A Few Words About Nigerian Scams and The Paradigm Shift Of Being An Idiot, In 2008

(left, Clearly A Nigerian Businessman)

While of course scams are bad, Nigerian or otherwise, I would like to add a few things:

Some very basic humans tend to see things in a one-dimensional way, something is bad, or good, for example. They do not have the mental agility to all at once see 10 sides of any item and while deciding upon a primary conclusion, also arriving at secondary conclusions as well .

For example, Nigerian Scams are bad and hurt innocent people, but they also cause lulz for both the innocent and the non-innocent alike. Without them, there would not be scambaiters, and there would not be the exchanges you may or may not have just read here (The “Nigeria Calling” series).

Let’s be honest, the only people fail-factories who fall for Nigerian scams are:

1) the stupid and/or sheltered

2) the overly greedy

3) people who consider themselves wonderfully lucky and are therefore perennially gullible

Now, if our country has an abundance of the above, shouldn’t we be thanking the people of Nigeria for pointing this out to us and also teaching those bumpkins a lesson? My fellow Americans, It’s lesson time, and you know what?

We fucking outsourced it to that hell-hole Nigeria!

Being an idiot used to mean that idiotic things would happen to you all the time, thus making being an idiot inconvenient.

If we, as a nation, are going to ensure that there is no way to be an idiot anymore, by safeguarding every possible avenue for idiocy, what then is the benefit of being intelligent?

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Reader's Comments

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   TRUE DAT!!!

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2. Lilly on 20 Oct 2007 9:26 pm
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   I have NEVER heard such a spin on “Nigera Scams” and/or idiocy…you just blew my mind dude..

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4. romi41 on 21 Oct 2007 10:10 am
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   Romi, its not such a leap in logic is it? I saw a movie where the person with your name invented the post-it note.

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6. andyfox1979 on 21 Oct 2007 3:20 pm
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   WHAT?!?!!? what a friggin genius…suddenly i’m honored to have this name (rather than previously being embarrassed, i.e.. “Hey Romeo, where’s your girlfriend Juliet???”…wtf…)

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8. romi41 on 21 Oct 2007 4:17 pm
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   “They do not have the mental agility to all at once see 10 sides of any item”
   Maybe they don’t play D&D as much as you do. If only those stupid jerks had a 10 sided dice and a +10 bonus in mental agility…

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10. Jeremy on 22 Oct 2007 3:41 pm
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    P.S.
    I love how some nobody screams TRUE DAT!!! on every blog on the intertubes.

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12. Jeremy on 22 Oct 2007 3:43 pm
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    I get it, its like economic natural selection.

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14. Richard Corsale on 25 Oct 2007 7:20 am
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    My country is not an hell-hole. If your country men can’t see beyond their greedy noses, then it’s just too bad. Remember, it takes two to tango.

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16. January on 25 Oct 2007 1:32 pm
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    Hello Mr January, please contact me about an exciting opportunity for you to become financially secure

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18. andyfox1979 on 29 Nov 2007 5:56 pm
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    dis is rock…i’am loving it.:L:L:L:L:

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20. sally on 23 Apr 2008 8:44 pm
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    I lived in Nigeria for 11 years of my life and while it doesn’t quite live up to douchey American standards (Hello, Sarah Palin), I don’t think it can be described as a “hell-hole”. It is unfortunate that e-mail scams have been assigned the Nigerian moniker but please do not generalize and don’t assume. If there weren’t so many dumbasses, people would not be tempted to take advantage of their stupidity.

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22. heydouche on 03 Nov 2008 9:02 pm