The Shocking Truth Behind Getting Scammed—And Why Some People Want It That Way
If I participated in the offer, we would both be taking risks. From my end, interacting with criminals at any level is dangerous. And from the mastermind’s perch, identifying himself as a member of an LGBTQ community could get him beheaded. That is, if he was operating not from Chicago but, as I suspected, from a country that typically hosts scammers, like Afghanistan or Nigeria where homosexuality is still illegal. Still, for such an unusual offer, I decided to take the risk.
Between June 5 and June 11, “Shawn” and I exchanged 29 emails, most of which were devoted to my efforts to ferret out scamming and conning, and his responses that were designed to reassure me. The content of all emails below appears exactly as they were sent and received, although names and addresses have been redacted.
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