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THE Book The Tricks of Financial Terrorists (Charleston, U.S.; 2011) is an expose of the advance fee fraud in Nigeria. It reveals local frauds and international scams from Nigeria. By exposing these tricks, the author Raymond Akinfolarin hopes to bring the perpetrators to book, thereby sanitising the local business terrain.

Emphasising that Nigeria isn’t the only country where scams are perpetuated, Akinfolarin hopes Nigeria’s name will gradually disappear from the global list of fraudsters. In the last 20 years, many Nigerians have fallen victim to the scourge of fraudsters. This book provides a compendium of the intrigues employed by criminals to deprive victims of their finances or valuables.

According to Akinfolarin, the scope of intrigues is quite elaborate, extending from card games, fake currency to palm reading, fortune telling and the sale of bogus products. Other areas of advance fee fraud include orders for sale or rent of real estate, use of other people’s property as loan security, employment, school and visa scams. The thrift fraud also known as wonder banks also constitute avenues of fraud. Sale of other people’s shares, internet fraud and other forms of obtaining preferment under false pretences are other ways of defrauding the public rampant in the Nigerian Federation.

Thus, this book serves the dual purpose of providing knowledge and insight into the fraud image of Nigerians thereby alerting the people of the wiles of fraudsters. However, this book also offers signals to fraudsters that their nefarious activities have been uncovered.

But why do Nigerians obtain things under false pretences? In today’s rat race, it is greed, the greed to build mountains of wealth. Our culture of celebrating wealth does not help matters, either, because it causes many to believe that the end justifies the means. Well-known 419 kingpins are being honoured by chiefs and universities. They even enjoy opulence openly at the expense of their victims.

It is a pity that the powers that be relegate genuine success to the background while celebrating thieves and vagabonds who make it to the top by fraudulent means. That is the cause of 419 and why it is increasing in leaps and bounds.

Unfortunately, we cannot rebrand Nigeria successfully without taming this monstrous 419 image we have so unconscionably acquired. Indeed, it is the collective attitudes of Nigerians not slogans that can correct the country’s image problem. 419 image isn’t only disturbing, it is eroding the economy, scaring away investors and rendering economic policies ineffective. Which is why poverty has driven some into the fold of Boko Haram insurgents.

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A group of youngsters Saturday afternoon at the Madison County Public Library in Richmond learned some interesting facts about how Dickens changed our culture and also enjoyed seeing a few magic tricks.

Although he doesn’t try to portray the novelist best known for creating the characters of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit in his “Christmas Carol,” Don Miller of Indianapolis was dressed as a mid-19th century English gentleman for his library presentation.

He told the children how at age 12, Charles Dickens had to leave school and go to work in a factory for a year because his parents and six of his siblings were sent to a debtor’s prison. Although Dickens was deprived of a formal education, the novelist drew on the hardships and injustices of his childhood when he wrote.

In addition to helping turn Christmas into a time for charity, Dickens also was behind the drive to end child labor in England.

Miller said in Dickens’ day, his clothes would have been made of heavy wool because many places, including bedrooms, were not heated then. Kitchens and perhaps living rooms were the only warm rooms in homes during the winter. The factory where young Dickens worked 10-hour days was unheated.

The program wasn’t simply a history lesson, however. Miller called on members of his young audience to assist him as he performed some of the same tricks Dickens did in his public appearances. They could be assured Dickens had done those tricks, Miller said, because people who attended his shows wrote descriptions of them in letters to friends.

Writing letters to friends was “an early form of texting,” he told the children

As he spoke and performed, Miller stood in front of a portable fireplace and mantel that contained volumes of Dickens’ books printed in the mid-19th century.

He also told the children about a couple, Al and Vickie, who lived in London when Dickens was writing. They introduced the Christmas tree to England from Al’s native Germany. They were Prince Albert and Queen Victoria who also changed how people throughout the English-speaking world still celebrate Christmas. The queen became of of Dickens’ biggest fans.

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The Anglian Magic Society was founded more than 25 years ago and meets every month at the White Horse Pub in Trowse, near Norwich, to share ideas and discuss the latest techniques and props.

But for its December meeting, the group opened its doors to put on a show, giving the performers a new audience and introducing the public to the wizardry of their local magicians.

The society’s membership number fluctuates around 45, with a spectrum of ages ranging from a talented schoolgirl to an experienced octogenarian.

Some perform professionally, some just for fun. But their diverse experience spans a magical world of clubs, weddings, variety shows, TV and cruise ships, with acts including close-up card tricks, sleight of hand and mental manipulation.

The society’s oldest member is 80-year-old Ned Potts, from Hempnall, who has been a magician for 55 years and has appeared on Anglia TV shows in the past, as well as performing in clubs around the country

“We’re very proud of our little society,” he said. “I think magic is like a brotherhood, and the lovely thing is that it is a great leveller as well.

“Having said that it is not a selfish group. We exchange ideas and that’s where the club aspect comes in. You very rarely see comedians exchanging jokes, but here we share ideas and help the younger ones coming up.”

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