"Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

re: "Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

gohai — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:07:00 GMT

I thought IKEA is from Sweden?

re: "Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

Raymond Chen — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:20:00 GMT

IKEA's spiritual home is Sweden, but its headquarters are in the Netherlands. Probably for tax reasons.

re: "Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

Ifeanyi Echeruo — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:35:00 GMT

Ohh the poor victims!!! All they ever wanted to do was aid in illegally exporting money from a third world country for a small cut. Just a little pre-tax income to get Jr. through college.

I get a little irked about the way the scam is portrayed. It makes sense when you realize that some guy wants to sell a story and needs victims or people would go... "what's the point?"

But honestly the only victim I see here is everyone else that gets to deal with the spam and a whole country whose ability to do business internationaly is damaged

Oh and yes I am Nigerian.

re: "Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

Augie — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:09:00 GMT

The Dutch-Sweden connection reminds me that Volvo (cars) has a factory in the Netherlands and another one in Belgium. In fact nowadays more Volvo cars are made outside of Sweden than inside. More useless trivia.

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Gareth's Weblog — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:19:00 GMT

I wish there was some way to regulate the internet. There needs to be some editing process. Maybe a tool that marks a webpage as has been edited or is full of bullshit. Take this article for example. It talks...

re: "Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

DotFrandsen — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:44:00 GMT

Can someone explain to me why Americans keep interchanging Denmark and Holland?

Okay, so you're not experts on European geography? That's okay, I can't tell you the name of the capital city of North Dakota.

But it's always Denmark and Holland. Never Denmark and Latvia, Denmark and Austria or even Denmark and Belgium.

In fact, I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation:

- Where are you from Sir?
- Denmark.
- Ohh, So then you speak Dutch!
- No, I speak Danish.

And this is where the funny guys go:

- Danish? Ain't that something you eat?

re: "Section 419" scammers arrested in Netherlands; Danish flag flies proudly

Raymond Chen — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:26:00 GMT

For me, it's strictly due to the similar names. I should know better. (I've heard some people confuse Austria and Australia.)

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Raymond Chen — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:42:00 GMT

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Spammers look stupid when they don't read the blog they spam on

The Old New Thing — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:51:00 GMT

Nigerian 419 spam via the contact form.