I have been receiving emails from Nigeria since 1998. Every email claim that I am supposed to inherit few million dollars. These emails keep popping up even though I mark each and every one of them as spam in my yahoo account. Nigerian scammers keep sending these emails because people fall for them. The scammers are optimistic that even if they get 0.0005% response, they would easily make hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I am sure that most of you have received the nigerian scam email. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you say “I am interested” to these scammers?

John Rempel, Leamington, Canada did just that. He quit his truck driving job and searched for $12.8 million bounty that never existed. He lost the total of $150,000 to the Nigerian scammers. You can read the complete story here.

Scammers play mind game. If you read the story of John Rempel, you will know how easily he was manipulated. Once the prey is caught in the net thrown by scammers, the prey conditions its mind to believe the hunters. All scammers succeed by sweet talk. John Rempel was naive and strongly believed that some stranger really left $12.8 million for him. I am surprised that even his family played along and lost all the money.