Accent: Northern Ireland
A scammer is someone who attempts to obtain money from people by deceiving or tricking them. Today, this often takes the form of email or phone scams.
This is an extract from an interview with a man who works to disrupt these scemes – he attempts to scam the scammers.
In this first extract, he explains why he uses an alias (a fake name).
About the sentence
…it was a spur of the moment thing…
If you do something on the spur of the moment, then you do it spontaneously, without planning it in advance.
A spur of the moment thing/decision is a spontaneous thing/decision.
e.g. I’m sorry we didn’t invite you to the cinema with us. It was a spur of the moment thing, to be honest.
In the following extracts, the speaker explains how he operates.
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