Scamming The Oppressed
Scamming The Oppressed By M.B.O Owolowo A scam is a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation, in other words a ploy to defraud an unsuspecting victim. It can also be referred to as a devised advance fee fraud, in the Nigerian parlance, a '419' scheme. There are different types of advance fee frauds concocted by fraudsters, from selling an asset that isn’t theirs, to promising impossible returns to prospective victims: what would be referred to as a 'mark' in the conman’s lingua. Call it honour amongst thieves, but part of the 'grifters code' is not to scam an honest person, as even con artists believe it brings bad luck to their activities. Also, it is often stated how difficult it is to con honest people, as they are most often not looking for easy moneymaking schemes. So those who choose to scam honest job seekers, who have already been oppressed by an inept system, have sunk to an all new type of low. A monumental fraud occurred during the Nigerian I