Nigerian Accused in Scheme to Swindle Citibank

[Bob Juch]

Swindles in which someone overseas seeks access to a person’s bank account are so well known that most potential victims can spot them in seconds.

But one man found success by tweaking the formula, prosecutors say: Rather than trying to dupe an account holder into giving up information, he duped the bank. And instead of swindling a person, he tried to rob a country — of $27 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyreg ... ml?_r=1&hp

[gsabc]

As an aunt of mine used to say, "If you're gonna wish, wish big."

[NellyLunatic1980]

As an aunt of mine used to say, "If you're gonna wish, wish big."

I think MM Nigerian Penis Pills also said that.

[ghostjmf]

The title on this inspired a "what huh". But I see now it is rightly more "man bites dog" than "dog bites man".

[littlebeast13]

Speaking of Nigerian scams, we had 5 more attempted spam registrations just since yesterday morning that got caught up in our filter... that after 3 the day before.

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

lb13

[Clem's Groupies]

Speaking of Nigerian scams, we had 5 more attempted spam registrations just since yesterday morning that got caught up in our filter... that after 3 the day before.

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

lb13

It's a good thing you let US in, or we would have beaten down the gates to get closer to CLEM!!!!!

[littlebeast13]

Speaking of Nigerian scams, we had 5 more attempted spam registrations just since yesterday morning that got caught up in our filter... that after 3 the day before.

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

lb13

It's a good thing you let US in, or we would have beaten down the gates to get closer to CLEM!!!!!

I believe you got in under the "sleeping with an administrator" clause.....

lb13

[Chukwuma Charles Soludo]

I am shocked by this turn of events! Shocked, I say!

[NellyLunatic1980]

Speaking of Nigerian scams, we had 5 more attempted spam registrations just since yesterday morning that got caught up in our filter... that after 3 the day before.

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

lb13

It's a good thing you let US in, or we would have beaten down the gates to get closer to CLEM!!!!!

I believe you got in under the "sleeping with an administrator" clause.....

lb13

They've been spleeping with Eyegor?

[Clem's Groupies]

It's a good thing you let US in, or we would have beaten down the gates to get closer to CLEM!!!!!

I believe you got in under the "sleeping with an administrator" clause.....

lb13

They've been spleeping with Eyegor?

We are totally faithful to clem! But sometimes we have to do ANYthing to get near him...

[ghostjmf]

lb says:

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

If it means your best-buds can't change their name every time they want to say some new thing scummy, it will almost be worth the loss of free will, etc.

Ah.

I see (view lastest cowardly-poster post) it doesn't mean that after all.

[littlebeast13]

lb says:

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

If it means your best-buds can't change their name every time they want to say some new thing scummy, it will almost be worth the loss of free will, etc.

Ah.

I see (view lastest cowardly-poster post) it doesn't mean that after all.

You know, it only takes at most a minute or two to actually do a little thinking before you just hit the submit button on whatever string of words come out of your fingers as you furiously type on your Rich U issue keyboard.....

lb13

[earendel]

It's a good thing you let US in, or we would have beaten down the gates to get closer to CLEM!!!!!

I believe you got in under the "sleeping with an administrator" clause.....

lb13

They've been spleeping with Eyegor?

Spleeping????

[minimetoo26]

I believe you got in under the "sleeping with an administrator" clause.....

lb13

They've been spleeping with Eyegor?

Spleeping????

That would make total sense--they met him at ESST....

[ghostjmf]

lb says:

You know, it only takes at most a minute or two to actually do a little thinking before you just hit the submit button on whatever string of words come out of your fingers as you furiously type on your Rich U issue keyboard.....

You might want to look at the paygrades here. At my level, while I'll bet they're better than at Walmart, because we do have a union, they're not all that much better.

The keyboard is an IBM whatever, hooked up to an IBM ThinkCentre box, hooked up to a ThinkVision screen, about 13". And all at least 3 years old. They're supposed to give us new ones every 3 years, but somehow this year I don't think that's going to happen. They'll just replace them as they crash, like the very recent "old days".

Meanwhile, people on this board are allowed to change their names at whim, without even "Merry Man", whatever that's supposed to mean, attached to them. But only if you're cozy with them.


So, basically, the rest of us can assume that

(a) All "Merry Men" are buds of a board "authority figure"

&

(b) people who change their name, but don't even get labelled "Merry Men" when they do it, are very special buds of a board "authority figure".

I don't know what makes some jerk too cowardly to use their consistant board name on all their comments any more special than someone trying to sell something, but I guess you do.

[littlebeast13]

lb says:

You know, it only takes at most a minute or two to actually do a little thinking before you just hit the submit button on whatever string of words come out of your fingers as you furiously type on your Rich U issue keyboard.....

You might want to look at the paygrades here. At my level, while I'll bet they're better than at Walmart, because we do have a union, they're not all that much better.

The keyboard is an IBM whatever, hooked up to an IBM ThinkCentre box, hooked up to a ThinkVision screen, about 13". And all at least 3 years old. They're supposed to give us new ones every 3 years, but somehow this year I don't think that's going to happen. They'll just replace them as they crash, like the very recent "old days".

Meanwhile, people on this board are allowed to change their names at whim, without even "Merry Man", whatever that's supposed to mean, attached to them. But only if you're cozy with them.


So, basically, the rest of us can assume that

(a) All "Merry Men" are buds of a board "authority figure"

&

(b) people who change their name, but don't even get labelled "Merry Men" when they do it, are very special buds of a board "authority figure".

I don't know what makes some jerk too cowardly to use their consistant board name on all their comments any more special than someone trying to sell something, but I guess you do.

You have been on this Bored for 9 years and have no idea what a Merry Man is.....

And again, you show a lack of ability to pay attention to just about anything going on around here....

It's a good thing you are my "special bud", or I'd probably have to designate you a Merry Man, because you sure do seem to post like one sometimes....

lb13

[minimetoo26]

lb says:

You know, it only takes at most a minute or two to actually do a little thinking before you just hit the submit button on whatever string of words come out of your fingers as you furiously type on your Rich U issue keyboard.....

You might want to look at the paygrades here. At my level, while I'll bet they're better than at Walmart, because we do have a union, they're not all that much better.

The keyboard is an IBM whatever, hooked up to an IBM ThinkCentre box, hooked up to a ThinkVision screen, about 13". And all at least 3 years old. They're supposed to give us new ones every 3 years, but somehow this year I don't think that's going to happen. They'll just replace them as they crash, like the very recent "old days".

Meanwhile, people on this board are allowed to change their names at whim, without even "Merry Man", whatever that's supposed to mean, attached to them. But only if you're cozy with them.


So, basically, the rest of us can assume that

(a) All "Merry Men" are buds of a board "authority figure"

&

(b) people who change their name, but don't even get labelled "Merry Men" when they do it, are very special buds of a board "authority figure".

I don't know what makes some jerk too cowardly to use their consistant board name on all their comments any more special than someone trying to sell something, but I guess you do.

My MM are just costumes I change. I come here to goof around and be silly and forget about wiping butts and washing laundry for a few hours. A bunch of them have my "real" name in them. They are not used to hide how I really feel. I really DO love clem, but not as much as clem loves clem , so he gets groupies to rib him.

YOU can make MM any time you like! You don't have to be buds with anyone. Fanny changes her screen name, which isn't an MM, but she also makes MM.

[ghostjmf]

mimimetoo 26 says:

My MM are just costumes I change. I come here to goof around and be silly and forget about wiping butts and washing laundry for a few hours. A bunch of them have my "real" name in them. They are not used to hide how I really feel. I really DO love clem, but not as much as clem loves clem , so he gets groupies to rib him.

YOU can make MM any time you like! You don't have to be buds with anyone. Fanny changes her screen name, which isn't an MM, but she also makes MM.

There are cute, funny, silly MMs as per above.

And then there are nasty, spiteful jerky MMs used by people who want to hide their usual ID.
Which are which are pretty obvious. Somehow, I generally don't get nasty, spiteful jerky comments aimed at me by the cute, funny silly MMs, just the other group.

And then there are nasty, spiteful jerky messages from people who change their usual ID conveniently to some new, equally temporary usual ID when they feel like sending one.

I am somehow sure that if I signed off as me, which I believe I'd have to do to create a new ID under which to post from the same computer address, that's the last you'd ever see of me in any ID. I am somehow too ornery to do that.

[ulysses5019]

lb says:

You know, it only takes at most a minute or two to actually do a little thinking before you just hit the submit button on whatever string of words come out of your fingers as you furiously type on your Rich U issue keyboard.....

You might want to look at the paygrades here. At my level, while I'll bet they're better than at Walmart, because we do have a union, they're not all that much better.

The keyboard is an IBM whatever, hooked up to an IBM ThinkCentre box, hooked up to a ThinkVision screen, about 13". And all at least 3 years old. They're supposed to give us new ones every 3 years, but somehow this year I don't think that's going to happen. They'll just replace them as they crash, like the very recent "old days".

Meanwhile, people on this board are allowed to change their names at whim, without even "Merry Man", whatever that's supposed to mean, attached to them. But only if you're cozy with them.


So, basically, the rest of us can assume that

(a) All "Merry Men" are buds of a board "authority figure"

&

(b) people who change their name, but don't even get labelled "Merry Men" when they do it, are very special buds of a board "authority figure".

I don't know what makes some jerk too cowardly to use their consistant board name on all their comments any more special than someone trying to sell something, but I guess you do.

You have been on this Bored for 9 years and have no idea what a Merry Man is.....

And again, you show a lack of ability to pay attention to just about anything going on around here....

It's a good thing you are my "special bud", or I'd probably have to designate you a Merry Man, because you sure do seem to post like one sometimes....

lb13

Just don't change your non-existent avatar policy. Otherwise I'll have to sleep with an MM, or worse yet, one of clem's groupies.

[MarleysGh0st]

I am somehow sure that if I signed off as me, which I believe I'd have to do to create a new ID under which to post from the same computer address, that's the last you'd ever see of me in any ID. I am somehow too ornery to do that.

Meaning what? That you're suspicious that a moderator would take advantage of the opportunity to block you from ever logging in again?

Even if you believe a moderator would want to do that, we just recently had a lengthy debate about moderators editing others' posts. Deliberately blocking a long-time BB's account would bring a firestorm of protest. And that would include protests from many who you presume don't like you.

[ghostjmf]

Marley says:

Meaning what? That you're suspicious that a moderator would take advantage of the opportunity to block you from ever logging in again?

Even if you believe a moderator would want to do that, we just recently had a lengthy debate about moderators editing others' posts. Deliberately blocking a long-time BB's account would bring a firestorm of protest. And that would include protests from many who you presume don't like you.

A lot of real jerks would I'm sure "join" such a protest, thinking it would make them "look good" to whomever they wanted to "look good". G-d! that's too many quote marks.

At any rate, its not about liking or not-liking. When the board was an abc board, presumably abc could shut the whole thing down whenever they wanted to, for whatever reason. Once abc did shut the whole thing down (largely out of boredom, or maybe board-om, with the show) & it became a private club, it has to go by private-club rules.

And those rules can change, depending on who's holding the bag/minding the store at the private club.

[peacock2121]

lb says:

It's safe to say that our tightened down registration mode is gonna have to stay as such for a while longer, if not permanently....

If it means your best-buds can't change their name every time they want to say some new thing scummy, it will almost be worth the loss of free will, etc.

Ah.

I see (view lastest cowardly-poster post) it doesn't mean that after all.

You know, it only takes at most a minute or two to actually do a little thinking before you just hit the submit button on whatever string of words come out of your fingers as you furiously type on your Rich U issue keyboard.....

lb13

Thanks, fanny. I missed this one before.

Way to go lb! You are a bold studmuffin!

[silverscreenselect]

I have enough trouble registering as myself, and I still haven't figured out how to use an avatar.

If I tried to set up a MM, I'd get lost in the cyberether forever.