Chemistry professor from Moscow conned into buying elixir of immortality for $85,000

How much would you pay for immortality? Well, one 75-year-old Moscow lady priced it at five million rubles ($85,000) after she received a phone call telling her she was terminally ill, and that only a new experimental medicine could help her. So, she coughed up her savings and bought the potion, which was of course a scam.

After two days, when no one delivered the medicine, she called the police. Surprisingly, the lady was not a typical “babooshka” who often fall prey to such fraudulent phone calls, but a professor at Moscow State University with a PhD in chemistry.

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