Such online scammers were recently busted in India also
I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
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Re: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a great con to me. It's literally worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Yeah, it's a lot of money to commit to up-front, but it's oddly specific, few people are gonna agree to it, and they could easily just ask to cut the checks directly to the school.
How is getting someone else to pay for your schooling not a con?
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of: Go to a bank. Get a job there and work there for years and years learning the place from the inside, and also learning how all of the processes and procedures are done, earning everyone's trust and respect, and simultaneously building up a 401k with matching while also going up the career ladder and taking more and more positions with more responsibility and more pay until one day you finally decide th…
This is almost like the plot of Inside Man!
Or the Adventure Time episode "Scamps" [0].
Re: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
#44reminded me of a family guy episode where Carter Pewterschmidt gets scammed by Nigerians and flies to Nigeria to get his money back and eventually decides to donate the money as he sees the people there really need it, or something like that.
"I wonder if it will change us. But, of course, it did change us."
Re: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
#45Reminder that most advance-fee scams do not originate from Nigeria. Such articles like this one stereotype Nigeria in a falsely negative manner. >While Nigeria is most often the nation referred to in these scams, they may originate in other nations as well. For example, in 2006, 61% of Internet criminals were traced to locations in the United States, while 16% were traced to the United Kingdom and 6% to locations in…
> Such articles like this one stereotype Nigeria in a falsely negative manner. Err, the author actually WENT to Nigeria to meet her actual Nigerian scammer -- and others doing the same. What stereotype? She doesn't say that most Nigerians or only Nigerians do such things -- but that's what happened to her.
Facts will not dictate this conversation! Fighting stereotypes takes priority over some facts.
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#46How does this help? It will just lure people into thinking scamming is a way to lead you to america
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#47Re: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's a lot of money to commit to up-front, but it's oddly specific, few people are gonna agree to it, and they could easily just ask to cut the checks directly to the school.
How is getting someone else to pay for your schooling not a con?
When it is an investment in the next generation?
Re: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
#49> With her assistance, he left Nigeria shortly afterwards, to study in America. > Although they have not met each other again since, she continued to provide him with financial assistance until he completed his degree a few years ago and got a job in the American oil sector. Heh, maybe the 419 scam is continuing! The long con! :P
Reminds me of: Go to a bank. Get a job there and work there for years and years learning the place from the inside, and also learning how all of the processes and procedures are done, earning everyone's trust and respect, and simultaneously building up a 401k with matching while also going up the career ladder and taking more and more positions with more responsibility and more pay until one day you finally decide th…
Motherfucker, thats called a job!
Re: I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's a lot of money to commit to up-front, but it's oddly specific, few people are gonna agree to it, and they could easily just ask to cut the checks directly to the school.
How is getting someone else to pay for your schooling not a con?
Well, if someone says "please pay for my schooling," and you agree, and then your money is actually used for schooling, I think it's a bit of a stretch of the definition of "con" to call it one. Both parties are clear about what's happening -- seems more like a gift than a swindle.