from what I hear, from what I have observed, and from what I've studied over a lot of years now,

if you're a woman, you likely look at any random new guy that comes into your life with a healthy dose of skepticism.

And with damn good reason, statistically, the world is a whole lot scarier for your gender than it is for mine.

Going on a date, you're probably first arranged to meet somewhere

in public and then maybe share your location with friends or family or tell your roommate the time

you're supposed to be back and the name of the guy you're meeting. If some dude just approaches

you on the street with an offer, something that sounds too good to be true, like a modeling

contract or some free shit, I'm guessing you're way more likely

to tell them that you have to get going, even if you don't have to get going than to actually

go with them. Even when it's not your life, you might do some digging, like say if a close friend

starts dating a new person, maybe do a little bit of social media stocking, figure out this person's

actually who they say they are.

If they're not married or lying about what they do for work or something else,

nine times out of ten, it's just due diligence.

You know that whoever the guy is, they're probably not actively dangerous.

But what if you were in a situation where you couldn't afford not to trust someone?

What if some random man promised you a job that could potentially keep your family from literally starving?

That could allow your children to finally go to a real school?

Would you maybe be a little less discriminating that?

Would your desperate times lead you into some desperate measures?

For somewhere between nearly 40 and up to

around 70 women living in South Africa in the mid-1990s, they said yes to this offer and they paid

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