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I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in?
  • Good Day Sir/Madam. I am Milton Ngamwe representative of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria

    Who has commissioned me to contact you in the particulars of an enterprise you may find personally enriching and would assist the fine people of Nigeria.......

    See people who get conned, want to be conned on some level. They believe they are getting something for nothing or are allowed into a secret world. Literary hoaxes work because people want them to work. And for every grifter selling imaginary trombones in River City there's someone who wants to buy two so he can sell one to his neighbor.