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<i>“You get the love drug in you and you end up getting duped,” Bourland said.</i>

It's best to wear a condom for this reason.

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Hell they only wanted me to send $2499 and in return I would get 35.3 million from some cat who named me the sole heir to his fortune even though I had never heard of the dumb bastard.I told em well hell I was to travel there later in the week and would just stop by and pick it up save all the wire transfers cost.Never heard another word about it

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Wasnt jeebus a Carpenter

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"I love you give me money"

Hmmmm, I guess it depends on who is saying it.

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And in Grifter Heaven Jerry Falwell smiled.

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Faux [Irishman] <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=-9m86vWAFj0" target="_blank">on the Run</a>.

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I have deeply ambivalent feelings about this story. On the one hand, I hate scumbag grifters, and then again, I also despise wealthy people who are obviously far too fucking stupid to have earned a single dime in their lives.

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I blame the media.

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Slow news day.

(And maybe <a href="http:\/\/happynicetimepeople.com\/" target="_blank">HappyNiceTimePeople</a> was over their hourly output quota? There's a lot of overlap, you know.)

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This woman doesn't strike me as "wealthy", I mean she cleaned out her savings and refinanced her house for this... Certainly would have had a comfortable retirement, but hardly champagne wishes and caviar dreams.

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