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I think it's not that.
Just when you are a member of a minority, communicating to others of the same minority feels weird.
Along patriotic lines - either you are a bit less real than them, or they than you, first.
Second, more importantly, among certain minorities some people trust "their own" more for business, employment, anything, and thus there are scams based purely on that.
Third, with people of a bit different background you are more eager to give some benefit or doubt or something when they show their personal downsides, with people of "your" group those downsides are much more infuriating and there's a fallacy of presuming you understand them better.
There absolutely are. The ownership of the company I work for is of a particular nationality, and every single time we have been given counterfeit bills as payment it has been from another member of said nationality, which the owner thinks is one of his "buddies."
Every time.
And it's usually those same guys trying to rip us off in other ways, too. I keep telling him that these motherfuckers are trying to take him for a ride about 75% of the time and it's plainly visible from an outside perspective, but he won't hear it. They're his countrymen. (No, I won't say which nationality.)
You won't, but being Armenian (EDIT: by heritage, but not so much by immersion, so especially prone to meeting such attempts), I'd guess they are either Armenian or Georgian or maybe Jewish.