[SpamCop-List] Re: 419 Humour

[Anony Mouse]

St - Musaic.Net wrote:
>>Not really. It's only a very small minority that are criminals there; the
>>problem is that they're so visible to poeple that use email, while the 
>>large majority of people in Nigeria are honest, hard-working and poor, but
>>entirely invisible to us at the other side of the digital divide.
> 
> 
>   Nigeria?
> 
>   What about Chello/A2000 in The Netherlands...or Israelian 012.NET.IL...or
>   UK/Danish Tiscali, the french FSMail, the US/UK Yahoo, the US AOL/Netscape?
> 
>  "Only a very small minority that are criminals in those countries...the
>   problem is that the ISPs are so visible to people that use email, while the
>   large majority of people in [Insert Country] are honest, hard-working and
>   [Insert Standard Of Living], but entirely invisible to us at the other side
>   of the digital divide"? Anyway...
> 
>   The story on how Western-African countries observes Nigeria does NOT conform
>   to the assertion you are putting forward! I am sorry - but Nigerians have a
>   bigger problem with their reputation than that - and it goes way beyond 419s!
>   BUT as far as Internt scamming goes, it is a significant foreign exchange
>   earner in Nigeria! President Olusegun Obasanjo officially wants to tackle
>   Internet scamming - BUT the country and its leaders are not _really_ willing
>   to go against it:
> 
>   How can you say you want to tackle Internet scamming when your country's fifth
>   gross domestic income is coming from 419 scams and its likewise?!? Ooops!?
> 

Interesting...