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SWEET HOME, Ore., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A woman in Sweet Home, Ore., says she is $400,000 in debt after being the victim of a number of Internet scam artists.
Sweet Home resident Janella Spears said she was contacted by a number of individuals claiming to be from places like Africa and Canada, all seeking small payments for various reasons, the Albany (Ore.) Democrat-Herald reported.
Spears said the e-mail requests began in August 2005 when an unidentified individual asked for $100 to help a struggling relative. After agreeing to the request, Spears began to receive an increasing amount of the monetary requests until she built up $400,000 worth of debt.
"I kept thinking it's only a couple hundred dollars. I can get it back," she said of her mind-set while accumulating the daunting financial debt.
Spears has been advised by police not to respond to any future money requests online and the Oregon resident is working with a money management group regarding her debt.
"As a reverend and an American, I just wasn't prepared for that level of dishonesty," she told the Democrat-Herald in hindsight of her victimization.
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