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419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats?
Richardsonke1 writes "Just when you thought 419ers couldn't get any worse, now they are sending death threats, according to a story at The Register. The emails require you to 'produce a mandatory sum of US$40,000.00 {FOURTHY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS} only,into our account given below in nigeria within ninety six hours{96},alternatively you will be SNIPPED and GUNNED down during the period of our oncoming anniversary of fifty years.' All joking of 'snipping' aside, for those people who fall for regular 419 emails, this would terrify many gullible web users."
they do have alot of oil
I don't think they'd have to be convinced, I think it actually falls into the law, at least here in the US:
According to Blacks (Law dictionary):
A person is guilty of a felony if he threatens to commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another or to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious public inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience. 18 U.S.C.A. 3077; Model Penal Code, 211.3.
Sounds pretty clear cut. And this is one place where Bush's obsession with invading countries could actually work to our advantage.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
The United States Secret Service has been dealing with 419 scams in the US for years, and they even have a page dedicated to it.
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml
Page 25 of this pdf has a sample of this scam from when it was sent via snail-mail in 1994.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
Even in jest. Even in part. It's neither funny nor reasonable to suggest sending an assassin after your political or financial enemies.
Let's not even joke about the open source movement stooping to those levels, please.
That's a huge savings, and it could be considered self defense
It would be self-defense if a guy was sneaking around your bushes with a sniper rifle, not if he'd merely made threats. In order for deadly force to be justifiable as self-defense, there has to be a clear and immediate danger.
If you took out a contract on the person it would be first degree murder. Maybe the judge would see mitigating circumstances and give you life without parole instead of sending you to the electric chair.
Well, we've ruined tanks by dumping concrete dummy bombs onto them from 40k feet. They weren't really 'destroyed', but enough stuff was sprung and dented that it wasn't usable anymore. We did that because they had parked them right next to a school.
Kinetic kill devices are nice in that they aren't really dangerous after they hit.
I don't read AC A human right
Ah, yes, strong loss of sensation in the glans, sometimes very painful erections and inability to have sex, as well as the often found damaging of the frenulum during circumcision leading to men with circumcisions only feeling "half of" what an uncircumcised man would feel. Routine infant circumcision just to keep the dollars flowing into the doctors' wallets, that's indeed "Score: 4, Funny".
Routine infant circumcision gets American docs a few million US Dollars every year, and it doesn't serve any medical purpose at all. It's cleaner? Yes, if you're one of those men who only shower once a month that's true.
At least those docs who can't make the incision properly are slowly retiring and the younger ones use some sort of funky device to damage the frenulum less, but you still lose the ridged band and a lot of sensation in the glans. Enough of it that many older American men become "physically" impotent or unable to have orgasms years before that would have happened had they been uncircumcised.
If Americans would cut off half of a girl's clitoris at birth (some African tribes do this), there would be an outrcy. Yet cutting off half of the same structure with men is okay. And doing it without the consent of the child and most often even without informing the parents about the consequences isn't very nice either.
Check out NOCIRC for some links to more medical information. There are also some links there for getting a fake foreskin back non-surgically with basic household items. It doesn't bring back your frenulum, but at least you'll have the same amount of sensitivity in the glans as an uncircumcised man.
Sorry for being so off-topic!
Disclaimer: I'm not even circumcised or American, just trying to get rid of the myth that this procedure is harmless or even useful when it's clearly not.
You are correct, the term 419 does refer to the Nigerian penal code. However, it has long since been used as a general term for the type of letter we all know and love promising untold riches because you are a person of esteemed trustworthiness.
It is in such general use these days to describe any such letter that it no longer can be applied solely to Nigeria - only Nigeria can fix violations of its 419 code, but many other countries, African and otherwise, need to fix violations of their own versions of the laws (whatever number they may have.)
Daar is nie 'n lepel nie
I have regular contact with the FBI on spam related frauds. The gangs behind the vast majority of the advance fee frauds come from Nigeria.
Sure some of the frauds mention other countries, the gangs have started to find that people are very suspicious of anything from Nigeria. There was a recent spate of advance fee frauds that did come out of South Africa. The authorities quickly arrested a Nigerian gang.
Since Tibet is currently occupied by the PROC I don't think it likely that the gangs would want to operate from there and face their type of justice.
No, the scams are only possible if you have a failed state that does not have functioning law enforcement. The FBI have been working with the Nigerian govt. to get standard laws on the books to allow money transfers etc to be traced and money impounded. The govt. has been much better at this than catching the criminals.
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