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It's just falling for a scam like any other really isn't it? It happens, the promises you want to believe, etc.

We can sit here and say we don't understand how people fall for Nigerian princes, attorneys for the estate of long lost cousins, and all that sort of thing, but clearly it works on some people vulnerable and wishful enough to believe it.



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