Am I gullible

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I have name changed .A woman at work who has as lot of previous for telling rather large lies and little lies has said her niece was killed in the Paris attack .
When mentioned to two other people they raised their eyes and said "really "
I had believed her up to this point but and here's the but .
She said originally she was at the concert with her boyfriend then it changed after people at work started asking awkward questions .to one of the cafes.She also said that her name wouldn't be on the official list as her aunty had asked that it not be due to family discord
.People at work want to raise money for charity and put her nieces name forward as a sort cause.
She has said to them she didn't want to use her name .She said her niece didn't have a Facebook page .She was 24.
Now obviously it is none of my business if she chooses to lie as obviously she is struggling with her life if she chooses too.lie so spectacularly But my question is am I gullible ?Would you believe her given her track record of proven liar .

I was thinking along the understanding route but the problem arises when she tells lies IE someone said something about someone that they didn't.She drops people in the poo when there is no need
She lies to get herself out of trouble and dosnt think or care I don't know which about the consequence s

I wouldn't believe her.
There have been a few trolls on the net and twitter claiming they have lost relatives or relatives have been injured. Even getting mentioned in parliament "Callum MacDonald " doesn't seem to be on any list
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/paris-terror-attacks-police-probing-6849363

Does she say what nationality her niece was? So far I've only heard about 1 UK fatality.

You say she said her niece was a victim but that 'her aunty' didn't want the niece's name in the public domain? Assuming you mean the victim's mother, wouldn't that make her your colleague's sister or SIL? If colleague meant her own aunty was the mother that'd make the victim her cousin? Because surely no-one other than the parents could say they didn't want the niece's name included? Unless there's a different family dynamic where the victim's aunt (or great aunt if the colleague was saying 'my aunt'- making the girl her cousin) could be in a position to do that?
Either way it sounds like a lie and I would steer very well clear!

I have been involved with someone like this. The whole family were at it. There was a robbery at a local bank and they told me they had witnessed it. The wife said her husband had been to a famous College. The next day I named the College to him and said it must have been nice to go to the prestigious college. He looked puzzled and said he had never been to a College.
They lied about their children's GCSE results etc etc. They were notorious liars and in the end they were a local joke.
Was it collective mental illness? I know that there is an illness where people lie constantly.
We have nothing to do with them now.

Sounds like bullshit.

Give her no credibility at all. What a disgusting thing to lie about.

I was in Paris at the weekend visiting my DD1, who is a student there. She had friends who had gone to the Bataclan that night. Luckily all did get out, but one had to crawl commando style through dead bodies to avoid getting shot herself.

Nobody should even think of lying about something so awful.

What an awful thing to lie about.

Dont feel bad about believing her, you did nothing wrong

It's awful that people can lie about such awful things!

Even if the imaginary nieces family said they didn't want her name listed - which in itself is odd - they'd need to rely on all her friends and colleagues not mentioning her. What are the odds of that happening. Slim to none.

Sounds like your colleague needs help of some kind

Oh, people lie about stuff like this all the time. I'm a bereaved parent and one of the support groups I'm involved with has had several liars over the years. Can you imagine pretending your child is DEAD? The male lead in that film 'Rabbit Hole', he 'researched' the role by going to support groups for bereaved parents and pretending to be one. He didn't even have kids!

I don't feel sorry for people who do this. Some are sociopathic arseholes who get a rise out of attention and manipulating people.

Don't feel bad. We all fall for people like this in life.

And I just saw on ITV news that it's been confirmed: there was only one British person killed. 3 others who were hospitalised have been released and returned to the UK.