I have actually heard of several people through news casts that indicate people have gotten taken by this scheme. I dont know if you recall the pastors wife that shot her husband several months ago. That was here in TN. Turns out she was taken by a similar scheme and the reason she shot her husband was because they were arguing about money problems and the fact that she was scammed.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there that get sucked into the scheme. There is another scam out there were they post on the Job Ad boards - company hiring to process payements in America. The way it works, you deposit checks into your account and then wire money to them keeping back a certain percentage. Problem is the checks you receive on their behalf a bogus and by the time you have wired the money you are stuck with an acount that is way over in NSF world!!!