Nigerias president Olusegun Obasanjo vil gi harde bøter og fengselsstraffer til de såkalte Nigeria-svindlerne, melder nyhetsbyrået AP. Selv har jeg stusset over at det har vært stille fra dem lenge, men sist tirsdag ramlet det enda en vennlig hilsen inn i innboksen min:
Good morning my friend!
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the National Petroleum Corporation here in Nigeria, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got your email address for now.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight million, six hundred thousand united state bills(us28.6m) into your account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my Ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of us$28.6m as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required by your government.
Og så videre, og så videre. Det er nesten vemodig hvis det skal bli slutt på disse rørende svindeforsøkene. Men faktum er jo at mange, utrolig nok, går på limpinnen. Til gjengjeld er det også en del lyse hoder som har svindlet svindlerne, slik VG Nett påpeker i kveld. Følg linken nederst i artikkelen, eller gå rett til Ebolamonkeyman. Her har folk lagt mye tid og krefter i å drive de nigerianske svindlerne fra vettet. Stor underholdning, hvis du ikke har noe bedre fore. Det har åpenbart ikke Nigeriasvindlerne.