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Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by fifteen1(m): 8:21am On Sep 11, 2016 |
x240: 2 Likes |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Auseayo(m): 11:18pm On Oct 21, 2016 |
MMM is 4real, am a living testimony. Chat me up on watsapp or call me 08137363638 to know everytin abt mmm wit proofs |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Netcontactsng1(m): 11:40pm On Oct 21, 2016 |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by jist2day: 6:24am On Oct 22, 2016 |
Thunder will fire you and your entire generation op. why have you not taken the pain to write extensively about the collapsing economy,why mmm? did the participants tell you they don't know the risks? Like l said,may the failure you wish for mmm and its participants be upon you and your entire generation op. |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Jcan: 1:39pm On Oct 22, 2016 |
NgcoboP:shut up jo u r lying bankers have paid u to say that. |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by kason(m): 6:08pm On Oct 22, 2016 |
[s][quote author=NgcoboP post=48665276]South Africa 2016: LIKE play like play I warned them about investing in HYIP and rather do a physical business like trading, imports and exports..... but stubbornly they refused and laughed at me.... I kept quiet watched them put in the hard earned money... fastforward a few weeks later they had been duped.... "problems with the repayment system" meaning the fraudsters' exit strategy. No substitute for hardwork keep your money.... do legit biz deals. Avoid unnecessary suffering.. They the six Nigerians were introduced into the scheme by a friend who had also profited (but also lost out in the end), and they in turn brought in friends looking for easy money (MMM claim to offer) .... one of them got a pay out and that gingered more people to "invest" and by the time it collapsed the number of victims were more than those who benefited or profited from the scheme. The koko of the yarnyarn it that the victims outstrips the beneficiaries..... be wise, the initiators of the scheme have their own exit strategies ..... Nigeria is tough without getting scammed as it is already.... don't let yourself be scammed. #peaceout.... Thank you. I decided to make this thread as a result of posts I have been seeing about MMM please be wise, don't be lured by easy money. Read the book "the richest man in babylon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company) МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s.[1][2] By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The exact figures are not known even to the founders. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 External links History[edit] MMM was established in 1989 by Sergei Mavrodi,[2] his brother Vyacheslav Mavrodi, and Olga Melnikova. The name of the company was taken from the first letters of the three founders' surnames. Initially, the company imported computers and office equipment. In January 1992, tax police accused MMM of tax evasion, leading to the collapse of MMM-bank, and causing the company to have difficulty obtaining financing to support its operations. Faced with difficulties in funding its foreign trade, the company switched to the financial sector. It offered American stocks to Russian investors, but met with little success. Later, MMM-Invest was created for the purpose of collecting vouchers during privatisation. This effort was similarly unsuccessful.[citation needed] MMM created its successful Ponzi scheme in 1994. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to one thousand percent. It is unclear whether a Ponzi scheme was Mavrodi's initial intention, inasmuch as such extravagant returns might have been possible during the Russian hyperinflation in such commerce as import-export.[citation needed] MMM grew rapidly. In February 1994, the company reported dividends of 1,000%, and started an aggressive TV ad campaign. Since the shares were not quoted on any stock exchange and the company itself determined the share price, it maintained a steady price growth of thousands of percent annually, leading the public to believe its shares were a safe and profitable investment.[citation needed] An important factor in the scheme's success was word of mouth, but most of the company's success came from its extremely aggressive ad campaign, which appealed to the general public by using "ordinary" characters that viewers could identify with. The most famous of them, a "folk hero" of early 1994, was Lyonya Golubkov. Another notable marketing effort was a giveaway of free Metro trips to all Moscow citizens on a particular day. MMM also was one of the first well-known companies in Russia with a logotype and slogans ("Flying from shadow to the light" and others).[citation needed] At its peak the company was taking in more than 100 billion rubles (about 50 million USD) each day from the sale of its shares to the public. Thus, the cashflow turnover at the MMM central office in Moscow was so high that it could not be estimated. The management started to count money in roomfuls (1 roomful of money, 2 roomfuls of money, etc.).[citation needed] Regular publication in the media of the rising MMM share price led President Boris Yeltsin to issue a decree in June 1994 prohibiting financial institutions from publicising their expected income.[citation needed] The success of MMM in attracting investors led to the creation of other similar companies, including Tibet, Chara, Khoper-Invest, Selenga, Telemarket, and Germes. All of these companies were characterised by aggressive television advertising and extremely high promised rates of return. One company promised annual returns of 30,000%.[citation needed] On July 22, 1994, the police closed the offices of MMM for tax evasion. For a few days the company attempted to continue the scheme, but soon ceased operations. At that point, Invest-Consulting, one of the company's subsidiaries, owed more than 50 billion rubles in taxes (USD 26 million), and MMM itself owed between 100 billion and 3 trillion rubles to the investors (from USD 50 million to USD 1.5 billion). In the aftermath at least 50 investors, having lost all of their money, committed suicide.[citation needed] Several organisations of "deceived investors" made efforts to recover their lost investments, but Sergei Mavrodi manipulated their indignation and directed it at the government. In August 1994 Mavrodi was arrested for tax evasion. However, he was soon elected to the Russian State Duma, with the support of the "deceived investors". He argued that the government, not MMM, was responsible for people losing their money, and promised to initiate a pay-back program. The amount ultimately paid back was minuscule compared to the amount owed.[citation needed] In October 1995, the Duma cancelled Mavrodi's right to immunity as a deputy. In 1996, he tried to run for Russia's presidency, but most of the signatures he received were rejected. MMM declared bankruptcy on September 22, 1997.[citation needed] While it was believed that Sergei Mavrodi left Russia and moved to the United States, it is possible that he stayed in Moscow, using his money to change apartments regularly and employ a group of former special agents. With the help of a distant relative he started Stock Generation Ltd., another pyramid scheme based around trading non-existent companies' stocks in a form of the "stock exchange game" on the company's site, stockgeneration.com. Despite a bold-letter warning on the main page that the site was not a real stock exchange, between 20,000 and 275,000 people, according to various estimates, fell for the promised 200% returns and lost their money. According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, losses of victims were at least USD 5.5 million.[citation needed] Mavrodi was found and arrested in 2003. While in custody, Mavrodi was given until January 31, 2006 to read the documents in his fraud case against him (The criminal case consisted of 650 volumes, each 250-270 pages long).[citation needed] At the end of April 2007, Mavrodi was convicted of fraud, and given a sentence of four and a half years. Since he had already spent over four years in custody, he was released less than a month later, on May 22, 2007.[citation needed] He later went on to creating yet another pyramid scheme called MMM-2011. The MMM scandal led to increased regulation of the Russian stock market, but the legacy of the fraud led many to become extremely suspicious of any joint stock companies. In 2015 MMM began operating in South Africa with the same business model as MMM-2011, claiming a "30% per month" return through a "social financial network".[3] The group was identified as a possible pyramid scheme by the National Consumer Commission and accounts of clients were later frozen by Capitec Bank.[4] In response to mounting criticism and official investigations by state authorities in 2016 supporters of the South African MMM scheme staged a protest march in Johannesburg.[5] In 2016, MMM launched a website targeting the Nigerian audience.[6][/quote[/s]] This fellow is a sponsored BLOGGER 1 Like |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 11:17pm On Oct 22, 2016 |
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Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by nd07(m): 9:51am On Nov 01, 2016 |
x240: My brother, if poverty is behind d carelessness of people, i'm yet to know. A friend did not participate in any MTN play & win whatever. suddenly he received a text from a private number that he won a million, he stupidly fell in, sent thousands of Naira airtime to d scammers in d bid of making some clearerance before claiminghis money. the worst is that this man is a graduate. he was already cooking up testimony he'll share inhis church only for him to discover at last that he had beenscammed |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Akdams(m): 12:52pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
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Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Cation(m): 5:10pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
NgcoboP:Abeg who borrow money from your father to do MMM? how is it your business if anyone does MMM? abi who you Don help? |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 9:29pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
Cation:Seun Lalasticlala Mynd44 and Dominique... I will not restrain myself if these kind of fraudulent personalities who are benefitting from the sorrows of others keep mentioning me in the manner of people without home training and devoid of a father figure while growing up. @cation sorry to burst your bubble. go back to the ONE who subjected you to fathers of the nights while growing up..... some of us grew up with real fathers hence cautious.... I believe it's no fault of yours growing up with different fathers every night...it must have been hard changing fathers multiple times in a day. |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by KINGTELLER: 9:47pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
Phrankher:Have u gotten paid for the bolded, I am interested |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Cation(m): 10:04pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
NgcoboP:yes you are right, "some of you" the probability that you had one is 1/infinity #undefined# |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 10:08pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
Cation:stop my mentions.... I can't be that father figure you badly seek... my last response to your rants. bye. |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 10:46pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
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Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by igwedaboss(m): 11:23pm On Nov 06, 2016 |
NgcoboP:You said u a living witness. Did you get scammed? if yes, how? Just trying to learn... Thanks |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by typearls(f): 4:14am On Nov 09, 2016 |
Before you join or start MMM, here are five facts you need to know. http://www.typearls.com.ng/2016/11/get-rich-quick-scheme-ponzi-or-not-5.html |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 7:19am On Nov 09, 2016 |
typearls:are you aware CBN is moving in to deal a mortal blow to the MMM scheme in Nigeria? just add number 6 to whatever you have in your blog |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 9:04am On Nov 09, 2016 |
NgcoboP: My friend go and die, seeing your rant on this forum against mmm shows you're nothing but a pained being. Ranting up and down won't help crash the scheme. MMM has come to stay to help the masses. Like it or leave it, you will die while mmm lives till eternity. |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 9:07am On Nov 09, 2016 |
Godshand:you have just predicted your own death... work hard honest work with a serious government has no substitute. 1 Like |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 10:18am On Nov 09, 2016 |
Ninho: It's the power of Naija... Together we will achieve our target of getting every Nigerian registered in MMM. 50 million Nigerians to be registered within 5-10 years. Together we will achieve this. No more Poverty... All round prosperity. #close the gap between rich and poor. Every Nigerian of age, should own a car and a house. If you don't like it... Get lost |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by Nobody: 3:12pm On Nov 09, 2016 |
slimany:listen to your own words.... quite imbecilic to think that of MMM |
Re: BEWARE Six Of My Nigerian Neighbors Scammed By MMM!!! by jsheng(m): 4:18pm On Nov 09, 2016 |
slimany: pls who is ninho, I hear he is my guider |
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