An enduring trait of Nigerian letter scammers—indeed, of most con
artists—is their reluctance to walk away from a mark before his resources
are exhausted. On February 5, 2003, several days after the checks were
revealed as phony, after Worley was under siege by investigators, after his
bank account had been frozen, after he had called his partners “evil
bastards,” Worley received one more e-mail from Mercy Nduka.
“I am quite sympathetic about all your predicaments,” she wrote, “but
the truth is that we are at the final step and I am not willing to let go,
especially with all of these amounts of money that you say that you have to
pay back.” She needed just one more thing from Worley and the millions
would be theirs: another three thousand dollars.
“You have to trust somebody at times like this,” she wrote. “I am
waiting your response.”
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THE
PERFECT MARK
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