Nigeria Widows Lose Their Fortune 107
Phil John writes "In a cruel twist of fate, two Nigerian widows are genuinely fighting it out for their husband's (yes, the same husband) $55M fortune. The BBC has the full scoop. Who wants to bet we're abot to see a whole lot of 419's from 'The Wife of the Late Timothy Olufemi Akanni?'" Sometimes, life is too amusing to be true.
Correct wording. (Score:5, Funny)
for their late husband (Who was killed by the government)'s USD55,000,000.00 (FIFTY FIVE MILLION US DOLLARS) which they will deposit into your account
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I wonder how many suckers will be hooked by it just because they heard something to that effect in the news?
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Spam filter (Score:1)
Blast !!!! (Score:5, Funny)
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Hemos and the other
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^H Explained (Score:5, Informative)
An American who wants to help you spend^H^H^H^Have your royal family money.
I always understood the underlying meaning, but I never caught the origin until now: ^H Explained [wikipedia.org].
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My Solaris x86 test failed less than a minute after installation. Back to Linux.
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Hand in your geek badge immediately!!!
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Well, I know what it is now.
I was geeky enough to look it up, and even worse, respond to your forum response to my original post while explaining all of this to you in my own response.
So, I should think that I just redeemed my badge.
badges (Score:1)
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I call BS [linuxquestions.org]...
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H = 8th letter of the alphabet.
8th ASCII character is a backspace.
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Another aspect of ^H (Score:2)
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This sequence is still used humorously by hackers to denote a deletion [wikipedia]
Look out chaps, you're all tarred with the hacker brush now...And so would the American public... (Score:4, Funny)
abot (Score:5, Funny)
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As a Canadian, you can't hear it. Trust us, it's there.
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Incase you're curious, "ou" is properly called a diphthong. It's a great word, it has all those great consonants making it hard to pronounce, and not many people know what it means, but enough people so that it has not fallen out of usage. The perfect show-off word.
(a diphthong is basically a sound made from two vowels, like "ou" in "about" or "ea" in "fear", if you pronounce "fear" like the brits)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_vowel [wikipedia.org]
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aboot means he's canadian.
abot means he's illiterate.
News for nerds? (Score:1, Insightful)
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Hemos....
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Even then, who cares if it's not 'news for nerds'?
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In lieu of flowers... (Score:4, Funny)
EFFC? (Score:2)
PS: I already sent them an email pointing out the error [next-to-last-paragraph, if you care].
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So... (Score:3, Insightful)
This story is just made for Fark, isn't it?
So, why is it on
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Though I'm not sure why a story such as this would make it onto slashdot, the article does address your point.
Aparently, in their squabble over his money, someone tipped off the government and when they looked into it, they discovered that his assets were far greater than what he could have leaglly earned while alive (as a church pastor and election official). So now the widows/family get nothing because the government got a seizure order f
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Precicely. If they hadn't been squabling, and just agreed to each become multi-millionares, then the tip-off probably wouldn't have happened.
But no, they wanted to be twice as obcenely rich, and now end up with nothing.
There's a parable in there somewhere.
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Hogs get slaughtered
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I'm just thinking what if I had the choice of over a 10 year period (let's say) of investing 27.5 million and keeping the 27.5 and all the interest earned at the end of that period, or invest 55 million but only keep 27.5 million plus 50% of the interest earned at the end of that
I have a proposal. (Score:1)
give it to US citizens instead (Score:1, Interesting)
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You mean divided by 300,000,000 or even 299,360,879 which is the 2006 census of the USA (wikipedia source), or 18.3 cents for each citizen...
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S.
2 Wives??? (Score:3, Funny)
*sigh*Time to go make up with the missus, I guess.
Unfortunately for them... (Score:2)
WTF Nigeria (Score:2, Interesting)
My wife's is the second wife of a Nigerian university professor. She's been a Niger-o-phile since the mid-60's. She will be moving to Nigeria shortly to live full-time because, as she believes, Nigerians take care of their elderly, and that being a wife of a Nigerian will mean that she will have family to take care of her. Note: She spent most of her productive, read: reproductive, years marrying Nigerians so they could come to the U.S., so never really had a family of her own. Now she's exiting middle-age
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wtf? Then who are you? I hope you missed the word "sister" after "wife's", or something
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OOPS
Correction: My wife's sister.
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Are you the Nigerian university professor?
and the solution for spam is... (Score:1, Offtopic)
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1. Apple's Mail program, and I'd reckon most others, already ignore junk mail headers if the sender is in the address book. (This is of course configurable.)
2. It is hardly the solution to spam. I make use of this, and still get shedloads.
Reminds me of the story (Score:5, Interesting)
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Another link to the story (Score:1)
Where did he park his Rolls? (Score:2)
From TFA: The posthumous discovery of his second wife and fortune has shocked many of his friends and family.
He cannot have enjoyed his wealth too much, if his family didn't notice anything.
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Maybe he was saving up for a third
Oh, i just read (Score:1)
...the most sought-after parts of Lagos and Abuja (Score:1)
So we've got a Pentecostal minister who amassed an eight-figure fortune as (among other things) a corrupt electoral commission director. Now we know where Diebold got their inspiration.
Re:...the most sought-after parts of Lagos and Abu (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't understand why you find that funny. There are certainly parts of Lagos and Abuja which are desirable areas to live. I freqently stay in a 5 bedroom rented house in Victoria Island worth approximately NGN 150,000,000, or US$1.1m based on valuations a few years ago. I am sure it must be far higher than that now.
I wish you could see the people of Nigeria that people like this dead fool have taken advantage of. They work hard for a very small wage that ba
Irony, indeed (Score:2)
But the guy just died! I doubt he'd agree with that statement. From the 'oh-the-irony' department indeed.
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Nigerian Widows (Score:1)
Question (Score:2)
Weren't they supposed to be thown in the grave with him?
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wow 55 million (Score:2)
Is there anything that says this came from 419 scams? He could have been a drug lord, Mafia boss or something else too.
If this did all come from 419 scams then it just goes to show how many stupid people there are in the world. No wonder spam works.
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You're misreading the comments. Unless some 419 scammer is now laughing out loud for succesfully conning the Beeb and subsequently Hemos.
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Payback time! (Score:1)
Double standards [check] (Score:2)
Virtually demanding respect for the loss of 2,749 souls in the 9-11 attack, the world has been flooded with news and documentaries about the event for the last week and no doubt this will continue for another week or more. Is it really so difficult to show a little respect for the friends and families of Timothy Olufemi Akanni, regardless of what kind life
419 is a game . . . (Score:1)
This explains it. (Score:2)
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