Scammers Yard
Scammers Yard Tells the story of Jamaican "scammers" who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repairThere is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change…
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Scammers Yard
Tells the story of Jamaican "scammers" who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repairThere is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor are young Black Jamaicans? Young and poor, they strive to make a living in Montego Bay, where call centers and tourism are the two main industries in the struggling economy. In this innovative ethnography, Jovan Scott Lewis tells the story of Omar, Junior, and Dwayne.
Otherwise, they are doomed to live in "sufferation"--an inescapable poverty that breeds misery, frustration, and vexation.In the Jamaican lottery scam run by these men, targets are told Their experience of grinding poverty and drastically limited opportunity leads them to conclude that scamming is the best means of gaining wealth and advancement.