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Re: FW: Miss World/Nigeria (OT)
Title: FW: Miss World/Nigeria (OT)
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Lon,
Several years ago I wrote a letter to the Junior Miss
Pageant complaining that all their gifts to the winners were foreign
based...asking why they wouldn't award US produced prizes to advertise and
promote them. I received a letter back (surprisingly) basically
saying too bad. The companies donate the prizes and they take them.
It gave me a pretty dim view of the ethics of all of the pageants. I just
don't watch them. That is my only revenge.
Sandie Parrott
----- Original Message -----
From:
l*@hevanet.com
To: g*@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:22
PM
Subject: [GWL] FW: Miss World/Nigeria
(OT)
Note:
I'm forwarding this as
I would like to see it reach the media more, and this is an ideal group for
that.
This year, Nigeria is
hosting the Miss World pagent. This is the same country that allows or
even encourages large numbers of people in it to send out the infamous
"Nigerian Scam" letters, tricking the gullible of the world out of billions of
dollars annually. Almost certainly much of the money goes to support
terrorism as well. And in many cases, victims who have gone to
Nigeria to try to collect have been kidnapped or murdered.
Now there is something the average person can do
to affect this. Notify the sponsors of the Miss World pagent, or any
other event, such as boxing matches, that you are boycotting their products as
long as Nigeria is used as the host country. Let them know that you do
not want to support anything that aids the country allowing the Nigerian
Scammers to continue to operate.
If this is done
consistently, it will send a message to the Nigerian government that they have
to stop the scammers if they want to be able to host events that bring money
into Nigeria legitimately.
We CAN stop the
scammers.
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