419 Scammer Gets Scammed

johnduffell writes "There's a lot of awareness of 419 scams at the moment, including a report from the BBC of a baiter who managed to get $80 and a birthday card by courier! He did this by convincing the scammer that he was in the Church of the Painted Breast and there's even a photo of the scammer with his breast painted! Presumably the scammers are hoping that the scammees are as stupid as they are."

Comments

Re:There's no way they could really press charges.

[king-manic]

What about if the government of nigeria doesn't give two dry rat turds about dealing with their scammer population?

They actually do, since they represent a percentage of the GNP (no exact figures but a non 0 value), they want them to rbign in as much foreign currency as possibel. So they make it hard to extradite, hard to track, and support them so long as the heat is low and it costs nothing.

Re:Not All Nigerians are Scammers

[painehope]

Well, I've only met one Nigerian that I ever respected, he was an ex-soldier for the Nigerian government, and even he was a bit weird.

We have a fair amount of them in Houston, Texas, especially in the past 5 years. Every one of which is either arrogant and a liar, or just plain a liar. Cabbies trying to rip you off ( I've actually had an argument with a cabbie insisting he was taking me the short way when he was really going about 10 miles out of the way, he refused to go the way I told him until I offered to use that extra drive time to rearrange his face ), arrogant school counselors ( my girlfriend spent 2 weeks trying to get an appointment w/ a school counselor who had the nerve to tell her he was "an important man, and too busy to return calls" - c'mon, we're talking about a counselor for a small community college ), and arrogant parole officers ( one of my friends has one who never showed up for home visits, and then screamed at him when he had to be at work at a home visit time, another friend has had similar problems ).

All in all, I am decidedly unimpressed w/ all of the Nigerians I have met. If I get to vote for where we start cleaning the gene pool, Nigeria will definitely be in the top of my list.