they are pulling one over on the fraudster. (Take a look at those loan terms.)
- loumf 13y agoEven better is if you make the mark think they are complicit in the fraud. Then, they cover it up.
- scotty79 13y agoHow naive are people with lots of money. They got fax of the shares supposedly worth $25mln and they got some pieces of paper with ink on them. And that was all they needed to irreversibly transfer $10mln to unknown individual.
- gohrt 13y agoKilled, I don't know, but now I know never to do business with James Altucher, who lets any anonymous person get their hand halfway into someone's pocket for $10million
- wikwocket 13y agoHe just referred a potential client (referred to him by a friend of a friend) to his colleague. It was the colleague's responsibility to vet the client, which they did a so-so job at. Of course everyone should be cautious of deals that are too good to be true, but I don't think James Altucher is at fault for referring a possible lead to a friend.
- jgalt212 13y agoHow is this story notable? Seems like a garden variety 419 scam to me--except for the bit where the scammer gave up the $15,000 legal fees as ante. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam