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Irish pubs are not completely without hope; Guinness could be shipped in from England or any of the other 49 countries that produce it, including Nigeria and El Salvador. But despite the earnest statement on the company’s website that “These days everything about an Irish and a G.B. pint of Guinness draught are the same,” few of the faithful truly believe it. There’s something in the water from the Wicklow mountains, the Irish-grown barley or the Kilkenny hops...
...mails-supposedly from a high Nigerian official-ask for students' help in laundering $21.5 million out of Nigeria and into a U.S. bank account, offering students a cut of the money in return...
...scam, which is dragged out over several months, asks the recipient to pay assorted fees, supposedly to help cover the banking transaction and legal costs. Eventually, the victim is asked to travel to Nigeria or a nearby country to complete the transaction...
Following through on the scheme can be hazardous. Scambusters.org, an Internet watchdog group, says that an American was murdered in Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing a 4-1-9 scam. U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reports show that another victim was confronted by two Nigerians with automatic weapons, and was forced to turn over $4,000 in traveler's checks before receiving permission to leave the country. Another victim lost over $400,000 before reporting the fraud...
Eight out of 10 bags of mail received from Nigeria contain fraudulent letters, Frank Umoski, the USPS operations manager at JFK Airport, said in a press release...