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Say What The Victim Thinks?

As Mr. Frank Donald writes, “I have been mandated by my client Peter Douglas) to seek assistance of a trustworthy foreign company or an individual who could help to provide bank account to receive the money”

This is just one of his attractive sentences, beginning with the honest signs. Here are some typical thoughts, which anyone might have after reading a Nigerian Scam Letter:

• “Wow! I’ve been recommended by National Petroleum Corporation based in Nigeria.”
• "Maybe I shouldn't tell about this to anybody. If I tell my friends, they'll want in on it."
• "Man. This is sounds really exciting. Beats working myself to death for nothing behind this desk."
• "I make it big, and I can tell my boss to go to hell. And I can even pay off all those damn credit cards."
• "Hey, I make it big, and I can send the kids to college without any sweat!

And on and on… All the scammers have to do is glow Ricky's imagination and the dreams take over. No problem - Ricky would talk himself into it. The more financially desperate he is, the faster the dreams fly.

Not that there isn't a little voice inside Ricky trying to clear itself heard, Ricky is just overriding it with his desire to be able to tap himself on the back for making a huge chunk of money by being clever and his desire to get out from under his debt load.

If Ricky is lucky, he would only lose his money. If he travels to Warri, Delta State or meets the scammers in the United States (they may have been in the US all along) he could get mugged or be killed.

Oh yes - that does happen with this particular scam.