{"id":421,"date":"2002-05-06T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2002-05-06T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/05\/06\/421.html"},"modified":"2002-05-06T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2002-05-06T20:13:49","slug":"nigerian-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/05\/06\/nigerian-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been getting an awful lot of Nigerian scam spam email lately, with a surprising number of variants, but most of the general form \"I have access to a lot of money, and if you help me get that money out of Nigeria, you can have some of it.\"  I've known this was a scam for years, ever since the first time I got a handwritten letter via international postal mail from Nigeria, but I always figured it was like Make Money Fast, the sort of thing that an individual scam artist learns about and decides to try for themselves.  Turns out that no, it's a major industy (some unconfirmed online sources say it's anywhere from the fifth- to the third-largest industry in Nigeria), and there are dozens of variations.  The U.S. State Dept.<\/a> provides a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treas.gov\/usss\/financial_crimes.shtml#Nigerian\">info about Nigerian scams<\/a>, and there are some entertaining sites where people are posting their email correspondence with the scammers.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting an awful lot of Nigerian scam spam email lately, with a surprising number of variants, but most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}