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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: LoL What if she really is from Nigeria?! (9/11/2010 10:59:58 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt
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The scammers are uneducated, not bilingual, obviously working from a badly written script.
Sorry Frazzle, but this is incorrect. You are describing very low level scammers that operate the spammer and catcher accounts for the gangs that run these scams. Once a victim gets past the first few emails, they are usually 'kicked upstairs' to a much better scammer.
The next level scammers are usually educated (often college educated), bilingual, and they use a storyline rather than a script. In many scams, the next level scammer plays the 'barrister' and the 'shipper' as well as taking over the original character. Some scams also involve fake checks, phished bank and Paypal accounts, fake websites, and stolen goods. Love scammers often use their victims as 'mules', having them send fake checks to other victims or getting them to receive goods paid for with stolen credit cards and ship them overseas.
Scamming is literally a billion dollar a year industry. Those in charge move massive amounts of money around the world. They drive brand new cars and own multiple residences. They are hardly uneducated guys pounding on keyboards in some internet cafe.
Now, to the OP. There are many folks in Nigeria who are hard working and honest. It is a great shame that scammers have run the reputation of their country into the ground.
Dang, WyldHrt, you certainly earned that title of "smaht kewkie."
I had to read that several times just to download it past my blonde hair (I am having a severe space cadet day today).
I feel sorry for "real" kinksters in Nigeria because they hardly have a prayer with all the bad rep earned by scammers.
So glad I'm not Nigerian.
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