Word: scammed
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...someone whose friends were willing to go out on a limb for him and get him a date, Maas is awfully ungrateful. “The head of the HoCo was definitely in on this whole scam. She definitely gave them the go-ahead,” says Maas. As for his roommates: “They definitely smell...
...unbelievable as this scam sounds, the truly incredible part is that anyone believes it. In fact, the Secret Service’s website even complains about the “perception that no one is prone to enter into such an obviously suspicious relationship.” In fact, in 2001 alone there were more than 2,600 Americans who went along with this scam, some losing as much...
...losses, and that’s certainly the tack taken by the Secret Service, which refers to these saps as “victims.” To be sure, there are some victims like the American who was murdered in Lagos, Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing the Nigeria scam. Yet this exception only proves the rule. No one deserves to die for attempting to steal this money, but it seems fair that they lose their money, since they are, after all, attempting to take part in international fraud...
...does not matter that they are not the ones who initiated the scam, nor does is it matter that they are often not legally culpable, since the money never appears. None of this diminishes the moral deceit of their actions. Like their Nigerian co-conspirators, the Americans who take part in this scheme should be dismissed as dishonest cheats, not pitied as victims...
...American and Nigerian crooks rob each other blind. This seems like a fitting way to deal with the Nigeria scam...