African Expressive Cultures : African Appropriations : Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media
206 african appropriations substantive inconsistencies (Blommaert and Omoniyi 2006). The style and usage in others would suggest ...
Master and Mugu 207 Despite the growing attention attracted by and knowledge of Nigeria- related advance-fee fraud in the Global ...
208 african appropriations MIMICRY AND OTHER SCAMMING STRATEGIES According to Nigerian popular belief, it is the lure of easy mo ...
Master and Mugu 209 Hence, a number of emails depict Africa as a place where strange cus- toms abound; for example, this is an e ...
210 african appropriations the dead expatriates referred to in the next-of-kin format worked in the gold trade or oil business, ...
Master and Mugu 211 scam legends. Thus, Sgt. James Herron, who is “an American military soldier, serving in the military with th ...
212 african appropriations business proceedings. One author observes that “419 is a business where t he power f u l i n fluence ...
Master and Mugu 213 the correct fax number of my client, I faxed the format to the Russian client that the Nigerian National Pet ...
214 african appropriations of confidence tricks based on face-to-face communication and persuasive strategies that, though less ...
Master and Mugu 215 into such local forms of trick-based fraud. This is the case, in particular, when scammers who operate trans ...
216 african appropriations ver y e x pensive. The fi rst pay ment must be made i m med iately. Mea nwh i le, the fraudsters deli ...
Master and Mugu 217 Apparently, this trick also exploits local conceptions about the techni- cal prowess of Europeans and the su ...
218 african appropriations money. These are shown to the victims but cannot be touched by them (a nd l i ke sack s of second ha ...
Master and Mugu 219 their position vis-à-vis their competitors, but the promised service—for example, mediation between supplica ...
220 african appropriations W hen Oyinbo play wayo / dey go say na new style / W hen country man do him own / them go dey shout: ...
Master and Mugu 221 date of going to Lagos to hook me up with these guys. (personal interview, February 24, 2008) Some scammers ...
222 african appropriations the so called Industrialised Nations to accept debt repayments instead of insisting on debt servicing ...
Master and Mugu 223 allusions to the lifestyle of the Yahoo Boys. “The song is fast becoming a national anthem of sorts among yo ...
224 african appropriations this momentum more than a decade ago when he stated that “informal and illicit trade, financial fraud ...
Master and Mugu 225 radical honesty offered the only currency with which I could prosper in a context ridden with fraud and lies ...
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