I think the moderators should do something about this. The rate at which these scammers come on this forum is on the rise and it is very worrisome. So many people on this forum have been deceived, falling victims to these criminals.
We should identify the usernames of all these scammers for the moderators to block them. Even if they register again with another name, by their posts, we shall know them.
We need to curb these practices. We should report all usernames that have been noticed to be involved in these acts, so they can be blocked immediately. When we do this continuosly, i believe there will be a drastic reduction in such posts.
Lets all work together to accomplish this.
Thank you.

@poster you first post the name of scammer you know

OP you're right. The rate is quite alarming, and it is unfortunate that still people fall for these scammer tricks.

Many topics have been created to address this issue and below are a few:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-488547.0.html

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-676504.0.html

An observation is that people appear easily tempted by the idea of reaping where they do not sow, and fall for offers which are too good to be true without really evaluating critically or rationally.

Why would you believe it when someone you do not know offers to show you how to make money out of nowhere? If he was making money from whatever scheme, why is he being so kind to share? and with people he doesn't know? EVEN father xmas only comes once a year!

Majority of people who get scammed are those looking for shortcuts who forget that there are REALLY no shortcuts to success.

Some people get asked by 'potential' employers to pay for recruitment processing and come back to the forum to ask what people think? Why should you even consider paying in the first place? Why would an employer who wants to pay you a salary (say, 80000/month) require N2500 as 'processing' fee? Which organization worthy of its reputation does that?

These con artists are stubborn and continuously creative so its nearly impossible to 'get' them all. And even when they are banned no one can prevent them from setting up new accounts to continue their 'business'.

I think the best tactic is communal where every user considers it a responsibility to report suspicious users/posts to the moderators, but its a shame that users generally do not bother to use the 'report post' link available in each post for that purpose. Therefore many of these 'oles' go unnoticed. Personally I have not received a report from any user in the past 30 days so its hard to blame moderators for inaction, but trust me; we are working oh!
What we need is more of your help to put the menace under control.

Expecting your reports >

My friend you are right.
All these people who post useless and fraudulent information needs to be denied access to make any contribution to any thread.

Re: Important: Notice to Jobseekers
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Please can anyone tell me wether a company by the name of "Globestar Company Limited" which is situated at:
Plot 1274 Amodu Street, Victoria Island, Lagos Nigeria
is a legitimate company?
There is a web site for this company, but I am still not 100% convinced.

I have been offered employment by the company and have received a contract etc, but was asked to pay a fee to a travel agent for the documents to be arranged. This travel agent is Pillar Travel Agents (Dr Tariq), but none of the telephone numbers given seem to work, and all the correspondence is via email. I could not find a web site for this company either.

So PLEASE if anyone could help me verify these companies, i would be most gratefull

How do one detect a scammer?

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Well follow your instinct, if its too good to be true then its most probably is

You don't need to be a forensic scientist to sense the (small time) scammers in here

lets all make sure that scammers are chased away from this forum immediately.

Yes, its true, scammers should be sent away from this forum for good.

shine ur eyes o and follow ur instincts o be carefu if u are asked to pay to get a lucrativ job, 4 wat na? Only few job agencies are real.