Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
from the um.--ok. dept
It must be that time of year. Every so often someone official in the Nigerian government will make some sort of public statement about how the country's going to crackdown on 419 Advance Fee scams and every year, nothing much happens -- probably because those scams represent a noticeable percentage of the country's economy. So, here they are again, but this time, the plan appears to be twofold. Step One: outlaw spam. Step Two: bring in Microsoft to track down the spammers. Considering that Nigerian scams are already quite illegal and mostly go unpunished in Nigeria, does anyone actually think that outlawing the lesser offense of spamming is going to do much good? Also, while Microsoft has some experience going after spammers in the US, it seems like the Nigerian situation is a whole different game, involving complex organized crime rings. Well, we wish them luck, and while they're cracking down on Nigerian scammers, we'll suggest they listen to our favorite "geeksta rap" song about 419 scammers, MC Frontalot's Urgent Business Relationship.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
Techdirt is one of the few remaining truly independent media outlets. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis.
While other websites have resorted to paywalls, registration requirements, and increasingly annoying/intrusive advertising, we have always kept Techdirt open and available to anyone. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you.
–The Techdirt Team
Reader Comments
Subscribe: RSS
View by: Time | Thread
Ah, now were all safe...
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
Efforts to deal with murder would be greatly helped by people refusing to be murdered.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
I guess that makes attempted murder okay, since the victim - er, intended victim - didn't die.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Nigerians Let Bill Gates Fight Their Scammers
PS: don`t take it personally, I like many of your comments. and I would like to have your take on this.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
You should get ur head checked
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
MC Frontalot
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Scams and Nigeria's Economy??
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Fraud Links
"....Nigeria is still ranked as one of the most corrupt countries on earth. U.S. citizens lose approximately $2 billion ($2,000 million) a year to Nigerian fraud -- be it credit card fraud, insurance fraud, or 419 scam letters, or counterfeiting," which totals about "two and one-half times the value of our total U.S. exports to Nigeria."
-- Nov. '99, Robert L. Mallet, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Google
Seun, Foreign exchange is basically payment for international trade: "the exchange of goods and services across international boundaries. In most countries, it represents a significant share of GDP." It is not the same as GDP so you can't simply compare a percentage of one against the other.
If Nigerian readers disagree with the above, please link to your sources. Simply denying that there is a problem is unlikely to convince people.
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
Re: Fraud Links
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
DO GOOD OR BAD???
MAYBE I THINK SCAM WILL STOP ONEDAY WHEN WE ALL KNOW THE ONE TRUELY DOING GOOD IN HERE X.X.X.X
CONCIOUS ALWAYS RULES....
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
CAN ANYONE ANSWER ME AND LET ME "BRAIN WII, BRAIN SAH" I????
[ link to this | view in chronology ]
check this 2 sites and tell them what they want to know,they sell the tools for action scammers and got broked after being RAID by their SOFTWARE TEAMS AND COOPERATION,
Infact they also assisting the best and may they also receive same punishment as their glorious scammers are prasing with their TOOLS,
Its so cooperating B/W colours hehehehe man be KIND...MANKIND........
SAY HI TO 1000FILES.COM AND WISH THEM MERRY X,MAX AND THEIR GOODWORKS.PLATINUM.......
[ link to this | view in chronology ]