Renowned Psychiatrist Bilked By Nigerian E-Mail Scam ($1.3 Million)

[matcom]

:rofl:

<snip>

A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son.

The son, also an Orange County doctor, said his father — Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk — gave as much as $3 million over a 10-year period in response to an Internet plea that promised the doctor a generous cut of a huge sum of cash trapped in African bank accounts in exchange for money advances.

The court documents, filed last month in Orange County Superior Court, allege Gottschalk even traveled to Africa to meet a shadowy figure known as "The General."

Gottschalk — who at 89 still works at the UCI campus medical plaza that bears his name — said in court papers that the losses were caused by "some bad investments."

Guy Gottschalk is asking a judge to remove his father as administrator of the $8-million family partnership that was set up for tax purposes after the death of his mother in 1993. A hearing is set for March 14.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/la-me-nigerian2mar02,1,7629930.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

[jpgray]

1. And how does -that- make you feel?

:rofl:

[bleedingheart]

2. Ten years of being duped?

and no one noticed????

[KitchenWitch]

3. just goes to show that high levels of education do not impart common sense

[jpgray]

4. Well, guy's 89--not exactly from the e-generation

[KitchenWitch]

5. true

but if it sounds too good to be true, it likely is.

[Squatch]

6. Why is this funny?

Nothing like hearing about the elderly being preyed upon for a good chuckle.

[Hugin]

7. It doesn't say if he got any 'Yellow Cake' for his efforts...

or any candles for that matter.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. he is 89

different time period with less understanding of high tech crime combined with the belief that this sort of thing does happen in foreign/non-european countries