Nigerian Prince: Santos Pitched Get Rich Quick Scam

The New York Times reports:

About a year before George Santos was elected to Congress, he and three other men approached a loyal campaign donor with a potentially lucrative opportunity. A wealthy Polish citizen wanted to buy cryptocurrency, they said, but for reasons unclear, his fortune was frozen in a bank account.

They asked the donor, a wealthy investor in his own right, for help. The donor was immediately skeptical. He was not told the Polish citizen’s name. The men’s plan — having the donor create a limited liability company to gain access to the funds — made no sense to him.

And while they hadn’t yet asked for money, he was struck by how much their pitch resembled the classic Nigerian prince email scheme, in which a rich, potentially fictitious, foreigner asks an outsider to help free up frozen assets.

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🙋🏼‍♀️ I actually did have George Santos running the ‘Nigerian Prince’ scam on my George Santos is a con artist bingo card.

Resign George.
You’re an embarrassment to our district. https://t.co/5LMZxx6X2R

— Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) July 26, 2023