RE: Why do people still fall for catfish scams?

I think the wanted something and the person sold it to her. Apparently maybe she wanted a better life outside the country. The urge to leave Nigeria is now huge, sometimes people use this as a scam method. Most Nigerian young ladies wants men who are overseas, and a potential scammer already knows this.
The lady would think "what's sending him 250k, if he would eventually take me abroad" you know, something like this.

These women do the mental maths and they feel that they'll eventually gain at the end, so they just do it anyway.

For the lady, it was sad to see that she was in love, but sadly she was sold the dream she wanted and she got hooked