{"id":492,"date":"2013-12-08T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:45:46","slug":"the-amsterdam-fortune-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/the-amsterdam-fortune-1920s.html","title":{"rendered":"The Amsterdam Fortune, 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/The_Amsterdam_Fortune\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/d\/de\/Alvina_Olson%2C_Webster_SD%2C_Amsterfam_Fortune_Sabo_Inheritance.jpg\/250px-Alvina_Olson%2C_Webster_SD%2C_Amsterfam_Fortune_Sabo_Inheritance.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norwegian immigrants in the 1920s saw their chance at financial independence: an Amsterdam bank ran ads in newspapers looking for descendants of Elizabeth Sabo, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manxnationalheritage.im\/\">Manx<\/a> woman who ended up in Norway after a ill-fated cow milking expedition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/The_Amsterdam_Fortune\">The Amsterdam Fortune<\/a> was her brother&#8217;s, bequeathed to the 6th generation of her offspring, to be paid on New Year&#8217;s Day 1927 who whatever heirs can be found. \u00a0 Hundreds of hopeful immigrants paid $10 each to retain a lawyer to collect their $3,000,000 each, but nothing ever came of it. \u00a0 If the internet had been around back then, they would already know that the rule was &#8212; as it is now &#8212; if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhando.com\/spanish.html\">a stranger asks for money<\/a> to claim an inheritance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfraudreporting.org\/anatomy_of_a_payment_scam_wills.php\">it&#8217;s probably a scam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian immigrants in the 1920s saw their chance at financial independence: an Amsterdam bank ran ads in newspapers looking for descendants of Elizabeth Sabo, a Manx woman who ended up in Norway after a ill-fated cow milking expedition. The Amsterdam Fortune was her brother&#8217;s, bequeathed to the 6th generation of her offspring, to be paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35,608,277,609,309,610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}