Headline May 12, 2018/ ''' *SWINDLERS -*SHAMELESS*- SWADDLERS '''

''' *SWINDLERS -*SHAMELESS*- 

SWADDLERS '''

STUDENT ZILLI, NEVER  EVER - forgets, any of these shameless criminals and crooks of the world. And she is ever pressing to remind -

That it has been - many months, over four months plus, since thieves pulled off the biggest heist in the history of Iceland and the police there still have no idea where -

The booty - roughly $2, million worth of Bitcoin-mining computers - is stashed. A breakthrough in the case seemed imminent in early February when the authorities detained Sindri Stefabsson, a 31 year old man -

With a rap sheet that includes drug possession and burglary.

Even though he hadn't been charged, let alone convicted, the news media tagged him the ''mastermind'' of the crime, largely because he was held in prison for the longest of any of the 11  suspects who were questioned.

And with that begins :

 A brief life on the run in Bitcoin heist. And !WOW! assures, Zilli, that no crook or swindler will be able to get far enough from the long reach of The World Students Society.

Every single penny will be brought back and returned to the rightful owners. Just watch Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, the Prime Minister of Malaysia do it, and cast the dye.

''It just devastated the whole household,'' said her husband, Tim Keithley, a security guard who was making $10 an hour at the time. The ordeal was so costly, Ms. Keithley said, that the family's telephone service was shut off. They also had to go to a food bank.

BOGUS ACCOUNTS bearing the likenesses of the Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have scammed users.

The New York Times found 205 impostor accounts.

After initially resisting, the sham, Ms. Sandberg agreed to a phone call, adding ''I am not the one that will be speaking to you O.K.''

Seconds later,  a call arrived from a number with a 650 area code - Silicon Valley.

''You have to be careful, there are lots of scam artists,'' a man said in in accented English after he was informed that he was speaking with The Times.

He added, ''All I am trying to do is get your winning package.''

The Times reached out to more than 50 impostor accounts. Most messages went unreturned. None that replied broke character.

The charade has ensnared people like Donna Keithley, 50, a stay-at-home mother with four children in Martinsburg, Pa.

In March 2016, an account with the name of Linda Ritchey messaged Ms.Kethley ''on behalf of the Facebook C.E.O Mark Zuckerberg'' to pass on word of her good fortune :

$650,000 in lottery winnings, Ms. Keithley wired $350 - a delivery fee - the next day.

That began a monthlong saga.

According to a 28,000 word transcript of a Facebook Messenger conversation between Ms. Keithley and the account, the scammer repeatedly played on Ms. Keithley's Christian faith to get her to send more money.

''Are you good Christian with god fears?'' the Linda Ritchey account asked. ''Can you trust me and also have believe in me?''

Over the next month, Ms. Keithley received not only Facebook messages but a call from a Mr. Zuckerberg impostor who assured her the lottery was real.

She even heard from a Facebook account masquerading as Eileen M, Decker, the former United States attorney Los Angeles, asking for $205 to process her winnings.

The Times found at least five Facebook accounts posing as Ms. decker and and advertising government grants, another known scam.

Mr. Decker told The Times that she has tried to get Facebook to remove the accounts, but the site wanted a picture of her government-issued identification to do so. She refused.

''To me, they're not a trusted source,'' she said. She added that she had contacted the F.B.I and hired a lawyer.

Ms. Kethley's scammers ordered her to open new credit cards and bank accounts, and even get a loan using her husband's 2001 Ford Taurus as collateral.

Midawy through the month, she said, she had a minor stroke because of the stress.

By April 2016, she had used her family's tax refund and loans from relatives to pay the scammer $5, 306.43 much of it in money transfers to the name Ben Amos in Lagos, Nigeria.   

''It just devastated the whole household,'' said her husband, Tim Keithley, a security guard who was making a $10 an hour at the time.

The ordeal was so costly, Ms. Keithley said, the family's telephone service was shut off. They also had to go a food bank.

While Ms. Keithley still gets messages from accounts claiming to work for Facebook, she said she is now wiser.

''Lord as my witness, no one's getting any more money from me,'' she said.

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