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> "I was tricked by an internet scammer posing as a hedge fund manager in Manhattan,” Wellington Mafuta recalls, dusting the clogged vent of a Wi-Fi router. “I
by fallingknife 6y ago
> "I was tricked by an internet scammer posing as a hedge fund manager in Manhattan,” Wellington Mafuta recalls, dusting the clogged vent of a Wi-Fi router. “In reality, they were a thief in Mombasa, Kenya."
I've seen lots of Nigerian scams, but I didn't know they went both ways!
- kragen 6y agoZimbabwe is not in Nigeria. Are you saying this because both of them have black people?
- gotoeleven 6y agoI can't believe how racially insensitive this guy is. Kenyan scams are totally different than Nigerian scams and only a racist would compare them.
- aent 6y ago-
- goldcd 6y agoNobody here is Nigerian or saying they are. (but yes, I am being a bit pedantic)
- dragonwriter 6y ago> and in this case Nigerians Once again, Zimbabwe is a different country than Nigeria. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Zimbabwe/nigeria/@-4.3437998,19.3049934,3z/data=!4m8!4m7!1m2!1m1!1s0x1931a4e706b17161:0xa1c0385fc5cbbfee!1m2!1m1!1s0x104e0baf7da48d0d:0x99a8fe4168c50bc8!3e0 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Zimbabwe/nigeria/@-4.3437998...
- rawoke083600 6y agowow... really ?
- greenbay20 6y agoMore likely because both are Africans...The commentor is ignorant, we don't need to paint him as racist too lol...
- finiteseries 6y agoZimbabwe and Kenya are over 2000 miles away from Nigeria and Mafuta isn’t a scammer.