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   Although, with people like these, maybe Nigeria isn't running out of money
                                        
> An enduring trait of Nigerian letter scammers—indeed, of most con artists—
> is their reluctance to walk away from a mark before his resources are
> exhausted. On February 5, 2003, several days after the checks were revealed
> as phony, after Worley was under siege by investigators, after his bank
> account had been frozen, after he had called his partners “evil bastards,”
> Worley received one more e-mail from Mercy Nduka.
> 
> “I am quite sympathetic about all your predicaments,” she wrote, “but the
> truth is that we are at the final step and I am not willing to let go,
> especially with all of these amounts of money that you say that you have to
> pay back.” She needed just one more thing from Worley and the millions
> would be theirs: another three thousand dollars.
> 
> “You have to trust somebody at times like this,” she wrote. “I am waiting
> your response.”
> 

Via Flutterby! [1], “THE PERFECT MARK [2]”

Nothing more to add other than it's a scam, people!

[1] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/8919.html
[2] http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060515fa_fact

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