princekevo:

News like this sometimes make me wanna denounce my citizenship as a Nigerian.
I don't even blame the so called FBI even when some scam cant be traced to Nigerians, is already registered in their mind that Nigerians are the only scammers we have on earth, coz even our leaders are very good example of it with their money laundry and corruption.

fyneguy:

The irony of it all is that some of these scammers would contribute to this thread

phuck_NL:

You've denounced your citizenship already, you just don't know it.

dtw_sola:

You people are getting all excited over a story posted on some blog, by another Nigerian for that matter. Quite an overreaction. I think the whole 419 thing is overblown these days. Most of the high level internet scamming that is successful these days is coming from Eastern Europe (esp Russia) , as well as China. This scamming is carried out by 'well educated' individuals finding vulnerabilities and hacking into computer networks for banks, government organizations, and other institutions. Our local 'yahoo' boys that are still sending out communications in poorly written English and hoping for bait are not finding much success in the scamming business anymore. I don't think that we're even close to being the number one scamming nation on earth. Nobody sees a Russian and automatically thinks he/she must be a scammer. Nigerians should not have to deal with these negative stereotypes, especially given the facts.

dtw_sola:

You people are getting all excited over a story posted on some blog, by another Nigerian for that matter. Quite an overreaction. I think the whole 419 thing is overblown these days. Most of the high level internet scamming that is successful these days is coming from Eastern Europe (esp Russia) , as well as China. This scamming is carried out by 'well educated' individuals finding vulnerabilities and hacking into computer networks for banks, government organizations, and other institutions. Our local 'yahoo' boys that are still sending out communications in poorly written English and hoping for bait are not finding much success in the scamming business anymore. I don't think that we're even close to being the number one scamming nation on earth. Nobody sees a Russian and automatically thinks he/she must be a scammer. Nigerians should not have to deal with these negative stereotypes, especially given the facts.

alfchye:

I can bet Hundred million dollars tht the face book stuff is not from Nigeria, This are done by most  people from Alabnia, Vietnam or Romania and they all have yahoo yahoo friends in Nigeria who can help them pick up this amount anytime any day. So it is sent to Nigeria  and the Nigerians in turn return certain percentage to them in their countries

Unfortunately, these crimes are committed by NIGERIANS!

It has happened to me and it also happened to a friend. Fortunately for me, it was resolved on time. For my friend, he had to open a new facebook account to warn all his friends.

My Experience:
I woke up one morning only to realise that I couldn't log into facebook again. I tried my password and it didnt work. I tried logging in into my yahoo account cos I use the same password and it worked so I knew it wasn't a problem with my password. Fortunately, facebook guys had also noticed 'malicious' tampering of my account and they had sent me a mail to my yahoo account. They adviced me to change the password which I did immediately.

By the time I logged in to facebook, 'someone' had sent my friends some funny message asking them to click on a link. The link will take you to a fake facebook page where if you enter your password, it will be stolen. I immediately sent a mail to all my friends not to click it and shared my experience.

My Friend's Experience.
Unfortunately, some of my friends had clicked on that link and thus exposed their passwords to these 419 guys. Luckily though, they quickly remedied it when they saw my mail and changed their password by writing to facebook customer service.
This particular friend of mine couldn't change his for one reason or another. The next thing I knew, he was 'online' one day and told me he had just gotten into trouble with some 'jamo' guys. He asked me to send him money if possible. Now this friend of mine is in the US. I asked him how much and he said £800. It was at that time I knew something was amiss. Im not sure anyone in UK or US will ask you to loan him that amount just like that. So I asked him how far with his mum and if she's feeling better (my real friend's mum died years ago) and he replied that he actually needed the money for his mum that she was sick and that I should send it to his friend in Nigeria. I went on to collect the details of that 'his friend' but couldn't do anything about it. My intention was to find a way of getting the police to arrest him.

Anyways, immediately I sent this my friend a mail and he replied that I wasn't the first person that about three of his friends had either called or mailed him too asking him if he was the one. Infact one of our mutual friends in Nigeria had almost paid in 20,000naira into the account the guy gave her. Luckily for her she was on facebook that day and was asking me if I heard what happened to this friend of ours (apparently he had told her the jamo story too) and I warned her not to pay the money as the guy's a 419er. She said if I had not warned her, she was going to pay it the next day.

Now Im not sure if anyone fell for the prank but this thief used my friend's facebook ID for over a week. My friend had to open another one afresh and warn most of his friends.

Its sad that these people have decided to spoil the name Nigeria and thus Nigerians. It also sad that government is doing nothing except rebranding which isn't the way forward. However, I am not surprised, the biggest 419ers are in Government.

yommys01:

How are we sure they letters are being sent by Nigerians? I wonder why the FBI is being stupid. Does it mean every online scam is coming from Nigeria?

obstead200:

In a way, i greatly admire these yahoo guys. they have shown themselves to be individuals of great imagination and innovativeness. _{even though the only use it in evil ways.}

mygladness:

Should we take it that some of the culprits are responding already to justify their nefarious acts?

The argument of some of the posters here is a cause for concern.

Should we say the yahoo boys continue because Nigeria is the 5th country of the world in scammed business?

Why is anyone so sure the FB scam did not originate from Nigeria despite the experience shared on this thread?

Why shouldn't we condemn this because our leaders are corrupt?

Even if the whole world is dubious, why Nigeria? Isn't it better that we are known for good rather than for bad?

Doesn't it bother us, the kind of treatment Nigerians receive when travelling outside this country the moment u present the green passport?

That the victims are greedy is not an excuse.

Let us all condemn this evil act that is tarnishing the image of honest Nigerians and Nigeria, 419 is bad.

Sisi_Kill:

Like they aren't doing the same thing on Nairaland? 

obstead200:

In a way, i greatly admire these yahoo guys. they have shown themselves to be individuals of great imagination and innovativeness. _{even though the only use it in evil ways.}