Nigeria & Scam
" Nigerian scammers make up about1% of cyber crime cartels in the world. They are just amateurs and easy to trace with their below par gimmicks of hacking with evidence to indict & convict. Infact Nigeria is not even amongst the first 50 criminal cartels that boasts of gangs from advanced & sophisticated countries like China, Russia, Uk, Sweden, USA, Japan, Mexico, India...research it.
Ask Europol, the hustle is real and HIGHLY sophisticated. And ask the FBI. Difficult to trace and legislate, thereby making convictions harder. Every year regulations & policies are modified, created & implemented to manage this. Which is why small amateurs scamming besotted internet lovers, greedy recipients of an inexistent inheritance, loot et all; AKA yahoo yahoo are easy to trace. And even that!!! THEY ARE NOT all Nigerians. Many others now even scam people using the Nigerian identity and drop lines.
Global cybercrime costs the world about $400b yearly. That was on average in 2014 alone. It's been estimated to be a $1.5t economy in 2018, more sources even quote much higher. In 2011, ECB, filtered over €170b from nowhere.
This cybercrime estimate is seperate from other forms of organized crimes & drug cartels.
So scammers are not always Nigerians. They are other parts of Africa, Asians, Europeans, Americans,(both poles) Middle Eastern, many of whom are of the sophisticated countries ... We just hear the ones that are Nigerians because it concerns us and because we have a bleeped up system of governance & leadership that aggravates issues for us, instead of protecting us. Even stooping so low as playing tribal biased games. I mean if you have a not so bright president going on the international stage to call you lazy criminals? With all our outstanding achievements & talents home & abroad, What do you expect?
Enron & co crashed, Madoff pulled off his ponzi scheme like those before him, yet Americans were/are not called criminals. 2 young shoplifters were spoken for despite their crimes in a foreign country by their president to return home, and recently for ASAP Rocky in Sweden for assault. Americans were not deemed criminals. It didn't affect the dignity of their citizenship. If anything, it added value because of the role of leadership.
This is the reason why a Swedish gang, a French gang, an Israeli gang, an American gang are seperate from their citizens dignity not overwhelmed by their crimes. Because there is a functional system of governance & leadership with strong institutions that places a high value on citizenship, no matter how implicit it gets.
So if you find yourself feeling embarrassed or discouraged, it's not because of 80 or more suspects from a country with a population size of over 160m people indicted in less than 0.01% of yearly estimates of global cybercrime, who happen to be Nigerian. You are embarrassed because of poor governance, poor institutions, poor leadership that trample & disregard the dignity of your citizenship. Because those elements are what define your value as a citizen. If you are treated poorly at embassies, airports, immigration centres et all, profiled in a perceptive world, it's because of that.
So condemn crime & criminals, but let no one feel pious or worthy enough to reduce your pride as a Nigerian. That's on you & your leaders.
If other countries can protect the dignity of citizenship for their citizens irrespective of the grievious, henious crimes they commit, yours can & should too.
Bonsoir et Bon weekend"
Uri Jones

While Nigerian cyber criminals are not rated in terms of sophistication and technical knowledge, saying they make up just 1% is not true.
By sheer numbers Nigerian cyber crime will always rank in the top 10 if not top 5 of any cyber crime ranking anywhere.
What they lack in sophistication they make up for it in numbers, big numbers. Nigerians account for more than 30% of the malicious emails sent worldwide.

When I try typing Nigeria on Google see suggestions I get below. Nigeria is in a class by itself. It is the only country with scam named after it

CanadaOrBust:
When I try typing Nigeria on Google see suggestions I get below. Nigeria is in a class by itself. It is the only country with scam named after it

Sorry, that don’t mean nada.

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