sultaan:
Apparently PhD is not given for common sense if you take on their problem it is your problem so there is no need for them to solve it anymore.

Don't log in to Facebook for 3 months the block all calls from Nigeria for 3 months by then your senses would have adjusted to you being responsible to your family they all won't die in 3 months they will have to understand where their lives are if you are incapacitated for extended period. Wean them of free milk and honey.


No insult intended

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Carry cocaine to indonesia, if u want to end it once and for all.

astrodome:


You mean I should send myself to my death (for that is the reward for drug trafficking in Indonesia) to avoid them?

delishpot:
Pkele op. Tell them you are having some problem at work and your boss has not been paying you since then. Inshort, beg them to send some cash to your momsie that you will try to pay later. That you are low on cash qnd momsie needs her monthly allawee.




Ignore friends on FB. Must you have FB pals? I closed my FB acct and opened a new one where only my family members are my friends. I do not post any photos there and I make sure no friends we have in common knows its me.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Carry cocaine to indonesia, if u want to end it once and for all.

astrodome:
Help!! Friends, family, former school mates and others are killing me with financial demands. Everyday I receive facebook (fb) messages, phone calls, email messages and messages from other communication avenues from family members, friends close and distant, school mates I have not seen in 20 years but with whom I reconnected on fb, and even random fb friends (meaning I do not know them personally but somehow we managed to be friends on fb). They all have the same story: please send me money, anything.

Each month I send nearly 3k to Nigeria and they keep asking for more.

Do they think I pluck money from trees in America?
Do they think every Nigerian in America is doing drugs or credit card fraud to make money?
Are they thinking that since Akin or Emeka made it in America (in many cases by selling drugs and doing credit card fraud), I should also make it and therefore be able to satisfy their unending demands?

How do I explain to them that I have bills (auto, mortgage, water-sewer, electricity, gas, phone, credit card) to pay. And then I have to run my family (of 4) and fuel 2 cars, and on top of that, I have to save also for the rainy day - for when kids get to college.

I am able to resist the random fb friends because I do not have any personal connection with them, but how do I scare the ones I know off without sounding rude and unhelping? I know that when you stop giving, you become an enemy.
Help! Before a fellow nairalander runs amock on the streets of America because of pressure from Nigeria

Just for disclosure: I am well-heeled in the US mid-upper middle class, earning a 6-figure pay, holds a PhD, and involved in R4D activities. But I live in a US city (name withheld) where mortgage payment alone takes 25% of my monthly income. So you can imagine that after paying all bills, I do not have tons of money left over to give out on frequent basis.

Please advise on how to handle this, Naija style . Thanks

astrodome:


And who will be my new friends on the new fb page? Those ones will not ask for help?

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Carry cocaine to indonesia, if u want to end it once and for all.

Sunofgod:


Yeah - only associate with rich people - poor people are trouble!

(Bros - Can you lend me like $2000 until payday? Abeg!)

astrodome:
Help!! Friends, family, former school mates and others are killing me with financial demands. Everyday I receive facebook (fb) messages, phone calls, email messages and messages from other communication avenues from family members, friends close and distant, school mates I have not seen in 20 years but with whom I reconnected on fb, and even random fb friends (meaning I do not know them personally but somehow we managed to be friends on fb). They all have the same story: please send me money, anything.

Each month I send nearly 3k to Nigeria and they keep asking for more.

Do they think I pluck money from trees in America?
Do they think every Nigerian in America is doing drugs or credit card fraud to make money?
Are they thinking that since Akin or Emeka made it in America (in many cases by selling drugs and doing credit card fraud), I should also make it and therefore be able to satisfy their unending demands?

How do I explain to them that I have bills (auto, mortgage, water-sewer, electricity, gas, phone, credit card) to pay. And then I have to run my family (of 4) and fuel 2 cars, and on top of that, I have to save also for the rainy day - for when kids get to college.

I am able to resist the random fb friends because I do not have any personal connection with them, but how do I scare the ones I know off without sounding rude and unhelping? I know that when you stop giving, you become an enemy.
Help! Before a fellow nairalander runs amock on the streets of America because of pressure from Nigeria

Just for disclosure: I am well-heeled in the US mid-upper middle class, earning a 6-figure pay, holds a PhD, and involved in R4D activities. But I live in a US city (name withheld) where mortgage payment alone takes 25% of my monthly income. So you can imagine that after paying all bills, I do not have tons of money left over to give out on frequent basis.

Please advise on how to handle this, Naija style . Thanks

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Carry cocaine to indonesia, if u want to end it once and for all.

overdrive:
what's ur fb handle let me add u.

horlakunle25:
badooo...so u go later beg 4 money after all dis ur sermon??

astrodome:


You mean I should send myself to my death (for that is the reward for drug trafficking in Indonesia) to avoid them?

Jarus:
Almost every working person gets such demand, irrespective of where the person is. I get almost on daily basis.

And i haev a feeling you flaunt your "wealth" on facebook....such attracts more demand.