he secret rise of the youngest continent
How Tech-Savvy African Romance Scammers First Fleece You, Before You Get Mugged
As tech is getting smarter, it becomes near preposterous to detect fraud
If we think of Africa, we tend to think of another world. Pictures of strange, giant beasts preying in vast landscapes of dunes or savannahs shoot up in our heads. We conceive bushmen hunting with bows and arrows, or foreign cultures living out bizarre animalistic rituals. Some of us will think of poverty, hardships, famine, and underdevelopment.
Though, when we chat with an immensely attractive person who supposedly had been buried in total oblivion, and fall prey to fraud, Africa is here, right now!
This happened to a distant friend a while ago. And while he is still struggling to overcome the emotional pain and the financial damage, he has learned a lot about this mystic continent and our new world order.
Here’s his story:
About a year ago, my casual acquaintance received a text from a woman named Catherine.
Catherine: “Hi Peter, you may not remember, we briefly met 13 years ago. I wanted to reach out to you because you were one of the few nice guys I met in…
