Why Nigerian Prince, Catfish & Other Scammers Are Actually Pretty Clever

Amanda Yuk
2 min readJun 12, 2021

Some of the biggest lies in the world are related to scams. What exactly is a scam? According to Cambridge Dictionary a scam can be defined as something illegal and involves the trickery of other people. A few common types of scams include insurance scams, credit-for-sex schemes, identity theft , others which involve romantic disenchantment and perhaps worst of all — those that threaten a person’s physical health or that of his or her family members . Yet, the truth is that these people are bloody smart.

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