ON SCAM, SCAMMING, AND SCAMMERS.
(Part 1)

By Emmanuel Aniedu

The level of seriousness in which scammers are operating with in recent times is a great cause for concern. If these deceptive individuals would put in the same amount of effort and work wasted in SCAM into developing value-added skills, most of them would have become billionaires more quickly than they could possibly imagine, with an added bonus of enjoying the peace of mind that comes with duly earned wealth too.

However, a determined scammer would never listen to nor believe in this proposition. Such is the nature of deceptive individuals who have perfected the art of fleecing away the hard-earned monies of their unsuspecting victims - including ripping them off of their lifetime pensions and, in some extreme cases, extending further into stealing the entire family inheritance of their victims by tricks.

Scammers come in all manner of shapes and sizes. They have mastered the art of appearing like innocent help seekers, extremely skilled in seeking for public sympathy yet very focused and pinpointedly fixated on achieving their primary goal which is to dispossess their unfortunate victim(s) of targeted sums of money - one at a time, serially or even simultaneously. Bear in mind however, that the failure of a typical scammer to reach a certain target plunges them deeply into frustration hence the need for precision in identifying gullible victims.

The fool and his money are soon parted, so says the scriptures, but regardless of this warning, no one is totally above the risk of falling victim to the ploys and wicked schemes of scammers for they are available in both genders of the human race and roaming about in every strata of our society. Scammers will more readily bow and scrape and even lick the feet of whomever unfortunate fellow they can lay their gaze upon to be possessing the right amount of careless money coupled with an ego large enough for stroking such money away.

If peradventure one is lucky enough to escape the fangs of a venomous scammer, such a victim will naturally be left to contend with the overwhelming feelings of depression, self-disgust, and sometimes suicide that usually accompanies targeted deception, most especially if the victim is not assisted to overcome the guilt that is associated with past feelings of vulnerability. In any case, scammers never leave their victims alone except they are absolutely sure that such a victim has been rendered totally bankrupt or DEAD!

By the time a scammer is 'DONE' with his/her victim, what will be left of the victim's shattered reputation (if any) shall eventually be finished off completely by false accusations set in motion by the comity of scammers against such victims who at such times shall have a very difficult time explaining to their loved ones how they fell so blindly to the whims and caprices of a deceitful stranger. But that is the nature of the scamming business especially in a land such as ours where those responsible for the rot in the system have become accustomed to the art and science of slandering the reputation of the REMNANTS who seek to better the society.

What are the signs that draws the attention of scammers to easy potential victims and how do these scammers spot their most preferred 'mugus' and 'magas'? This perspective and a lot more shall be x-rayed in our next pen series. Happy new month Great People of Africa.�

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