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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by knodi123 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @10:57AM (#11909705)
There's one where they (possibly) managed to kill the scammer. Or at least convinced him to rent a car and drive to a war-torn muslim-majority country and carry a note into a bank that said, in arabic, "mohammed rapes underage dogs". There was a This American Life about it.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/363/e...

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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by King-Aaron on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:45AM (#11914641)
That was genuinely upsetting listening to how desperate the scammer was getting. These guys, sure, steal money. But... That's cruel and unusual, for any person.
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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by rpgmaker on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @12:31PM (#11910298)
A bit much, maybe?
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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by knodi123 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:14PM (#11911828)
Probably. That was certainly the tone the interviewer took in that radio show. That was my first time I've seen someone do something "for the lulz" and then be confronted by a rational adult and asked to discuss the consequences of their actions.

That's why the memory of the episode stayed with me for so long- that show is from 2008.

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Re:Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) by spraak on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:10PM (#11910911)
Way too much, definitely
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