{"id":79043,"date":"2025-09-02T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79043"},"modified":"2025-09-02T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:00:30","slug":"beware-of-419-how-a-playwright-delved-into-nigerian-scams-and-what-it-taught-him-about-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/beware-of-419-how-a-playwright-delved-into-nigerian-scams-and-what-it-taught-him-about-money\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beware of 419!\u2019: how a playwright delved into Nigerian scams \u2013 and what it taught him about money"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.4fioWLTI2QPdKLI0bjTHBgHaFj?w=277&amp;h=208&amp;c=7&amp;r=0&amp;o=7&amp;dpr=1.5&amp;pid=1.7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"Image result for beware of 419 Lagos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inua Ellams was walking through the streets of Lagos, the bustling former capital of Nigeria, when he began noticing a recurring phrase, spray-painted on to the sides of homes. \u201cThis house is not for sale,\u201d it read. \u201cBeware of 419.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/beware-of-419-how-a-playwright-delved-into-nigerian-scams-and-what-it-taught-him-about-money\/ar-AA1LCnx5?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68b693a1adee4483a2d0a42cb2abf683&amp;ei=23\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Inua Ellams was walking through the streets of Lagos, the bustling former capital of Nigeria, when he began noticing a recurring phrase,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Beware-of-419.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79045,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79043\/revisions\/79045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}