1 Jul
2008
1 Jul
'08
1:44 p.m.
I would like to add something, as a South African citizen. South Africa, is NOT part of Africa for that matter, it's a republic on it's own. It's almost like saying "Let's ban America, cause someone in Mexico spammed me". South Africa, which is on the 196/8 range does a LOT of business overseas in many countries, and I do want to warn that you could loose a lot of good business due to this practice.
Most of the fraud you experience could come from Nigeria, or one of the other central & western Africa countries. To ban a whole continent because of problems some countries cause could be problematic.
For that matter is China a different country from Russia, from Switzerland, even though they share the same land mass
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I need to put my 2c in here. I'm from New Zealand, we are a first world
democratic country (the first in the worlds to give the vote to ALL
adults I may mention). I have had the misfortune many of times of being
unable to transact business because people from the US in their
ignorance think, that New Zealand, isn't that part of Australia, which
is right next to Asia, can't do business with those Asians, they will
rip me off. Now sometimes people from the US have asked me why people in
the other parts of the world get a bit annoyed at the "the only country
that is free and true if the good old US of A" attitude, and well here
you go as an example. Lets ban all of Africa because someone from
Nigeria is a scammer. Africa is a pretty big place, and you know what,
I've met many South Africans that are real nice (even employed a few).
I've always been someone who defends America when people run it down,
but it is a two way street, don't treat a whole country as criminals
because you don’t know the difference between one side of a continent
from another, its kind of insulting you know. And some day you might
well need the rest of us, you never know.