I find it hard to disagree with him on this. What the guy *actually* said was that people who were prepared to commit illegal acts (e.g. claim someone else's inheritance, receive a share of funds embezzled via over-invoicing) should be jailed. I guess that it's like 'attempted fraud' or 'conspiring to commit fraud' -- it is illegal to try to do something illegal, even if you don't succeed.
OTOH, I would like to hear the High Commissioner's thoughts on what should happen to the Nigerian end of these scams. And what he, as an apparently concerned and relatively powerful member of the administration, is doing about that.
And also what to do about lottery, romance, car-sales, house-rental, hotel-booking, puppy, employment, money-recovery, etc, etc scams, where the victim is doing NOTHING illegal at all.
For simplicity, I'm willing to overlook the representative' cheque-cashing scams, where the victim may not be aware that what they're trying to do is illegal, or the 'hitman' extortion scams, where the victim is trying to save his life.
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I find it hard to disagree with him on this. What the guy *actually* said was that people who were prepared to commit illegal acts (e.g. claim someone else's inheritance, receive a share of funds embezzled via over-invoicing) should be jailed. I guess that it's like 'attempted fraud' or 'conspiring to commit fraud' -- it is illegal to try to do something illegal, even if you don't succeed. OTOH, I would like to hear the High Commissioner's thoughts on what should happen to the Nigerian end of these scams. And what he, as an apparently concerned and relatively powerful member of the administration, is doing about that. And also what to do about lottery, romance, car-sales, house-rental, hotel-booking, puppy, employment, money-recovery, etc, etc scams, where the victim is doing NOTHING illegal at all. For simplicity, I'm willing to overlook the representative' cheque-cashing scams, where the victim may not be aware that what they're trying to do is illegal, or the 'hitman' extortion scams, where the victim is trying to save his life.