Ed Huntress wrote:
Not likely. Thinking you can out-scam those guys, that someone else is
really dumb and you know how and why it couldn't happen to you, is exactly
the kind of hubris the Nigerian scammers rely on.

The more immune you think you are, the easier you are as a target.


There's nothing in the linked article to indicate that he was trying to
outsmart them. Or that he even knew that it was a scam.

Oh, wait ... from
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/...d_currency.htm
quote
Secret Service agents discovered Elion after he deposited large sums of
cash into a Chicago bank account linked to the Nigerian criminals and in
December, 1997, warned him that he was a victim of a Nigerian
"advance-fee fraud" and urged him to stop sending money, but he ignored
the warning.
/quote

There's plenty in that link to indicate that he was an idiot and a
crook. Ph.D's CAN be idiots.

Bob