Why Scammers Love Nigeria
from the it's-a-way-of-life dept
By now, you all (should) know about 419 advance fee scammers from Nigeria. Despite regular claims of plans to crackdown on the scams, the Nigerian government had done very little. In fact, there were claims that up until a year ago, not a single person in Nigeria was in jail for such crimes. That's starting to change, with new reports saying that about 500 people have been arrested with another 500 under investigation. Of course, that sounds like a tiny percentage of the scammers, and it didn't seem all that difficult for the Associated Press reporter who wrote the above article to track down plenty of scammers who are quite proud of their scamming ability. It certainly still appears that scamming is a way of life for many Nigerians who find that it's a lot easier and a lot more lucrative than other jobs... which are often hard to find.
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i was scam
The EFCC cant help me too.they can help but they wont
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Nigrian scammer
she is 30 years olld named Mashier Gilbert princsess _chalin@yahoo.co,uk.com a scammer we have talked for months and all she talked about was money to be with me she was vary quick to fall in love and was vary persistantabout having to be with me and me sending her money right from the get go so finnaly I sent her $ 499 so she could get a chaek cleared from her fathers estate after that it was seeya sucker
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puppy scam
I was scammed by Jide Martins at 39 Airport Rd. in
Mushin, Lagos ,Nigeria 23401 It was one of those puppy scams. his e-mail is Andersonrosario78@yahoo.com He claims to be a God fearing Christian, but he isn't!!!
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this girl
please take care of this girl i covered her as a scammer and her father from Nigria (ericawelch4luv@yahoo.co.uk) she pretends that she wants money from me to get out from Nigiria her name was Lizzy she told me that
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u guys are stupid
how can u guys really get scammed lol
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scammers
i have been talking to 3 guys on the internet and these 3 all happen to be in lagos nigeria. the one said he is a chef and they paid him for working there and the bank wont cash his check because its a united states check, now if your working in nigeria why would they give you a check you cant cash there. he said he needed 650 dollars to pay his hotel bill and come back to the ststes. the 2nd one says he ran out of money and the bank there wont cash a travelers check. he ask me for290 dollars for him to be able to send the check to me to cash. the 3rd one is there trying to get some papers he said he needs and he needs me to send him 500.00 dollars so he can get them. they all seemed like really good guys and they sweet talk you and tell you about all this money they have and how they are going to take care of you. one of them has even sent me roses saying he loves me but when i tell them i have no money they get mad. 8i believe they are all scammers. so people be careful. i have not sent any money. and am not going to.
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Scammers in Nigeria
I too have been a victim of a scammer from Nigeria. He claimed that his name is William Dave Dick. He is supposedly from Miami, Florida. He claimed to have been stranded in Nigeria. He wanted me to send him some money because he was going to be put in jail if i didnt. Today was the day he was supposed to have been put in jail. As soon as he found out i couldnt send him any money he told me goodbye.
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Re: Nigrian scammer
Well it was a good thing that i didnt have the money to send because if i did i would probably have made the same mistake. This scammer i was involved with for some reason claimed that he loved me even though he didnt even know what i looked like. He claimed that he was this very rich business man but i had my doubts about him telling me the truth. As soon as he found out i wasnt sending him any money he told me that he didnt love me anymore.
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Re: u guys are stupid
you are right i can tell the scammers from the moment they say a word here it is I am SEEKING FOR MY RIGHT MAN OR SOULMATE ....lol you are stupid if you fall for this nits just funny to mecuz i dont have anymoney anyway even if my mother asked me i couldent help so i just let them tell me they love me and ect.ect.ect and when they ask me for money i say are you kiddin i havent got a dime thats all she wrote ,so i start to email them back and say what happened my love ..lol where are you ? oooh i miss you .. you know add salt to the wound cuz they do spend alot of time on you if you let themm.. lol...........anyway safe date chatting..... Lou sorry about the typos i cant fix it wont let me
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Re: scammers
can i ask if you were sent pictures? i have a stituation were i feel as if i'm being lied too,as many things are being said,and i feel that thay are premature and more than a little over the top,lol. Now this one saids he lives in london and deals with african arts he sounds really sweet and nice,but as all these things or in the news it makes you wonder as he does seem perfect!may be i'm just an old cinic?
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hummm
At this point in time i'm chatting to a guy that 'lives in london he's a computer engineer and an african art dealer!'. he sounds like my prince on a white steed,lovely,also really quite good looking and i have several pic's that he sent me,a heart renching story about his ex cheating on him and lets be honest we all have some horrid storys,and may be i'm being cinical but we do! other than some spelling errors and typos i have nothing to go on i have tryed to do an I.P reverse,but some and not all of the e-mails i get from this person are taking 5 minutes or more to down load!!!and so much txt is missing or lost on msn, i have friends in the usa,nz,oz and spain and france do i need to go on!and i have no problem and no lost txt when i chat to them!! But i do with the uk/usa guy in nigiria? i may be wrong and if i'm, i will let you know as he was hoping to be back this wkend(u.k)? it a case of wait and will see! But watch this space!!!
Also i told him that there has been alot on the national and international news re the scams in Nigeria he had no idea this was happening and totally horrifid that the internet was open to scams!!i'm scratching my head on this,so wot do you think?pls let me know......
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is it a scam
met this cute guy atleast the picture on his page is cute,anyway his name is paul tresler anybody else chatting with him says he wants to come see me for the new year but he's short 200 wants me to western union it to nigeria any body else know him let me know
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mony scams in nijeria
Iam working on the internet about 3 hours aday and I found out most cheaters is from nijeria men or women and most the banks over there they make u the winner but they cant send u the prize untel u send western union of 450 us dollars ,and I syed why Icant send wire transfer to the bank not to a person --no western union the dont exept banks or companies only person .and another one she like to take here mony out of there to any country and we talking about over 10 milions and up and she needs about 7895 us dollars to be able to make the acount working and the fees for the transfer.and beleve me its allot of stories of all kineds ,
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Not only nigeria Scam
why are you people always talk about nigeria same thing i got scamed from chine twice and once in Ameria with a link from uk but yet you people keep saying nigeria scam s how about other country? tell me about america job online or gree card are those real? you better talk about other good suject about nigerians
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PLEASE HELP!
Please if anyone knows anything about a man named Darren Bent please get a hold of me. I'm trying to find out any info on him and scamming practices if any. He says he's in Nigeria though lives in California. Thank you.'
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Re: PLEASE HELP!
I would love to talk to you about a man who says he has a house in Calif and the UK. He says he's a widower and has a 15 year old daughter. He tells me he loves me and wants to move here. He says he makes a huge amount of money and how he's going to take care of me. But today his daughter asked me for some money to pay her school. I'm very nervous that this is a scam and I refuse to send money. He tells me he is buying a oil well and is a chief engineer on the Merchant Bravery Ship.
I've had a funny feeling about this, and so glad I haven't done anything.
Joyce
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Re: Darren Bent is a scammer
Hello Virginia, I am in contact with a man calling himself Darren Wayne Bent. Email address... dabent57@yahoo.com. Claims to live in West Hollywood, Ca. and tells me he has been in Nigeria just over a week and will be there until August working as a consultant on a dam
project. I caught onto him right away. He is a scammer....from the gitgo. His IM name (sentence) reads "where have u been all my life cute one bent". In his photo he is wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt with some lettering on it and he is standing in the kitchen by the sink.
I am going to have him send me an email so I can add full headers and turn his pudgy butt in to the authorities. Like I said...........he is definately a scammer. I ended instant message to research him in scams and I found you.
He's MUGU. Do not do anything for him. I do not know his game yet. He first contacted me last night on 2jive.com a subsidiary of the Relationship exchange. He seems to be rather dense and slow catching on to some of the everyday american jargon. Hope this does not come too late for you.
Louise Mahoney
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rental scam
Try getting scammed by someone you think is going to rent there house to you. We thought we found a great place to move in to. Perfact for my baby girl. A man said that his family had to move for job reasons to Washington From vancouver island, leaving there lovely house vaccent, but he had gone to Mushin Logos Nigeria on a missin For god leaving his family in washington. His Wife then started e-mailing me to confirm the rental application and such, when she wanted me to send her husband money for rent to Mushins Lagos Nigeria via Western Union but never asked for a deposit or anything for my pets. I thought it all sounded suspicious when she kept reassuring me that we should trust eathother and send the money and she'd send keys. It sounded very persistant. So I googled around and found out that Nigeria is the FRAUD CAPITAL.. I'm so lucky that I had caught this before I carried through with the rental process. It's not that hard to be fooled by these people when your seriously looking for what they are offering. Like a place to rent for your new family, in my case.
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I demand the truth about a story that I have followed
Hello guys, I still can't unravel on the history I have with it is true or one love scammer but I already sent $ 430 U.S. and this person is called Cherry suffered an accident between the cities of Abeokuta and Lagos but I still I could not really find out if it is true or false all that. It seems that hour a tremendous fraud, but I swears that girl swear me with she is speaking the truth and so far responded to my mail yet. I would like to appeal to someone who is more in the city of Abeokuta to check for me the data that I'm going to go through by email is real or not, because I do not speak the English and that excludes me to connect by phone and check the whole story.
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