Ever you heard of the African e-mail scams?

Did you ever received any e-mail from some unknown dude telling you are chosen
to inherit a huge ass amount of cash like about USD$ 35,000,00. Yes, that’s million!
Some other people would throw in extra numbers to really lure your believes and
make you throw money to them instead..

An acquaintance I’ve made and we went over to Asia Cafe for a chat. What I taught
would be a short night out, turned out to be a night our with bottles of “english-tea”
and endless converstation about business, politics and even religion and marriage.

This friend of mine is a Nigerian nationality and he is one influential person back
home in his country. His family is well known, thanks to his dad a director in one of
the largest conglomerate in Nigeria.

At one point, I asked him about the African e-mail scams as I remembered reading
how Benghan received the mail and how he turned around and play back that person.

It came to my understanding that, these e-mail scams are widely operated in Africa.
It is not operated by thousands of people but a handful of them. A software is used
to generate all the e-mails to be sent on mass e-mailing to the potential victims
worldwide.

When I asked, “Why these people do such thing? Don’t the government care”.

African nation governments are aware of these activities and are trying very hard
to curb them and eliminate these activities. Looking at how less resources of most
African nations have, it is not an easy task.

In Nigeria for example, there are about 40 Million population and the rich and poor
gap is about 50-50. These e-mail scams are mostly operated by people whom are
poor. People whom are so in dire need of money and people who wants to get out
of the country for the betterment of their life. Many of them who gets the money
deposited into their account not to earn a luxury life in Nigeria, but to leave the
country to United Kingdom, United States, Australia and even Malaysia.

It is the common believes in Nigeria that traveling and living abroad will broaden
their thinking and they can practice their expertise and skills better than their
own country. Hoping one day they will return to their country to change the whole
environment and economy there. These people behind the e-mail scams would
do anything to leave the country and that is why they did it.

But, they will not succeed unless they have targeted the greedy ones. Greedy souls
will always feed on these e-mails and will get lured into it. But sometimes, not
knowingly that they have helped someone for the better of their life. It all depends
on the receiver of the money on how he/she wants to spend the sudden wealth.

Nigeria was from military rule and attained Democracy in 1999. People there who
lives in such poverty on rural regions find many ways to sustain their lives. Some
are even prepared to murder just to have that much of money.

At least, I can hear a different set of story of why these people do it. But I still
condemn their activites and also I condemn the greedy ones for feeding them.

What the worlds has come to!!??