419 News Readers?
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Posted by Felix Okoli on February 17, 2010 at 07:37:42:
If you are reading this blog post today, don't get confused with the letters - 419 which has taken a different meaning within the Nigerian environment. 419 means fraud or better still advanced fee fraud which is common among online scammers coming from Nigeria, no I don't mean that type of 419.
What I am saying is that today, the number of people who have subscribe to Nigerian news by email is at the number - 419, which is making me feel quite uneasy.
Although there's nothing wrong with the numbers other than it has become more of a cursed number in the Nigerian setting as anyone who is seen associated with it is deemed a fraudster. 419 is not a cool number legitimate online bloggers like me would want to be associated with, but isn't it just a number?
I just visited my home page and saw the number of feed readers at 419 and it is neither going up or coming down which I would preferred cos not everyone who visits the website would feel comfortable looking at those numbers.
Anyway, I would have preferred to remove the feed count until the numbers go up or down and not just remain at 419 on my homepage as it may send a wrong message. Perhaps, I should just leave it cos I believe that the literate majority who visit Nigerian Newspapers will see it as I see It - It's just an innocent number.
I am glad that the number of people who are subscribing to Nigerian news delivery by email is increasing, I just hope it increases quickly by one count today so that that curious number(419) would not show on the home page again.
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If you are reading this blog post today, don't get confused with the letters - 419 which has taken a different meaning within the Nigerian environment. 419 means fraud or better still advanced fee fraud which is common among online scammers coming from Nigeria, no I don't mean that type of 419.
What I am saying is that today, the number of people who have subscribe to Nigerian news by email is at the number - 419, which is making me feel quite uneasy.
Although there's nothing wrong with the numbers other than it has become more of a cursed number in the Nigerian setting as anyone who is seen associated with it is deemed a fraudster. 419 is not a cool number legitimate online bloggers like me would want to be associated with, but isn't it just a number?
I just visited my home page and saw the number of feed readers at 419 and it is neither going up or coming down which I would preferred cos not everyone who visits the website would feel comfortable looking at those numbers.
Anyway, I would have preferred to remove the feed count until the numbers go up or down and not just remain at 419 on my homepage as it may send a wrong message. Perhaps, I should just leave it cos I believe that the literate majority who visit Nigerian Newspapers will see it as I see It - It's just an innocent number.
I am glad that the number of people who are subscribing to Nigerian news delivery by email is increasing, I just hope it increases quickly by one count today so that that curious number(419) would not show on the home page again.
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Re: 419 News Readers?
Posted by Felix Okoli
on February 23, 2010 at 03:32:41:
I am happy that the numbers have moved up to 483 readers after a few days
Re: 419 News Readers? Posted by Alli Kemi on February 23, 2010 at 03:34:19: Hey, I just subscribed so you don't have to worry about that number again