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He was (kind of) scamming African tribes by buying lands from them for (literal) pennies, telling them that these coins were portraits of his own "tribe leaders"

It went okay at first, although his sisters asked him to stop

Then he got to a pretty hardcore tribe, disrespected them when they refused selling, got humiliated in front of his sisters and >>713081962

The sisters eventually forgive him, but every time he had an occasion to come back and meet them he got distracted by other opportunities, until 28 years passed and he lost any interest for family.

Scrooge's life is a tragedy