Economic disaster?
Terrible news for me this morning. Chief Mustapha Ouank was due to transfer $47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand United States dollars) from the National Petroleum corporation into my account this morning, and it hasn’t arrived.
Now I discover that the SAT – 3 cable which connects Nigeria to the Internet has been damaged underwater, and Nigeria will only have a skeleton Internet service for the next 10 days.
The damage to the mainstay of Nigeria’s terrestrial Internet service provision, SAT3, has disrupted businesses in the private and public sectors across the country as most banks could not meet their obligations to their customers.
There must be anxious people all over the world waiting for their millions to arrive – and lowly clerks in Nigerian Petroleum companies having their hopes dashed today.
Estimates put the losses gains from these “Nigerian Advance Fee” operations at over $1 million “every single day” in the U.S. alone.
This could be an economic disaster of biblical proportions. Be on your guard, if you receive an e-mail from a Nigerian offering to transfer money to you in the next few days, it will be fraudulent, they don’t have Internet at the moment…..best wait for a genuine one.
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July 31, 2009 at 11:19 am -
bloody hell! someone pull the plug out then??
if someone finds it can they stick it up Gordon Brown’s bum – you never know, it might light up the whole of Africa.
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July 31, 2009 at 1:14 pm -
My local post office just phoned to tell me several thousand dollars are waiting to be collected by me. (I should point out they have a very attractive Nigerian counter clerk). I have told them to send it all back. Toodle pip!
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July 31, 2009 at 5:21 pm -
Bloody Hell- I put a deposit on an XJ-S this morning, because I was waiting for $16 M dollars to arrive in my account today.
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July 31, 2009 at 5:47 pm -
Your benefactor seems to have the ideal name as a supporter on the “Keep Gordon” petition
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July 31, 2009 at 8:41 pm -
I wish they’d keep the money and spend it on their roads. You wouldn’t believe the number of relatives, who I never knew I had, who have lost their lives in road accidents there over the last few years.
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July 31, 2009 at 9:48 pm -
I got my first “Nigerian” letter in 1986. A LETTER. Times were different, the scam the same.
BTW Joe P. seems to me that there are even more people “joking” about this petition with silly names, than the ones trying to crack up a Madeleine McCann one by “outing” 3A’s …
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August 1, 2009 at 1:56 am -
F**K ME!!!!! I’VE BEEN SELECTED 6 TIMES THIS WEEK FOR THE PRIVILIGE OF HELPING THESE POOR GUYS OUT, NOT TO MENTION MY UMPTEEN LOTTERY WINS LAST WEEK!!!! I’M SO LUCKY I CAN’T KEEP UP….
…. all they want is my details….. now where has the missus stashed my bank details…..
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