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Goodday Fam. For the past 3 months I have been getting these similar calls and I strongly believe its some scam or something but I cannot get my head around it.

THE FORMAT
Someone will call you, usually a 'Pastor'. He will say he got your number online via your website or google business profile and ask for your assurance in delivering a good job, mostly IT jobs. He will tell you how he or the wife got a big school that needs a website or a jamb center for you to network computers for CBT etc.

He will now tell you he is not in town at the moment but will be around in a few days. You are happy, JOY is coming

THE TWIST/THE CONFUSING PART
After concluding on what seems to be a promising job, he will now go personal like:

I have a building, the contractor is not honest, or the engineer is from cotonou and has travelled leaving me stranded. Do you know any good engineer or architect you can recommend?

At first I felt it was an honest client so I sent my civil engineer's friend number to him. He called the guy telling him to send quotes or something. My guy and I never heard from him again.

But after that, 2 other 'Pastors' have called with this same format which I have ignored.

This morning another called making it very clear that this must be a new scam format in town.

But my confusion is- what is the idea behind this scam because, I know my naija peeps are very smart and can be funny.

Anyone with similar experiemce or umderstands the format should please share so others can learn and avoid falling victims.

cnnamoko:
Goodday Fam. For the past 3 months I have been getting these similar calls and I strongly believe its some scam or something but I cannot get my head around it.

THE FORMAT
Someone will call you, usually a 'Pastor'. He will say he got your number online via your website or google business profile and ask for your assurance in delivering a good job, mostly IT jobs. He will tell you how he or the wife got a big school that needs a website or a jamb center for you to network computers for CBT etc.

He will now tell you he is not in town at the moment but will be around in a few days. You are happy, JOY is coming

THE TWIST/THE CONFUSING PART
After concluding on what seems to be a promising job, he will now go personal like:

I have a building, the contractor is not honest, or the engineer is from cotonou and has travelled leaving me stranded. Do you know any good engineer or architect you can recommend?

At first I felt it was an honest client so I sent my civil engineer's friend number to him. He called the guy telling him to send quotes or something. My guy and I never heard from him again.

But after that, 2 other 'Pastors' have called with this same format which I have ignored.

This morning another called making it very clear that this must be a new scam format in town.

But my confusion is- what is the idea behind this scam because, I know my naija peeps are very smart and can be funny.

Anyone with similar experiemce or umderstands the format should please share so others can learn and avoid falling victims.

can you please drop these scammers details here for us?