Somehow my friend starting chatting with someone who claims to be a woman in Africa who runs an orphanage. She has asked for his help with fund raising. She, or someone on her behalf, send him Xbox consoles to sell for $300 each. He receives about 3-4 per week and sells them all locally. I don’t know the addresss these Xboxes are coming from. Then he sends the money off to her. Again, I don’t know if he’s sending it overseas or if there is a US address he sends it to.
He’s convinced he’s helping out this orphanage. He’s also convinced she’s telling the truth when she says some day she wants to meet him and get married. But he has never even talked to her on the phone or actually seen her. All communication has been through email/online messaging.
I feel like it must be a money laundering scheme. My husband and I have mentioned as much, but we don’t have any evidence to back it up other than it just seems way too odd to be legit. He refuses to hear us out and says it’s all very real.
So how does this scheme work? What’s the catch? And is he going to end up being implicated in something illegal?
Submitted August 20, 2018 at 04:37PM by CornersOfToday https://ift.tt/2BFHnxF
