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According 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://te
by julianz 11y ago
According 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.