BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula

Subject: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Jack Campin
Date: 13 May 16 - 05:35 PM

It had to happen. The first Nigerian spam in Gaelic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36286053

There has to be a song in that somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 May 16 - 01:02 PM

That's an absolute scream Jack! A Gaelic-speaking Nigerian scamming Benbecula!! Hahahahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Megan L
Date: 14 May 16 - 03:22 PM

Damb I must be tireder than I thought I read this as Nigella invades Benbecula

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 May 16 - 03:39 PM

Do you suppose that Nigerians get scam letters from Europe? I'm trying to turn this around by imagining a resident of Benbecula writing a scam e mail in Yoruba. Not very likely is it?!

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 May 16 - 07:35 PM

Dear Sir,

Forgive this unconventional approach, but I am a descendant of the Macdonald Lords of the Isles and I have inherited my clan's main fish farm, containing ten million salmon in a nearby sea loch. New laws from the Scottish Government have made it impossible for me to profit from it in the way my ancestors did. So I would like to move the fish to an overseas location. I am offering you a one-third share in the business if I can move them to your fish farm in Kano...

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 May 16 - 03:38 AM

Hahahaha Jack! That's brilliant!

But of course it should all be written in dodgy Yoruba, gleaned from Google Translate!

Actually, I can't imagine anyone on the entire planet would respond to the 419 scam any more. Surely it's so well-known by now they get no response. Why do they continue?

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Megan L
Date: 15 May 16 - 05:52 AM

Youraba speakers are safe bing translate does not cover them but we could try Kiswahili speakers :)

Dear Sir,


Kusamehe mwelekeo huu unconventional, lakini mimi ni uzao wa Mac Donald mabwana wa visiwa na mimi tumerithi ukoo wangu samaki kuu na shamba, zenye samaki milioni kumi katika loch karibu ya bahari. Sheria mpya kutoka serikali Scottish wamefanya ni vigumu kwangu faida kutoka katika njia ya mababu yangu alifanya. Hivyo ningependa Hamisha samaki katika mahali pa nje ya nchi. Mimi ni sadaka, na moja ya tatu kushiriki katika biashara kama mimi kuwaondoa katika shamba lako samaki katika Kano...

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 May 16 - 07:25 AM

WOW Megan, that's impressive!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Nigeria invades Benbecula
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 May 16 - 07:54 AM

Google Translate can do both Yoruba and Hausa (the latter was what I had in mind, Kano is in the northern Hausa-speaking desert region). In Hausa:

Dear Sir,

Ka gãfarta wannan unconventional m, kuma amma nĩ zuriyar da MacDonald Iyayengiji na Tsibirin kuma na gaji dangina ta main kifi gona, dauke da miliyan goma kifi a kusa teku Loch. New dokokin daga Scottish gwamnatin Mun sanya shi ba zai yiwu ba a gare ni in amfãne daga gare shi, a cikin hanyar ta kakanninsu suka yi. Sabõda haka na so don matsawa da kifi zuwa wani waje location. Ina miƙa ka a daya bisa uku rabo a cikin kasuwanci, idan zan iya motsa su to your kifi gona a Kano ...

I kinda doubt it's good enough to plunder many Nigerians of their fish.