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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2010-08-24 12:22 pm
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If Nigerians spent half the time they spend trying to find weak-minded Western bank customers, in building up stable businesses, Nigeria would be one of the great industrial countries. I actually feel sorry at all the ingenuity and knowledge wasted on these penny-ante and degrading attempts at swindles. I get, literally twice or three times every day, well faked bank letters in Italian, which is not a West African language or very easy to learn. Somewhere there are Nigerians or similar who have learned Italian to an excellent level - and use it for no better purpose than to try to fleece a few weak-minded internet users. Don't you agree that it is a sad waste?

[identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com 2010-08-24 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably they think they know English - after all, it is the national language - whereas they know that they don't know Italian. However, that is not to say that there aren't the occasional hilarious specimens.