The way to get rid of third world poverty
Extreme Ironing
16-02-2007, 18:57
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/third-world-development-un-suggest-internet-fraud-009
Brilliant stuff, love the 'Give a man a fish...' line :D
Sel Appa
17-02-2007, 00:29
Speaking through an interpreter, a local villager elder explained how ScamAid had helped his family. ‘In my land there is no water. The cattle die. My wife walk many miles for water and firewood. But now I have laptop and Paypal account. Sell stuff on eBay I don’t have. Thank you United Nations.’
lmao!
Nice article, but it reeks of onions (http://www.theonion.com/content/)...
The Plutonian Empire
17-02-2007, 01:11
Sweet Idea. However, what looks good on the drawing board, may not look as good as in real life:
However some local politicians have grown so rich siphoning money out of the ‘ScamAid’ project that they are now spending all day on their expensive new computers. One military leader has complained that he sent off thousands of dollars in response to a Spanish time-share investment opportunity, but has yet to hear anything back.
Deep World
17-02-2007, 01:16
Gotta love what happens when e-commerce meets globalization...
Sel Appa
17-02-2007, 01:29
lmao!
Nice article, but it reeks of onions (http://www.theonion.com/content/)...
Did no one click the link? The website is blatantly fake! :headbang:
Yaltabaoth
17-02-2007, 02:28
Did no one click the link? The website is blatantly fake! :headbang:
You mean "NewsBiscuit - The News Before It Happens" is a fake news website???
Sel Appa
17-02-2007, 02:35
You mean "NewsBiscuit - The News Before It Happens" is a fake news website???
:headbang:
Yaltabaoth
17-02-2007, 02:48
Did no one click the link? The website is blatantly fake! :headbang:
You mean "NewsBiscuit - The News Before It Happens" is a fake news website???
:headbang:
okay, that was intended as sarcasm reinforcing your argument - hence quoting the tagline...
should i start headbanging too?
Did no one click the link? The website is blatantly fake! :headbang:
Say it isn't so!
I DO like the idea though.
Sel Appa
17-02-2007, 03:27
It is indeed an interesting idea.
Layarteb
17-02-2007, 03:29
I love that. I guess those Nigerian farmers will be e-mailing us more now :).
Gotta love Onion articles.
Holyawesomeness
17-02-2007, 03:30
I dunno, isn't this similar to what free trade is supposed to do, except that in trade these people are actually creating something productive?
Extreme Ironing
17-02-2007, 11:42
The website is kinda like a British version of the Onion.