Pls guys I need ur help on some clarifications.
Bankers opinion will be well appreciated and also people that have received money from abroad before.
I met a friend on fb and he was my friend while we were in school before he left for turkey back in 2010.Now I got to have a chat with him and he said that he has built a house in the village and he wants to come around for Easter.
The problem now is that he wants to send me money from there to put things in other for the guys(old school friends that are still around;I'm currently in ph tho) but I bank with U.B.A,current account.He said that he will send the money on Friday,so I want to know if their will be any hindrances.

Pls guys ur opinion is needed.
N:B I'm not a scammer

He wants to send it from turkey to Nigeria(not a large amount of money tho)

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Nothing to be afraid of....I would have love to help you via the fact that I have a friend who presently works in eco bank, but that'd be tomorrow..

Sonnobax15:

Nothing to be afraid of....I would have love to help you via the fact that I have a friend who presently works in eco bank, but that'd be tomorrow..

Ok
Thank you for ur help.
Can you give me feed back tomorrow?

NiklauseFred:

Ok Thank you for ur help. Can you give me feed back tomorrow?

yeah

Sonnobax15:
yeah

Thank you so much man

NiklauseFred:
Pls guys I need ur help on some clarifications.
Bankers opinion will be well appreciated and also people that have received money from abroad before.
I met a friend on fb and he was my friend while we were in school before he left for turkey back in 2010.Now I got to have a chat with him and he said that he has built a house in the village and he wants to come around for Easter.
The problem now is that he wants to send me money from there to put things in other for the guys(old school friends that are still around;I'm currently in ph tho) but I bank with U.B.A,current account.He said that he will send the money on Friday,so I want to know if their will be any hindrances.

Pls guys ur opinion is needed.
N:B I'm not a scammer

He wants to send it from turkey to Nigeria(not a large amount of money tho)

If he sends the money directly into your current account, the bank will deduct close to 40% of the total amount as charges.

What I mean is that if he sends you $200. Originally what you should collect in naira based on exchange rate should be about 94k or more. But if he sends it directly to your bank account, what your credit alert will read will be about 70k, meaning over 20something thousand will be lost to bank charges.

What I will advise you to do in order to collect your complete money is to open a dollar account with your bank, make sure you explain to them that the account is specifically for receiving money from abroad so that they'll reduce the $50 minimum balance to like $5.

So when he's sending the money, tell him to send it through Western Union, then you can now go to your bank and request for Western Union form and tell them you want to collect it in dollars, they'll ask you if you have a Dollar account with them to which you'll reply yes, and you will be asked to fill the account number on the Western Union form.

When you're done with the filling and confirmation, the money will be given to you in dollars. Then you can look for your nearest mallam (black market) and change it with them.

And when changing, don't give them your dollar until you've collected and counted the naira equivalence, cos some cunning mallams might exchange your dollar for a fake one, and return it back to you telling you that it's fake. You have to be very wise and smart. I guess you should already know that as a Nigerian.

NiklauseFred:
Pls guys I need ur help on some clarifications.
Bankers opinion will be well appreciated and also people that have received money from abroad before.
I met a friend on fb and he was my friend while we were in school before he left for turkey back in 2010.Now I got to have a chat with him and he said that he has built a house in the village and he wants to come around for Easter.
The problem now is that he wants to send me money from there to put things in other for the guys(old school friends that are still around;I'm currently in ph tho) but I bank with U.B.A,current account.He said that he will send the money on Friday,so I want to know if their will be any hindrances.

Pls guys ur opinion is needed.
N:B I'm not a scammer

He wants to send it from turkey to Nigeria(not a large amount of money tho)

safest bet is to use a money transfer agent....western union, moneygram etc......so if it is a scam it doesn't impact on your account

Tell him to do western union for you and you can collect it in dollars in your UBA bank. I don't know why this is stress to you.

Nazgul:

If he sends the money directly into your current account, the bank will deduct close to 40% of the total amount as charges.

What I mean is that if he sends you $200. Originally what you should collect in naira based on exchange rate should be about 94k or more. But if he sends it directly to your bank account, what your credit alert will read will be about 70k, meaning over 20something thousand will be lost to bank charges.

What I will advise you to do in order to collect your complete money is to open a dollar account with your bank, make sure you explain to them that the account is specifically for receiving money from abroad so that they'll reduce the $50 minimum balance to like $5.

So when he's sending the money, tell him to send it through Western Union, then you can now go to your bank and request for Western Union form and tell them you want to collect it in dollars, they'll ask you if you have a Dollar account with them to which you'll reply yes, and you will be asked to fill the account number on the Western Union form.

When you're done with the filling and confirmation, the money will be given to you in dollars. Then you can look for your nearest mallam (black market) and change it with them.

And when changing, don't give them your dollar until you've collected and counted the naira equivalence, cos some cunning mallams might exchange your dollar for a fake one, and return it back to you telling you that it's fake. You have to be very wise and smart. I guess you should already know that as a Nigerian.

I thought there're requirements to open a dom account?

: yeahThank you so much man

I do send money to normal account in Nigeria from Transferwise or Acemoney and its never a problem but since the new rule by CBN.
I haven't tried because i don't understand how these law no works

Tell him to use worldremit. Easy as ABC, it'll Land in your account

NiklauseFred:


I thought there're requirements to open a dom account?

Its the same requirements you used in opening your current account that will be required in opening the dollar account.