I saw $1 million in cash and almost lost my mind

Also: Should you or should you not date new money? [View in browser](=.9dR784SS7Sa64YkMT6Iz8jKFA_SB1ww4yUUVdj6ofQ8) [Zikoko Daily] 15 September, 2023 Hey . There’s a level of broke you’ll be that you’ll begin to understand why people do certain things. Before City Boy climbed our country’s iron throne and everything went to shit, I wouldn’t have understood why this #AbroadLife subject would almost go crazy just by looking at a stack of money. But this is probably how I’d react if I see ₦50k arranged in front of me now: Tife Editor In This Letter: - 1 [The pros and cons of dating new money](=.qjVpHOoysP6noXkLObNeoJhYnvxxMpLoPl5e7WauK9Y) - 2 [An afrobeats playlist to help you navigate grief](=.ZUqTs4WEmR4yTut7FYCOut0q14P7fZgD5yv2i9aaRng) - 3 [Ijogbon: It’s Kunle Afolayan again](=.Pprj20E6pdD-GaIKTN-rK6pYBXauia2JWRWnZnwUsfc) =.0KOXp_bwrKcJhe-QX670_JBSrXbMW443TIE7k-Y0rDA Jobberman is offering employers in the creative industry a FREE BOOTH at the Creative Industry Career Fair tomorrow. Come recruit creative talents while networking and increasing brand visibility. 👉🏾 [Follow this link to register for free](=.FFZdOI1lFy9r8wcy1CPPZynmfWXcYQV5x8bwJKwWTO0) This is partner content. ABROAD LIFE The Inside Gist-ish: I Saw $1 Million In Cash, And I Almost Lost My Mind =.A_d_QLidzHe7SxBw5UCmYQFO84Ulf1-IGUdOqNWlmB4 This #AbroadLife subject moved to Malaysia in 2013 for school and would’ve stayed back if the organised crime scene in Malaysia didn’t almost make him go into fraud and possibly lose his life. Here’s a snippet: “Some guy with information about a bank in Bangladesh came up with a way for us to hack the bank and get $4 million. The Guinean man heard about it and quickly created a team. I was the main hacker. My cut was going to be $700,000. At this point in my life, I was super poor, and $700,000 didn’t seem like a bad idea. I pulled out of the deal because every major stakeholder was coming to meet me in secret to tell me to stab the other guys in the back and do the deal with only them.” [Continue reading his story](=.dvTOdZwJAStbKwdEhk0IfJ6HmvjPUqu2ycfAGrIduQA) =.HmJbajMlnVgPILvkTfpaYEnOuSSxPUyamR0lAsvgNQU Before you scroll further, could you take a few minutes to tell me a little about you by [filling out this short survey](=.2gIMRfM7pMpOITvPljQ-v2dqOCi9V1gSmUK0UaQL4EY)? It’ll only take two minutes, I promise. *We'll be tweeting answers to this on our Twitter account at noon, so feel free to tweet us your answers with the hashtag [#ZikokoDailyQuiz](#) --> Zikoko Daily's Top 3 Dating new money is great, until it isn’t Usually, I wouldn’t care whether someone is old money or new money. As long as they have money, right? Well, you should still know what you’re getting into, especially with the new-money folks. 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