Chapter 228: History of Arising Matters

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“This show started in 2002. Are you familiar with the name Hushpuppi? If not, you better look it up because he was the first person we interviewed on this show.

Now, what really happened? Hushpuppi was a Nigerian scammer. According to his own history, he was a thrift store seller on the roadside. He got tired of struggling to live from hand to mouth and then began to scam people. But he was not scamming his fellow Nigerians; his target was the United States.

Hushpuppi created a fake Facebook account. When I say fake, I mean he went online, downloaded pictures of an American man, and uploaded them one after another.

Eventually, he was not even two months into this act when he met an American woman online. She was looking for love, and he decided to scam her by pretending to give her what she wanted. They chatted all day and night; he called her dear, babe, darling, sweetheart, and what have you? Until that night, when he asked her for money, and this American woman sent him what he