Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Griftonomics: Why Scams are Everywhere Now" video.

I had a friend, an intelligent woman, who genuinely thought she was talking to Mohammed bin Salman online. He was going to fund her charity. I tried to convince her it was a scam. Eventually she said he was sending the money when just had to do some stuff first and I said "let me guess you just have t pay a few thousand in transfer fees to initiate the transaction or something similar... ITS A SCAM" She said "YES" and I never heard from her again, presumably she was too embarrassed to face me. But I was so shocked, this woman was not an idiot. Very far from it, she was a well educated woman who had run a business, I have pondered many times over how she got sucked in.
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