Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? [pdf]

Interesting comments in some previous discsussions, https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20Do%20Nigerian%20Scammers...

When I was younger, around 7 or 8, and saw my parents get the Nigerian scammer spam, I felt bad because they had some sort of sad story tied in to the email. It wasn't until I noticed the sloppy grammar that I realized that it was a fake email.