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Originally Posted by Tervuren View Post
If I had to take a guess this is one of those photos where the selfietaker asked someone with photo editing skills to "fix the photo" because of the guy in the background.

They then "fixed" the photo by copying the filter over to the guy rather than removing the guy.



Nope, that is from a 2003 thread on an old reverse scamming site. In this case the poster made a Nigerian scammer believe that he (the poster) was the head of some obscure religious group or sect, and that he would donate lots of money to them if they accepted his faith. When they agreed he sent them these instructions that included having to send him a picture of every convertee with a fish on their head while holding a loaf of bread.

He had them do all sorts of much more extreme, yet hilarious stuff. There was even a competition on the site to see who could get a scammer to do the funniest tasks, or send them the most money.



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