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What Goes Around
Harvard University Professor Weldong Xu, 38, a former researcher at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, told colleagues, students and friends that he had started a research company in China to cure Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. He managed to collect $600,000 in “investments” from 35 people before police in Boston, Mass., caught up with him — while he was pressing a victim for more money in the Dana-Farber cafeteria. The SARS research company was a scam. So what was he doing with the money? He told police he had a “business investment” with “partners” in Nigeria he met by e-mail, and was to collect $50 million from a hoard of cash — a classic Internet fraud. “I tried to tell him he’d been scammed, but he never caught on,” said Detective Steve Blair. (Boston Globe, Boston Herald)
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 10
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