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The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference
Jacek Fedorynski writes "I present to you an urgent and confidential request: I request your attendance at The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned money. Attending this conference demands the highest trust, security and confidentiality between us."
I wonder if George W Bush plans on attending?
Eh, we are now June 1st, not April 1st.
After dupe posts I'm wondering if there is no comspiracy to bring Slashdot reputation down !
http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm
"Advance Fee fraud popularly known as 419 has also been in the rise. Early in the year, a Nigerian diplomat, Michael Waydi, was reported killed inside a Prague embassy by a 72 year-old retired Czech who was allegedly duped by a Nigerian fraudster. Before the gunman was eventually apprehended, he had shot and wounded a 37 year-old embassy clerk."
The Google has you.
Janie took my gun...
From the article:
A round table discussion: Is email now Nigeria's top export?
I couldn't imagine a better way to start my sunday! What a hearty laugh!
In all seriousness, does anyone know of any action taken by a real nigerian to protest/combat this kind of scams? Myself, I'd be pretty pissed to see my country's reputation dragged on the mud by oportunistic creeps.
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Some of the other links from the blog page are even funnier, especially the one about M$ spam
And the one about the periodic table of elements... some people are just odd.
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
Might be a spoof. Might not. All of it rings eerily plausible.
An MSN tech speaks
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
As someone who has been living in Abuja, Nigeria for the past two months, I would like to say, watching people pay for their rooms at the Hilton can be pretty hilarious.
You get a better exchange rate on the currency black market, so most people transfer their cash there. The problem is you're bound to whatever bills they have. It costs like N20,000 per night to stay at the Hilton, and when a friend of mine was staying for a week, the biggest bill he got from the black market was N50, with a lot of N10 and N5. He had to have people truck in his money in wheelbarrows, and it took them 45 minutes using money counting machines to count it all.
That's bullshit. The Nigerian government IS part of the 419 scams. They always have been. There are numerous and confirmed accounts of people going to Nigeria to meet with the supposed Dr. Whatever or whatever title he claimed and being given tours of Nigerian Government buildings by people in the government. Saying that the Nigerian government isn't part of the scam is absolute bullshit. It's like saying that George W's administration didn't have a hand in bailing out Worldcom and lessoning the impact on the Enron execs. We all know what really happened there. Check your facts next time before you post. Oh, that's right. This is Slashdot. We don't check facts here.
You can find tonnes of stories like this on The Lads of Lagos site. There's even one from me. Some highlights include:
THE LADS FROM BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein & Chemical Ali need your help?
WE WANTS IT, PRECIOUS - Lord of the Rings version
THE LADS MEET SANTA CLAUS - he's making a list, he's checking it twice
WHERE NO LAD HAS GONE BEFORE - Collins Abu demands an apology from Capt. Kirk
THE DUMBEST CRIMINAL ON THE PLANET - Kindly Contributor in Philippines GETS $3 from a Lad