They're not nearly as hard up as you think, Gulliver. Many of them are full-time pros who work in an office every day at the job of swindling little old ladies and other lonely, not very well informed people out of their meager life savings. They have sometimes succeeded in even luring some person all the way to Nigeria for a personal "business" meeting at a pre-designated location to give them their money....and you know what happens when they meet them? They murder them and steal their credit cards and valuables.

I think your sympathy for these lowlife bastards is highly misplaced.