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"It's the American Dream! (Nigerian Scammer Style)"

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Anonymous RKU said...

Well, the Nigerian guy is indeed a "NAM"...but not exactly the sort of "NAM" you'd been focusing on in terms of education, socio-ec status, etc...

I have a feeling he's much more typical of the underlying Meltdown problem than all those urban "NAMs" buying homes for $21,000 in Detroit (that's NOT a misprint!)

11/18/08, 11:27 AM

Anonymous green mamba said...

It's nice to see NPR listeners in the comments section almost unanimously tearing into Mr. Njoku and NPR's presentation of him as a victim. If NPR listeners - often thought of as the epitome of WhiterPeople - can see through political correctness and get angry about it, maybe there is hope yet. Or maybe it just shows the magnitude of the media manipulation we are living through.

11/18/08, 11:40 AM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

A pharmacist making $20,000 a year? I know a few, and they make far more than that. And how much do you want to bet his wife never had serious health issues? These people make up all sorts of shit to make themselves seem worthy of pity.

I've only been on this planet a bit over 30 years, but I was paying to politics from an early age. I remember being no more than 6 or 7 and sitting next to my dad, watching the evening news. I remember actually being quite interested in what was going on.

So I've seen a lot of bad political decisions made, by Republicans, by Democrats. But the current trend towards rewarding people who act irresponsibly (the bailout) or who break the law (the amnesty) is past my breaking point. This is, figuratively, the point where the vandals in and rape, loot, and pillage.

11/18/08, 12:39 PM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

Is this the same Nigerian who invented the internet?

11/18/08, 1:03 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This may or may not be relevant to the topic at hand: I was recently scammed for $1,500. Someone got a hold of my debit card information and went on a spending spree. I was in Chicago at the time, but the money was spent in Dearborn, Michigan (a city known for having a, uh, diverse population), at two gas stations (!) and a clothing store.

The bank reimbursed me. I doubt the culprit has been caught. How much of this kind of thing - which is apparently very common these days - is responsible for the problems banks are having these days?

11/18/08, 1:35 PM

Blogger Truth said...

"And how much do you want to bet his wife never had serious health issues?"

I'll bet you a week's salary, now how do we get an answer.

11/18/08, 1:48 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"and now all of a sudden there's a silent suction of hope and progress out of the lives of people."

Don't worry, dude, even if the hope is sucked out you'll still have change.

11/18/08, 2:01 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I'll bet you a week's salary, now how do we get an answer."

Mr. Truth,
My name is Osagyefo Otombo. My wife has a very rare medical condition that requires very expensive drugs on a daily basis. I have $25 million dollars in a Swiss bank account but I cannot access it as I do not have any ready cash. If you could please send me $30,000 dollars, I will be able to get the money and I will send you $10 million for your help. Thank you for your kindness in this time of need.

Sincerely,
Osagyefo Otombo
345 River Walk Way
Garki Area 1, P.M.B. 88,
Garki, Abuja.

11/18/08, 2:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard this story on NPR a week ago.

The words "speculator" and "speculating" were never mentioned.

The phrase "American Dream" was said several times.

The NPR people said nothing negative about him. He, in turn, didn't seem to be ashamed of himself.

It was a bit surreal. Was this supposed to be a sob story?

11/18/08, 3:03 PM

Anonymous hcl said...

The "scam" in the title's too harsh. He's simply someone who chanced on a wave, one that he didn't understand the underlying physics of, and rode.

What went wrong here? The banks simply shouldn't have extended loans to a bad credit like him, in the essence. The banks are at fault.

11/18/08, 4:07 PM

Anonymous big bill said...

Anonymous, the point of the NPR show was to reinforce that no matter how bad or evil someone's behavior is, as long as they are not white, they are not morally culpable.

In the NPR world, ultimately there must be a white man who is the proximate cause of their suffering. In this case, the "bank" or the "lenders".

Note the response by Mr. Weiss in the letters to the editor. He generalized that "Americans" were evil and led the man astray. He condemned the other commented who blamed "Nigerians". They shall remain blameless.

"Americans" to the Weisses of the world is equivalent to "white Evangelical Christian".

11/18/08, 4:44 PM

Anonymous dearieme said...

"It's just hard to put to words": I thought he put it rather well.

11/18/08, 4:51 PM

Blogger feminizedwesternmale said...

Undoubtedly his ancillary career was possible due to the hue of his skin - which allows a funder to check the appropriate box and receive praise (and reward) for funding our poor, disadvantaged American.

11/18/08, 6:02 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

A lot of blame for this crisis belongs to Robert Kiyosaki, I'm glad to see him mentioned. He was peddling the advice that you shouldn't sit on the equity in your house, you should take all the equity out and reinvest it elsewhere.

11/18/08, 6:30 PM

Anonymous Plato said...

Captain Jack Aubrey,

Just wait until you've been on the planet another ten years and realize that any bad decisions on the part of puppet party one or two don't mean dick to the people who run this laughable sham.

11/18/08, 7:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The American striver really has a cargo cult mentality. They see that rich people own stocks and rich people own real estate. Therefore if they own stocks and if they own real estate, they will be rich.

So my mother, the Florida real estate speculator, also claimed to be worth 2 millions dollars. She also went in for the get rich quick courses in real estate. She's not dumb, just blinded by greed.

11/18/08, 8:31 PM

Anonymous John of London said...

Ithink this is the first mention I've seen here of those courses, which are also advertised in Britain, on how to "build wealth" thru property investment with no money down. Worth more attention?

11/19/08, 2:04 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The take home message for me of this thread is that an African 'invented' the internet.

I did read the link posted by the Capt there but I'm still a bit hazy on the details. As was the article itself...

11/19/08, 2:33 AM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"John of London said...

I think this is the first mention I've seen here of those courses, which are also advertised in Britain, on how to "build wealth" thru property investment with no money down. Worth more attention?"

Courses of this kind are often advertised on television in America, often in half-hour infomercials. They show glowing testimonials by people who brag about how much income they're making and how little time they spend working. A lot of these people are probably now working as pizza deliverymen or big-box store greeters.

One of America's biggest problems today is the get rich without working mentality which now pervades our culture - the belief that we could all be rich if we just found the right scam.

11/19/08, 7:48 AM

Anonymous Curious G said...

What does the NAM acronym stand for?

11/19/08, 10:35 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

NAM - Non Asian Minority.

That is to say groups who tend to do poorly academically and economically but do make up for this with a surplus of vibrancy.

11/19/08, 6:01 PM

Anonymous rast said...

What does the NAM acronym stand for?

It means that we need an iSteve FAQ/newbie guide.



(real answer: Non-Asian Minority)

11/19/08, 6:11 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

NAM means Non Asian Minority.

Also know as blacks and Hispanics. Used Steve Sailer and others as short hand. Just plain "minorities" isn't useful enough because that includes high performers like East Asians.

11/19/08, 6:45 PM

Anonymous Captain Jack Aubrey said...

NAM means Non Asian Minority. Also know as blacks and Hispanics. Used Steve Sailer and others as short hand. Just plain "minorities" isn't useful enough because that includes high performers like East Asians.

In my school some black organization annually gave out a scholarship to the "highest ranked minority student." Every year it went to a black student, even though there were always a ton of asians and even a hispanic or two (we didn't have many of them) ranked much higher. Just about every kid in that assembly chuckled every year at the irony.

Blacks did not like to admit that other people can be minorities. To them the word "minority" has taken on some sort of magical meaning.

One of America's biggest problems today is the get rich without working mentality which now pervades our culture - the belief that we could all be rich if we just found the right scam.

That's common everywhere. and I remember seeing those real estate infomercials all the way back in the mid-80s, when I was still in grammar school.

11/19/08, 9:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

these beautiful communities that were striving, and now all of a sudden there's a silent suction of hope and progress out of the lives of people

beautiful communities - thats the money quote! You knew when you read that just who comprised these communities without reading anything else in that piece. Not German-Americans, not Swedes, not in Switzerland or Italy.

11/20/08, 6:52 PM

Anonymous David said...

"Beautiful communities" - the amount of plain lying in this country is staggering. Almost everything you read or hear is either

a) very slanted

or

b) a barefaced lie.

On some subjects, all b).

The best way to understand what the paid media is pushing at you is to flip it. Whatever they are saying, state the opposite to yourself. You will often find that "the opposite" better comports with the facts, even the selective facts acknowledged in the piece you are flipping.

11/21/08, 7:08 PM

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