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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Probably because international legal accords between Nigeria and the rest of the world don't hold up well. When world accords define certain actions as, say, fraud, Nigerian state acknowledges the problem, but when it happens, Nigeria does not often enforce its own laws.

The effect of this is to chill opinion, and especially trust, of Nigerian legal and ethical applications. 419 scams, a.k.a. "The Spanish Prisoner" scams are the cause. First, the nature of the scam itself states that Nigerian legal process is easily circumvented, which isn't a serious trust builder. Secondly, getting Nigerian authorities to cooperate in investigations has consistently proven difficult to say the least.

Hence, the world view of of the marketing environment in Nigeria is -- unfortunately for Nigeria -- the one best known. Nigeria's failing oil economy was the last one to get adequately publicized, and that was in the 1980's. The only world-level advertising of Nigeria since then has been the remarkably dense outflow of 419 scam attempts (419 is the section of Nigerian Criminal Code that should address this scam -- the name then has become the de facto(as well as de jure) name for this problem most likely resulting from a sense of irony.

I can't do better than to refer you to the quote in Wikipedia: 419 Scams, which reads as follows:"The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries." -- Insa Nolte, lecturer at University of Birmingham, African Studies Dept. as cited, Snopes.com

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