Hard to believe but these scams still work. A friend of mine asked to borrow a large sum of money for just 2 weeks. I said I didn't have that much money just laying around. I thought it was for some expensive toy he really didn't need. Now, I am so sorry I did not ask him what it was for. I probably could have talked him out of wiring a very, very large sum to GHANA, "so a friend of his could receive her just discovered inheritance of $100 million." To make matters worse, another friend of his TOLD him BEFORE hand it was a scam and not to send ANY money. He did not listen.
I have never forgotten the words of a finance professor I had in 1973. "Anyone can make or save $100,000 but it takes someone with some intelligence and common sense to hang on to it". I have seen the truth of that statement over and over.