"THE PERFECT MARK How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam" by Mitchell Zuckoff

I thought that by now everyone had heard about the Nigerian e-mail scam.

Back in the days when e-mail wasn't so common, I used to receive Nigerian scam letters via snail mail because, as a regular contributor to Foreign Trade, my address was published in the magazine.

Mitchell Zuckoff tells a cautionary tale in The New Yorker.