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In a way, his timing was also serendipitous: The Internets emergence in Nigeria breathed new life into an old national scam: The 419 letter. And a new generation was making hay out of the naiveté of millions of new Internet users. For Nigerias massive unemployed population some fifty million people today this was every bit the gold rush that Silicon Valley was in the 1990s. And the entrepreneurs concocting these schemes late night after the doors were locked in Nigerias Internet cafes needed a brilliant coder who was more motivated the bigger the challenge. Boakye was one of the best in the country.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/15/the-chilling-story-of-genius-in-a-land-of-chronic-unemployment/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/15/the-chilling-story-of-genius-in-a-land-of-chronic-unemployment/