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It's quite easy to use Nigeria in a con story these days without it being questioned. So she wants us to believe 14 year old in 1910 (early 20th century she sa
by OoTheNigerian 11y ago
It's quite easy to use Nigeria in a con story these days without it being questioned.
So she wants us to believe 14 year old in 1910 (early 20th century she said) claiming to be a Nigerian Prince from Nigeria BUT posting the letter from within the US went undetected?
First of all Nigeria did not exist until 1914 and I wonder how this 14 year old "negro" (as they were called then) discovered this country and had the intelligence go execute this.
This anecdote is obviously a figment of the writers imagination and such fable does not deserve to be on the front page.
There are enough challenges with the damage fraudsters using Nigeria's image are causing Nigerian citizenry we do not need to give audience those that parade fables as fact.
- julianz 11y agoAccording to this account (which appears to include case numbers), these cases happened in 1949 and were indeed from Nigeria, not from within the US. http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2015/07/28/history-repeating-itself-mail-fraud/ http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2015/07/28/history-re...
- OoTheNigerian 11y agoGood find. It's quite a similar story with the submitted article but many of the facts of the matter do not match up with her early 20th century tale.
- macintux 11y agoI think you're stretching. She describes the newspapers filled with ads in the early 20th century, but not explicitly the scam, which nonetheless happened in the first half of the 20th century. Is there enough actually wrong to gripe about it? I see virtually no differences between the two links.