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Re:Wanted: Gullible Lawyers by dpapathanasiou on Monday September 10, 2007 @06:02PM (#52971)
I couldn't help but think, what if the scammer had actually gotten investors to fund him?

With the team he'd hired, and the website and other work they'd produced (ok, so maybe the author took some creative license with how good it actually was), how far would he have gotten?

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Re:Wanted: Gullible Lawyers by mynameishere on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @09:05AM (#53269)
"So, while News Corp bid 5 billion for the WSJ, you think you can get it with your 50 million dollar capitalization?"

Hmm. Pass.

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Re:Wanted: Gullible Lawyers by chadboyda on Monday September 10, 2007 @06:13PM (#52977)
Wow. That story was... unbelievable.
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Re:Wanted: Gullible Lawyers by gwenhwyfaer on Monday September 10, 2007 @08:42PM (#53062)
It's a classic shaggy dog story, its veracity notwithstanding...
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Re:Wanted: Gullible Lawyers by sethg on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @11:23AM (#53331)
The secret to a good con is finding marks who want to believe.
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Re:Wanted: Gullible Lawyers by alaskamiller on Monday September 10, 2007 @08:53PM (#53067)
Gullibility and desperation are separate but closely related things.
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