CNN's John Sutter fell for a Nigerian email scam in 2003. He says he didn't believe it until his brother returned from spending the summer in Nigeria. "I'm dumb and I at the very beginning engaged with a Nigerian Email Scam" 'Yes Man' by Danny Wallace is about this man who decided to say yes to literally everything, even though he never actually wires money.
What makes a con succeed? Does snake oil actually work? And just how gullible is Angela?