The New Yorker: THE PERFECT MARK - How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.

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THE PERFECT MARK
by MITCHELL ZUCKOFF
How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam.
Issue of 2006-05-15
Posted 2006-05-08

Late one afternoon in June, 2001, John W. Worley sat in a burgundy leather
desk chair reading his e-mail. He was fifty-seven and burly, with glasses, a
fringe of salt-and-pepper hair, and a bushy gray beard. A decorated Vietnam
veteran and an ordained minister, he had a busy practice as a Christian
psychotherapist, and, with his wife, Barbara, was the caretaker of a mansion
on a historic estate in Groton, Massachusetts. He lived in a comfortable
three-bedroom suite in the mansion, and saw patients in a ground-floor
office with walls adorned with images of Jesus and framed military medals.
Barbara had been his high-school sweetheart—he was the president of his
class, and she was the homecoming queen—and they had four daughters and
seven grandchildren, whose photos surrounded Worley at his desk.
Worley scrolled through his in-box and opened an e-mail, addressed to
"CEO/Owner."

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