Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before...

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All right, so quick video today. I may have mentioned this before, I don't remember, but one of my favorite things to do while I'm working is in the background,

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I'll be listening to a YouTube video a lot of the time. And I listen to different kinds of things. But one of my favorite genres is anything related to scams.

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So I like to see scammers in action. I like some of the scam baiters that just have a little fun with them.

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And I like to see some of the behind the scenes of the scams too. And so the other day I found, I've seen this before,

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I think, probably like a year ago. I found a Vice video about internet scams from Ghana.

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And these are the people that email you that say that they're an investor or something, you need to send them some money, or that you won a prize or something, or these are the ones that pretend to be a hot girl and they scam you out of money and that kind of thing.

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I was watching a video about some of the subculture in Ghana surrounding this scam industry, which there's apparently there's a subculture and people make movies about these scammers.

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And what they do is they mix it with witchcraft and voodoo, not voodoo, but things along those lines.

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Anyway, so this is a clip from one of the movies called Sakawa Boys. This is a popular movie series in Ghana, Sakawa Boys.

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And if you've ever been to Africa, you know the kind of store that sells these movies. But anyway,

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I was listening to this and I thought to myself, I've heard this logic before.

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Where have I heard this logic? And maybe you'll know, maybe you'll know what I'm talking about.

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Let's just listen to this. This is Sakawa Boys. An underground economy of fraud and witchcraft called

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Sakawa. Once upon a time, Ghana then gold glittered.

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There came three vultures. In the form of white men.

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They gradually stole and other resources.

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It is with their technological intelligence, which is the internet that we are taking back what belongs to us.

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So the idea is, the story is that Ghana had all this wealth and resources and gold was glittering on the streets.

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And then the white man came and stole it all. And so this internet scam, all it is really is getting back what belongs to them.

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Rightfully so. So you do it by fraud and witchcraft. I really wish,

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I wonder if, I haven't looked this up, but I wonder if I could find the full Sakawa Boys movie.

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I heard of the series like with like 10 parts. I would love to see Sakawa Boys. I don't know about you, but think, where have you heard this logic before?

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I've heard it. Maybe you know what I'm thinking. Maybe you know what I'm thinking. Anyway, I hope you have a good weekend.

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I hope this video was, well, I don't know if it was helpful, but I hope you enjoyed it.

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God bless. Also one more thing, next week

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I'm gonna be doing the founders by what standard review. Hopefully that'll be very helpful for you.

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If you haven't seen the movie yet, I definitely recommend seeing it this weekend if you can. It's really, really good. But we'll be talking a little bit more in depth about it next week.

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And also if you want something specifically covered next week, go ahead and leave me a comment in this video.

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Let me know what you'd like to see covered. I can't promise I'll do it, but I'm looking for some ideas for next week.

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I've got some things in mind that I think are gonna be good, but I'd love to help out anyone who has an idea as well.

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So anyway, hope this is helpful. God bless. You know, I was thinking, you gotta give the

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Sakawa boys some credit though, because at least in the Sakawa boys' culture and their ideology,

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I mean, they're pagans. They're like the peg of the pagans. Trust me, like the Sakawa stuff, it's witchcraft is what it is.

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But at least in that realm, this logic makes sense. Like you can punish the sins of the fathers onto the sons when you're a weirdo pagan guy that bites the heads off of chickens and stuff.

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Like that's okay in that ideology. Christians don't have an excuse for this kind of thinking though.