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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."
Africa is a shit-hole because it is infested with niggers.
Who is the fucking jackass that modded this 'insightful'?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I hope you're not implying that Goldman Sachs are a bunch of scammers. They're pretty much the only major financial institution to make it through this crisis without falling for the scams and without needing government money. In fact, they were forced to take it by the government so that people wouldn't single out companies receiving bailout money as being failures, not because it was necessary for Goldman. I'm getting really sick of this meme - if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk about it.
without needing government money
No, they just needed the billions of dollars in credit swaps to cover their losses. Of course, those credit swaps were with AIG, who needed billions of dollars of government money to cover their credit swaps.
This is what meta-mods fix. Whoever modded that insightful will lose their mod points if that ever ends up being meta moderated. Which if the meta mod algorithm is any good, a lone insightful mod among a dozen troll mods would get scrutiny.
That would be me. I always mod trolls up.