These poor Nigerians are hit hard by the GFC
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I just received the following letters from a new Nigerian friend
Dear Friend, I know it will surprise you to receive this email from me. I am Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan the Chairman of the Electoral Commission Ghana (EC). I am contacting you regarding a funds worth the sum of $6 million dollars. The money is the excess of the funds use for Biometric Voter's Registration for voters for the 2012 election. The funds was budgeted for the Biometric Voter's Registration the total funds is worth $20 million dollars and we succeeded in spending $14 million dollars in the process remaining an access of $6 million dollars which I have deposited in a security firm here in Ghana. The security did not know the actual content in the trunk box what I declare when making the deposit was that it was family valuables. As civil servants we are not allowed to run foreign accounts. that was why i decided to deposit it in a security firm here in Ghana. If you are interested in the proposal kindly get back to me by sending me your letter of acceptance along with your direct telephone and fax numbers. Note that your area of specialization is irrelevant to this transaction and the transaction is expected to be concluded within few days if you adhere to my instruction. I await your response so that i can furnish you with further detail regarding the transaction. yours truly, Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan
They used to gift me Billions of dollars but now, because of this heart wrenching financial crisis they only have millions to spare, so sad!!
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All fraud coming from Africa is not necessarily from Nigeria. Besides, fraud is everywhere and I admit it's in Nigeria too :(
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First, Ghana != Nigeria. Second, please stop - it's bad enough we all get these in our email inboxes, don't have to see them on CP too.
I love go-o-o-o-ld!
Exactly!
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I just received the following letters from a new Nigerian friend
Dear Friend, I know it will surprise you to receive this email from me. I am Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan the Chairman of the Electoral Commission Ghana (EC). I am contacting you regarding a funds worth the sum of $6 million dollars. The money is the excess of the funds use for Biometric Voter's Registration for voters for the 2012 election. The funds was budgeted for the Biometric Voter's Registration the total funds is worth $20 million dollars and we succeeded in spending $14 million dollars in the process remaining an access of $6 million dollars which I have deposited in a security firm here in Ghana. The security did not know the actual content in the trunk box what I declare when making the deposit was that it was family valuables. As civil servants we are not allowed to run foreign accounts. that was why i decided to deposit it in a security firm here in Ghana. If you are interested in the proposal kindly get back to me by sending me your letter of acceptance along with your direct telephone and fax numbers. Note that your area of specialization is irrelevant to this transaction and the transaction is expected to be concluded within few days if you adhere to my instruction. I await your response so that i can furnish you with further detail regarding the transaction. yours truly, Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan
They used to gift me Billions of dollars but now, because of this heart wrenching financial crisis they only have millions to spare, so sad!!
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Nigerian Fraud/Scam*[^] *Delete according to taste. The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter. One of the things I was taught in my induction to [the then] Northern Rock was that we were advised to be more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers because "they seem to have a knack for fraud, especially involving cheques and often the frauds is novel". I vaguely remember he had statistics backing this up. [Edit] Turns out my information is out of date: He's most probably a merkin[^], pretending to be a Ghanian Ghanaian someone from Ghana. Though the article doesn't break the country figures down by scam type.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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Nigerian Fraud/Scam*[^] *Delete according to taste. The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter. One of the things I was taught in my induction to [the then] Northern Rock was that we were advised to be more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers because "they seem to have a knack for fraud, especially involving cheques and often the frauds is novel". I vaguely remember he had statistics backing this up. [Edit] Turns out my information is out of date: He's most probably a merkin[^], pretending to be a Ghanian Ghanaian someone from Ghana. Though the article doesn't break the country figures down by scam type.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
Keith Barrow wrote:
The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter.
That there is fraud in Nigeria doesn't mean this is from Nigeria!
Keith Barrow wrote:
more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers
Hmmmm, nice! But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too... Imagine as a programmer I don't even know how to use the PayPal API just because they believe Nigeria is too dangerous to be included. :sigh: Am I a Nigerian? YES!!! Just hoping Nigerian won't be ban from CP one day
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Keith Barrow wrote:
The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter.
That there is fraud in Nigeria doesn't mean this is from Nigeria!
Keith Barrow wrote:
more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers
Hmmmm, nice! But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too... Imagine as a programmer I don't even know how to use the PayPal API just because they believe Nigeria is too dangerous to be included. :sigh: Am I a Nigerian? YES!!! Just hoping Nigerian won't be ban from CP one day
Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote:
Hmmmm, nice!
That was my first thought at the time. I was surprised he'd be so open about, this was 10 years ago so the statistics he had may have been valid then. That said the anti-fraud community in UK banks is necessarily cliquey, so there may have been groupthink going on too.
Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote:
But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too
Undoubtedly.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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All fraud coming from Africa is not necessarily from Nigeria. Besides, fraud is everywhere and I admit it's in Nigeria too :(
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All fraud coming from Africa is not necessarily from Nigeria. Besides, fraud is everywhere and I admit it's in Nigeria too :(
Sorry, no harmful intention, just wanted to share the fun/pun! :)
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Keith Barrow wrote:
The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter.
That there is fraud in Nigeria doesn't mean this is from Nigeria!
Keith Barrow wrote:
more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers
Hmmmm, nice! But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too... Imagine as a programmer I don't even know how to use the PayPal API just because they believe Nigeria is too dangerous to be included. :sigh: Am I a Nigerian? YES!!! Just hoping Nigerian won't be ban from CP one day
ouch! I guess you have to swim against the tide!! :~
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Nigerian Fraud/Scam*[^] *Delete according to taste. The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter. One of the things I was taught in my induction to [the then] Northern Rock was that we were advised to be more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers because "they seem to have a knack for fraud, especially involving cheques and often the frauds is novel". I vaguely remember he had statistics backing this up. [Edit] Turns out my information is out of date: He's most probably a merkin[^], pretending to be a Ghanian Ghanaian someone from Ghana. Though the article doesn't break the country figures down by scam type.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
Calling that racism is an over reaction I think. It's like blonde jokes. We know the blondes are ok in fact. Same for Nigerian! ;)
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Calling that racism is an over reaction I think. It's like blonde jokes. We know the blondes are ok in fact. Same for Nigerian! ;)
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You could feel people getting uncomfortable when he said it (me included), he'd obviously come across this before. He also brought cheques used in fraud attempts, many had Nigerian names. He could have been a closet racist I suppose, but I doubt it given how open he was about the subject at the time & there were no other indications other than this one matter.
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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10% given the stats I just read, way behing the US, and 2.5% in front of erm Nigeria (see post below for source). Another second best for blighty!
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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I just received the following letters from a new Nigerian friend
Dear Friend, I know it will surprise you to receive this email from me. I am Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan the Chairman of the Electoral Commission Ghana (EC). I am contacting you regarding a funds worth the sum of $6 million dollars. The money is the excess of the funds use for Biometric Voter's Registration for voters for the 2012 election. The funds was budgeted for the Biometric Voter's Registration the total funds is worth $20 million dollars and we succeeded in spending $14 million dollars in the process remaining an access of $6 million dollars which I have deposited in a security firm here in Ghana. The security did not know the actual content in the trunk box what I declare when making the deposit was that it was family valuables. As civil servants we are not allowed to run foreign accounts. that was why i decided to deposit it in a security firm here in Ghana. If you are interested in the proposal kindly get back to me by sending me your letter of acceptance along with your direct telephone and fax numbers. Note that your area of specialization is irrelevant to this transaction and the transaction is expected to be concluded within few days if you adhere to my instruction. I await your response so that i can furnish you with further detail regarding the transaction. yours truly, Dr.Kwadwo Afari-Gyan
They used to gift me Billions of dollars but now, because of this heart wrenching financial crisis they only have millions to spare, so sad!!
My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!
Global recession ya-know!
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