Over the years, the lazy path to riches that has become collectively known as the "Nigerian Scam" never ceases to amaze me. More than anything else, it exposes the gullibility of greedy foreigners who are itching to get their hands on outrageous sums of money and "locals" in Africa, Latin America etc. who claim to have access to the stolen money Americans and Europeans desperately want to get their hands on.

The puzzling part of all this is that the request for "help" to move the phantom millions is so pathetically shallow that only very stupid and super gullible fools will take them seriously. So while folks in Western countries cry foul and get sanctimonious about the "corruption" and "criminal intent" of the perpetrators of the famous "Nigerian 419" scam, it should be remembered that it takes two to tango. There is greed on both sides - sellers and buyers. In some rare cases, some scam artists have approached their deceptive practices with a "payback" mentality: they claim they are only taking back what whas stolen from their ancestors by foreign invaders.