This is serious. I am speechless  

am thinking, baby am thinking if u can send maybe roughly 20,000 Dollars so i can have some pocket money on me,  badt guy,

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LIAM BARTLETT: In a luxury hotel room, we carefully set our trap – with the help of experienced fraud investigators. Our targets lurk in the street below – Nigerian conmen awaiting the call from another victim. But this time the call will come from us and undercover police are ready to pounce.

DAMIEN: No more mucking around – you want your money, come up. I’ll give it to you, you can go. These greedy scammers are slicker than ever. To better hide their tracks they’ve spread from Nigeria to become a global pandemic.

BRIAN: They’re intelligent, they’re resourceful, they’ve got global networks and let’s face it – at this point in time, they’re winning the battle.

LIAM BARTLETT: Here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, our chance to strike back.

DAMIEN: That’s when you and the police come in.

LIAM BARTLETT: On behalf of the 10,000 Australians who, despite all the publicity, still hand over a total of $10 million to these shysters every single month.

DAMIEN: You count…

LIAM: Good afternoon, we’re from ‘60 Minutes Australia’ and you seem to be in a lot of trouble.

JULIA: Well. They’re the lowest of the low. They’re absolute scumbags and they are a poor excuse for a conman.

LIAM BARTLETT: When we first exposed Nigerian scammers in Lagos six years ago, they ran a simple but lucrative operation – sending dodgy emails around the world requesting money, with the lure of a handsome return.

POLICE: Sit down! Sit down!

LIAM BARTLETT: But the swindlers have a new schtick. They’ve moved onto dating sites and the cruel hook they use is the promise of love.

ROSALIE: I suppose he absolutely had me by my heart. This guy was just telling me everything that I wanted to know.

LIAM BARTLETT: He was saying everything he knew you wanted to hear.

ROSALIE: Everything I wanted to hear, yep. He was making me feel as if I was worth a person.

LIAM BARTLETT: Rosalie is 53 – divorced and terribly lonely. For romance scammers, the perfect mark. Looking for love online, she met Benjamin Walthol – a handsome, American businessman, working in Malaysia. Ben wooed her for hours at a time – he even sent flowers. Rosalie believed she’d finally found true love. And when the man of her dreams asked for loans to help his business, she happily handed over thousands.

ROSALIE: $90,000 plus what I still owe in phone calls and I have a debt of fifteen thousand dollars.


LIAM BARTLETT: You’ve given away your entire life savings and you’re in debt?

ROSALIE: Yes.

LIAM BARTLETT: But even now, Rosalie clings to the dream that Ben will repay the loans and they’ll begin a new life together as he promised. Her brother Neville knows better.

NEVILLE: The whole family has been banging their heads against a brick wall. It’s very difficult.

LIAM BARTLETT: At the risk of breaking his sister’s heart, Neville has sought professional intervention to expose the truth.

JULIA: Look, Neville brought us here because we have some serious concerns about the man you’ve met online and that he’s not the person who he claims to be.

LIAM BARTLETT: Julia Robson is a new breed of investigator. She runs DateScreen, conducting background checks for people who’ve met on dating sites – and business is booming

JULIA: The golden rule is if you’ve met them online and they ask for money, it is a scam.

LIAM BARTLETT: Julia has followed Rosalie’s money trail to Malaysia and noticed references to a man called Bidemi Bakare.

JULIA: Bidemi, his name came up on documents that Rosalie was sending via Western Union. His name was written on the documents as collecting it, so straight away we had a suspect in mind

LIAM BARTLETT: And sure enough Rosalie’s white, middle-aged Lothario, Benjamin Walthol, is a fake. This is the man who’s really been romancing her – Bidemi Bakare. His Facebook page reveals a champagne-lifestyle in Kuala Lumpur, funded by the money he’s swindled from Rosalie and countless other women.

JULIA: We’ll find him. We’ll track him down and we’ll prove to you that this person you thought was Benjamin Walthol is really Bidemi.


BIDEMI: I miss you, I’ve been thinking about you long.

JULIA: Oh I know, I can hardly sleep

LIAM BARTLETT: And so in Kuala Lumpur, we set out to take on this swindler at his own game. Julia poses on a dating site as Amber – and befriends Benjamin.

BIDEMI: I’m thinking baby, I’m thinking if you can send some round figure of say $20,000 so I can have some pocket money on me, you know.

LIAM BARTLETT: You did exactly what he does. Created another identity and targeted him

JULIA: That’s exactly it.

LIAM BARTLETT: And sure enough, Bidemi comes sniffing for the easy cash – $23,000 that Amber has promised will be delivered by a business associate. Former Victorian undercover cop, Damien Marratt, is playing our middleman.

DAMIAN: We bought in the ruse that she had a friend, Jack – myself – who often travels through Singapore and Asia on business and basically I could deliver the money personally.

LIAM BARTLETT: We’ve wired the room with microphones and hidden cameras. It’s one thing to get Bidemi to the room but for a conviction, we need the money shot – the moment he accepts the cash.

DAMIAN: We’ll have a quick chat to him, show him the money, get everything we need on tape just to show he’s involved in the scam and yeah, that’s when you and the police come in.

LIAM BARTLETT: In an adjacent room, we wait with surveillance gear, Julia, and a posse of Malaysia’s finest detectives. Out on the street, undercover police surround the hotel.

DAMIAN: Sorry mate, $23,000. I don’t know about money here, but $23,000 is a lot of money.

LIAM BARTLETT: But after repeated phone calls, we fear Bidemi is getting cold feet. Then finally, a knock on the door,

DAMIAN: I’m Jack – So who have I been talking to? Sit down ,

LIAM BARTLETT: … but it’s not our man. The crafty conman Bidemi has sent a local teenager to collect the cash.

DAMIAN: That is three …you count to make sure.

LIAM BARTLETT: Hi, good afternoon – we’re from ‘60 Minutes Australia’ and you seem to be in a lot of trouble. It’s a bust, but not our target. We want Bidemi

DAMIAN: Ben if you want your money no more mucking around. If you want your money come up. I’ll give it to you, you can go,

LIAM BARTLETT: So, we take a gamble. We let the courier go, knowing he may run. But our hope is he’ll lead us right to our main man. And yes – in the streets around the hotel, the undercover police swoop. Bidemi and five accomplices – nabbed. Do you know Rosalie?

BIDEMI: I don’t, sir.

LIAM BARTLETT: You don’t know, Rosalie. What have you done with the $53,000 she gave you?

JULIA: You are the lowest form of a conman that I have ever met. The woman that I’ve spoken to – the pain and the destruction of their family you have caused from this stupid little trick. All of you, look at you – you’re absolutely disgusting. The stories I’ve heard – I have no sympathy for these people. None whatsoever.


BIDEMI: She says she thinks I’m Benjamin.

LIAM: Yes, because you called yourself ‘Benjamin’.

BIDEMI: Yeah, I know.

JULIA: Now the moment of truth – proving Bidemi is Rosalie’s online lover, Benjamin. And guess who’s number we find on his phone.

LIAM BARTLETT: Oh, what a surprise! Hello is that Rosalie? We’re standing in a hotel in Kuala Lumpur at the moment and I’ve got a fellow standing next to me wearing a set of hand cuffs. He just wants to say a few words, see if you can recognise this voice. Can you just talk to him for a moment?

BIDEMI: Hello?

LIAM BARTLETT: Don’t be shy, tell them what name you’re using now.

BIDEMI: Benjamin. Benjamin Walthol.

LIAM BARTLETT: Unbelievably, we found the numbers of another 81 Australian women on Bidemi’s mobile. That list is being investigated by Australian authorities. So you’re halfway through that list and so far it’s almost 100% strike rate?

BRIAN: Yes.

LIAM BARTLETT: On the victims.

BRIAN: Yes.

LIAM BARTLETT: He was a busy boy, wasn’t he?

BRIAN: Well he was very successful until you people came along.

LIAM BARTLETT: Brian Hay’s job, as head of the Queensland Fraud Squad, is to catch the scammers. But he spends more time counselling their targets.


BRIAN: You’re not victims, you’re survivors. You’ve gone through it, you’ve come out the other end and you’re not letting the bastards get it from you anymore.

LIAM BARTLETT: In Brisbane police headquarters, a support group for women – and men – who’ve been stung by Nigerians.

WOMAN #1: I willingly parted with $300,000.

MAN: You get sucked in and you find out when it’s too late and it’s cost you money.

WOMAN #2: He talked to me for quite a while, madly in love with me, never seen me before but madly in love with me. And wanted to make my life good.

BRIAN: For these people, it is love. They believe it, they live it, they breathe it, they yearn for it and to them it’s very real, very tangible.

POLICEMAN: They’re sending the money to Nigeria.

LIAM BARTLETT: Meanwhile, back at Bidemi’s place, we’re following the paper trail. Most of those ill-gotten gains are sent straight back to Nigeria into the hands of crime gangs and even terrorist groups. But men like Bidemi cream enough of the profit to keep themselves in the best of bling.

LIAM BARTLETT: Where does a student get $800 for a pair of designer label sneakers?

BIDEMI: My mum, she sent pocket money.

LIAM: Your mum sent you pocket money?

BIDEMI: Yeah.

LIAM BARTLETT: From Nigeria?

BIDEMI: Yeah.

LIAM BARTLETT: You got the most generous mother in the world have you? Gee. $800 for sneakers. There’ll be no Louis Vuitton where Bidemi and his fellow conmen are headed – Malaysian prison and then deportation back to Nigeria.


ROSALIE: I don’t hate him I just feel sorry for him. I don’t know how that a person could do that to someone who’s just trying to help and that’s all I wanted was to help him to get out of Malaysia and he promised me absolutely a new life.

JULIA: These people are in a place in their life where they are lonely, they are looking for love, something,

LIAM BARTLETT: Does that make them silly?

JULIA: No, it doesn’t make them silly. There’s nothing wrong with having friendships and falling in love with someone online. That’s not the issue.

LIAM BARTLETT: The danger arises when that love is blind – Rosalie’s desperate heart made her ignore all the warnings. Even after all we’d told her, Rosalie had been back at the computer being wooed by a new man calling himself ‘Richard’. Rosalie, while we’ve been having this interview, we’ve checked out Richard Williams’ email and guess what? It’s on a blacklist. He’s a scammer too. He’s not who he says he is and he certainly doesn’t love you as he’s professing.

ROSALIE: Really? You’ve actually checked out that email address as,

LIAM BARTLETT: While we’ve been talking. Rosalie, please turn the computer off, Rosalie. Just please turn the computer off. If you can’t see the whites of their eyes and they’re not buying you a drink. Don’t talk to them.

ROSALIE: No one buys me a drink. That’s the whole problem.

What in the name of Love is this people searching for online?? how can somebody sleep and wake up and decide to dash out money to some one you have not met?? love they say is blind i have really confirm it that love is really blind.

claremont:

Every society has got it's fair share of bad eggs, and it just so happens that these online scammers represent our own burden of bad eggs which we must carry irrespective of the putrid smell emanating from it. Anyone who is naive enough to use these few bad eggs to paint an inaccurate picture of a country of 140 million people is just plain dumb to say the least!

Few (scammers) they are but the impact of their actions on us all is just immeasurable
I hope you know and understand the importance of reputation

It shows that other groups (Yorubas), besides Igbos are in this "business" as well. . . 

Shame on Bidemi Bakare! 

Some Nigerians are really denting our Image abroad and if i may ask, What do you want again @ 50yrs above ?  If you want love please go for offline dating. Sorry rose and shut down,

claremont:

Reputation is what you make of it. Muslims have an unholy reputation of being terrorists/potential terrorists simply because of what we see/hear in the media, yet I dare say 99.9% of Muslims do not fit this stereotype. It is wrong to dignify online scams as a unique form of criminality, it still falls within the same bracket as other criminal acts like armed robbery, murder, e.t.c; and it is not unique to Nigeria either. I for one wonder why highly educated people will choose to judge individuals based on the so-called unholy reputation of the country they come from, that's not in any way different from judging people based on the colour of their skin.

Oh please don't give me that story line, not being unique to Nigerians is not an excuse, crime is crime. We can't keep saying. . . other countries commit crime too bla bla bla.

Scamming is a burden the rest of the world have to live with. [size=4pt](read with your sense of humor)[/size]

I love the style of this police oh they are super.

H$LBroker:

I love the style of this police oh they are super.

Thats a working police system, reverse is the case here,

If not stupidity, why would you even part away such amount of money? why don't you take 2k and fly to Malaysia to see him b4 parting away with such ridiculous amount of money ?

Old story. Dem don arrest many darkie (blacks) after bidemi . I guess all those boiz wey dey run go malay would find somewhere else to go now

Did anyone else dislike the female detective?

She talked to all those Nigerians like they were animals. How does she know that they were all scammers?

If you watch the video well, Malaysian govt do not have any law to sentence them than to deport them and they will be free in Nigeria. This is not a scam to average Malaysia guys because you can only hear of 1 millon dollar in Malaysia, minimum like 500,000 dollar.
Don't be surprise if the guy in question is back to Malaysia living large again.
How many Malaysian guys have you seen making comments on this because it does not up to standard of average malaysian guys scammers.

I'm not supporting the guy, greediness back fire on him, he suppose to lear what is fraud and how to detect it, he was a victim of greediness like the Australian woman.

I feel for the dude, what's with all of you raining curses on the guy, this is just a guy trying to make come cheese, Nobody forced the lady into helping, afterall foreigners have done worse to the Nigerian economy, even our fellow Nigerians that we applaud each time. I am Nigerian and i'm proud to be one so, if you all are ashamed of this country run to Liberia and test life

I wish Nigeria police system can be like this, they no shoot them, they no beat them and their job is perfect.

How can this things stop

claremont:

No one is using being unique to Nigeria as an excuse here, what I am saying is that online scams is a crime no different from armed robbery, murder e.t.c, there is nothing unique about it that will makes it more despicable as compared to other crimes.

As far as I know, New York is described as the murder capital of the world, yet the average New Yorker is perceived to be a hard-working person. Nigeria is described as the online scam capital of the world, and the average Nigerian is viewed as a potential scammer. The faulty logic is so thick that we can cut it with a knife.

There is difference between crimes committed in Nigeria by Nigerians AND crimes committed by outside Nigeria by Nigerians.

Nigeria will not tolerate it if foreigners living in Nigeria are using Nigeria as their crime base tarnishing the image of home country. I don't care if every other countries are swimming in crime, i care about crimes committed by Nigerians because i'm a Nigerians and their activities affects me.

H$LBroker:

I wish Nigeria police system can be like this, they no shoot them, they no beat them and their job is perfect.

true

flanrey:

I feel for the dude, what's with all of you raining curses on the guy, this is just a guy trying to make come cheese, Nobody forced the lady into helping, afterall foreigners have done worse to the Nigerian economy, even our fellow Nigerians that we applaud each time. I am Nigerian and i'm proud to be one so, if you all are ashamed of this country run to Liberia and test life

I really wish he will be shot dead before his body bag is brought back to Nigeria, Malaysian govt will make life miserable for him and rats like you can help him start afresh again.

Cheers

justwise:

I really wish he will be shot dead before his body bag is brought back to Nigeria, Malaysian govt will make life miserable for him and rats like you can help him start afresh again.

Cheers

Dont be silly. Its simple reality, Will you prefer if he was robbing Nigeria banks and killing innocent souls

justwise:

I really wish he will be shot dead before his body bag is brought back to Nigeria, Malaysian govt will make life miserable for him and rats like you can help him start afresh again.

Cheers

Maybe you did not listen enough, He did not commit any crime against Malaysian except if he defraud their citizen, he is been deported in Nigeria to be free , that is how it is in Malaysia.  He was track down by Australian detectives to proof a case not by Malaysian police.

claremont:

If it affects you so much, the reasonable action for you to do is to highlight other Nigerians who are doing their bit to polish (and not tarnish) the so-called image of the country. I wonder why people are so passionate about the image of a country, and they forget that the image of a country is measured from the behaviour of the majority of it's citizens. I still maintain that a reasonable person cannot judge the image of a country from the actions of a few of it's citizens, except of course, you are trying to say that majority of the over 140 million Nigerians are scammers/potential scammers.

True talk!

What more can I say? Nigeria's problem is not just bad leadership as many people inaccurately believe. Should we also steal because our leaders are stealing? No! This is very bad habit!

flanrey:

Dont be silly. Its simple reality,  Will you prefer if he was robbing Nigeria banks and killing innocent souls

No i would have preferred that he steals from you or you relative and you thanked him for job weldone, how about that?

lovejo:

Maybe you did not listen enough, He did not commit any crime against Malaysian except if he defraud their citizen, he is been deported in Nigeria to be free , that is how it is in Malaysia.  He was track down by Australian detectives to proof a case not by Malaysian police.

He committed a crime against Malaysian govt by abusing his host country.

Products of a bad government