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| 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 OK -- even this librul Democrat will agree that this writer is a dumb bitch and deserved to get scammed--and I REALLY believe Bush wasn't to blame LOL Happy New Year! |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2003-12-31 9:07:07 PM |
| #10 Not only is she stupid, she's also an idiot. IIRC, most of the Nigerian oil exploration has been carried out by British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. Have these companies also "absorbed some of the Texan oil values that now rule the White House"? Even the Guardian should be able to do better than this. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-12-30 11:02:41 PM |
| #9 You have to read her article, the U.S. and in particular Presidient Bush are responsible for this. BTW I got these emails way back in the early 1990s, does that mean Al Gore invented Email fraud too? Polly blame your teachers, parents, or yourself for YOUR stupidity. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-30 3:35:00 PM |
| #8 What was Polly’s reason for sending money in response to the Nigerian letter? I’ve received these letters and the ones that I have seen promise millions to the person who sends a token amount to the letter writer. It seems that oil companies aren’t the only ones motivated my profit. |
| Posted by: Dan Canaveral 2003-12-30 3:04:53 PM |
| #7 B-a-R It sounds like it's already tattooed there... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-12-30 1:11:49 PM |
| #6 ...it is hardly surpising they absorbed some of the Texan oil values So it's Bush's fault she's a friggin' idiot? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-12-30 1:11:09 PM |
| #5 Honest to G*d people, how dumb can you be? For the last three years, I empty two or three of these a day out of my junk in-box! The instant I see the word "Nigeria", out it goes! This scam has been their most famous export since bloody forever, and Little Miss Toynbee is just now catching on? Sheesh, how clueless do you have to be to work at a newspaper these days? |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2003-12-30 12:36:10 PM |
| #4 Sounds like she needs the word STUPID tattooed across her forehead. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-30 12:03:47 PM |
| #3 Iowahawk had a contest for writing Nigerian letters to this woman. Here's the link |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-30 12:02:58 PM |
| #2 Excuse me! Al Bore did the internet thingie IIRC. DORF |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-12-30 11:19:58 AM |
| #1 Tim Blair had this one last week. Still, it's ROTF funny! |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-12-30 9:49:23 AM |