A Rochester woman, allegedly caught up in a Nigerian scam operation, now faces criminal charges for stealing from her employer to send advance payments to the scam artists in order to get a promised $10 million. Jalaine Noella Holtan, is charged with one count of felony theft. A summons has been issued for her to be in Olmsted District Court on Nov. 17.
Police were called July 10 by the area manager for Casey’s General Store after learning from the bank that several deposit bags had not been deposited from one of the stores. The complaint said Holtan told the manager that she had kept the cash because she owed people money. She said she took about $10,000 to $15,000. Holtan later told police she had been investing for several years. Holtan said she got an e-mail in early July from an attorney named Morgan Smith, who said Holtan is to receive $10 million from investments she had made in diamonds and oil in Nigeria.
Diplomats from Nigeria allegedly were in Rochester in June with the money, but they needed a “certificate” to transfer the money to her. Holtan told police the diplomats needed her to front the money to them to pay for the “certificate.” Holtan didn’t have the money available, so the diplomats returned to Nigeria and put her in touch with Smith. Holtan was told that Smith would arrive in Rochester on July 9. She said she waited for him at the airport until 10 p.m., but he never arrived.
She said she received a message from Smith that night in which he said he needed $2,500 from her in order to get to Rochester with the $10 million, but she didn’t have it for him.
Holtan said she had sent over $12,507 to these people since July 7. She told police she had gotten the majority of the money by “borrowing” it from her employer. She said she took it with the intention of repaying the money upon receipt of her $10 million.
People still fall for this?
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Why is this any different than voting for a person who says that want to take money from you?
B.T. Barnum said it best…
#1. No difference.
#1 “…who says that want…”???
As B.T. Barnum said best – “I wonder what that famous guy P.T. Barnum would say?”
For Nigerians this must be like taking candy from an…idiot.
Well, some people must fall for these scams or they would have died out years ago.
Heck, people fell for Weapons of Mass Destruction, why not the Nigerians?
Stupid woman.
#1 – Paddy-O
Oh, yeah… the market will provide…
#4 – Dave W – Heck, people fell for Weapons of Mass Destruction, why not the Nigerians?
Yes, the same folks who’ll vote for McSame.
The picture is offensive. Obviously not the WOMAN.
I wonder how old she was (more excellent reporting!)…
#7 Buzz
How devastatingly quick of you to pick up on that fact. McCullough can’t put anything over on you.
Thanks for the laugh.
I believe the good fellow in the picture is an actual Nigerian scammer.
[You are correct sir, scamming the scammers – ed.]
I wonder how nutty this woman/other suckers are in their everyday lives?
Paddy and McCullough==you have the CHOICE not to play the Nigerian Scam Game, but no choice in either a Dem or Repug getting elected. With that reality in place, how much you get taxed is a very secondary consideration to what programs the President will fight to get passed or defeat.
This is news? What, did McCoulloch get burned and hadda chortle as someone even dumber?
11 bobo “With that reality in place, how much you get taxed is a very secondary consideration to what programs the President will fight to get passed or defeat.”
Truth.
This is why we should amend the Constitution to only allow voting after you pass a decent written and multiple choice test, incorporating general questions about the country, combined with specific issues around the time of the election.
There was a “scam” book put out last year, where a fellow had actively talked to the scammers and kept leading them around as various people. It was hilarious… and some of the pictures definitely looked like that guy.
The woman was stupid AND greedy. Someone should just send her to a casino and let nature take its course.
the real news here is someone actually fell for it.
p.a.don’t you have a collection of scanners doing stupid things here?
The joke’s on the Nigerians. Don’t they know that U.S. dollars are worthless now?
Why don’t you have a Share feature so I can post stories to my FB page?
Once can only hope this moron hasn’t had the chance to pass on her retard genes to the next generation. Part of her sentence should be sterility.
Heck, people are falling for Obama’s shit that he is somehow different from all the other scumbags in Washington.
A friend of mine torments these poor nice people playing these tricks by telling them that his family is holding a prayer meeting that evening at their home to place a hex on the villian and their whole tribe
#14 tvtodd – Down south we’uns used to have them thar litrracy tests. Iffen you wuz white, the registrator jus kinda summed you wuz littrate. Iffen you wuz black, you mighten find yoself tryin to splain one of them thar sonnets. You no lak that Shakspear fella done writ back in the ol’country.
The votin rites act of 1965 pretty neer put an end to them tests. Jes as well. Jes cuz you kin reed n write dont meen you aint no idiot.
“Another Cave-Dwelling Moron falls for Nigerian scam”
Ahhh…. I think you’ll find that is spelt MORAN … dumb ass.
(see point 11 on http://tinyurl.com/dvorak-moran)
[Yeah, you know…got tired of trying to explain that one – ed.]
#14, tvtodd: exactly what I have been suggesting for almost 20 years: votes should be counted as fractions, based on your score in such test. You got things halfway right? Here’s your half-a-vote!
That would have the interesting effect that political parties could opt to try and succeed with huge numbers of complete morons (.75 votes) or to even educate their potential basis so they get them from an average .25 to, say, a .5 vote.
It all hinges on the fairness of the test, though, which is why it will forever be a thought experiment only.
After all, it’s more difficult to manipulate the election by manipulating electronic voting machines, have deceased peoples’ votes counted and tell others that they needn’t go to vote because their vote won’t make a difference anyway. That would not happen in a decent democracy!
pj
upps.. I seem to have accidentially cut out a line from my post… between “morons” and the (.75 votes) … I guess you get the idea still…
pj
#14, tvtodd
we should amend the Constitution to only allow voting after you pass a decent written and multiple choice test
If the first question were “What does the 14th Amendment do”, you wouldn’t be voting.
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For those who would like to follow up on this try 419.com and nigerianscams.com.
#22, Now THAT’S funny.
I used to get a lot of JWs at my door. One day I told these three sweet little ladies that I was Muslim and that their religion was next on our list of heresies to be stamped out.
I haven’t seen them since.
I’ve always thought a cattle prod fashioned like a Klingon pain stick would be an interesting prop when trying to convert the converters to the one true religion of Kalis.
Still waiting for the money for the certificate.
#25 “votes should be counted as fractions, based on your score in such test.”
No, to be fair it should be fractional based on how much in taxes you pay. That would fair.