plenty of people today and a number get murdered going to Africa trying to get their money back. People were also falling to what the scam was known as in the 19th century which was the Spanish Prisoner
People still fall for that sort of stuff, it’s painful. Most of the victims are men , they stop all semblance of caution when talking with a women (or a supposed woman ) and they are often desperate to have money and becoming “Someone”. Still some victims are women, older ones in particular.
It’s called the long con.... At least they didn’t give her a check to cash. Then-in steps the FBI and Secret Service. And that’s the truth. Oh yeah she can go to jail if the check is high enough. I think they call it embezzlement.
"Walk out nice and easy, hands behind your head" "End this" Well that is one negotiator that should immediately be fired, you don't ever use words like that that make the person think about death, how stupid can you be.
Yeah that was dumb when I heard it. I recently watched the show on TV the other day an old TV show cuz it was the only thing I wanted that I've got an antenna TV so don't judge. Anyway there's a guy who's going to jump from the ledge. Let's just say the officer that responded in the TV show he handed the suicidal man a empty gun and told him to blow his brains out. The guy almost fell off and took a cop with him but you know TV it's got plot armor but yeah definitely not the smartest move to tell someone who is suicidal to end it I mean he did end it technically but I would avoid that conversation
No, he's right. Taking hostages is a temporary solution (you're not gonna keep them forever, right?), and if you kill them / turn to violence, your life is done, you're going to jail forever. Hence, don't turn your temporary solution into a permanent problem.
Why do cops and detectives always care so much about whose case it is? Just find out who the killer is, that's all you gotta do! Who cares about the credit?!
Funding and promotions are based on metrics in all organizations. In a car dealership, its based on sales. In a police department, its based on convictions and tickets.
Watch The Wire, it’s all in “juking the stats.” “Turning red cases into black.” (Meaning open versus solved) And turning rapes into assault, murders into manslaughter, etc...
Numbers matter to the department and to the officers. More cases that are being caught *and* solved equal higher budgets and having more convictions/arrests under your belt as an officer is how you get promoted. Police teams and departments argue amongst eachother about jurisdictions and who gets what case because they want the cases that will make them look good but want the others to take on the difficult/messy ones. It's the same corporate politics as any workplace, only difference is that the people doing it can legally kidnap(aka arrest)/kill people while doing their job.
The only time I knew when cops don't care about getting the credit is when they work to solve the murder of one of their own. Guess that's not the case anymore
This video reminds of two things. First, the bearbrook four: their killer was identified before they were. Second, the show who the bleep did I marry; it was all about people who didn't know about their spouses criminal activity.
This is without a doubt the single dumbest episode of L&A out there. Spoilers: The main point of the entire episode was because some guy believes he is the child of President JFK. No seriously.
The moment the plot involves anything relating to JFK, that is a sign that the writers have officially run out of ideas. Same thing with time travel in a science fiction series.
@@moobad6326 Well, he did probably murder someone and steal some pretty big things. They can BOTH be the problem. But murder is bit worse then being dumb
This episode is from 2009 and people still use flip phones including my Assistant Supervisor who won’t update to a iPhone considering the original Law and Order started in 1990 and remember when they used Apple computers, pay phones, pagers on the show.
If any partner I had fell for that scam I would be gone in an instant. You can suffer with your mistake I will not help you if you are that stupid to give that much money away.
The Nigerian prince scam wouldnt have become such a meme if so many people hadn't fallen for it. the days before the internet must have been very trusting
Are we going to talk about U.S. Grant sending a letter to Jefferson Davis? The commanding general of the US army sending a letter to the President of the Confederacy? Yeah....that would be an unexpected find under my kid's crib.
One of the more complicated episodes ever. Quickly moved away from the cop and onto a guy who thought he was JFK’s illegitimate son. Bernard and Lupo screw something up while questing him, so he walks. Connie gets blamed and gets pissed, but they make up (no kissing involved sadly.) They pull a scam on the Kennedy wantsabee making him think that if he waves the immunity he has from the screwup, the public will learn JFK was his dad. He chooses to go to jail as JFK’s son rather than life a free life as a nobody. And since they scanned him, he ends up going to jail as a nobody.
Basically it’s where someone claiming to be a prince from Nigeria emails, texts, or calls you and asks for a large sum of money because they allegedly “lost their throne” and can use your money to get it back, as well as promising to pay you back even more money then you gave them once they get their throne back
Its the vulnerable ones that usually end up getting caught in the trap. A coworker of my father just recently fell for it earlier this year; it was right after her husband died unexpectedly.
usually the ''rich nigerian prince'' scammer story is pretty outdated but some scammers still try it to this day . nowadays romance scams, free Iphone scams, airpod scams, pakistani/Indian microsoft call center scams seems to fly well with the zoomers. well the last mentioned targets boomers but you get the point .
