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November 21, 2009
Playboy poser strikes again
Published: 8 Sep 09 13:15 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21954/20090908/
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A looming jail sentence didn't stop a 31-year-old Swedish woman found guilty of defrauding several men she met online from luring other unsuspecting victims out of their money with sob stories and images of Playboy models.
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Since her trial, two more men have filed police reports, claiming the woman has defrauded them of a total of 537,000 Swedish kronor ($76,000).
Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist told Borås Tidning newspaper that the woman has maintained the same modus operandi and that the crimes are nearly identical. The woman has not yet begun to serve her jail sentence.
The previous incidents involved the woman asking the men she met online for money, regaling them with tall tales of a fictional daughter who was suffering from leukemia. The 31-year-old also claimed she was being pursued by the mob. Her heart-wrenching pleas prompted her male victims to send her more than 500,000 kronor in total.
The woman denies the new accusations and claims that the money was a loan and a gift. She was arrested on Sunday on charges of gross fraud and fraud.
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Your comments about this article:
and swapping a few MP3 files online will get you 2 years in the pen under the IPRED laws, gotta love the priorities here.
So I guess its not at all the question that she successfully abused the generousity of others with deep pockets who are keen to help.
The keyword is "keen to help" which is more than I could say for you or the non-Swedes at large.
Wow - you are a sucker for punishment, however, I do have to credit you for the creation of a new euphemism "keen to help", to describe egregious stupidity.
Some interesting examples of @Thebinary1's new euphemism:
1. When arrested by police for driving while 4 times over the legal limit - "officer, I was just keen to help Systembolaget with alcohol sales".
2. When your wife discovers you have been shagging the secretary (for the feminist pornographers out there, please note that I have no specified the gender of the secretary!) - "darling I was just keen to help my secretary discover their inner self"
3. When your boss discovers you have been downloading internet porn at work - "Boss, I was just keen to help support this poor website called XXXformen.com"
4. When you get caught by the cops soliciting a prostitute - "sorry officer, but I was just keen to help the national GDP"
etc. etc.
I gotta get one of these scams going ;-)
They very well could have flown to Los Angeles and paid to shag many playboy models and pornstars and still have money left in their pockets. Instead of hoping to be with this supposed woman. She very well could have been a man from Lagos scamming them!
Why is it that you guys focused on the 'pornstar' bit and not on the bit which says:
"The previous incidents involved the woman asking the men she met online for money, regaling them with tall tales of a fictional daughter who was suffering from leukemia."
Which cooked-up-story do you think generated the most revenue?
The length of sentence is I suppose dictated to some extent by laws. And this is where I miss some useful information in this article: what is the possible range of sentence length for this crime?