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First, Ghana != Nigeria.
Second, please stop - it's bad enough we all get these in our email inboxes, don't have to see them on CP too.
I love go-o-o-o-ld!
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Johann van der Smut wrote: we all get these in our email inboxes
Speak for yourself, I stopped getting them when I replied to one explaining how I needed them to send me some money first as my bank needed a fee before I could process their cash.
I never heard from them again 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Super Lloyd wrote: and we succeeded in spending $14 million
dollars in the process
I guess they just didn't try hard enough. 
Super Lloyd wrote: if you adhere to my instruction.
Don't they just wish!
Super Lloyd wrote: because of this heart wrenching financial crisis they only have millions to spare,
Yeah, it just makes me sick at heart seeing the poor buggers suffer. 
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I told you that inflation is real.
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Super Lloyd wrote: a new Nigerian friend
Who just happens to be from Ghana.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Who happens to be on the run with the famliy vualbles?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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All fraud coming from Africa is not necessarily from Nigeria. Besides, fraud is everywhere and I admit it's in Nigeria too 
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Well said, there is plenty going on here in the UK.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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10% given the stats I just read, way behing the US, and 2.5% in front of erm Nigeria (see post below for source).
Another second best for blighty!
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Sorry, no harmful intention, just wanted to share the fun/pun! 
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Nigerian Fraud/Scam*[^]
*Delete according to taste.
The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter. One of the things I was taught in my induction to [the then] Northern Rock was that we were advised to be more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers because "they seem to have a knack for fraud, especially involving cheques and often the frauds is novel". I vaguely remember he had statistics backing this up.
[Edit]
Turns out my information is out of date:
He's most probably a merkin[^], pretending to be a Ghanian Ghanaian someone from Ghana. Though the article doesn't break the country figures down by scam type.
modified 17-Sep-13 6:14am.
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Keith Barrow wrote: The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter.
That there is fraud in Nigeria doesn't mean this is from Nigeria!
Keith Barrow wrote: more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers
Hmmmm, nice! But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too... Imagine as a programmer I don't even know how to use the PayPal API just because they believe Nigeria is too dangerous to be included. 
Am I a Nigerian? YES!!!
Just hoping Nigerian won't be ban from CP one day
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: Hmmmm, nice!
That was my first thought at the time. I was surprised he'd be so open about, this was 10 years ago so the statistics he had may have been valid then. That said the anti-fraud community in UK banks is necessarily cliquey, so there may have been groupthink going on too.
Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too
Undoubtedly.
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ouch!
I guess you have to swim against the tide!! 
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Calling that racism is an over reaction I think.
It's like blonde jokes. We know the blondes are ok in fact. Same for Nigerian! 
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You could feel people getting uncomfortable when he said it (me included), he'd obviously come across this before. He also brought cheques used in fraud attempts, many had Nigerian names. He could have been a closet racist I suppose, but I doubt it given how open he was about the subject at the time & there were no other indications other than this one matter.
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Global recession ya-know!
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Have you seen that in the right side of the edit field there are no emoticons?
It seems they've been replaced by a link that takes you to the emoticons and the code texts that you have to use to insert them...
modified 16-Sep-13 19:04pm.
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I see three columns of emoticons to the right of this box. Must be just you. 
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Probably it has some relationship with the recent IE11 upgrade...
Thanks God to the amount of years I've spent here I know how to make them appear by writting... ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Joan Murt wrote: years I've spent here I know how to make them appear by writting
Yeah and well not every emoticon is there. Like the [Dance] emoticon you used 
MMM... mine just shows what i typed it seems
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Joan Murt wrote: There are plenty of special [Alien] emoticons that only CP gurus and Maxxx know how to summon...
ftfy
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: CP gurus and Maxxx
You don't need to clarify... given the picture on your profile, you've got granted the ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) guru title just after registering here... 
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