This Florida principal resigned after people found out she got scammed out of $100,000 by someone pretending to be Elon Musk
· Mar 29, 2023 · NottheBee.com

Principal Jan McGee of Burns Science and Technology charter school in Volusia County, Florida, just resigned from her job when people found out that she had been scammed out of $100,000 by a person online pretending to be Elon Musk.

They CHEERED when she resigned! Talk about insult to injury!

Jan gave a hundred thousand dollars to someone online who she thought was Elon Musk.

The crook spent MONTHS working on this scam! And this lady thought that she was having a back-and-forth conversation with the owner of Twitter, SpaceX, and Tesla to try to secure some kind of multi-million dollar grant for her school.

Now, I'm only somewhat familiar with education grants, but I don't think you email back and forth with the richest man in the world and then HE asks YOU for $100,000.

And McGee was reportedly told by other people, "Hey! That ain't Elon! Don't send him all this money!" And she went ahead and did it anyways!

I imagine those conversations went like this:

It wasn't even her money. This lady is so dense that she was going to dip into the school's bank account to send a $100,000 check to some rando on the internet, even after she had been warned.

Fortunately, someone gave the school's business manager a heads up and she was able to cancel the check before it ever got cashed.


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