Cracking down on cybercrime in Ivory Coast - (Right!)

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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:49 pm

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Abidjan, Ivory Coast - At 6:30am more than 20 men aged between 14 and 28 - mostly school dropouts - gathered in front of the metal door of a street-side shop waiting for it to open.

After a few minutes, a weary fellow in his late 30s trudged down holding a thick bunch of brass keys and undid the padlocks, ignoring taunts about his hangover from the crowd behind him. When he pulled the door open, the men surged inside to snaffle the few desktop computers. ......

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/cracking-down-cybercrime-ivory-coast-20148279503515697.html

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:49 pm

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"Cybercrime in Africa is not really a crime, it is known as colonial debt. The Whites are paying us what they stole from our forefathers and what they continue to steal from our rich soil," a 25-year-old cybercriminal boldly says.....

Ahh. So 419 is in fact all Whitey's fault. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:04 pm

The old lie again. I don't think I've ever actually asked a scammer what colour he was. I don't imagine they ask either as long as they expect a payday. Truth be told, neither of us care.
People are very good at making excuses to themselves.

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:36 pm

Over the years I;ve straight baited as if I'm from every continent on the Globe .... even from the same city as the Lad I was baiting ... (I might as well been his next door neighbour).

didn't seem to stop any of them batting an eyelid -- they still wanted my money !

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:55 pm

On the one hand, fragments of the article:

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many locals feel victims are only people from the West, but our 2013 report shows that Ivorians are increasingly becoming victims.

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Nearly half of the victims were conned in romance scams, according to the police report, while phishing scams represented 10 percent, and identity fraud seven percent.

On the other hand, fragments of comments to the article:

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I think it's better to scam than to join terrorist group or suicide bombers

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As long as internet lives mugu must continue paying until your governments provide equal rights and justice for all. Hold your governments responsible for any fraudulent act because man must survive!

Mentality change the hardest. It is easier to blame others instead of doing something to make a real change...

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:02 pm

It was interesting reading.

Master Baiter Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 206

Some of the people in the comments are just stupid.

Theft is theft.

Stealing from innocent internet users is no way compensation for whatever atrocities happened in the past!

God people sicken me.

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:47 am

There is a post around here, forget who wrote it, but I think it's in the "Ethics of Scambaiting" thread. Talks about how Africans were in fact complicit and even part of the selling of slaves. I will see if I can find the post.

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:53 am

I would link to it, but I don't know how to link a post. (it's post #654146)

It's in the [urlhttp://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32877]Ethics in Scambaiting[/url] thread. Second post by Old Coaster.

can someone show me the code for linking to a post?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 5:29 am

^^^ This post http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=654170#654170 covers the slave trade, the one you mentioned covers the GDP of various countries.

To link to it, right-click on the

icon and copy the URL it links to ("Copy Shortcut" on IE and "Copy link address" on chrome) and you can then paste it between url tags.