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		e40 on Dec 30, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisi... but I wonder how one can live with oneself exploiting this gullibility. I think it takes a sociopath to pull off this scam as a profession.

pavlov on Dec 30, 2017 [–]

I suspect many of the young African men working these scams genuinely believe that the targeted Westerners have so much money that the scams won't seriously impact them. The wealth gap is enormous.

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