Finland’s Foreign Ministry falls for €400K email scam - Sensationalist Headlines

Finland’s Foreign Ministry falls for €400K email scam | Yle Uuti.. Scammers are suspected of duping the Finnish Foreign Ministry into handing over some 400,000 euros in development funds last February, according to the National Bureau of Investigation. Detective Chief Inspector Antti Perälä said the agency is investigating the suspected crime as aggravated fraud and aggravated money laundering. The money that the Foreign Ministry handed over was originally, intended for a project to support the development of the legal aid system in Kyrgyzstan. Police said that the swindlers sent an email purporting to come from an employee of the UN Development Programme, UNDP, prompting the Foreign Ministry to pay out the funds. I've found that trying to watch Finnish news broadcasts is like watching Lord of the Rings, but the bits where they speak Elvish don't have any subtitles. Fortunately they have news in English for thickos like me.

it's called diplomacy and it's vital to establish a healthy relationship with nigeria's monarchy

Local authorities also report that the ministry promises to recuperate the lost funds as soon as they are done selling iPhones they got for free.

"Hello, we are from the UN Development Program. Please go to your next gas station, buy Amazon gift cards for 400,000€ and send the codes to legitundevelopmentprogram69@yahoo.com."

Would have been a waste of money even if it was real. Spend that 400,000 on improving Finland instead.

How can this be true when Finland doesn't exist?

"Finland" was supposed to send 400K to UN, but then the money got "scammed" Big thonk, huh?

Britain's not going to exist for much longer, either.

Did i ever tell you about that time i had a beer with a Finnish Nazi? He was right in my home, praising Breivik and shit. Girlfriend was devastated, her cousin died from the bomb he detonated. Shit was uncash as fuck! Probably should have been there. Point being: Finland probably needs more than 400k Euro.

It's hard not to be a kind of a nazi when my surname is one letter away from "Aryan" and my hair & skin is whiter than the moon!

I like how they are destroying our healthcare system and education system to save money yet they are more than willing to throw away money at Kyrgyzstan for naive reasons. Then only to be scammed which really doesn't surprise me. There are a lot of elderly who can barely pay rent and food yet they just throw away money.

Well this isnt very nice some workers tax money was wasted on that, luckily i dont work so i dont pay taxes

Yet you waste everyone else's tax money by not working

I'd rather them in a warm bed than in the cold howling wind or constantly in and out of the emergency room regardless of their financial status.

True but bragging about not paying taxes is still pretty gross imo.

I'm fine with the tax money I pay going for unluckily unemployed/disabled Finnish-born citizens.

So am I but the post I'm quoting reads like the guy is abusing the system

Maybe if we were talking about a tax dodger, but when people don't pay taxes because they don't have money to begin with I don't see the issue. Bragging about being poor may be weird but I wouldn't call it "gross".

It's not like I said to line up unemployed people for death squads but I still don't like paying for people who are merely to lazy to work.

Doesn't really make a difference if there's so much unemployment that even people who seek jobs can't find any, does it?

I think you're failing to see where not paying for people who don't work is just bad in a different way, but still bad. The net outcome is their eventual death as a consequence of homelessness and the mental stresses that comes with it. America has a lot of its problems thanks to shitty or no safety nets to keep impoverished or unemployed (including people who refuse to work) alive and well. I'd rather have a system that thousands of people can exploit to just about scrabe by, than a system where 100 people can leech millions out of at the cost of millions of preventable deaths. But i guess it's down to what kind of world you want to live in and whether basic rights is for the many or for the few.

"Merely too lazy to work" says volumes about your attitude to the unemployed. It would be good if you listen to the other people replying to you, because otherwise I'd prefer if you took this classist garbage elsewhere.

It's like you picked parts of my posts just to be pissed at something, I'm just not cool about that 'lol I'm not paying taxes' post

Dude, bringing the Jews into this? Jeez...

A: That post was clearly a joke. B: I am permitted to be offended at your statements if you aren't going to retract them.

Do I look like the shitpost Nostradamus? There was no way to tell that it is 100% a joke

Yeah, we don't have that situation at all here in Finland, those people just don't exist. Our problem is that we don't have employers willing to pay for work being done, people being too lazy to work is not a problem at all.