UK: Web scam drove student to suicide

[De Master Yoda]

Words just fail me! my heart goes out to this victims family. Let any one who feels sympathy for the scammers read this!
From BBC news. Friday, 2 May 2008 UK
An inquest has been told how a university student killed herself after falling victim to an internet scam.

Jaiyue Wang, 23, gave more than £6,000 in the belief she had won half a million pounds in a lottery after being contacted over the internet.

She arrived in Britain last summer from Hainan in China to study at the University of Nottingham.

Recording a suicide verdict, Nottingham coroner Dr Nigel Chapman said her death, in April, was a tragedy.

Vulnerable woman

He said: "A young university student - doesn't speak very much English, her parents don't speak English - been coming across to one of the great universities but has taken her own life because of a scam from Nigeria."

Ms Wang was found hanged at her home in Beeston last month.

Jonathan Ray, a University of Nottingham spokesman, said: "Obviously anybody who hears this story will just feel that it's a despicable exploitation of a vulnerable person whatever their status or location in life.

"It's just deeply sad that the young woman was so badly hit by what happened to her just before Christmas."

[Top Gun]

AWW man this just SUCKS!!!
What a terrible thing to happen to an innocent girl!
Just give me a few minutes alone with the scammers who claim theirs is a victim less crime!
Lets re double our efforts against these heartless criminals !

My condolences to her family and friends!

[scammerslayer]

What a tragedy! just so that an evil bastard can buy more bling.

He has caused the death of an innocent person, may he rot in hell for his crime!

I join with all the members here and with all honest people around the world, who condemn this evil practice that can cause such a loss!
Sincere condolences to her loved ones on such a pointless loss of a young life!