| Submit your comments on this article |
| Britain |
| al-Guardian writer falls for Nigerian scam; blames Bush-really |
| 2003-12-30 |
| EFL / not the Nigerian Scam you are thinking of Polly Toynbee, The Guardian ...How could anyone be so stupid? Easily. Wednesday December 17, 2003 especially if you are an idiot With embarrassment, feeling a fool, I admit I was a victim of a Nigerian fraud. Looking back now, I can’t think why I was so easily taken in but I did make a reasonable check. A hand-written letter arrived from a Nigerian 14-year-old called Sandra.... So I sent a cheque for £200 and received another of Sandra’s letters, a bit too full of God’s mercy and Jesus’s blessings for my taste.... probably any mention of God would have been distastefull for Polly But it wasn’t about the £200. Not long afterwards my bank received a letter with a perfect copy of my signature, giving my bank account numbers, does Polly send out Christmas or New Years cards; they would have her signature also asking for £1,000 to be transferred at once to a bank in Osaka, Japan... We reap from the third world what we sow: if some Nigerians learned lessons in capitalism from global oil companies [actually all the Nigerians I know speak with a British accent] that helped corrupt and despoil that land, it is hardly surpising they absorbed some of the Texan oil values [did she mean valves??] that now rule the White House.... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #11 |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2003-12-31 9:07:07 PM |
| #10 |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-12-30 11:02:41 PM |
| #9 |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-30 3:35:00 PM |
| #8 |
| Posted by: Dan Canaveral 2003-12-30 3:04:53 PM |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-12-30 1:11:49 PM |
| #6 |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-12-30 1:11:09 PM |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2003-12-30 12:36:10 PM |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-30 12:03:47 PM |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-30 12:02:58 PM |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-12-30 11:19:58 AM |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-12-30 9:49:23 AM |