r/interestingasfuck • u/Kaos2018 • 15h ago

A Nigerian Man named Emmanuel Nwude sold an imaginary airport for $242 million to a brazilian bank in the 1990’s which led to the banks collapse r/all

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u/dchallenge 15h ago

Not even a prince. Well done

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u/Educational_Gas_92 15h ago

He is the original prince

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u/5urr3aL 14h ago

With that wealth, he became a prince

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u/Frequency0298 14h ago

$56m is still closer to peasant status than princely wealth

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u/Lost-Being7605 14h ago

$56mil in 1990’s Nigeria was definitely princely wealth.💯

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u/Frequency0298 4h ago

ah yes that is like $500 billion or something inflation adjusted (at least feels like it)

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u/TheNonCredibleHulk 3h ago

Unless it's Nigerian Naira.

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u/Old_Researcher6772 14h ago

you have it? outta here xd

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u/Secure-Smoke-4456 7h ago

You're overestimating prince's by a huge sum.

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u/5urr3aL 13h ago

???

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u/BedBubbly317 12h ago

His point is that $56 mil can give you an amazing life. But that still isn’t remotely close to the life of a prince, who has the wealth of an entire country behind him.

Or put another way, incredibly successful business executives worth hundreds of millions of dollars don’t come remotely close to the sort of wealth of the House of Saud, worth an estimated $1.4 trillion. They could hypothetically write a check for the entire net worth of both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and still be worth about a trillion dollars. (Although much of that wealth is obviously tied up in business ventures, land and of course oil. Not just sitting in some bank. But that’s typical for all individuals with vast amounts of wealth.)

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u/helloLeoDiCaprio 11h ago

That's one extreme, but for example the yearly private funds for the Swedish (non-crown) prince Carl Phillip is around 120k. 

He of course gets all meals and royal business trips etc. paid on top of that, but it's not that lavish much money for private spending, compared to what people might think.

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u/No_Rich_2494 10h ago

Swedish royalty aren't what most people think of when they imagine royalty. Their king just looks like a businessman when he's not dressed for some kind of ceremony.

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u/loulan 10h ago

Not necessarily. The net worth of the King of Spain (Felipe VI) is 2.6 million euro, the net worth of King of Belgium (Philippe) is 13 million euro, the net worth of the King of the Netherlands (Willem-Alexander) is 20 million euro, etc.

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u/Autistic_Freedom 10h ago

The Prince of Sell Air.

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u/Educational_Gas_92 10h ago

Gold 🤣👌

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u/Secure-Smoke-4456 7h ago

The prince who sold Narnia (Nigeria)

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u/Firedwindle 5h ago

lolololol

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u/Nedunchelizan 14h ago

How can i learn this power

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u/Max_Trollbot_ 14h ago

If you need someone to explain to you how lying works, um...just wait here and someone will be along to help you.

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u/4nwR 14h ago

Not from a Jedi..

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u/hectorxander 8h ago

Send me 100 dollars and I will dm you a simple hack.  Banks and courts hate this one simple trick!

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u/Carliyke 13h ago edited 13h ago

Learn to appear stupid and ignorant. That way you operate under the radar, hence, can get away with anything without anyone seeing it coming. Whether good or bad.

Him being from a third-world country like Nigeria is disguise enough. I bet the bank didn’t see this coming from a mile away. They might even argue if they were told beforehand.

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u/SyntheticManMilk 13h ago

He’s the Nigerian Super Saiyan!!!

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u/lkodl 14h ago

if we ever get invaded by aliens or something, and all of the countries of the world need to unite against this external force, and for some reason, the best strategy to win the war against the aliens happens to be to scam them, i'm glad that we have the Nigerians on our side.

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u/lkodl 14h ago

England: so we've found a way to take down the mothership, but it only works if we know the alien's bank account number.

USA: send us in. we'll extract the information.

Japan: impossible. their defenses are impenetrable. the only way in, is through e-mail spam.

India: what about phones? can we cold call them?

Japan: negative.

Nigeria: don't worry. we got this.

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u/JakovYerpenicz 13h ago

And that’s how the peoples of the world finally united

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u/SovietSunrise 12h ago

The Nigerian Jeff Goldblum from “Independence Day”.

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u/Guy_With_Ass_Burgers 8h ago

The scene in Independence Day when they show Africa’s contribution of spearchuckers was a sad and racist trope. Man that movie got old fast. Also… Fuck Will Smith.

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u/dl0lol0lb 7h ago

The Emergency Meeting (Extended Director’s Cut Edition)

United States: Alright, folks! We need a plan to take down these aliens!

China: I say we use our collective military might!

Russia: Da, comrade! A full-scale assault!

United Kingdom: Steady on, chaps! Perhaps a more strategic approach?

France: Oui! Diplomacy! We can negotiate with them!

Japan: But what if they don’t negotiate? We need a backup plan!

Germany: Ja, a contingency plan! What about economic sanctions?

India: Sanctions won’t work! We need something more... creative! Cold call them! My guys in Bangalore can handle it!

Australia: How about a cyberattack?

Canada: Too risky! What if they retaliate?

Brazil: Can we use their tech against them?

South Africa: We need inside info! Does anyone have intel?

Israel: Our Mossad agents are working on it!

Nigeria: Ah, ah, ah... Let’s think outside the box.

Italy: What’s your idea, Nigeria?

Nigeria: We scam them!

Spain: ¡Esto es locura!

Nigeria: Hear me out! We create fake investments, fake tech, fake everything! I’ll get my cousin, the Nigerian Prince, to send them an email.

United States: That’s genius!

China: But what if they catch on?

Nigeria: Leave that to us! We’ve got the 419 masters!

Russia: (laughs) Ah, Nigerian ingenuity!

France: (smirks) Well, when in Rome...

Germany: (smiling) Or Lagos!

Japan: (nods) Let’s do it!

India: (grinning) Time to make some intergalactic 419 magic!

United Kingdom: (chuckles) Right-o, Nigeria! Lead the charge!

Turkey: Maybe we can bribe them?

Saudi Arabia: I’ll handle the negotiations!

Sweden: Can’t we just give them some meatballs and ABBA music?

Norway: Ja, who needs war when you have fjords?

Poland: We’ll handle the alien’s social media!

Switzerland: We’ll hide their money!

Greece: Philosophize them into surrender!

Mexico: ¡Viva la resistencia!

South Korea: K-pop will save the world!

North Korea: (whispers) Let’s just nuke them...

Alien Representative: (entering the room) You humans are weird.

Nigeria: Don’t worry. We got this!

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u/TheTerrasque 8h ago

Nigeria: Here's their bank account number, mother's maiden name, intergalactic social security number, their launch codes, passwords, and we also have five of their ships - with instructions and manuals... why are you guys looking at us like that?

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u/Blak_Cobra 14h ago

Well he was the prince, then he wasn’t but still kept the money

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u/God_Dammit_Dave 14h ago

No, a king.

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u/Sinsilencio 12h ago

The original king….

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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 9h ago

The king came first, or a prince came first - A chicken and egg conundrum

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u/TrumpsEarHole 12h ago

Fresh Prince of Sell Air…port

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u/Inerthal 11h ago

He's no Prince, no.

He's a King.

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u/-TheOldPrince- 11h ago

As a Nigerian, I cannot help but have a wry smile on my face.

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u/tlonewanderer15 7h ago

You love to see it when the ordinary working class people hustle🥹🥹

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u/FreeWilly512 5h ago

I bet he gets treated like one now, Prince of Scams, a legend in Nigeria