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#293362 by TerranceBoyce Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:43 pm
A tragic story but one that demonstrates just what you're dealing with when you get involved with scammers. In this case it was major league drug smugglers.

Luckily he was apprehended in a country where his problems were understood or his fate could have been so much worse.

http://www.sundayworld.com/news/courts/us-surgeon-who-brought?

29th April 2016

76-year-old American surgeon brought drugs to Ireland after falling for online scam

An eminent US surgeon with early onset dementia who fell victim to a phishing scam which culminated in him bringing €100,000 of cocaine into Dublin Airport will be sentenced next week.

Soriano told gardai he had become isolated and very lonely at home after martial and family problems arose when he lost money on a previous occasion to a Nigerian phishing scam.

Soriano told gardai he was a surgeon with a practice in Florida until he retired in 2004. He said he had not expected to live so long and his savings were all gone leaving him and his wife living on social security. He is married with four children and seven grandchildren.

The scammers told him a long lost relative had died and he was due to inherit US$2.3 million.

They gained Soriano's trust over a number of years, including sending him on a “dry run” to Hong Kong, before flying him to Columbia where he was given the paperwork for his inheritance as well as a “gift” in a red bag for Irish banking officials who would facilitate the transfer of funds.

Judge Greally indicated that she would impose a five year sentence which she would fully suspend on condition he leave the country. She adjourned the case until next week for finalisation to allow arrangements be put in place for his return to the United States.

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