eezeribe:


Read the story very well and the twitter comments

Aarenaija:


I have been seening this guy all over Lagos for about five years now .....................doing the same thing; crying over what is not lost jus to scam people

vodutive:

....to someone pretending to have lost money gained from hard labour

lomaxbien:
November 2015, a man approached me and begged for money to eat...i gave him N500.
30 minutes later I went to a bar with some of my friends...i met him at the same bar with a cold bottle of Goldberg and a plate of asun (goat meat)...i almost fainted.

dominique:
He's definitely working for someone, he probly has a target he has to deliver to his boss on a daily basis.

Now this kind of fraud does not surprise me, it has been in existence for over a decade just that now they're involving children. During my undergraduate days (first year), there was this fat woman that we ran into our lecture hall wailing that her son (who is also a student) is terribly sick at the school health center and she has spent all the money on her and he's dying. You need to see the big big denominations flying towards her direction. We were over a hundred in that hall and almost everybody dropped something. Fast forward a few months later (second year), I was in engineering lecture thearter with some friends only to see this same woman again, same cloth same story . As usual, people jumped and dropped huge amounts of cash. I was only able to stop those around me, one guy didn't even believe me and he ran forward to donate N500. During my final year, this woman came again to my faulty with the same sob story . Good thing I wasn't the only one that recognised her, most of us just remained on our seats and watched her perform film show. Anyone that attended UNILAG around 2003 to 2008 must have encountered this woman at least once.

Some people can't make an honest naira even if their lives depend on it.

whizcartel:
They are everywhere in Lagos.

I can remember two experiences.

First was along Funsho Williams avenue. Two guys saw me walking towards them, before I passed them, one of the drew my attention.

He told me they were going to fadeyi and they have no money on them. so I gave them enough to take them there.

Fast forward to like three weeks later. This same guys met me, one the same Funsho Williams avenue and they still told me the same cock and bull story. I just laughed and told them I ain't gat none. They were kinda smart too because you they switched this time, thinking I won't remember their faces.

The Second one was in C. M. S. A well spoken man approached me in a bus Going to the mainland. He kinda was well dressed too. He told me he doesn't have money to pay for his "t-fare"to Obalende. So I gave him.

The next day this same man met me in the same C. M. S. And he told me another cool story... Omo I change am for am o!

What they also do now. Is that, they will get on the bus with you, and form like they have lost their money, then they will beg you to pay for them. They are all over Mushin and Oyingbo. Some Lagosians Ehn.

bqlekan:


Asin ehn.. But the truth is Nigerians are getting lazier by the day. We are now engaging in dubious means to make money.. Just look at how many Nigerians MMM, megawealth, pennywise duped. Look at how many of our youths engage in fraudulent activities. I get an average of four fraudulent sms per month, asking me to upgrade my BVN in other to unblock my ATM card. For God sake, I don't even use one.

Ishilove:
A neatly dressed kid, about 10 years of age shyly approached me in Opebi. He told me his mother left home without cooking and he was hungry.

I felt moved by his story and gave him N200 to go and buy food. He thanked me and left.

About an hour later, I saw the same boy 'shyly' approaching another fellow, a dude this time.

The man gave him N500. By the time I left the area he had approached some others who also gave him money.

Our children are now expert con artists.

ReneeNuttall:
hmm I tot otherwise

Ishilove:
A neatly dressed kid, about 10 years of age shyly approached me in Opebi. He told me his mother left home without cooking and he was hungry.

I felt moved by his story and gave him N200 to go and buy food. He thanked me and left.

About an hour later, I saw the same boy 'shyly' approaching another fellow, a dude this time.

The man gave him N500. By the time I left the area he had approached some others who also gave him money.

Our children are now expert con artists.

Their children not ours

bqlekan:
oh I'm sorry, deeply sorry bro..

Ishilove:
Jeeze...so we now have professional wailers??

Betty Irabor, wife of Sunny Irabor and a reappearing young wailer.

I have lived in Lagos all my life and I thought I have seen it all, but this one is off da shizzle.

Physika:


Don't be sorry, tosyne'2much just lied to you.

Physika:

Don't be sorry, tosyne2much just lied to you.

bqlekan:


Lol, well, I could not prove it, I had to apologise.

tosyne2much:
To be very sincere, if you said I participated in it I wouldn't deny but as for the siggy, I never put up such

ritababe:

Joshua my love

ritababe:

Joshua my love