I'm sure you are clever, exceedingly clever, the kind of person who would never

fall for an online scam isn't that right? Especially a ridiculous one.

You know what I'm talking about.

You've won a trip to Barbados.

Please give us your social insurance number.

Or I'm a Nigerian princess and I have to get rid of all this gold.

No, you'd never fall for that.

At the first sight of a red flag you would turn around and run.

Only naive idiots for for such things. Well, let me disenfranchise

you of all this comfortable notion. You can't run a successful scam hoping that only

well-off idiots will come to you.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of those out there.

But you'll be lucky to run across one of them, let alone dozens.

An average kind man like myself, a self-made man really, who was only trying to get by, can

only prey on vulnerable people.

The usual targets tend to be grandmothers and the mentally ill, but that is something I could never do.

If you scam a neglectful grandson out of his inheritance, he'll stop at nothing to make sure you pay for your crime.

And, more importantly, pay Granny back.

I can't risk that.

My targets are the illegals.

Not that I have anything against illegals, lovely people, the lot of them.

They run away from violent situations and risk their lives to seek refuge in our country,

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