Toolkit

Story: Nigeria renews efforts to stop 419 scammers

• 
• 

Alternative title: Greedy people lose money

What is wrong with the world?

All of these schemes work on the principle that at some point in the chain someone is doing something illegal and as a result you can get rich quick.

If you think that you can sit back and get rich quick, go be a drug dealer. Honest people don't get caught with these scams because they know that at the first sign of someone doing something illegal, they'll bale!

If you have been caught then good - a fool and his money are easily parted.

If it seems too good to be true it almost certainly is. If it is true, then there's probably something illegal involved.

If you want to earn a lot of money, learna skill, go out and get a job and then work really hard. Then you can be sure that the money you earn is straight.

I had never heard about the 419 scam but I've never been suckered by it either! As a landlord letting my property to foreigners I should have been hit by the ol' cheque scam by now, but I always phone the issuing bank before I cash a cheque and I have just recently shredded a cheque from a Nigerian model who told me she would be here to do a shoot. The next time I spoke to her she said she wasn't sure when the concert would be????

Get a grip folks, stop trying to get rich quick, and instead, do it the old fasioned way - WORK!

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

Full Talkback thread