Charter school principal resigns after sending $100,000 of school’s money to fake ‘Elon Musk’

It wasn’t exactly a Nigerian prince scam. Florida charter school Principal Jan McGee resigned this week after sending $100,000 to a scammer pretending to be South African entrepreneur Elon Musk, who’s worth an estimated $192 billion. According to Orlando, Fla., station WESH, McGee was repeatedly warned that the grifter, who promised to invest millions into Burns Science and Technology after the school paid him a six-figure upfront investment, was likely not the world’s second richest man. The school’s business manager reportedly got word of McGee’s blunder and stopped payment, but that didn’t ...