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The email came from Fish and Wildlife. The account it drained belonged to a woman named Diane.

A federal indictment unsealed this week in Pennsylvania describes a machine with two mouths: one that whispered love to lonely people online, and one that spoke in the voice of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Both mouths ate from the same plate.

By Mark Tell · Jul 28

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She thought she was funding a wedding. She was funding a wire route through Esenyurt.

A Hong Kong dentist spent two years wiring her savings to a man she believed was an American businessman in Istanbul. Turkish police now say the man was Nigerian, the romance was a script, and the bank accounts were a relay system.

By Mark Tell · Jun 16

The email came from Fish and Wildlife. The account it drained belonged to a woman named Diane.

She thought she was funding a wedding. She was funding a wire route through Esenyurt.

See the pitch they're running today.

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