I happen to be a subscriber of investopedia’s “Term of the days” email newsletter, but today my attention was caught up by a specific term of the day, and here it goes.

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Term Of The Day: Nigerian Scam
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A scam where the sender requests help in facilitating the
transfer of a substantial sum of money, generally in the form
of an email. In return, the sender offers a commission, usually
in the range of several million dollars. The scammers then
request that money be sent to pay for some of the costs
associated with the transfer. If money is sent to the scammers,
they will either disappear immediately or try to get more money
with claims of continued problems with the transfer.

Investopedia Says:
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The reason that this type of scam is referred to as a “Nigerian
scam” is because it originated in Nigeria in the 1970s. The
scammers hope that the commission offered will be enticing
enough to compel the recipient to take the risk of sending
thousands of dollars to a stranger. The reasons given for the
transfer can differ from a government freezing an account to
the existence of an account with no beneficial owner. When it
comes to this type of request, however, it is important to
remember that if anything sounds too good to be true – it
usually is.

Warnings signs of a Nigerian scam include a U.S. currency
account in a foreign country (Nigeria, Iraq or Mauritius), odd
spelling and language in the body of the email and a promise of
substantial compensation for little effort.

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My Opinion
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In consideration to the fact that the Nigerian scam is the only one that is giving much credit on the internet, I do feel that this is very unfair, as in this case, such a word, finds itself in a Term of the day diary. I just don’t know what the western world of stereotypes is trying to accomplish, but whatever it is, I think they should also put into consideration, the idea of including; “The American Credit Card Theft”, on the term of the day diary. I doubt they would.

I have been “busy busy” with school projects and other stuffs that I have not had the time to really seat my ass down and blog, but hec today is a Friday and I don’t have classes and I had a long chat with an old friend and that triggered this post.

My primary objective of wanting money is to make enough money to continue to make enough money. I can call it an Iterative constant. Would I say Money for its own sake? Yes and No, But I can say, I am quite selfish in that regards and I would explain my angle of reasoning precisely. This wants and need, is about me and my immediate family and my generation. The community also gets to benefit from this blessing as part of my pay back to what it has offered me. Someone asked me a question. The question was, you must have something you want to use the money for?

I want money for a comfortable lifestyle, freedom from “money suppression”, brought about by jealousy and greed of not been able to afford what you want or need. In fact lack of money is the root to all evils and I say that today because Nigeria for example has a troubling crime rate primarily brought about by poverty.

Rich kids do not have problems of having money because they can’t cope if they lose it, or because they can’t make it from scratch. Rich kids find themselves in that situation or should I say condition. So an aftermath shouldn’t be speculated of the possible vanishing of that condition. Nevertheless we shouldn’t forget the fact that poor kids suffer from depression and often get involved in crime if not properly trained and monitored. If you bring children to this world it is your responsibility to see that they are comfortable with the situation of this world.

A good example is inviting a guest to your house and denying the guest comfort just because they claim they do not want comfort as the case was possible to arise if your kids don’t want money. As I said it is a condition and they must embrace it just the way it is if they do not care about it. It’s not a nature, it’s a condition. Nobody likes discomfort. Humans have their needs and wants, so why would they fight against what they don’t care about?

Someone did ask me what comfort meant.
From my own understanding, comfort means, been contended with the situation in life due to the ability of meeting up to everyday needs and wants and been happy with it, and not wanting more than just that. This is without any regrets due to constraints brought about by the lack of a resource to satisfy any particualar need and want.

Comfort is a condition. You can only be comfortable when you have no immediate challenges in life that gives you discomfort.I understand wealth quite well and the need to get money. That I can go on and on to explain my beliefs an so far I have been successful in trying to pass my stance across. How about poverty? How many people can explain that state and maybe a reason to believe in that condition? One category I shouldn’t forget to mention is the “middle Class”.

The middle class actually complain more than the poor, yet they claim to be comfortable? Why are they complaining if they are comfortable? In fact their scale of preference accommodates the need for a better life which can be ensured by striving harder to earn more money. That perfectly explains why they celebrate a pay increase!! Or wish they could buy that car!! Or in some cases even invest in mutual funds to earn more, yet they claim they are “comfortable with their current state” which indirectly I can say infers that they are not interested in anything more than they currently earn or have?

Another interesting situation is “I can afford but I don’t want nor need, even though I might use or have a use for it”, it is call stinginess from the human general perspective but that actually properly explains an internal comfort with the current situation in life and to me that is been comfortable in a sense of when you want to believe in the aspect of staying within the realms of the middle class.

Richness is a condition that ensures comfort within the paradigm of needs and wants but been in the “middle-class” category does not bring comfort.

Is it lonely? I wondered. I mean here is a fish, not sure what breed (I am not an ecologist for goodness sake) alone in an aquarium, in one of the restaurants of my school. Yeah I am wierd, for wondering whether it was lonely. I just had to visualize a world of my own, consisting of only I, living without anybody to talk to. That is consisting of no single specie of my type, or of any other type (in the sense of reffering back to the fiction of the tarzan world). Well so it is. Now this fish has no friend, nobody to play with except for the food.

But then again who knows it might not be bored, its a fish world. Do they have emotions? I wondered too. Ran to google and came out with this result.

Do fish, like humans, experience pain and suffering? People hold very differing beliefs about this question. Some would believe that if fish react to stimuli that would cause a person to feel pain that the fish must also be feeling pain. Others assume that fish are too different from humans for the matter to be of concern. Many people don’t know quite what to think about the issue. Neuroscience research has clarified the neurological and psychological processes that cause the experience of pain, so we can address this question from a large base of factual information.

Source:By Dr. James D. Rose, University of Wyoming in an article titled “Do Fish Feel Pain? “

Hmm I really dont know . I mean why all this curiousity, maybe I care for the fish, hehehe funny. Ok well then I went on to google about fishes and loneliness, but I really did not get much of a result. The only one that actually helped a little in educating me, was titled “Alone but Not Lonely-The importance of giving puffers individually“. It said and I quote that

Many fish species throughout the world school or shoal for protection from predators. By staying together in large numbers, these fish are able to reduce the chances of becoming a meal. Sometimes, young Puffers are found in large groups. However, as they mature these Puffers usually go their separate ways. From this point on, Puffers begin to live a solitary life where interaction with conspecifics is usually limited to mating season and the occasional territorial dispute.

It went on and emphasised that

In the aquarium, territory is at a premium. Compared to the rivers, estuaries and open oceans that puffers inhabit in the wild, the aquarium is a very small environment. As a territorial family, Puffers require space to call their own. Introducing more than one Puffer into a tank, especially a tank that is too small, is asking for problems. If two Puffers cannot establish clear territories, they will often fight.

So it might not be lonely afterall? As I said I am not sure what type of fish breed it is just that i know it got this particular swollen head, I didnt bring my camera along to campus, so maybe some other time, I might post the picture.

Well back to my research on puffers,.A puffer fish according to wikipedia is
also called blowfish, swellfish, globefish, balloonfish are fish making up the family Tetraodontidae, within the order Tetraodontiformes. They are named for their ability to inflate themselves to several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened; the same adaptation is found in the closely related porcupinefish, which also have spines (unlike pufferfish).

Interesting isnt it? Besides isnt it a beaty?