Abidjan Cote dIvorie

I can't believe anyone actually falls for these scams, but they must, because several times a month I get various versions of the same swindle. This particular African email scam comes to us direct from Cote D'IVoire (Ivory Coast). I usually just delete these ridiculous letters, but this time, I thought I'd share one with you. Although the letter doesn't get into specifics, it basically works this way. You email the scamster. He emails you back and asks for your banking, social security number and other personal information. He also asks that you make a "small" deposit of several thousand dollars by certified check ... Read Full Story

Acknowledgements to Candace Feit for The New York Times Six-month-old Salam Oudrawogol of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, has been covered with sores since he was exposed to toxic waste in August. The Minton Report was commissioned by Trafigura to assess the damage caused by their waste discharge in Abidjan on August 19th 2006, and Trafigura's anxiety to suppress the report was the cause of the recent Carter-Fuckup, two days ago. I have spent half the morning trying to convert my .pdf copy of the Minton Report to go on this blog, without success. (Why can Blogspot not handle .pdf?) However, the report is now up ... Read Full Story

Just wanted everyone to know, they're still at it. This one really plies the morality angle, and I especially like the conspiratorial aspect of 'no phone calls. I'm surrounded.' ;-D)))) Anyway, this was in my Inbox this morning: -From Mrs Naomi SolmonN? [38 Rue Des Martyrs Cocody Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire ATTN:DEAREST ONE OF GOD I am the above named person from Kuwait . I am married to Mr Anthony Solomon who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2004. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that ... Read Full Story

I have just put up on my website a trial design to assess the causality of the illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Trafigura's toxic waste dumping. Read Full Story

POSSIBLE scammers could be now targetting social networking sites such as FACEBOOK to trick people into sending them money - or helping them enter the country. I just received this email in my FACEBOOK inbox today. It read: " Dearest One , REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY: Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I ... Read Full Story