NEW YORK - A Nigerian man has been charged with trying to swindle nearly $27 million from a Citibank account in New York held by Ethiopia's central bank.
You're kidding me, right? I mean you have to have the I.Q. of a fcuking juicebox to not know this. C'mon, my daughter's five and even she rolls her eyes when we get spam from some financial officer at an unheard of African bank promising us our soon-to-be released millions just as soon as we send him our bank account information.
And you're telling me that Citibank fell for this?
Man, how desperate is the US banking industry? What's next, the CEO of Skank Of America hoping his Lotto 649 ticket hits so he can increase credit lines?
Dude, read the fcuking memo--the words "Ethiopian" and "Bank" in even remotely the same sentence are about as legit as "Paris Hilton" and "Singing Career", "Pamela Anderson" and "Natural","Olsen Twins" and "Solid Food", "Amy Winehouse" and "Sober" or "Ryan Seacrest" and "Girlfriend".
Worse, who had to admit they were getting scammed by a con even third graders know is like, completely bogus? I would've hated to be the exec at that meeting:
"Um, we've suffered another setback...".
"What is it Wilson, are the Markets down another two hundred points?".
"Um, well, uh, no....".
"The Feds won't lower the prime rate?".
"Yeah uh, no. I uh, transferred some money. To my uncle. In Ethiopia".
Followed by the deafening roar of silence.
Ohhhhh, man. That is just ugly.
Great. Our banking system is attempting to rebuild our financial infrastructure by falling for internet scams.
I am so psyched as our leading corporate entities try and steer us out of the disaster they've created by relying next on the advice from The Magic Eight Ball, Rock, Paper, Scissors and that most sagacious of all founts of wisdom...
..."Dear Abby, recently the CEO of our bank decided to cut the prime lending rate...".
