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This is True®

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by Randy Cassingham

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What Goes Around
Harvard University Professor Weldong Xu, 38, a former researcher at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, told colleagues, students and friends that he had started a research company in China to cure Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. He managed to collect $600,000 in “investments” from 35 people before police in Boston, Mass., caught up with him — while he was pressing a victim for more money in the Dana-Farber cafeteria. The SARS research company was a scam. So what was he doing with the money? He told police he had a “business investment” with “partners” in Nigeria he met by email, and was to collect $50 million from a hoard of cash — a classic Internet fraud. “I tried to tell him he’d been scammed, but he never caught on,” said Detective Steve Blair. (Boston Globe, Boston Herald) ...Proving you don’t have to be stupid to be an idiot.
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 10

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