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OLPC Lawsuit-Bringer Has Past Fraud Conviction
d0ida writes "The Boston Globe has up an article about LANCOR's lawsuit over the design of the OLPC's keyboard. 'Negroponte said the lawsuit is without merit, because OLPC uses a keyboard programming technique developed in 1996, long before the Nigerian patent was filed. The founder of Lagos Analysis Corp., Ade Oyegbola, was convicted of bank fraud in Boston in 1990 and served a year in prison. Oyegbola insists his Nigerian patent is legitimate and said he plans to file a copyright-infringement lawsuit against OLPC in an American court.'"
I get one of those Nigerian email messages every few days, I must be on their mailing lists. Typically, some dead person has abandoned millions of dollars in some bank in Nigeria and they want me to open an account, in my name in this country, for them to transfer the millions of dollars into. I would get to keep a certain percentage of the money for helping them with their abandoned money problem.
About half of those messages that I receive say they are from Nigeria. A few years ago, I read a Readers Digest article about Nigerian email scam messages. It said the messages claiming to be from other parts of Africa also actually usually come from Nigeria. According to the article, they send the Nigerians money to cover a few fees and other expenses, but they never receive their millions of dollars or hear from the Nigerians again. Is there anything they do in Nigeria besides emailing people about their latest scam?
Looking through my most recent email, I see one such example that is from Dr. Mrs. Kete Obi of NNPC-LAGOS,NIGERIA. She says that if I provide them with a foreign bank account, she and her colleagues will send me 28 Million dollars and that I will get to keep 30%.
Another recent email message was from both DR.Shamsudeem Usman,HONOURABLE honorable minister of finance and chief Ode Ojowo, economic advisor to the president. They have some unspecified amount of money that they want to quckly transfer to me from the Zenith bank of Nigeria. It is a limited time offer, where I need to reply within 48 hours before Dr. Mrs. Janet White and some other persons get the money.