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**legoburner**

Recently, a fair number of users have received some PM spam. Dakka is not branching out into Nigerian cocoa farming (this year anyway), and the abusive user responsible has been banned. Changes to the PM system will be coming shortly to prevent this from being able to happen again and apologies to anyone who got the PM.

**H.B.M.C.**

Wait... so that... that was a scam?

Oh God!

I sold them my mother! What's my father going to say?

BYE

**legoburner**

H.B.M.C. wrote:I sold them my mother! What's my father going to say?

BYE

is the answer in the question?

**Balance**

And I was so looking forward to getting a owner's discount on sweet, delicious cocoa.

**bugswarm**

Actually, I am a business partner of that enterprise, and I can assure you it's valid. We are also looking into expanding into the penis enhancement business.

**Kid_Kyoto**

It was Malfred wasn't it? All this time he's been lulling us into a false sense of security...

So no one feels left out:

From James Daku
Abidjan Cote'd Ivoire
Email james0daku@yahoo.co.jp

Dear

Permit me to inform you about my desire to go into business relationship with you.

I am James Daku the only son of Mr and Mrs. Micheal Daku, my father was a very rich cocoa merchant, based in Abidjan, the economic capital of ivory coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings to discuss on a business deal.

When my mother died on my father took me so special since i am motherless. Before the death of my father in a private hospital where he was admitted, he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of us$10,500,000 (ten million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in Abidjan cote D'ivoire.

That he used my name James Daku as the next of kin in deposit of the fund he also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that i should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i would transfer this money and use it for an investment purpose, such as: real estate investment or stock market investment .I am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.

(1)to provide a bank account where this money will be transferred to.

(2)to serve as the guardian of these fund,since I am a boy of 22 years old.

(3)to make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational Career and to procure me a residential permit in your country.

I am inclined to offer you 15% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your efforts after the transfering of these fund to your account in your country.please, i will be very happy if this tansaction will be concluded within seven (7) working days from now. I am expecting hearing from you as soon as possible
.
N.B: I will like you to give me your direct telephone and fax number in your reply of this proposal, write me to my private email address (james0daku@yahoo.co.jp) for more details.

May almighty god bless you as you do care for an orphan like me.anticipating to hear from you.

Best regards
James Daku

**Kid_Kyoto**

HEY! Bugswarm's back!

This calls for something special!

**Frazzled**

Excellent. I recevied one as well. Frankly I'm tired of being left out of all the cool insider trading that goes on. I want to be rich too!!!

**malfred**

Too late. I gave him my social security number AND I
sent him my debit card with the PIN attached so take that.

**Wehrkind**

Because nothing says "You need to get in on this" like "poisoned to death".

**Kid_Kyoto**

y'know I didn't even notice the Japan email address the first time.

**oomiestompa**

Are 22 year olds not allowed to have $10mil in Abidjan?

**stjohn70**

Man, always the bridesmaid...

I didn't get one.

**Ozymandias**

Daku kinda sounds like Dakka?

I definitely want to bin on a business deal where the last guy was poisoned.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

**Foda_Bett**

From James Daku
Abidjan Cote'd Ivoire
my father took me so special since i am motherless. he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that i will be very happy.

Uhh... thats a little weird.

**Hordini**

bugswarm wrote:We are also looking into expanding into the penis enhancement business.

Penis enhancement! You can expect a PM from me soon!

P.S. - I'm kidding.

**Ozymandias**

Sure you are.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

**stonefox**

Foda_Bett wrote:
From James Daku
Abidjan Cote'd Ivoire
my father took me so special since i am motherless. he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that i will be very happy.

Uhh... thats a little weird.

Only a true dakkite would appreciate the significance of a father-son bedside ritual.

**JohnHwangDD**

You know, what with all the e-peen issues common to wargamers, you'd think the spam would be for some male "enhancement" product...

**Gareth_Hreidmar**

Wow its like the nigerian prince scam only this time he's in the coco business...man he has his grubby little paws into everything these days :p

**Phryxis**

Isn't 22 pretty much middle aged in the Ivory Coast? Certainly not a "poor orphan boy." Hell, they put them in the army at 8 over there.

From wikipedia: Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."

So, chew on that for a second. This scam is one of their MOST IMPORTANT EXPORTS.

This is a country so totally pitiable that one of its most productive export is TRANSPARENT DECEPTION.

**Orlanth**

stonefox wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:
From James Daku
Abidjan Cote'd Ivoire
my father took me so special since i am motherless. he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that i will be very happy.

Uhh... thats a little weird.

Only a true dakkite would appreciate the significance of a father-son bedside ritual.

I was more worried if GW might hire him to write the next codex.

**Orlanth**

Phryxis wrote:Isn't 22 pretty much middle aged in the Ivory Coast? Certainly not a "poor orphan boy." Hell, they put them in the army at 8 over there.

From wikipedia: Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."

So, chew on that for a second. This scam is one of their MOST IMPORTANT EXPORTS.

This is a country so totally pitiable that one of its most productive export is TRANSPARENT DECEPTION.

Isnt it an import industry. After all it yields externally sourced resources for no outlay.

**tegeus-Cromis**

Phryxis, I'm not sure how insulting an entire nation is helpful or necessary.

It's also really funny that you talk about exporting transparent deception. Looking at your flag, so many cheap shots suggest themselves. Lucky for you most people don't judge nations by the actions of their scum.

**MinMax**

Phryxis wrote:From wikipedia

Then it must be true!

**skavenfreak**

Tegeus, that was damn funny. And to help prove your point, I doubt many people in the U.S. can identify YOUR flag without aid from the all powerful "WIKI"

**Phryxis**

Phryxis, I'm not sure how insulting an entire nation is helpful or necessary.

Because it's literally amazing to think about how prominent the 419 scam is in Nigerian economy. If you choose to get defensive about it, that's your call.

I don't it's inaccurate to say that Nigeria is a pitiable country. You seem to think I'm demonizing them, suggesting they're "scum." Generally pity isn't directed those one views as evil.

Lucky for you most people don't judge nations by the actions of their scum.

You mean besides yourself?

After all, the US is, among many positive and negative traits, the worlds largest donor of foreign aid. The fact that the American flag immediately makes you think of scum, as opposed to the positive things America does, suggest that your perspective has a negative bias.

Plus, I'm not judging Nigeria on the "actions of their scum." When the "action of their scum" are one of the primary sources of income to the nation, that isn't just a commentary on the "scum" but on the lack of other sources of income, scummy or otherwise, and thus the unfortunate state of their entire nation.

Ultimately I find hating on the US to be infantile and unprofitable. We all want the best for the world. To spend time crafting cartoonish and inaccurate carricatures of the most powerful nation in the world isn't a path to that goal, it's just haterism.

Then it must be true!

No, then it must be from wikipedia. That's why I say "from Wikipeida." So you know it's from Wikipedia. And not, for example, the mouth of God, or my imagination.

**skavenfreak**

Haterism... Can I have permission to use that word on a regular basis? I just really like it.
-Skavenfreak

**Phryxis**

Haterism... Can I have permission to use that word on a regular basis? I just really like it.

Given how rampant haterism is, you not only can use it regularly, but you should.

**Bahkara**

I prefer Hatorade(tm) to Haterism.