While going round a roundabout...

[Cab]

I wouldn't generalise about Nigerians in that way, and I've met some jolly decent chaps from there. But I can't help but find that the accented pronunciation 'speenach' shouted from the car really made the whole thing quite surreal.

 

[LOGAN 5]

No offense meant. My two were really nice and friendly until money was meant to change hands, so I'm naturally cautious about business deals with them now.

 

[Maz]

No offense meant. My two were really nice and friendly until money was meant to change hands, so I'm naturally cautious about business deals with them now.

Don't tell me you fell for the infamous Nigerian Scam?
No. Really. Don't tell me.

 

[Mr Pig]

I wouldn't generalise about Nigerians in that way,...

I would. The couple we knew were very pleasant people too, but their idea of right, wrong and how you deal with other people was still very different to what we would consider good practice. I enjoyed their company very much but I wasn't sorry when they left. Their disregard for what we would consider basic rules of behaviour was very frustrating. They were not crooks or anything like that, they were nice people, just very different rules.

And it is fair to generalise because it is a product of the country and culture they come from. At home many of the things they do are perfectly acceptable back home so most people think nothing of it.

Some people don't just ignore scammers though, they do their best to make the lives of scamming scumbags as miserable as possible. A long read but well worth it:

http://www.419eater.com/html/williams_smith.htm

This one is superb :0)

http://www.419eater.com/html/okorie.htm