As has been my life routine. I woke up this morning and stretched out my hand to pick my phone from the table. I perused my WhatsApp, Facebook and went foward to check my emails. So I opened a mail from Google maps (I am a developer and I have integrated and consumed Google maps APIs on a bunch of websites and applications I built for clients).

So what really caught my attention was that Google promised to pay $15 If i helped them complete a survey on their map products.

So with my heart racing fast and pumping in excitement, I rushed and clicked the link. I selected my employment status, clicked on the select box to indicate my country, alas and behold, Nigeria was not in the list of countries. I scrolled delligently and intermittently between Namibia, Nicaragua,niger and hoping to see Nigeria somewhere but it was not there. To be sure my eyes was not deceiving me, I used my web developer sense to referesh the page, blaming the absence of Nigeria on network problem resulting in incomplete page load. To my surprise Nigeria was not still there.

This is not right, I said to myself. Nigeria has the best developers in Africa both in quality and quantity and some of the highest consumers of Google products.
I am entitled to this free pie and so is other Nigerian developers. We and some Nigerian companies have used and paid for Google products and deserves this pie and nothing will stop me.

So in the midst of my confusion I found an option that indicates 'my country not listed here'. So I selected this option and clicked the next button. Hoping to get directed to where Nigeria is listed so that I can continue with the survey.

My brothers and sisters I was told 'thank you for your time' . No this can't be happening. Something must be wrong, I need to earn this $15. Maybe I must have selected the wrong option. I clicked on the back button but was told that I can't take the survey again.

Okay, enough of the jokes. I did a little research and found out that Nigerians has abused such opportunities in the past and hence, are not qualified for such tasks on most Google products.

The culture of fraud has eaten deep into the very fabric of the Nigerian society.
Ghanians, togolese, benonoise and host of smaller African countries are now open to opportunities a Nigerian has no access to.

The internet is booming. A lot of businesses today are moving their market place online. In the US, the e-commerce sector is worth over $500bn contributing significantly to the GDP and overall economy of the USA. One of the reason for this growth is because of TRUST and HONESTY. An American can meet a fellow American online, interact and seal a business deal without one devicing 'smart' (evil) ways to defraud the other.

Today most Nigerians can't do business online because you are 100% sure to be duped. To make matters worst, when you complain, you will be termed 'not smart' or foolish.
What is wrong in trusting a fellow Nigerian? For us not to recognize this as a problem shows the depth of decay in our morality.

Chronic internet fraudsters(Yahoo Yahoo) are celebrated. Some have developed 'justifications' for this crime.

Developers like me that do business online are some of the worst people affected by the menace of fraud and bad reputation Nigerians have amassed online and it is only going to get worse. I have lost business opportunities simply because the client I met on Facebook discovered that I am a 'nigerian'. In his words 'Mr Clinton, your works are good but I don't do business with Nigerians online. '

It is time the Nigeria society start combating the menace of fraud. It is the obligation of our religious institutions to condemn fraud in strong terms without mincing words.
It is the responsibility of you, the ordinary Nigerian to be honest in your dealing with your fellow Nigerian without devicing ways to scam each other.
It is the responsibility of our government to increase the punishment for fraud and cybercrimes. The government should also expand the scope of what is defined as fraud. Reneging on a gentleman agreement after receiving monetary inducements is 'fraud'.
Developers like me have a very vital role to play. We can refuse to develop that phising website/script,crypto, investment etc website especially when we know what it will be used for. Think about your future. The same laptop and phone you use to access your Gmail, WhatsApp, Facebook etc is the same device you will use to host a fraudulent website. Don't you know that FBI and other relevant agencies are taking your data? When you get that your dream foreign job and decide to move to a foreign country, you will just end up in jail.

NIGERIANS SAY NO TO FRAUD

Cc mynd44 OAMJ4 lalasticlala front page. this is very important

Mods leave this thread in politics. This is describing the consequences on fraud in Nigeria and how Nigerians and the present government can fight it.

As a Nigerian, there are many apps you can't see, talk more of downloading from playstore or appstore. There are websites you can't visit and a lot of online programs you can't participate. Many people from poor African countries are earning a lot of dollars doing survey. If these surveys was available to Nigerians I am sure it will help a lot of youths to break even.

even CPC rates are very poor on AdSense if your traffic is from Nigeria. This problems that this generation is pilling up will be a large burden on the upcoming generations

Nice writeup . How I wish all Nigerians had this mindset .

The future of our kids is at stake here.

Everyone will be affected, directly or indirectly.

Good one bro, however, a government that put so much rely on corruption cannot put a stop to it, go to government offices, government hospitals and see what is happening, corruption has gone so deep bro.

Word on point!

I've seen Atheists attack religion in the sense that Nigerians are so religious but not very progressive.

But the reality is most people only have religious identities and focus on the worship part of their religions but do not take consideration of the morals and laws.

Both books forbid deceit, lying, stealing and all sorts of vices. But many nationals in this country are masters of these vices. It's even worse when they see it as "dullness" or stupidity when you don't engage in it.

A sad and shameful reality!

But we rejoice though. Because one of the major reasons why this is the case is because of gross ignorance many people suffer and the fact that there is a colossal shortage of exemplary leaders people can look up to to guide them towards uprightness and good conduct.

And all that shall begin to change when the great emperor "The Unity" finally arises and establishes his New Era.

In the New Era, divine consciousness and true enlightenment will be brought nearer to the people and they shall be inspired to control their desires and submit to true values.

Humanity is in danger of destroying itself due to ignorance and heedlessness and God willing, the process of saving humanity from the evil of itself will begin when the New Era starts.

We await your coming, the great Unity.

P.S. "The Unity" is not Jesus or AntiChrist or Mahdi

You are just crying because of mere 15 sold. Smh.

My brother irrespective of the serious attention your post deserves, I found my self laughing throughout the entire post. I will say you have the gift of writing comic books because you are so funny with this write up. You are not the only one that has been affected by the scourge of these online fraudsters, but my concern is that there must be a paradigm shift in our view about life. Our inordinate quest to get rich quick is the cause of this anomaly. I pray that something should be done to arrest this ugly trend that has portrayed Nigeria on the spotlight as a nation with the highest online business risk by foreign countries.

Crowwejihadist:
You are just crying because of mere 15 sold. Smh.

bro I am sorry to say that your comment is myopic. the issue is not the paltry $15 but how Nigerians are excluded from opportunities that are available to others

Too bad really

Nice write up, we really need to do something about it.

Story. Even if you get a remote job getting paid na die.

Crowwejihadist:
You are just crying because of mere 15 sold. Smh.

One of the destroyers...

tensazangetsu20:
Story. Even if you get a remote job getting paid na die.

what do you mean by this

JavaScript90:

what do you mean by this

It's not easy receiving payment from other countries to Nigeria. We had this problem so much at the company I work we had to eventually resort to crypto.

tensazangetsu20:

It's not easy receiving payment from other countries to Nigeria. We had this problem so much at the company I work we had to eventually resort to crypto.

We are still saying same thing. Financial institutions in most countries are not interested in doing business with Nigerians because of the high probability of Nigerians to abuse and defraud the system

1.

I don't know why the mods moved this topic to crime where it will die a natural death. this thread deserves front page

Ode!

Post the link to your “research” sources.

Nigeria is excluded because they don't need your opinion on whatever survey your broke ass is so eager to complete.

That said, death to yahoo bastards!

FuckDModz:
Ode!

Post the link to your “research” sources.

Nigeria is excluded because they don't need your opinion on whatever survey your broke ass is so eager to complete.

That said, death to yahoo bastards!

you are just an attention seeker

JavaScript90:
As has been my life routine. I woke up this morning and stretched out my hand to pick my phone from the table. I perused my WhatsApp, Facebook and went foward to check my emails. So I opened a mail from Google maps (I am a developer and I have integrated and consumed Google maps APIs on a bunch of websites and applications I built for clients).

So what really caught my attention was that Google promised to pay $15 If i helped them complete a survey on their map products.

So with my heart racing fast and pumping in excitement, I rushed and clicked the link. I selected my employment status, clicked on the select box to indicate my country, alas and behold, Nigeria was not in the list of countries. I scrolled delligently and intermittently between Namibia, Nicaragua,niger and hoping to see Nigeria somewhere but it was not there. To be sure my eyes was not deceiving me, I used my web developer sense to referesh the page, blaming the absence of Nigeria on network problem resulting in incomplete page load. To my surprise Nigeria was not still there.

This is not right, I said to myself. Nigeria has the best developers in Africa both in quality and quantity and some of the highest consumers of Google products.
I am entitled to this free pie and so is other Nigerian developers. We and some Nigerian companies have used and paid for Google products and deserves this pie and nothing will stop me.

So in the midst of my confusion I found an option that indicates 'my country not listed here'. So I selected this option and clicked the next button. Hoping to get directed to where Nigeria is listed so that I can continue with the survey.

My brothers and sisters I was told 'thank you for your time' . No this can't be happening. Something must be wrong, I need to earn this $15. Maybe I must have selected the wrong option. I clicked on the back button but was told that I can't take the survey again.

Okay, enough of the jokes. I did a little research and found out that Nigerians has abused such opportunities in the past and hence, are not qualified for such tasks on most Google products.

The culture of fraud has eaten deep into the very fabric of the Nigerian society.
Ghanians, togolese, benonoise and host of smaller African countries are now open to opportunities a Nigerian has no access to.

The internet is booming. A lot of businesses today are moving their market place online. In the US, the e-commerce sector is worth over $500bn contributing significantly to the GDP and overall economy of the USA. One of the reason for this growth is because of TRUST and HONESTY. An American can meet a fellow American online, interact and seal a business deal without one devicing 'smart' (evil) ways to defraud the other.

Today most Nigerians can't do business online because you are 100% sure to be duped. To make matters worst, when you complain, you will be termed 'not smart' or foolish.
What is wrong in trusting a fellow Nigerian? For us not to recognize this as a problem shows the depth of decay in our morality.

Chronic internet fraudsters(Yahoo Yahoo) are celebrated. Some have developed 'justifications' for this crime.

Developers like me that do business online are some of the worst people affected by the menace of fraud and bad reputation Nigerians have amassed online and it is only going to get worse. I have lost business opportunities simply because the client I met on Facebook discovered that I am a 'nigerian'. In his words 'Mr Clinton, your works are good but I don't do business with Nigerians online. '

It is time the Nigeria society start combating the menace of fraud. It is the obligation of our religious institutions to condemn fraud in strong terms without mincing words.
It is the responsibility of you, the ordinary Nigerian to be honest in your dealing with your fellow Nigerian without devicing ways to scam each other.
It is the responsibility of our government to increase the punishment for fraud and cybercrimes. The government should also expand the scope of what is defined as fraud. Reneging on a gentleman agreement after receiving monetary inducements is 'fraud'.
Developers like me have a very vital role to play. We can refuse to develop that phising website/script,crypto, investment etc website especially when we know what it will be used for. Think about your future. The same laptop and phone you use to access your Gmail, WhatsApp, Facebook etc is the same device you will use to host a fraudulent website. Don't you know that FBI and other relevant agencies are taking your data? When you get that your dream foreign job and decide to move to a foreign country, you will just end up in jail.

NIGERIANS SAY NO TO FRAUD

Cc mynd44 OAMJ4 lalasticlala front page. this is very important

very very unfortunate. see how our youths keep loosing opportunities

Holly Gram Amabobi CUNTREE don CAST big time. D only TIN way fit bring dis CUNTREE back Na WAR.. As 4 me, I don LOAD my KALA de wait.. PATIENTLY WAITING. WTF MAN

JavaScript90:
As has been my life routine. I woke up this morning .

NIGERIANS SAY NO TO FRAUD

Cc mynd44 OAMJ4 lalasticlala front page. this is very important

May God bless and continue to enrich you in wisdom.

daddytime:

May God bless and continue to enrich you in wisdom.

thanks boss

Nice article op. I have had my own share of this problem.

Why is this article not yet on front page? If na snake like lalasticlala will push it to front page immediately.

I love your write-ups and I just started following you

igbozionism:
I love your write-ups and I just started following you

thanks boss

It's so unfortunate the level at which cyber crime is in the country. Nigerians are extremely wicked to fellow countrymen let alone of foreigners. I have been a victim several times but I have come to understand that if you are dealing with real Hausa man you can be more than 95% rest assured, average Yoruba man will still not dupe you but people that has manipulated and abused my trust is Igbo. Please this is not being tribalistic but reality. Government should take drastic steps on this as it's really becoming unbecoming

Baba all man for himself

geekay4real:
It's so unfortunate the level at which cyber crime is in the country. Nigerians are extremely wicked to fellow countrymen let alone of foreigners. I have been a victim several times but I have come to understand that if you are dealing with real Hausa man you can be more than 95% rest assured, average Yoruba man will still not dupe you but people that has manipulated and abused my trust is Igbo. Please this is not being tribalistic but reality. Government should take drastic steps on this as it's really becoming unbecoming

Lies The highest tribe with Yahoo boys is Yoruba. Na Yoruba do Yahoo pass. The only place where Yahoo is prevalent in Igbo is imo state, other states are Hustlers. No tribe do Yahoo pass Yoruba. I am 100% sure

The issue is not fraud but CBN policies on foreign exchange. The make transfering foreign currencies difficult. So blame CBN instead

Foxflames:
The issue is not fraud but CBN policies on foreign exchange. The make transfering foreign currencies difficult. So blame CBN instead

how do you explain Nigeria IP being blocked from accessing some foreign websites and app?....
Cc lalasticlala front page please