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."

Comments

Re:I would have suspected the opposite

[Anonymous Coward]

Buried way down in paragraph six of the Post article:

Now financially squeezed, Americans succumb even more easily to offers of riches, experts say.

Re:Why didn't the interviewer kill the guys?

[sznupi]

So he would live and be able to write about it?

This is the place for

[Anonymous Coward]

Hours of hilarious reading, pics and audio- these guys get very creative. Freight baits ROCK!!

http://www.thescambaiter.com/

Re:Interesting Difference in Genetics

[techno-vampire]

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his work in general relativity.

Not so. He won the Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Tell my wife Hello.

[attemptedgoalie]

Futurama. What an awesome show.

Misudnerstanding

[aepervius]

If you mean this : Media misunderstanding on GS and zloty it was more like media not making real research on a subject and repeating hearsay. IOW business as usual, as media these day , except for a few rare exception, are glorified parrot.

Re:I can stop this!

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who can't be bothered looking it up, that's the M$ headquarters' co-ords.

Re:breaking my heart

[buchner.johannes]

Checkout this Scambaiting advice site:
http://www.419eater.com/

Re:Interesting Difference in Genetics

[oliderid]

the "Moors" (derived meaning "Black")

In Latin, the word maurus (plural mauri) means coming from Mauretania...a Roman province on the north western fringe of Africa (-> Morocco) (see wikipedia) So basically Moors means those from North Africa. They aren't sub-Saharan. The core people of the Moors were "berbers"...Not arabs but not black either.

If you need a real successful "black" civilization. I suggest you to take a closer look at the Nubian civilization. They fought for centuries against the Egyptians, the Greek dynasty and they finally crushed a Roman invasion. The defeat was so devastating, that the Romans signed a peace treaty and they never came back. The Nubian queen are famous (Amanishaketo, etc) nowadays due to recent discoveries.

Or the Ethiopian one, they succeeded to stop the early Muslim invasion (this where the legendary King John was supposed to live, European crusaders tried for years to get in touch with him to fight together the Muslims). They fought for decades against the Italians and they were the first to gain their independence. The famous city of Timbuktu having healthy intellectual/philosophical debates while Europe was experiencing inquisition, etc.