Comments on: Njei Moses Timah fights dog fraud in Cameroon

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By: FABOULOUS J

FABOULOUS J — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:02:19 +0000

I WISH TO TELL MY FELLOW CAMEROONIANS OF THE RISK INVOLVED IN SCAMMING.THEY SHOULD KNOWN THAT IT INVOLVES WITCHCRAFT.AM SPEAKING OUT OF EXPIRIENCE.

By: Sam Kuper

Sam Kuper — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:51:37 +0000

The dog fraud issue reminds me, of course, of The Good Soldier Sjvek. If you haven’t read it, you probably should :)

By: Random African

Random African — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:57:10 +0000

Oh I understand his point and I think he’s right. After all, contrary to the usual “help me siphon away stolen money” or “let me show you how to make fake real dollars” scams, the dog thing involves a legal and legitimate trade and the damage made to the reputation of Cameroon will be even worse.

I’m just amused by the online bias Feymans have been running scams all around the world and sold fake high-return investments in plantations, gold mines, or industries long before there was a .cm domain. But it was offline, therefore, it didn’t exist.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:05:45 +0000

I think his point, Random, is that it’s going to be very hard for Cameroon to engage in legitimate trade online with such a poor reputation. In the same way that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala aggresively went after 419 in the hopes of improving Nigeria’s image online and the national economy, I think Njei is trying to start a grassroots movement around this issue. Will it work? Hard to say, but admirable neverthless.

By: Random African

Random African — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:55:39 +0000

“A proud Cameroonian, he’s upset that Cameroon’s online reputation may be compromised in the same way that Nigeria’s has been. ”

This is funny because anyone in Cameroon knows that Cameroonians have been very active in the scamming business and that they’re less exposed than Nigerians because they’ve been concentrating on often successfull bigger bolder offline scams.