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Nigerian scammers think they're smarter than Americans
By NetworkWorld Co... on Mon, 10/24/05 - 9:13am.Of course, given the fact that people apparently still fall for their 419 scams, they might be right. The Los Angeles Times reports from Lagos on one supposedly reformed scammer who said he was fleecing 25 to 40 Americans a month - with the aid of Nigerian thugs in the U.S. who'd threaten any pigeons who started getting cold feet in the middle of a deal:
... The targets are called maghas - scammer slang from a Yoruba word meaning fool, and refers to gullible white people. ...
Via Brian McWilliams, who notes that the soundtrack of a Nigerian movie released this year includes a song about the joys of cyber-scamming Americans.
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