Fraudsters in Britain might pour tomato juice or other substances on your dress and then offer to help remove it, robbing you in the process, the information ministry warned in its first-ever travel advisory obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The conmen, who are mainly white, but also include east Europeans and north Africans, might also pretend to pick up an object from under a potential victim's seat to distract his attention while he robs him, it added. "Nigerian travellers are hereby warned not to carry large amount of money on their body and ensure that their air tickets, passports, expensive wrist-watches as well as trinkets are securely hidden," the advisory said.

The most hilarious thing I see here is Nigeria warning ANYONE of cons and frauds. The organized crime and Internet Relay (deaf-to-hearing phone service) fraud is notorious, in regards to Nigeria and Ghana. It's nice to see they make certain their citizens are protected against crime, yet do little within their own borders to deter the use of a public service, such as internet relay, to make fraudulent purchases in the U.S.

Isn't it just a little unfair to condemn an entire nation for the dishonest actions of a few people? I'm sure a lot of Americans aren't happy with sharing the blame for the actions of George W. Bush.

...Well, anyone bumping into you in public, or distracting you to rob you isn't a new thing...Soo...I'm not really sure what the point of the article is.

Coming from Nigeria, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this "warning" was followed up with a wave of emails offering some miraculous system by which travelers could protect themselves from the tomato juice scam.

My indication of a government or parliament's lack of action on matters was not a generalization nor condemnation of it's citizens. I cast that upon the controlling forces, not the populace of any place, which I believe to be morally sound, no matter what the nation. I do appreciate you pointing out, however, how the comment could be construed as a verbal genocide against an entire country. Thank you, Captain Al. I apologize for that miscommunication.

A couple of the most recent e-mails I got offering to send me 8.5 million dollars came not from Nigeria, but from Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. I was so delighted to get mail from Ougadougou, which is my favorite place name in the whole world, that I even read the e-mail.

For some years, I've been thinking of making a trip to Burkina Faso, just so I could casually drop into conversations, "Back when I was in Ougadougou ..."

Uh, that should be "Ouagadougou." If it's my favorite place name, you'd think I'd spell it correctly, wouldn't you?

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