Call them out, make fun of them! It is Easy, they take themselves soooooooo seriously! Oh, and lately there seems to be a nasty undercurrent of racism....do not let that go un-noticed, either! More divide & conquer before the elections!

When you get a scammer you should probably report them. The number one rule of course is don't send money or gift cards to somebody you don't know personally.

The Nigerian scammers really aren't all that hard to figure out though. English usage is off for an American, they don't know anything about where they say they live, they don't know anything about what ever job they say they have, (usually civil engineer). They're really easy to trip up with American holidays too.

I asked the last scammer that contacted me if he had plans for the weekend. He said "no, why would he have plans." Ummmm, because it's a holiday and people do stuff on holidays. So then I asked where his kids live and he told me "one lives in Spain and the other one lives in the state." Apparently he had already forgotten he told me he had 3 kids.

There are a lot of non American members and I suspect some of the "tells" we use to figure out if someone is a scammer are not going to be as useful for non Americans.