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On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 18:50:15 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

>  Mind that most of these scam artists
> work out of India/south-east Asia countries, so to them, 'profit' is a
> much smaller number than what someone trying to operate the same boiler
> room in the US would need to see "profit".  So they can have an
> extremely high failure rate percentage wise, but still haul in several
> marks a day who pay.

Somalia. 

https://babylonbee.com/news/nigerian-prince-scammed-by-somali-immigrant