People still tend to believe these scammers because of their avarice.
Best way to stop them is to know that no body offers you anything for nothing.
His name is Maxwell Gbogboade, and his mark was a 64-year-old man whom he met on a dating service. Gbogboade posed as a woman from Nigeria named Mary Douglas, who needed “money to go to a movie shoot in Africa.” After that, she promised him, she’d move to the U.S. to be his girlfriend.
The man attempted to withdraw $46,000 from the bank for his Nigerian internet girlfriend, whereupon a good samaritan (the story doesn’t specify who) smelled a rat and contacted the police. After tracing some emails back to Nigeria, a sting was set, and Gbogboade was arrested in the lobby of the Philadelphia Airport Marriot posing as a courier.
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