Stupidest person in 2011?

[VHG]

Does this guy win the award for the stupidest person in 2011?

Just shows you why these scammers still send out spam mail, hoping to catch an idiot like this:

http://www.dailymail....-web-sheer-greed.html

[Booldawg]

not just him - seems like the whole village bought in to his stupidity.

loved the quote;

'Mr Stimpson, it should be pointed out, attended both university and public school' - like thats a guarantor of intelligence!

[Graham-W]

You can fool ALL of the people SOME of the time.
You can fool SOME of the people ALL of the time.
But you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time.

[Everhelpful]

Unbelievable,You couldn't make it up, Stupid,Greedy sod.

[Baldric]

I've just checked, he appears to have won our Village Lottery.
I shall write to him immediately!

;o))

[EvianBaby]

Whats the saying? A fool and his money are soon parted.

[jomifl]

I think he just suffers from a lack of imagination (and now cash of course).

[tiggerblue10]

Stupid villagers as well.

[sunny-dave]

Yes - he's a greedy fool - but the real villains are the inept, hand-wringing tw*ts at Ofcom who will not force the ISPs who deliver this rubbish to deal with it at source. That would remove the temptation from the venal idiots who reply to this stuff

It is no more 'impossible' to eliminate email spam than it is 'impossible' to stop spam telephone calls - it just suits the ISPs and telcos to do nothing - often because they actually make money from carrying/delivering the calls/emails.

[Zhukov]

Im sorry..I know it is cruel..but I havent stopped laughing yet!!

He manages,without telling his poor wife,and after e-mailing £50,000,to meet a Man of Mediterranean appearance at the gate at the end of his own driveway,in a village in Norfolk...and hands over £75,000 cash,in a plastic bag...Incredible..what a complete Dunce..they must be peeing themselves laughing,his mates in the Nick!!

[ichkeria]

The

"brothers who run a local butcher’s shop (who) gave him £74,000; a farmer who had known Mr Stimpson for many years contributed £110,000; the godfather to one of Mr Stimpson’s children stumped up £90,000. Others ‘loaned’ him sums of £150,000, £85,000, £30,000, or £10,000."

must run him close, as must the others who fall for similar scams.

[abstibus]

I believe these two were 'offered TV roles' if they acted out the sketch:

[d9f1c7]

In this case a fool and his money were doing very well to be together in the first place. That's why they do these scams, they just might hit the jackpot with a whole village of idiots. Does this village have a "Village Genius" as an odd one out?

[Canary42]

It doesn't seem to occur to anyone that he was in fact a very clever guy - the e-mail incident was all of his own making and he deliberately set out to defraud the gullible villagers, and was very successful at it until the end. The "end of the drive" tale was merely a ploy to add credibility, and the local yokels (albeit well-heeled yokels) were sucked in.

[joko]

i was just thinking that his name sounds like something from a monty python sketch haha

[joko]

canary, i also wondered that... its seems too fantastical to believe anyone would be so relentlessly fooled and continue for so long against all the odds - especially someone with his apparent intellect and wealth...

i have no doubt the police have already thought of the double bluff angle but hes managed to convince them anyway...

[d9f1c7]

what I don't understand is that if I went to anyone I know and said I'd won the Spanish Lottery and I just need 50k to release the money, they'd laugh me out of the room. So how come the ones he approached were convinced?

[andy-hughes]

It is a sad case of an intelligent man blinded by greed.

Although it seems obvious to all of us, you have to wonder why he didn't ponder the fact that he hadn't actually bought a Spanish lottery ticket ... ?

[rov1100]

Confidence tricksters often occur in our lives. Some people are taken in completely, some are taken in for a short while and then you get your skeptics who would never believe anyone or anything. Unfortunately most of us fit under the second example. Who hasn't bought a dodgy second hand car.

[VHG]

Canary42 - I had already thought of that before I posted the original update, but wanted to see if anyone else suggested it. The whole thing seems a little untrue to me.

It could be that he wanted a divorce from his wife, but did not want to give her half his money. So he "pretends" to lose it to these lottery scammers, and is now broke (so he says) so has to give his wife nothing.

He may have the money hidden in a foreign bank account.

He now serves a couple of years in prison, and when he come out he has millions, and no wife to give half to.

[ludwig]

There's no hint in the story that he made the whole thing up, and it would be easy for the police to check his email correspondence to confirm whether he was the original victim of the scam or not.
I think he's just as halfwitted as he appears to be.