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At the beginning of the year p2pnet pretended to have been sucked in by Nigeria-based 419 scammer Caroline (right).

After we revealed our identity, she said she’d close us down unless we pulled “the story of Caroline and her picture from your false assertions”.

But her threats notwithstanding, we’re still here and, presumably, she’s still out there scamming people.

So no harm done to us, but the same can’t be said for an 80-year-old man in Sweden who believed he’d struck it rich when an email told him he was the winner in a lottery.

But instead, he  was swindled out of his life savings of £450,000 ($715,000), says The Local, going on:

“The email instructed the man to send money abroad in order to collect his prize. He transferred funds on several occasions to a bank account in England, according to local media. In total, the octogenarian parted with 800,000 kronor ($110,000).”

But when he asked his daughter for a loan in order to transfer even more, “she reported the incident to the police,” says the story.

Needless to say, the only winner is the lottery crook.

Most successful Nigeria 419 scams depend on people whose greed overcomes their commonsense.

But this old gentleman innocently thought he’d won a prize.

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