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@ Feyisara, could u pls email me a copy of ur eBook on CGI Scripts. I just sent an email to ur Yahoo account, thx.

@ Devine8
Thx, I wasn't aware of this sophisticated level of online scaming. I have forwarded your above memo to everyone on my email mailing list.

I get d usual "next-of-kin to deceased owner of $20 million" emails all d time. Lately on craigslist.com, I have been seeing classified ads for jobs 4 overseas representatives, to receive & cash money orders/checks on behalf of international companies (usually based in d UK or Nigeria) doing biz in that local city & to forward d excess after expenses by Western Union to d scammer. So d scam is mutating exponentially in form & size.

D truth is, there r a lot of honest Nigerians, especially back home whose livelihood depend on their good reputation & this reputation is being tarnishd by these online scammers.

Hence, I would like to advocate an international online forum to:
1. act as a one-stop shop 2 educate anyone who uses a phone or a computer (basically d whole world) about this epidemic;
2. have any recipient of a dubious communication forward such online or phone communication to d forum;
3. have d forum identify d source country & notify d enforcement agency charged w/ policing such conduct in that country;
4. very impt.[/b]follow up w/ that agency regarding d status & result of [b]each notification & prosecution;
5. be backed by an international organization funded by countries like d US & Uk among others, since it is their citizens that r d affected victims;
6. get d support of d international media to expose any country that fails or is weak in prosecuting these scammers;
7. lobby or pressure d United Nations to get involved & sanction, financially or politically, any such exposed country.

Lets make a stand, there is power in numbers. Everyone keeps apportioning blame on Nigerians. Let us (d international online community) come up w/ smart & dynamic ways to catch these scammers, Nigerians or otherwise & prosecute them (& banning online financial transactions from computers with IPs traced to origins in Nigeria is NOT a smart idea).

This is no longer just a crime of d victim's greed, it's also a crime of d victim's ignorance & a crime of everyone's nonchalance, resulting in a loss of over $1billion/yr worldwide, to the online scam industry.

Please forward this memo to as many people as u can, Nigerian or otherwise. Knowledge is Empowerment. Feel free to add to, or modify what u deem appropriate.

Thx, a concerned Nigerian

Why is it dat when we do not understand medical symptoms on a person, we feel comfortable concluding its d result of juju or vodoo?.

I remember back in d late 80's in Akure, there was dis Bola d Tailor guy dat allegedly slept w/ some gal in graveyards as a money generating ritual. The gal as a result started showing some strange symptoms, lost a lot of weight & eventually died. Her emanciated pix together w/ d 4 story building d tailor built in Akure w/ d blood money was in all d papers. "Experts" claimed d tailor used money making juju on d poor gal. Years later when HIV AIDS gained prominence, learned folks realised d symptoms resulting in her death was identical to dat 4 full blown AIDS!

So guys, all these cases of lovers sticking 2gether or crowing like 'akukwo' after commiting adultery, if really true, would find a logical & medical explanation in d near future, insha allah

@ rikkyjen, don't hate, participate, lol

Seriously tho, I was just using sarcasm to elucidate d absurdity of a concept like 'Magun' that cannot be justified under any proven medical theory whatsoever.

@ Devine8,
thanks 4 d info. Online scams can only succeed if we r ignorant, so pls continue 2 empower us by educating us

My little input as one who conducts all my banking transactions online is to never put my personal info on a banking web page request 4 info if I see 'http' instead of 'https' on d URL address. Someone told me awhile back dat d 's' stands 4 'secured encrypted transaction.

W/ d Swift & Halifax examples above, d quality is pretty crappy, so not 2 hard 2 figure out as a fake. Hence, my question is, would it be possible 2 create a similar sub domain page 4 a reputable bank like a Bank of America & redirect innocent online bankers to such a site? Also, d term "Phishing, what exactly does it mean?

thx once again

@ pie1ect, thx 4 info above .

Further to @ olofuzi's question, in what order (steps) shd one approach d applications after HTML in terms of level of difficulty?

Am a newbie myself, I breezed thru HTML, XHTML & CSS easy, decided to learn something on client browser scripting, hence studied VB Script & JavaScript from d W3C site, and grasped absolutely nothing. Now am scared to venture into PHP server scripting, talkless of any DB applications.

Pls. point us to any free eBook source URL that breaks JavaScript & VBScript into easy to comprehend newbielese(sp) and list applications/languages for us to pursue afterwards in degree of difficult

Thx in anticipation 4 ur time

Wetin now, why una dey try scare bobos w/ all this magun talk.

Good thing all that mess no dey our area o!. I go down to d millitary base at Camp Pendelton in San Diego all d time. Do u know how many marine soldiers in Iraq have wives running around here looking 4 a temporary replacement 4 their husbands (especially during this cold winter). Since am not that crazy enough to go & get myself blown up in Iraq, I take it as my patriotic duty to please dem booty, and I take my duties seriously

So odukwa risky, I would rather worry about looking over my shoulder for any sniper attacks from unappreciative husbands returning from Iraq, than worry about some nonsense magun, spiritual, physical or otherwise,