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419 Scam Costs Britons 8.4m GBP in 2002
Albanach writes "In this article the Scotland on Sunday newspaper reports figures from the UK's National Criminal Intelligence Service which show 150 Britons were caught out by the Nigerian 419 scam and its variations in 2002, with a total loss of 8.4m GBP ($13.3m US)or around 57,000 GBP ($90,000 US) a head. "
That we're gullible or just easy targets?
Resistance is futile. Reactance buggers it up.
Could it be because the brits are gullible, despite thinking they are better than us Americans? Maybe they should lose theire superiority complex.
...you silly english
don't even reply. the guy is a bigot, freak, and gets his rocks off on baiting people with insults.
my suggestion on how to deal with him is to give him a poke and a prod every now and again about himself: he's a fat, bitter, redneck Arizona kid with a great ability to start arguments, but can't back them up when it really comes down to it.
oh, and he's angry about pretty much everything, which makes him a whiner. He makes himself feel bigger/better than intelligent posters on this board by not commenting on the subject at hand, but insulting the person who is making the comment. sophmoric at best.
(he's one of those guys who you might see at a software/computer conference who sits in the back, and asks questions that go on and on and makes everyone's eyes roll.)
so my suggestion is to either agree with him, or don't even bother replying. your time is better spent staring at the wall than to listen to him. think of him as the little whiney dog that won't shut up....at some point, it just becomes background noise.
In Apple's latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.
At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month.
The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.
So what have you got left? Apple is a company that controls around 3% of the computer market, has recently undergone a restructuring and is slowly fading into nothingness. Software makers don't even have Mac users on their radar and it's not like Apple can bring Mr. Jobs back to right the ship this time -- he's already there.
Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked.
That's 150 people from a country of 60 MILLION. I don't think anyone from america should be pointing fingers...
america, the fornication nation, the land of the smoking gun, a land of trailer park trash getting fat on fast food, getting more stupid each day watching Jerry Springer, sticking their noses in where it's not wanted and generally being the horses arse of the world. A nation of losers...
Society is a complex series of balances. By the Nigerian scammers swindling stupid and greedy people, they are building up a lot of negative feedback against Nigeria. If the Nigerians cared, they would not harbour it.
/., you'd have everyone saying how good it was that they were DDoSed.
This is the same as a DDoS attack against an ISP that hosts spammers. Except that on
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McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
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