One of the greatest business Mongols of all time...

> OK, can we get off the Mongol jokes, please? Those who know me, will understand why.

Of course, being a sensitive guy of the '80s, and knowing your ties with Mongolia,

I chose to go with Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon.

Much better than Wang the Perverted.
 
darkkavenger said:
actually, the word surprised me, it's clear the person who wrote it has some bare french skills, though in french Mongol designates either an inhabitant of mongolia, or it's a rough (bad) way to designate a trisomic person.
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This is just poor pidgin English.

The scamster simply confused the word "mogul" with "mongol".

He also confused the word "magnate" with "magnet"
 
As a follow up - from Wikipedia (see bullet 4 under Mogul):

Mogul may mean:
• a bump in the snow in alpine skiing,
• a Mongolian
• the Mughal Empire, or any member of its ruling dynasty
• by extension, any ruler or powerful person, such as a industrial mogul or media mogul

And also:

Magnate
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For a wealthy or powerful business baron, executive, or tycoon, see Business magnate.
 
There are indeed many 'trusting fools' that will fall for these scams. I have an innocent/honest BIL who sent a scammer in the Phillipines $3,000. Poor guy, he still thinks he might get the money back (it's been two years).
BIL would give you the shirt off his back, but doesn't understand the rest of the world isn't that way.
 
nwcanonman said:
There are indeed many 'trusting fools' that will fall for these scams. I have an innocent/honest BIL who sent a scammer in the Phillipines $3,000. Poor guy, he still thinks he might get the money back (it's been two years).
BIL would give you the shirt off his back, but doesn't understand the rest of the world isn't that way.
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I don't know what a "BIL" is, but I presume you mean a friend or someone you know. Such a shame when that happens, eh?

One way to look at those people who fall prey to these scammers is to say that they deserve it for being so greedy and gullible (these scams often appeal to a person's inner greed - offering something for nothing or something for very little work/investment, etc). And one could agree, in theory.

But there are people who are genuinely, for lack of a better term, unintelligent. Do they deserve any protection at all, or is it just too bad for them? We'd protect a blind person, we'd protect a deaf person, but if they are just not very intellectually gifted, then let the wolves have them...?

And you can take it a step or two further - let us say that instead of sending their money to some 'mogul' in Africa, they instead send their money to some advertiser on late-night TV who promises to send them a bottle of pills that will grow hair, or make them lose weight, or clear up their acne, or make them more virile. Are they also not to be pitied if they fall for these illogical claims?

Anyway, it's a rough old world out there. I hope that I don't fall for such schemes, but I will also do my best to warn others about them - I am sure we all feel pretty much the same way. I always feel badly for those who just, for whatever reason, seem to lack the common sense required to steer clear of these scammers.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
bmattock said:
I don't know what a "BIL" is...
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Brother-In-Law... Bill, I think a civilized society (not necessarily a technically advanced one) tries to protect its weaker members to some degree, as all are likely to have something positive to contribute at some point. 🙂 Still, bad things inevitably happen more often to those most defenseless.
 
My wife's poor brother (my BIL) is in 'sales' and often falls for some dubious product to sell. When he calls us, all excited and tries to get us to sell with him, we can usually dissuade him from his folly (but not always).
How about a pill, that when taken while you're drunk, can make your breath pass a sobriety test? Yeah, right ~ ; - )
 
Doug said:
Remy, I believe he meant "business mogul"... a great personage, a magnate (not magnet of course!). Writer did really get it messed up.

But oddly enough, "mogul" in English, now implying a powerful rich business person, seems to have derived from a powerful personage, the Great Mogul or Mughul, one of the Mongol conquerors of India or their descendants. So it does wrap back to the term the writer wrongly used!
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Doug, yes, I got that. 🙂

And your right about the Mogul-Mongol connection. When you trace the history of Asia over the past millenium or so, you'll see that much of it involved the Mongols or their (claimed) descendants. The last Khan who could "legitimately" claim descendancy died in 1921 or so, in Crimea IIRC.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
> OK, can we get off the Mongol jokes, please? Those who know me, will understand why.

Of course, being a sensitive guy of the '80s, and knowing your ties with Mongolia,

I chose to go with Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon.

Much better than Wang the Perverted.
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Flash Gordon, hey? Never understood the attraction of Flash, or Superman, or any of the other super heroes. I'm more of a kungfu guy myself. 🙂

Wang the Perverted? You're kidding, right? Sounds like a character from Blackadder. 😛
 
RML said:
Wang the Perverted? You're kidding, right? Sounds like a character from Blackadder. 😛
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If I remember correctly, Wang The Perverted was the bad guy in a So-Awful-It's-Funny movie titled "Flesh Gordon". Think junior high school boys making a movie they are sure their parents/sisters will never see. Lots of naked women and truly egregious puns. (and NO I don't have the DVD 😀 ).
Rob
 
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