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Thursday, July 11, 2002

Missing Open Golfers Baffling

LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities are investigating whether dozens of Nigerians fraudulently obtained visas by posing as golfers with invitations to next week's British Open.

Organizers of the golf classic said they had sent invitations to 47 Nigerians to enter qualifying tournaments, but only four actually showed up. A smaller number of Ghanaians were also no-shows.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club was surprised, because in previous years the number of Nigerians seeking to compete in the open was "in the single figures," spokesman Stuart McDougall said.

"They entered for the championship, and we tried to check their golfing credentials as best we can in Nigeria," he said. "But Nigeria is not an easy country to get through to."

A spokeswoman at the Foreign Office said authorities had not determined whether the missing golfers had actually applied for or received visas, or whether they were in Britain. [..]

Get ready for some interesting e-mails...

GREETINGS! My name is Dr. Thomas Mbatomo, and I formerly was the head of the Nigerian Federal Golfing Ministry until I recently had to flee my homeland of Nigeria. I secretly writing to you to request your assistance in helping me transfer a large sum of money which the Nigerian National Sporting Association has tried to withhold from our oppressed golfing professionals who have tried to go to Great Britain to play golf. The Federal Golfing Ministry had allocated five hundred trillion American dollars (US$500.000.000.000.000,00) for our golfers to travel, stay at hotels, and have a small per diem. BUT, This money will only be able to be paid to our patriotic golfers if it can be taken away from the currupt dictator's Bureau of Sporting Finances and this can only be done by secretly transferring ownership of the money to a third party. THIS IS LEGAL! YOu name has been given to me as someone who can be trusted to assist us in these effort. For your trouble, you will be given a 15% fee for the use of your bank account, which will only be needed as a intermediary account. THIS IS LEGAL!...

posted by Terry at 11:36:00 AM

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