In message <8s8hu3le364o0khvfkj2bbja4l071kjbb7@4ax.com>, Marc Lurie
writes
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:10:29 +0000, Pat Anderson
> wrote:
>
>
>>>Marc
>>Marc,
>>It seems the Nigerians on my Yahoo group think it best to ignore all
>>these "scammers" whether or not they seem genuine! A curse they say
>>wouldn`t be a good idea.
>>Pat.
>
>
>It wouldn't be a goiod idea because they believe in the curse?
>
>By and large I have learned which scammers are obviously just a scam.
>The typical "let me give you $8 billion for simply giving me your bank
>account details" type of scam gets blocked immediately.
>
>However, I am in the business of doing business in Africa, and I have
>had three deals in Nigeria that at first I thought might be scams, and
>if I'd blocked them at that stage, I would have lost a lot of money.
>
>This latest scam appeared perfectly genuine (apart from the telltale
>yahoo address etc.) and I would not have been doing my company and my
>partners any justice by not following up on the sales lead.
>
>As for scammers being too intelligent to believe in curses, you don't
>know West Africans the way I do. :-)
>
>Marc
Marc,
I`m just passing on the message to you that was given to me by the
Nigerians I asked on your behalf! I`m sure that you can tell which
are the genuine ones if you are doing business with them, the
"scammers," in my experience are easy to spot.
As for me not knowing West Africans like you do, I did live in Port
Harcourt for three years and Sokoto for two years! How is that for
knowing the Nigerians? Five years is a long time to be in Nigeria I can
tell you, when we went from Nigeria to Kenya it was a different story
altogether!
Pat.
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