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Nigeria Widows Lose Their Fortune

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-the-irony dept.

Phil John writes "In a cruel twist of fate, two Nigerian widows are genuinely fighting it out for their husband's (yes, the same husband) $55M fortune. The BBC has the full scoop. Who wants to bet we're abot to see a whole lot of 419's from 'The Wife of the Late Timothy Olufemi Akanni?'" Sometimes, life is too amusing to be true.

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  1. give it to US citizens instead by tritonman · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Give it to the elderly and mentally disabled US citizens that he scammed it from.

  2. WTF Nigeria by WED+Fan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My wife's is the second wife of a Nigerian university professor. She's been a Niger-o-phile since the mid-60's. She will be moving to Nigeria shortly to live full-time because, as she believes, Nigerians take care of their elderly, and that being a wife of a Nigerian will mean that she will have family to take care of her. Note: She spent most of her productive, read: reproductive, years marrying Nigerians so they could come to the U.S., so never really had a family of her own. Now she's exiting middle-aged status, she is expecting to be cared for by her Nigerian "family".

    Her view of helping out poor Nigerians is to use her pension to hire, as she puts it, "houseboys" and staff. Very paternalistic, very British. I'll send this article along as a cautionary tale.

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  3. Reminds me of the story by briggsb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About the Nigerian philanthropist who couldn't give away his money because everyone thought he was a scammer.