The Revelation

After three weeks, he called Ms. Grette and told her the truth. “I said I already knew that. I asked him to tell me his true identity and he did,” Ms. Grette said. He told her that he was a 24-year-old Nigerian “419” scammer. He referred to himself as a “devil” who had wronged “a lovely lady.” He further stated that: “He said he had never met anyone like me before, that he had been fighting his feelings for me for a long time. He said his scamming mates had warned him about falling in love with a ‘client’, that he had ignored them because he trusted me and did not want to lose contact with me.”