Some people who do email scamming and get rich off of email scamming are really vocal about that in Nigeria and take pride in it and show off their wealth and there's kind of a sense that if people are

dumb enough to get tricked then they don't deserve to have their money and the

scammers sort of outwitted them and outsmarted them and

deserve to have it.

Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's Hacking Humans Podcast, where each week we look behind

the social engineering scams,

fishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines and

taking a heavy toll on organizations around the world.

I'm Dave Bitner from the Cyberwire, and joining me as always is Joe Carrigan from the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute.

Hello Joe, I Dave.

As always we've got some good stories to share and later in the show we'll have my interview with Lily Hay Newman from

Wired. She's discussing her recent article on Nigerian scammers. But before we

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