Replies to '06/14 Dr. Phil Scam, Part 2: The Sting'

There was a previous show about women being scammed by the "love of their lives"--wiring money, etc. and it was all Nigerians.  Maybe that's what this poster is referring to but you're right--no one mentioned Nigeria this time. Not that I saw anyway.

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Somewhere in the synopsis it's mentioned that the scammers are Gypsies.  It breaks my heart that again Gypsies get in the news because of the small percent of the criminal element.  There are thousands and thousands of Roms ("Gypsy" is a word to describe anyone who is not settled now) who are law abiding and just get on with their lives.  But you don't see them.  You don't even know they exist. I am part Rom.  I have a college degree, I don't tell fortunes.  Everyone in our family has regular jobs.  We also have some members who are musicians and artists.  I know so many Rom who do not fit the stereotyp that these scammers  fit,  there are teachers, doctors, lawyers and even poiticians and actors.  Please keep an open mind when you hear of these fortune tellers and "asphalt gypsies" that they are only a minority of a larger very oppresssed world wide culture.