In Defense of Scammers
Somewhere in Hanoi, Vietnam…
6 min readAug 9, 2021
While waiting for a friend, someone walked past me.
He turned to me, “Hello.”
I smiled back and said, “Hi!”
He asked in broken English, “Where are you from?”
Based on his approach, I assumed he was going to ask me for directions or perhaps he just wanted to pass the time as maybe he was waiting for someone too.
Usually, I have my guard up as 99% of the time a stranger approaches me it’s to ask for money, or sell…
