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Welcome To The World’s Leading Resource About ScamsScams A Scam is a confidence trick - a crime - is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust through deception. Scams or confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, irresponsibility, or greed and exploiting that. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators ('con men' - criminals) at the expense of their victims (the 'marks')". A scam is a crime even if no money was lost.
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Being In A Convict In A Nigerian Prison Is Hell [Updated]
Being In A Nigerian Prison Is Hell! The Nigerian Prison System Has Both Modern & Stone Age Prisons A SCARS™ Special Report Originally Published November 2018 / Updated November 2021 What Awaits Scammers Sent To Prison In Nigeria? So Many Victims Demand Justice But What Does Justice Really Look Like? Sadly, Nigerian prisons reflect their society. Some are somewhat close to modern standards while others are stone age. It depends on the crime and the prisoner's connection where they go, not to mention the region of the country. When a Nigerian scammerScammer A Scammer or Fraudster is someone that engages in deception to obtain money or achieve another objective. They are criminals that attempt to deceive a victim into sending more or performing some other activity that benefits the scammer. is sentenced to a year or 2, most victims feel that it is not enough. Take a look at these photos and see how you feel? Remember, that in the Nigerian culture, being a convict condemns the person for their entire life and their families too! However, as we have started to see, a second-time offender can get a sentence of much longer duration. One received 28 years in prison for his second offense. Make no mistake, we do not propose leniency. After all, victims go through hell for years themselves! Here is a gallery of photos of scammers and other prisoners in [...]
