I read with interest the story of how twelve women were conned out of £250,000 on the dating site Match.com. I really don't understand how people are conned in this way as there has been so much publicity regarding these scams over recent years. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29659084
One person was about 70 percent of it, the other 11 made up the rest, but yes what internal need makes people vulnerable to this nonsense, at the end of the day these women were in need, other people that fall for the like of the Nigerian scam are in need, just vulnerable in a different way, hoping for riches. These scams are always a play on someone's dissatisfaction with life, someone's desperate need for some fulfilment they are missing, we are all vulnerable at times but you can't blame some folk for being too vulnerable, it's life it happens.
It just amazes me that people fall for these scams, I'm not the only one who will have received an email from a supposed solicitor in Nigeria saying that if I sent them a certain sum of money then I would receive a million pounds or so. Its about time I got lucky and someone sent me a quarter of a million quid
And it looks like they are going to continue for another hundred years, people do not seem to learn from history.
