The Knight Life by Keith Knight for September 20, 2023
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Transcript:
Clovis: I need your rent for the month!! Gunther: Let me check my account!! This complete stranger is supposed to transfer 4.5 million US dollars into my account very soon!! Clovis: they wouldn't happen to be from Nigeria would they? Gunther: OMG!! did you get that email too?
Before the Internet became common, my company received a snail mail letter, allegedly from an executive of the Nigerian oil monopoly, asking my help in transferring some ill-gotten money out of Nigeria, with a percentage payoff to me. I called the RCMP (“the Mounties”) Commercial Crimes section to report it:
“I got this letter from Nigeria.” “We advise you not to respond to it.”
“Would you like it for your files?” “No thanks, we have lots of them.”
“Perhaps you’d like to pass it on the Nigerian police?” “Nah, they’re probably in on it.”