WEB SIGHT (Are you a fool?)

Recently, it has happened to me 4 to 5 times. Whenever am chatting, meeting somebody online I mean chatting it ang the person at the other end will be demanding for things like money, recharge card or voucher and some other things [when] we have not even set eyes on each other.

Does the same thing happen to you, too? What is your reaction? And do you fall into it? I mean giving response to the other person at the other end (the person you are chatting with) in the name of love? Think about this.

ok do you know this person because you are like you have not set eyes on the person but then again you said you do it in the name of love... well if you have not met the person why d hell should you bother to reply to them...

men if that happened to you u must b rich for it to happen 4-5 times (wht is ur address so we could hooke up) cos tht hasn't happened to me yet well hope it does not cos i am as broke as hell n the person is in for it!!!

As for me I can respond to my online friend if he/she asks me for anything.

It doesn't matter wether you know him/her or not.

depends on how the person demands it and what i feel the person's intentions are. But most likely i won't

You have no way of confirming that your online friend is not a "professional begger", so I suggest that you should only send money/gifts to online friends if you won't miss the money!

Oh God I feel like I should give but I need 2 get this n that.

BUt come 2 think of it; some people r potential beggers n no matter how rich they r, they still have that affinity to beg.

That did not stop me from chatting with the person but I stylistically n humbly tells the person that I am reading.

But I wonder what my excuse would be when I through reading.

i believe most nigerians do this most. i have met loads that ask me for money, phones etc . its very annoying. i Log off immediately.

How'bout a situation where u meet someone on Nairaland, he is in nigeria, u're in london, he wants u to meet up but can't come to london now and has said u should come over to Nigeria, you tell him u can't afford a trip to Niger  now and he says no worries, i'll pay for the trip by sending cash to you.

Will you call the above scenario begging?





[s]****If na begging, abeg make i tell am to keep in money o****[/s]

I won't say that is begging, but I would really like to know the purpose of meeting up, as anyone willing to send money from Nigeria to someone in London is either a very good friend you have known for a while and finacially sound or someone dogy and upto something!

@dablessed i "second" sholao

back2dtopic, I wont listen to any1 who doesnt 'know' me yet begs (continually asking).
Cos i dont give to professional beggars. If its online, i'll give only to those i really know.

Yes i can give if it is for charity organisation OR we are just friends through chatting. It is not necessary for us to meet.

I see it as nothing but begging.

Com'on. How do you meet someone online, you don't know the first thing about them save for what they've told you about themselves and you are begging for money? It's ridiculous at best. It happens all the time and it ranges from money to phones to .... someone had the unmitigated temerity to ask me if I could sponsor him over to the UK to progress his basket balling career. What a laugh! This coming from a guy I had no idea where he even got my yahoo id from in the first instance. I told him basket ball is not as big in the UK as it is in the States and that he should record his training sessions, send the tapes to prominent teams in the US and hope for the best. I said I would help in securing the names of such teams for him .... gues what..... he said I should not bother and signed off. The next time he sent me an e-mail (I quite naturally blocked him from my contact list) he was lamenting on how poor his folks are and how badly they all need money to survive.

I wish Nigerians will stop this nonsense act. It simply beclouds ones jugdement in discerning who is genuiely in need of help and who is simply taking the piss.

So to answer the question, it's BEGGING!

Ra,

How do you determine who really needs help? Afterall there are many in Nigeria who don't have jobs, and would really love the chance of joining the rat race in a place like the UK.

A guy friend i had on line asked me for a job barely a week after we met on line. I felt pissed and stopped talking to him. It was to soon to ask for favors!!

sholao:

Ra,

How do you determine who really needs help? Afterall there are many in Nigeria who don't have jobs, and would really love the chance of joining the rat race in a place like the UK.

Shola, there's a clear line between the two. Well, as far as I am concerned, there is. What's more, you said it yourself in your earlier post. If I'm sending money to Nigeria or whatever part of the world, it's most certainly to a close friend or relative who I know needs the money. How do I know? Because these are people I know won't bother me unless they indeed need the money. Now some guy whose last name I don't even recall comes online after we might have chatted a couple of times and asks me for money?..... I'm sorry but that will be the last time he ever sees me online. Some guy I knew back home in my Church (get this, we were hardly friends) and barely ever got to know his name called me up about a month ago (must have taken my number off someone in Church) at 3am..... 3:am and asked me for money for his brother to send some stuff to him in Nigeria........ what arrant nonsense!!!

If anyone comes online and wants to chat about politics, the weather or sports, as long as my time and frame of mind permits at such time, I'm game. But nothing switches me off more than people trying to take advantage of others or being outrightly dodgy.

Angela k.. I feel you, my sister. In my opinion, a lot of people simply start chatting with other people with ulterior motives and it's really sad.

It's to my delight to have cut off so many people that not long after we know each other over the internet, not having met physically, started demanding for re-charge cards or mobile phones from me. I'd never posed myself as a 'big man' to anyone on the net before, so naturally, I will get pissed off and starts ignoring or blocks such individuals. Those are the generations of cyber-beggars.

It happens not only on the internet, but with GSM phones as well. You will just see a lot of requests for assistance from people who you barely know in form of text messages. Naturally, I ignore such requests. People need to wake up and have some sense of dignity.

Spot on diakim, spot on!

sholao:

I won't say that is begging, but I would really like to know the purpose of meeting up, as anyone willing to send money from Nigeria to someone in London is either a very good friend you have known for a while and finacially sound or someone dogy and upto something!

The person wants to engage her probably

Hmm all i can say is it is common from Nigerians located in Nigeria. They want phones, they want a way out of the country, they want you to hook them up with some white lady, they want money, they want phones, they want everything.

I still have some of them in my contact list sha. Me I no get time for them.

tell about it. Someone i met on a website and we started chatting on yahoo, was telling me to send him 3 cell-phones to show that i am indeed his friend. I was like and i got and i said, and i began to i just Blocked the guy from my yahoo.

Another one said that i should tell my dad to file for him, to come to USA, and when he gets here, he'll pay my dad. I was like, so i blocked him too.

Okay on a serious note, i have blocked so many people asking me for stuffs online. I soooo do not know you, why in the name of Heaven will be asking me for stuffs? If we are talking about my friends i left in Nigeria, and we are now like Online mates, I understand that one. But if i met you online and decided to be ur friend and you wanna turn me to an ATM , dude......not gonna happen!

Well put hot-angel....quite graphic

ATM: Cash machine

@hot-angel ATM - quick cash.   I like that, and also luv ur 'iconotextual' post.

Gees men!! i took my time to read all pot ahead of mine, quite pissing to know that people beg alot, well i'v never been begged en dont think ill go ahead to be Mr. Nice guy here. as a mater of fact i av limited people i chat with online, and those i chat with aint the kinda people that'll start begging for crumbs of favors..

Big shame to all ya e-beggers out there. May be ill make you guys a website for that begging.com or e-begger.com or something more lik nijabeggers.net

@timmy 'nijabeggers.net ' I think you've just given someone a new business plan!

It good that I don't use messaging software, so haven't experienced this personally.

i just ignore em..dey ask for stuff dat u cant even think sum1 is gon ask..dats y my dad hates me chatting on pc..dey gon say, show me ur passprt and u go fall for am now ur life is ova

Beware who you chat with.
Den dey hypnotise via pc now oo.
Know that today.

ya..ma daddy told me dat too

So be careful now that you know.

ya..i just shoot em..and cova myself wit de bloody of my saviour

You've got the secret.
That an effective antidote agaist the work of satan and his cohorts.

yea..bang bang and dey dead

Whenever i am like On pc and i am chatting, and i know my dad is home. I always lock my room. He'll be like "otun tin chat abi?" (you are chatting again) And i am like nooo.."mon change aso mi ni (i am changing my cloths)". Online predators and whatnot. Ever since my cam broke and i told my dad to get me a new one, he said not with his money nor in his house. I was like why, he said he don't want me showing people my face....and blah blah. He kinda gets on my nerves but i understand him. Online predators are so many here....somebody jusy pop up at ur messenger saying "hi". Especailly my sn that kinda has my name attached to it, so they say Hey liz,. remember me? And i am like no...who told u my name. (crazy people..they sometimes scare me). I so don't answer people that are not on my sn or else i know their sn.

SN is screen name.