The Love Scam (Nigerians get the better of a lonely woman)

The Love Scam (Nigerians get the better of a lonely woman)* Love scams, especially those orchestrated by Nigerians, often get into the newspapers, and we laugh at them, but seldom think that we’ll ever get involved in such a ludicrous scam. Sylvia, and her husband, Alex, were going through a bad patch. She had moved away to her daughter on the Natal South Coast, and didn’t seem to have any intention of ever taking up with her husband ever again. He got himself a girlfriend, and he was pretty happy. Sylvia heard about the girlfriend, and immediately came back to town to claim her husband, chasing the girlfriend out of the house, and started playing the happy wife. The happy wife, of ...