Less now as more people have an awareness of these ”Nigerian’ Fraud attempts. But in the beginning when these first started, some city types who are used to large transactions such as these and also used to dealing with the African nations on slightly less than level deals (Yes they do happen) would have seen these as opportunities. Greed and an over familiarity with moving LARGE sums of money around led some to fall for this kind of scam.
Today most people are aware of what these schemes actually are and simply avoid them.
Edited by ohnhai, : No reason given.