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Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers
The Narrative Fallacy writes "The Washington Post reports that online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times but succeeding in the midst of a worldwide economic meltdown takes patience, resolve, and hard work. 'We are working harder. The financial crisis is not making it easy for them over there,' said Banjo, 24, speaking about Americans, whose trust he has won and whose money he has fleeced, via his Dell laptop. 'They don't have money. And the money they don't have, we want.' US authorities say Americans — the easiest prey, according to Nigerian scammers — still lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year to cybercrimes, including a scheme known as the Nigerian 419 fraud, named for a section of the Nigerian criminal code. 419 is cemented in Nigerian popular culture. and the scammers, known as 'yahoo-yahoo boys,' are glorified in pop songs such as 'Yahoozee,' which gained even more fame after former secretary of state Colin L. Powell danced to it at a London festival last year."
If these Nigerian scammers were any good, they'd be working at Goldman Sachs, not pulling penny-ante internet operations...
Hello I am a Nigerian judge Mumbasa Mfune III. I am collecting funds to create a task force to reclaim lost monies in Nigeria.
If you have lost monies in Nigeria, for the low donation of $2500, I can reclaim ALL lost assets.
Please contact me immediately at Judge.Mufune@yahooze.ng
I am sorry what happened to you. There's a guy on this thread, Judge Mumbasa Mfune III. He can help you to recover your lost money!
Stop having these feelings of revenge. You can have your money back, now! Just Call Judge Mumbasa!
He probably thinks of himself as a neutral party just reporting the news.
"With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows! It sickens me." ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
"What makes a man turn neutral
There must be some kind of famine or something in Nigeria, I've received about 15 emails in the last 3 months, all from people telling me their father/brother/uncle/etc. had "caught death". Terrible!
And to make matters worse, they can't get the money that's rightfully theirs from the banks! Honestly, something should really be done about this.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
I don't know... living in New York myself, sweat like a pig in the swampy hellhole, where he gets to slap some stupid jitney driver in the unending clusterfuck they call traffic, and suck down a lukewarm coke in the muddy concrete and cardboard dump he calls home sounds exactly like here. You get those locales backwards or something?
Haida Manga
Who should I make the check out to?
My name is 'Shakrai' but my good friends call me 'Cash' :)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I was going to make a post that indirectly pointed out that "Internet Scams" would be a little out of place on a Class Schedule, but then I realized that school calls it "English 101".
When I read the article, the thing that struck me was that the scammers are so desperate, they trying voodoo majic to boost their believability. One guy has a live tortoise hanging around his neck to boost his mojo. Sounds like a market ripe for a new product idea:
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The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Imagine being tricked by a con artist named Banjo. I wonder if he has a friend Kazooie.
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Whatever happens, we have got
the Gatling gun, and they have not
- from a poem about the Abyssinian campaign
I don't know - but when you read that the scammers are being effectively scammed themselves, it warms my heart.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
It's like a radio call in contest, once you win you have to let someone else have a chance.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Now I have a machine gun.
Ho Ho Ho
It is actually mildly amusing. I was just annoyed because I haven't seen a single mod point in almost a year and yet someone mods up nigger jokes is apparently getting them. Maybe that's what I should have been doing more of back when I was getting them :)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.