I mean, there are plenty of other poor countries with people starving, and they do not do it?
2007-01-30 01:47:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
The majority of 419 scams and romance scams seems to have originated in Nigeria. Bribery, scams, corruption seems to be ingrained in their culture. Even when you drive around in Nigeria you have to pay bribes to the police. Many Nigerian type scams have also seem to have migrated to other countrys. The 419 e-mail scams that I get come from a variety of countrys now. The word is getting out now about how corrupt Nigeria is to some people, but not everyone. Many Nigerians are going to other countrys to do their scams. We believe there is a scammer cell also in Accra, Ghana and Toronto, Canada.
They have cafes in Lagos, Nigeria owned solely by scammers and everyone in them are scammers. Why do they continue to operate? Because, they pay bribes to the police to continue to operate. We think that they have accomplices right here in the USA, but I have seen no proof of it. Just heresay. Estimates from losses to Nigerian scams annually just to the usa are about 2 billion dollars. Many people fall for their scams. They continue to adapt and change their scams. The word is still not getting out to the public about this, that is why we hhave so many scam victims. I also wonder why other poor countrys do not do it, but the scammers are in every country in Africa. Just not as prevalant as Nigeria. They operate right here on Yahoo Personals and in the Yahoo chat rooms. It is my opinion that Yahoo also needs to clean up their act.
2007-01-31 01:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by David C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, they're not all from Nigeria. It is just that the particular type of scam originated in Nigeria, and has been tagged in the common vernacular as "the Nigerian Scam".
The Federal Government calls it a "419 Scam". I have received versions of the scam letter from Nigeria, Iraq, the former Soviet Union, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Taiwan, Thailand, . . .
And the people doing it are not poor -- they're making enough money to find it rewarding, so they keep doing it. The really poor folks in all those third world countries can't afford computers or the Internet.
2007-01-30 01:53:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have a 419 puppy? staggering. you won't have the ability to get them arrested, as Nigerian regulation enforcement quite would not view those scammers as a lot of a severe precedence. the wonderful ingredient you're able to do is save playing with him and getting him pissed off. Time he spends handling you is time he won't have the ability to spend handling a gullible fool. besides the reality that on the different hand if a fool is gullible sufficient to fall for a 419 scam then he quite would not deserve his money. evaluate it a tax on stupidity.
2016-11-23 13:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I've noticed that Nigeria seems to be scam central these days. And their scams aren't very intelligent either. But I guess all it takes is one unintelligent mark to fall for their scam.
2007-01-30 01:52:05 · answer #4 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've also had them from China: in the last year I have supposedly won $500,000 twice; doesn't anyone send checks anymore? Why do they want my banking details? A fool and his money.......
2007-01-30 01:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has to do with their laws, they don't really cooperate with American efforts to find and charge the people doing it.
2007-01-30 01:52:26 · answer #6 · answered by customcat2000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋