I have an obviously false assumption that anyone who accumulates some cash must have a reasonable degree of common sense. Take Khun Nid for example. The owner of a dive shop and able to lay her hands on half a million baht.
Khun Nid meets an African gentleman in Kon Kaen. He tells her he is from Cameroon and has left his country to escape the war (early hint that maybe something is wrong, there is no war in Cameroon). He has a bag full of banknote sized black paper which he assures Khun Nid can be turned into US currency. Only problem is that the chemicals required to do the job have to be obtained from a source at the US Embassy (which, as we all know, has a little shop selling counterfeiting supplies in the main compound). And he needs to borrow half a million baht from Khun Nid to buy these chemicals. Once the chemicals have been purchased, he will treat the paper which will turn into money, and Khun Nid will get a million baht’s worth of dollars for her trouble. What a sweet deal! What idiot would believe this.
Khun Nid did; any common sense being clouded by an overwhelming sense of greed, she hands over the cash.
At this point Cameroonian gentleman should have disappeared, but his common sense was also clouded by an overwhelming sense of greed. So he pops up again in Pattaya, telling Khun Nid that he needs an extra million baht to buy more chemicals. For assurance he show the black paper covered in white powder (no doubt Johnson’s baby powder, accept no substitutes for the purposes of alchemy), assuring her that the process is already under way.
Finally, Khun Nid calls the police. It is unlikely that she will see a return on her initial “investment”.
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2009-05-23| Pete - FrogBlogger saysNah… don’t believe a word of it. surely no one is that daft. Well, apart from Americans. Unbelievable!!
2009-05-23| The Ghost sayswhich dive shop? Have a name?
2009-05-24| Afrika saysYou seem to capitalize more on the “foolishness” of this woman and less on the disgusting scamming tradition which is becoming rampant in Cameroon. I am a Cameroonian and it saddens me that some evil individuals are tarnishing the image of Cameroonians and Africans abroad.
2009-05-24| Spike saysGhost, I tired googling and came up with nothing.
Afrika, I have more respect for the person doing the scamming than the idiots whose greed allows them to fall for these tricks. This is the first example I have heard from Cameroon, Nigeria is still the world leader in this area.
2009-05-25| todd saysis this for real?
2009-05-25| Spike saysWould I lie to you? Well yes, of course I would. But this is real. Wanna buy a magic stone?
2009-05-25| Billy saysAnd I have a very big bridge in the Bay area I could let you have real cheap …..