NEWS of the WEIRD – Current News
A 73-year-old retired electronics specialist sat for a long interview in December in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, patiently explaining that the $300,000 nest egg he had just lost on a familiar Nigerian scam was really the fault of “corrupt governments” and not the dishonesty of his Nigerian “friends” who had no choice but to ask him to pay ever-escalating investment amounts. The man repeatedly insisted that his “friends” couldn’t possibly be scammers, but toward the end of the two-hour interview, finally remembered that they “never did really explain how they got my name.” [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 12-23-03]
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