CON PROMISES SLICK INHERITANCE

LONDON (Reuters) - A pharmacy in Scotland is suffering from a bad case of mistaken identity after it was used as the front for a Nigerian sting con.

Unsuspecting victims from around the world are descending on the chemists shop in Thurso, Caithness, believing it to be a bank they were duped into paying thousands of pounds.

How can there possibly be people with thousands of disposable dollars who are so stupid they can fall for this highly publicized con? It's OOOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDDDD! It's documented up the freaking wazzoo. It's been on every news channel, every news magazine, in every paper. Hell, they joked about it on Malcolm in the Middle this week!

Each was told they would inherit an oil company in return for an upfront fee to be paid into an account at the Continental Trust Bank -- but the bank does not exist and the address given was that of Sutherland's the chemists.

Even if nobody had ever warned anybody about it, how many synapses have to fire before you realize that this is bogus? You will inherit an oil company if you pay an upfront fee? What? And where is this bridge you're selling me?

Arlen Hughes, from Wyoming in the United States, was told he would inherit $41 million (23 million pounds) if he paid $57,000 up front.

"I received a call from a fella in Nigeria saying that I had inherited an oil company," he told Today. "They were very professional."

"I found a registered number in Scotland and so the researches I had found led me to believe they were on the uppity up."

Sure, Arlen. Blinded by greed and posessed of startling stupidity. But they had a registered number! Um...yeah. So based on the fact that they had a phone he gave them $57,000. Jackass moron asshat.

Please, please, please, do not waste even a single penny of taxpayer money on this crap. Let the greedy morons pay and keep paying for their stupidity. Consider them a suplement on foreign aid to Africa just like the Lottery is a special tax on people who are bad at math.