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Nigerian Fraud/Scam*[^]
*Delete according to taste.
The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter. One of the things I was taught in my induction to [the then] Northern Rock was that we were advised to be more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers because "they seem to have a knack for fraud, especially involving cheques and often the frauds is novel". I vaguely remember he had statistics backing this up.
[Edit]
Turns out my information is out of date:
He's most probably a merkin[^], pretending to be a Ghanian Ghanaian someone from Ghana. Though the article doesn't break the country figures down by scam type.
modified 17-Sep-13 6:14am.
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Keith Barrow wrote: The scammer is most probably Nigerian, despite the letter.
That there is fraud in Nigeria doesn't mean this is from Nigeria!
Keith Barrow wrote: more careful when dealing with Nigerian customers
Hmmmm, nice! But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too... Imagine as a programmer I don't even know how to use the PayPal API just because they believe Nigeria is too dangerous to be included. 
Am I a Nigerian? YES!!!
Just hoping Nigerian won't be ban from CP one day
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: Hmmmm, nice!
That was my first thought at the time. I was surprised he'd be so open about, this was 10 years ago so the statistics he had may have been valid then. That said the anti-fraud community in UK banks is necessarily cliquey, so there may have been groupthink going on too.
Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: But honest Nigerians have really suffered from this too
Undoubtedly.
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ouch!
I guess you have to swim against the tide!! 
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Calling that racism is an over reaction I think.
It's like blonde jokes. We know the blondes are ok in fact. Same for Nigerian! 
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You could feel people getting uncomfortable when he said it (me included), he'd obviously come across this before. He also brought cheques used in fraud attempts, many had Nigerian names. He could have been a closet racist I suppose, but I doubt it given how open he was about the subject at the time & there were no other indications other than this one matter.
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Global recession ya-know!
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Have you seen that in the right side of the edit field there are no emoticons?
It seems they've been replaced by a link that takes you to the emoticons and the code texts that you have to use to insert them...
modified 16-Sep-13 19:04pm.
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I see three columns of emoticons to the right of this box. Must be just you. 
BDF
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Probably it has some relationship with the recent IE11 upgrade...
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Joan Murt wrote: years I've spent here I know how to make them appear by writting
Yeah and well not every emoticon is there. Like the [Dance] emoticon you used 
MMM... mine just shows what i typed it seems 
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Joan Murt wrote: There are plenty of special [Alien] emoticons that only CP gurus and Maxxx know how to summon...
ftfy
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_Maxxx_ wrote: CP gurus and Maxxx
You don't need to clarify... given the picture on your profile, you've got granted the ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) guru title just after registering here... 
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Please teach me master. I am but a ![Sheep | [baah]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif)
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Just you, it is. Three columns, I see.
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You're missing at least the Vegemite and the Sheep.
Michael Martin
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I fixed up the Vegemite...
And I think it's OG that's missing the sheep 
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: [baah]
Doesn't work for me 
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Keep Clam And Proofread
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And it was delicious.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: [baah]
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This is a programming forum. I think you meant == not =
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try it with 4 a's and an !.
Michael Martin
Australia
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You're missing a bit of ![Heart | [heart]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) as well.
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