Eddie803, he contributes nothing but shameless solicitations for his business, which itself is questionable, he is probably some Nigerian scam artist. This is supposed to be a board where we give advice, not a place to drum up business from people who may be distressed.
Also a search of his comapny on the BBB website shows complaints of his comapny violating the do not call registry. What a piece of trash.
True, Eddie803 should be banned from advertising his company on CreditNet, but comments like this are totally inappropriate, not to mention just a tad racist. And they make YOU look bad. Why not bring this to CN Steve's attention?
Maybe he doesn't get the Nigerian bank scam e-mails. Basically they're something like this... "Please allow me to introduce myself I am Ambassador XXXXXX XXXXXXX of Nigeria. I would like to propose the transfer of funds to you. Please contact us immediately, so we can obtain the information on which account you want us to deposit the money."
I'm familiar with those scams, and you're correct, breeze. I take back the racist remark. However, this doesn't change the fact that sahlegian's comment was inappropriate.
This is about as far from a race thing as i can get, sorry perhaps i should have used 419 scam artist. It upsets me that someone would advertise their business where people obviously are going to read it at their most distressed times. It is not the time for rash action that could be regretted later, the whole basis of the 419 (nigerian bank scam).
Like I asked earlier, has CN Steve seen Eddie803's posts? I've read at least 10 solicitations from him. That kind of advertising definitely doesn't belong here. Eddie803, are you listening???
All you have to do is go to the bottom of one of his posts and hit "Alert" then fill in the box. I did it yesterday. I guess we could also e-mail CCN Steve. It might help if more people did it.
Re: Re: Can we ban Thank you, Nigeria is a nationality, not a race. When I hear "Nigerian Scam" I think "Brilliant,state-of-the-art, capital extraction." To catagorize a reference to them as "racist" is rather demeaning to them in and of itself.
OT: Nigeria and the "419" scams Actually Nigeria is a country comprised of over 350 ethnic groups. The three major tribes in Nigeria are the Yoruba, Ibo and Ibibio. Being an ex-colony of Britain there are also quite a few Britishers who live and work there. The Nigerian scam was called the "419" because the Nigerian Government promulgated Decree 419 to fight the crime, which is why â??419â? has acquired global recognition as the title of this expanding scam. The criminals are now aware that if their message originates from Nigeria, or they mention that their fortune is from the Nigerian Government or parastatal, the Nigerian Senate or House of Assembly, or a deceased corrupt dictator (the name of Sani Abacha was used a lot) that would raise warning signals. So now they use the names of deceased or deposed corrupt dictators from other parts of the world. Moreover, criminals from other parts of the world, perhaps observing how rewarding â??419â? can be, given its comparatively low investment â?? just fax and e-mail messages â?? and fairly low risk of apprehension, since the victims often are too embarrassed or too dead to complain, have adopted this criminal modus operandi. For example, shortly after Laurent Kabila died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire), someone I know received a message from a person claiming to be his former personal assistant. He said Kabila left millions of dollars in a secret account known only to Kabila and himself (my correspondent). Not even Kabilaâ??s wife, or his son, Joseph Desire, who succeeded his father as DRC President, was in the know. With my friend's help, he would like to transfer the money to a safe haven where they would share it. He ignored the offer, which may probably explain why he is today neither fabulously wealthy nor in jail or dead. A newspaper friend of mine reports receiving a letter from someone claiming to be Dr. Mrs. Luisa Estrada, the wife of Joseph Estrada, the deposed President of the Philippines. She said that before her husband was impeached, she secretly transferred 18 million US dollars out of the Philippines. She offered him 25 per cent of the money, about 4.5 million dollars if he would help launder the money. Another one said he was Jan Doo-hwan, brother of the former President of South Korea, who left office in disgrace amid corruption charges in 1988. He said he had 30 million US dollars, and requested collaboration in its transfer. It will probably not be too long before people start receiving messages from the purported relatives or special assistants of Charles Taylor or Jean Bertrand Aristides deposed Presidents respectively of Liberian and Haiti, making fantastic offers to anyone who would help to lauder their loot. Nigerians can only hope that 419 will not be the only numbers for which its country is most notable in global consciousness. I wrote this post in order to articulate that there are people other than Nigerians who are running this scam. Nigeria is a large country like the USA. Much like the USA there are corrupt people who try and make money from the unwise and foolish people who think there are easy ways "to get rich quick." Corruption is not indigenous to a particular country or a particular ethnic group. Unfortunately it is inherent in all societies...even our own. clc
