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al-Guardian writer falls for Nigerian scam; blames Bush-really
EFL / not the Nigerian Scam you are thinking ofPolly 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 canât 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 Sandraâs letters, a bit too full of Godâs mercy and Jesusâs blessings for my taste.... probably any mention of God would have been distastefull for Polly But it wasnât 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 2003-12-30 |
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