{"id":322,"date":"2009-08-18T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/?p=322"},"modified":"2009-08-18T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T22:56:38","slug":"more-from-nigeria-this-time-its-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/08\/18\/more-from-nigeria-this-time-its-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Nigeria; This time it&#8217;s funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"\/christian\/2008\/10\/17\/ahh-i-love-these\/\">previously written about<\/a> scams originating from Nigeria, and how I&#8217;m amazed that these have enough of a success rate to prove to be profitable.<\/p>\n<p>In that post, I also pointed to a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"This American Life\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\">This American Life<\/a> podcast in which a few people who take it upon themselves to fight back were interviewed.\u00a0 I thought, as usual, that the interview was excellent and I was a little in awe at these people who spent so much of their own effort to throw the scammers off and waste their time.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-323\" title=\"bensmash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-content\/uploads\/bensmash.png\" alt=\"bensmash\" width=\"217\" height=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, in some random browsing a few months ago I stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensmash.net\/nigeria\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> from a former co-worker Ben.\u00a0 Ben is a pretty funny guy and this is right in line with his sense of humor.\u00a0 I absolutely love these.\u00a0 Way to go Ben.<\/p>\n<p>You really need to click through a few of these to fully appreciate the effort that Ben has gone into.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s well worth the time to read through these.\u00a0 It will be one of the funnier things you do this week, I guarantee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=c6b77505-4459-4930-9f80-551d8f5b1499\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously written about scams originating from Nigeria, and how I&#8217;m amazed that these have enough of a success rate to prove to be profitable. In that post, I also pointed to a This American Life podcast in which a few people who take it upon themselves to fight back were interviewed.\u00a0 I thought, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/2009\/08\/18\/more-from-nigeria-this-time-its-funny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More from Nigeria; This time it&#8217;s funny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-sites-fridays","category-life-and-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knuetter.com\/christian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}