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Yeah, fair point, it's pretty well outside normal for me (there's a world outside of my lived experience? Nah!)

The scams have to be culturally relevant to be effective, which is why they set out wide bets looking to see what sticks with a fairly small target audience.

An addendum is don't give money when you're called by a "legitimate contact", call them back first. The scammer is remote so they can pretend to be the "legitimate contact" but not so easy to block the real legitimate contact from being contacted for validation.

Wow. Well those people are going to be scammed. A LOT

Yeah they do. Now add mobile money to the equation.