[ExI] could a Nigerian (Nigerian - it's a nation) theoretically give away money?

[Kelly Anderson]

2011/12/26 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
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> On Behalf Of Kellycoinguy
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] could a Nigerian (Nigerian - it's a nation) theoretically
> give away money?
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>>…You would likely create more of the effect you are looking for by giving
>> away lots of ten thousand dollar awards than one big one. After all the
>> lottery doesn't just give the one big award.... But also many smaller ones.
>>  I'm sure this is based on human psychology…  Kelly
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> Again I disagree.  The point would be to make the phony spam true, lie by
> telling the truth when everyone expects a lie.  The phony spam would be
> designed to resemble the tons of true Nigerian spam, all of which are lies.
> In this case the lying truth teller would specifically design the true offer
> of a pile of cash to resemble the existing spam.  So it would perhaps offer
> an absurdly specific sum of money, say 1,405,000 US dollars, usually with
> the wording of the amount spelled out.  Check your spam folder for examples.

You are assuming that the current Nigerian meme would not morph to
follow the form of the real money being available...

> The point is not to give away money, but rather you give away money in order
> to lend one in a million credibility to the piles of Nigerian million dollar
> offer spam.

I get it, and it's brilliant! However, it would be even more brilliant
if it fractured the meme of the current Nigerian SPAM into a dozen
schisms that more people would fall for. One person who would not fall
for a million dollar scam might fall for a $500 scam, because it no
longer sounds too good to be true.

> Giving away money is the cost of creating credibility, which
> then perhaps results in the greedy rich Americans handing over their banking
> info, resulting in thieving Nigerians raiding those bank accounts and the
> money ending up in Nigeria where it is desperately needed, supplied
> willingly by the gullible and well endowed.  After the offer is found to be
> a phony spam (in that it was absolutely true, face value) then millions of
> Americans search their spam folders and find that they too received the
> offer, perhaps weeks before, and had ignored it, or that their spam filters
> had done what spam filters do, resulting in their loss of a fortune from the
> one in a billion truth telling spammer.
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> The truthing spammer is of course lying, because we know that all Nigerian
> offer spam is a lie.  The Nigerian philanthropist is also an indirect thief,
> for SHE KNOWS that we know that ALL Nigerian offer spam is a lie, so SHE
> KNOWS that if she lends it ANY credibility by her lying act of TELLING THE
> TRUTH while Nigerian, she traps greedy rich Americans, helpless before their
> own greed, into handing over their banking info to the usual Nigerians who
> then raid those bank accounts, the way everyone knows all Nigerian spammers
> do.
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> It isn’t clear what legal principle is broken, but it should be illegal for
> any Nigerian spammer to really offer actual money.

As a fellow libertarian, I blush at this suggestion... LOL

-Kelly