Stockfish Karma
Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:00:48 AM
Ever heard of stockfish? I hadn't until recently either but it turns out that it's not a website for browsing stock prices as the name seems to suggest. Rather stockfish is unsalted fish that has been dried out in the sun on wooden racks. This method of drying fish gives it a lifespan of several years and is very cheap, if a little smelly. Stockfish is extremely popular in some countries as it is apparently an excellent stock for soup (hence the name I suppose) when boiled, and is so in demand that many people are willing to pay upfront for it. A British man has been taking advantage of this in Iceland recently by promising delivery of bulk amounts of stockfish, taking payment in advance and then delivering a product far below the quantity and quality he had promised.The man buys two containers of the lowest quality stockfish for a very low price then splits the contents into four containers marked as being the highest quality stockfish. Each time he pulls this single con he comes away with 200,000 (two hundred thousand) British pounds profit and the people he has conned are left severely out of pocket. And that's where things get interesting. Rather than targeting the savvy Icelandic merchants, this man is exclusively targeting Nigerian stockfish merchants who have come to Iceland to get a deal on the product. He's scored with this scam so many times that the Nigerian ambassador in Iceland has brought the case into the public eye and is appealing to the police to stop his countrymen from being scammed by this man.
There's a problem there though. The British man currently resides in Gibraltar which has no extradition treaties with either Iceland or Nigeria. Furthermore the crimes are committed against Nigerian residents and the actual crime is only committed when the merchants return to Nigeria meaning he has technically broken no Icelandic laws. However I have a way for Nigeria to get their hands on this man and put an end to his evil scams, but before I put this plan into action I'm going to need the Nigerian government to arrange payment to me of every single amount of money their piece of shit residents have promised me via badly spelled e-mails in an attempt to fucking scam me and take my money!!! Yeah, that's right Nigeria, this is fucking karma and you will continue to be scammed while you're as stupid as you erroneously believe the rest of the world to be.

Dacotah # Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:45:07 AM
Can't get to your main page.
FlaRin # Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:37:40 AM
@Carol : the easiest way to get to Mik's main page at the moment is to click on his name on any one of the <latest comments> as shown on the right-hand side bar. That'll take you straight there
Dacotah # Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:50:21 AM
FlaRin # Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:21:07 AM
Darkogdare # Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:50:24 AM
Btw, what happened to your photo?
Dark FurieFurie # Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:14:25 AM
My photo Darko? It was just too pretty to stay up. Plus the sticky post on the main page has enough of that image that a small one on the side isn't needed.
Bad WolfCois # Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:21:21 AM
*goes to get some*
Guys.. so we're stereotyping now huh?
FlaRin # Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:52:18 AM
Dacotah # Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:22:48 AM
Hi Mik
Dark FurieFurie # Saturday, November 20, 2010 11:47:09 AM
Morning Carol.
Pineas2 # Saturday, November 20, 2010 11:56:58 AM
Isla do Bacalao (Stockfish-Island) was the first European word for Newfoundland where in the Age of Discoveries enormous amounts of fish were found and dried for the transport.
It was appreciated as a cheap source for proteine (same with Nigeria today). And important enough for catholic Portuguese it was not meat and could therefor been eaten on fridays.
KYrenKYren # Saturday, November 20, 2010 2:30:35 PM
KittyliciousZaphira # Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:57:26 PM
stuart goddardstugod # Sunday, November 21, 2010 3:12:09 PM
I mean if they have that sort of money to throw away what's the big deal about a few fish. ???
Dark FurieFurie # Sunday, November 21, 2010 3:12:43 PM
FlaRin # Monday, November 22, 2010 4:59:19 AM
Originally posted by Pussy Cat:
..harsh, Pussy Cat, but fair