The Dark Furie

Stockfish Karma

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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.
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Comments

Dacotah Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:45:07 AM

What happened to the links on your blog to your blog.
Can't get to your main page.

FlaRin Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:37:40 AM

Right on, Mik!! I briefly had a car in London and it was stolen by a Nigerian! Take that, certain crooked and despicable Nigerians, on behalf of the ex owner of a white Peugot 504 called Claude bigsmile (technically it was gifted to my ex by her uncle, but even so...) smile


@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 smile

Dacotah Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:50:21 AM

Thank you Flarin. smile

FlaRin Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:21:07 AM

You are welcome, Carol smile

Darkogdare Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:50:24 AM

We have a saying here: There is a God above a God! And this is what happened to Nigerian merchants and so far they can do nothing against him. Maybe with Interpol warrant but if the man has Gibraltar cityzenship maybe it won`t be possible...
Btw, what happened to your photo?

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:14:25 AM

Well tutorialed that Fla.

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

hmmm "bokoms" i think.. chef basically fish biltong. Google it.
*goes to get some*
Guys.. so we're stereotyping now huh? left

FlaRin Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:52:18 AM

I have amended my sentiment to avoid stereotyping and generalisations, which is not my thing at all - thank you for pulling me up on that up

Dacotah Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:22:48 AM

Flarin smile

Hi Mik

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, November 20, 2010 11:47:09 AM

Eh what old bean. Stereotyping is bally good fun. wink.

Morning Carol.

Pineas2 Saturday, November 20, 2010 11:56:58 AM

Until I read this post I did not know the English word for it, only the German and the Portuguese.

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

up Well said Mik! Frauds no matter what country they're from shoul be condemned.

KittyliciousZaphira Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:57:26 PM

Swindlers should be executed by dawn no matter what country they come from. devil

stuart goddardstugod Sunday, November 21, 2010 3:12:09 PM

Well maybe the email I get from Nigeria at least once month begging me to accept the $10,000,000 could be real.
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

lol

FlaRin Monday, November 22, 2010 4:59:19 AM

Originally posted by Pussy Cat:

swindlers should be executed by dawn

..harsh, Pussy Cat, but fair smile A very astute method of population comtrol, actually smile

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