₦airaland Forum

Reeses:
All they do is sniff and sell drugs,Marriage scams,steal credit cards,scam IRS,defraud innocent people or stinking up they whole place with there desperation for quick cash. Enough is enough monkeys,is either you criminals stay back in your filthy infested roaches country or I will keep writing to my house of reps until they ban your entire criminal country from Coming over here..The good thing is that my writing to them will work out no matter how long it will take .. damn Fools

They don’t use the drugs. That one is a lie. Also notice u didn’t write rob, steal, kill, beg. Because they don’t do those things either

LoJ:
What is the cause of this tendency to scam among Nigerians.

If I had not known great Nigerian people, in the like of sarassin or Mizmycoli, or happypagan I would have run away from anything related to Nigeria for life.

90% of all Nigerians I later got in touch with, tried to scam me one way or the other. A few successfully did. Others failed. Most were totally dishonest.

What is the cause of this. I went from Being the greatest supporter of the Nigerian culture, to a disillusioned and disenchanted observer of the country.

Poverty can't be the only reason, as most subsaharian countries are even doing worse than Nigeria.

Thank god for the few men of integrity left in that otherwise great country. I like the Nigerian culture a lot, but I fear some of the people equally much.
I

You know, I ask myself the same question: why does the AVERAGE citizen of my country have the mindset to always look for holes in the system instead of just following the rules?? And why is it that it is all the tribes, as long as they are Nigerians?

Johnrake69:
Yeah, UK police didn't receive bribe from Ibori.

If that happened it would be an exception. In our Naija that’s the rule. There is simply no place on earth where majority of AVERAGE citizens are as criminally creative as in Nigeria. Nigerians think outside the box, outside the system’s rules. These are truly special people. If only they could channel it to positive things.

Kingosytex:
The efficacy of this kind of oath is bae. If the woman is really guilty then expect her life to start crumbling except she knows her way around. There are "dibias" that can chain and manipulate the spirits of the dead. If you know, you know.

I don’t want to call u mumu but how about the mortuary guy that was fuckíng all he fresh girl corpses yet is now married with two wives and 6 kids

jhubril:
Hater spotted!

More like one honest guy spotted
See below

Johnrake69:
At the highlighted statement is nothing but a huge fallacy. Europeans were the first set of corrupt humans.

Yeah? Well try bribing a public official or police officer or to get your license, etc. The thing with Naija is that the AVERAGE citizen has the mindset inbuilt, always believes there are ways to get over

yzchief:
I don't know what is happening in this country. Why won't all these cattle rearers go to forest to feed their cattle real healthy. .
This just happened now at Ore-Benin road causing a terrible traffic...

Very simple solution to this: let’s collectively stop eating beef!!!

dragunov:
You forgot the 'en' dude. Correct English please.

It is American colloquial English. Remember Ali - “I am the greatest! I simply cannot be beat!”

nextstep:
Please, I'm not condoning fraud, but I just want a more balanced reaction.



Man please. USA and its citizens are the overlords and originators of fraud of all kinds:

Insurance fraud: $80 billion a year across all lines of insurance.
https://www.insurancefraud.org/statistics.htm

Fraud as a result of data breaches - Equifax, Target, and a few others come to mind.

Medical Fraud: $1.24Billion
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/711688988/feds-charge-24-in-alleged-1-2-billion-medicare-fraud-scheme

Recent corporate frauds:
https://www.forbes.com/pictures/efik45ekdjl/our-take-on-the-10-biggest-frauds-in-recent-u-s-history-2/#69f48367775a

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-identity-theft-and-cybercrime



USA and Europe are the source of much more fraud. However, the profits from those places far outweighs the fraud. Conversely, Nigeria is not that valuable a market for them so they can afford to lose our business.

If u only knew how wrong u r.
NIGERIANS INTRODUCED IDENTITY THEFT AND CREDIT CARD SCAMS INTO USA long before Yahoo and laptops.
You'd be surprised, the AVERAGE American and European thinks in straight lines. He is not corrupt becsuse he doesn't know how to be. Much of their system was based on honour and that's all they knew. It took NIGERIANS to show Americans there is another way.
It never occured to Americans u could steal someone's identity and apply for credi cards, claim their tax refund, etc. NIGERIANS STARTED IT!
PROPORTIONATELY, other countries don't even come close. In 9ja, we EXPORT scams.


Take the scam described below. Average citizens of other countries are incapable of it without govt involvement (note the bolded):

washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post

Business

Nigerian scammers are stealing BILLIONS of dollars

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

June 12, 2018 at 2:56 PM


The FBI said June 11 it made 74 arrests in connection with 419 Nigerian email scams. The Post's Cleve R. Wootson Jr. explains how these scams have managed to be so successful. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)

Savvy people already know it’s a bad idea to trust an email from a Nigerian prince hoping to use their bank account to unload a dead relative’s vast wealth.

And they’re just as suspicious of the sudden Internet-based love interest with questionable grammar who needs a few thousand untraceable dollars to clear up a passport issue in time for a magical first date.

But in a sophisticated and terrifying evolution of the Nigerian 419 scam, web-savvy crime syndicates are figuring out ways to bilk U.S. citizens of billions.

On Monday, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 people across the world — including 29 people in Nigeria and 41 in the United States — who authorities say were part of complex international networks that combed filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission, spoofed CEO emails and successfully targeted even hardened employees whose jobs are to safeguard their companies from financial mismanagement.

The recent scams have the same DNA as the poorly worded emails that have been showing up in people’s inboxes since the 1990s. Instead of playing on hopes of finding love or lust for sudden wealth, they play on fears about missing a vital company payment or upsetting a boss’s boss.

“[Scammers] are doing their research … going onto company websites and looking for the right people,” FBI Assistant Director Scott Smith, who helped lead the investigation, told the Wall Street Journal. “They may even go as far as pulling annual reports and finding what companies they do business with and [impersonating] those accounts.”

Adeyemi Odufuye and his team, for example, sifted SEC records, company websites and other business documents, looking for the names and email addresses of chief executives, chief financial officers and controllers, court documents say.

Odufuye, who had a half dozen nicknames, including “Jefe,” the Spanish word for “chief” or “boss,” led a crew responsible for stealing $2.6 million, including $440,000 from one business in Connecticut, according to the Justice Department.

The schemes used a variety of tactics to gain people’s trust and steal their money, federal authorities say. They registered website domain names that were hard to distinguish from the companies they were targeting — impersonations meant to give emails an air of authenticity. Some of those emails arrived with malware attachments that would snap images of a victim’s desktop or transmit key log information — a hacker trick for nabbing someone’s password.

They even employed money mules whose sole purpose was to move the ill-gotten gains from account to account, authorities say, disguising the electronic paper trail from investigators.

Odufuye was extradited from Britain on Jan. 3. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.


The arrests highlighted just how many people are falling for the latest iterations of the Nigerian hustle, as well as the staggering losses American businesses are accruing. According to FBI figures obtained by the Journal, victims of such scams reported $275 million in losses in 2015. By 2017, reported losses had more than doubled, to $675 million. And in the first quarter of this year, more than 4,000 victims reported $685 million in losses. The bureau estimates American businesses have lost more than $3.7 billion as a result of the schemes.

Since January 2015, the FBI estimated last year, there has been a 1,300 percent increase in identified exposed losses from similar scams. On Monday, the FBI issued a public service announcement about the scams.

Last year, FBI Special Agent Martin Licciardo, an organized crime investigator, said such crimes are “a serious threat on a global scale. The ability of these criminal groups to compromise legitimate business email accounts is staggering. … They are experts at deception.”

Scammers target businesses of all sizes, sometimes spending months studying a company’s organizational chart, the FBI said. They target people who frequently transfer large amounts of money and sensitive records in the course of business. They impersonate executives, human relations staff, law firms and trusted vendors. They usually insist that whatever bogus issue they’ve raised be cleared up as soon as possible, often by an immediate wire transfer. Discretion is often advised.

Another pair of alleged swindlers, Paul Wilson Aisosa and Gloria Okolie, went after a real estate closing attorney in Augusta, Ga. Such attorneys routinely keep large sums of money in a trust, often serving as a go-between for buyers and sellers. But Aisosa and Okolie convinced the unnamed attorney to send the proceeds from a recent sale — nearly $250,000 dollars — to Okolie’s account instead of to the seller, authorities said.

The pair is awaiting trial after being accused of laundering $665,000 in illicit funds, according to the Justice Department.

Before the attorney’s deposit, court documents say, the only cash in the account was the $100 required to start it.

Naija no fit carry last
We are #1!!!

https://www.nairaland.com/5120718/nigeria-ranked-1-scamming


Take the scam described below. Average citizens of other countries are incapable of it without govt involvement (note the bolded):

washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post

Business

Nigerian scammers are stealing BILLIONS of dollars

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

June 12, 2018 at 2:56 PM


The FBI said June 11 it made 74 arrests in connection with 419 Nigerian email scams. The Post's Cleve R. Wootson Jr. explains how these scams have managed to be so successful. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)

Savvy people already know it’s a bad idea to trust an email from a Nigerian prince hoping to use their bank account to unload a dead relative’s vast wealth.

And they’re just as suspicious of the sudden Internet-based love interest with questionable grammar who needs a few thousand untraceable dollars to clear up a passport issue in time for a magical first date.

But in a sophisticated and terrifying evolution of the Nigerian 419 scam, web-savvy crime syndicates are figuring out ways to bilk U.S. citizens of billions.

On Monday, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 people across the world — including 29 people in Nigeria and 41 in the United States — who authorities say were part of complex international networks that combed filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission, spoofed CEO emails and successfully targeted even hardened employees whose jobs are to safeguard their companies from financial mismanagement.

The recent scams have the same DNA as the poorly worded emails that have been showing up in people’s inboxes since the 1990s. Instead of playing on hopes of finding love or lust for sudden wealth, they play on fears about missing a vital company payment or upsetting a boss’s boss.

“[Scammers] are doing their research … going onto company websites and looking for the right people,” FBI Assistant Director Scott Smith, who helped lead the investigation, told the Wall Street Journal. “They may even go as far as pulling annual reports and finding what companies they do business with and [impersonating] those accounts.”

Adeyemi Odufuye and his team, for example, sifted SEC records, company websites and other business documents, looking for the names and email addresses of chief executives, chief financial officers and controllers, court documents say.

Odufuye, who had a half dozen nicknames, including “Jefe,” the Spanish word for “chief” or “boss,” led a crew responsible for stealing $2.6 million, including $440,000 from one business in Connecticut, according to the Justice Department.

The schemes used a variety of tactics to gain people’s trust and steal their money, federal authorities say. They registered website domain names that were hard to distinguish from the companies they were targeting — impersonations meant to give emails an air of authenticity. Some of those emails arrived with malware attachments that would snap images of a victim’s desktop or transmit key log information — a hacker trick for nabbing someone’s password.

They even employed money mules whose sole purpose was to move the ill-gotten gains from account to account, authorities say, disguising the electronic paper trail from investigators.

Odufuye was extradited from Britain on Jan. 3. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.

The arrests highlighted just how many people are falling for the latest iterations of the Nigerian hustle, as well as the staggering losses American businesses are accruing. According to FBI figures obtained by the Journal, victims of such scams reported $275 million in losses in 2015. By 2017, reported losses had more than doubled, to $675 million. And in the first quarter of this year, more than 4,000 victims reported $685 million in losses. The bureau estimates American businesses have lost more than $3.7 billion as a result of the schemes.

Since January 2015, the FBI estimated last year, there has been a 1,300 percent increase in identified exposed losses from similar scams. On Monday, the FBI issued a public service announcement about the scams.

Last year, FBI Special Agent Martin Licciardo, an organized crime investigator, said such crimes are “a serious threat on a global scale. The ability of these criminal groups to compromise legitimate business email accounts is staggering. … They are experts at deception.”

Scammers target businesses of all sizes, sometimes spending months studying a company’s organizational chart, the FBI said. They target people who frequently transfer large amounts of money and sensitive records in the course of business. They impersonate executives, human relations staff, law firms and trusted vendors. They usually insist that whatever bogus issue they’ve raised be cleared up as soon as possible, often by an immediate wire transfer. Discretion is often advised.

Another pair of alleged swindlers, Paul Wilson Aisosa and Gloria Okolie, went after a real estate closing attorney in Augusta, Ga. Such attorneys routinely keep large sums of money in a trust, often serving as a go-between for buyers and sellers. But Aisosa and Okolie convinced the unnamed attorney to send the proceeds from a recent sale — nearly $250,000 dollars — to Okolie’s account instead of to the seller, authorities said.

The pair is awaiting trial after being accused of laundering $665,000 in illicit funds, according to the Justice Department.

Before the attorney’s deposit, court documents say, the only cash in the account was the $100 required to start it.

Emmyk:
You mean 2Million naira?

Ha ha. Funny you. But seriously I find that $2m in assets is really not that much as u may think

.

We are #1!
We can’t be beat

https://www.nairaland.com/5120718/nigeria-ranked-1-scamming

maryjames9:
This guy don dey become celebrity billionaire. Why would you let the entire world know before the deal is struck. Otedola don dey learn from his daughter DJ Cosby.

Precisely because he likes being called billionaire which he is not. Dude is worth 300 mil

fuckerstard:
Try make you be billionaire first, na then you go fit judge these guys.

But aaronson he stopped being a billionaire long ago. That’s why he has to make noise. He’s currently worth $300m, which of course is still way more than my $2m

Tomide007:
That's his character, let him enjoy himself....if he like let him use dollar to sew agbada.....it his life....adenuga, dangote are introverts.

Not true. Marineghost is on point. He makes noise to cover up - he knows he’s no longer a billionaire. His currrently worth $300m

ChemBrodar:
Otedola last featured on the Forbes list of billionaires in 2015 with a fortune estimated at $1.8 billion at the time.

http://igberetvnews.com/922965/billionaire-businessman-femi-otedola-set-to-strike-biggest-deal-ever/

That was in 2015. Then he went down and is now worth $300m, which is still way better than me at $2m.
(Of course u can’t be on Forbes billionaire list if u r not a billionaire hence his absence from it)

How do u know? See below.

Want to live forever? You just have to make it to 2050
FEBRUARY 19, 2018 9:27AM

Sean Keachnews.com.au
“IF YOU’RE under 40 reading this article, you’re probably not going to die unless you get a nasty disease.”
Those are the words of esteemed futurologist Dr Ian Pearson, who believes humans are very close to achieving “immortality” — the ability to never die.

Dagrace01:
It's not about the young man's ancestors. It's about the Yoruba heritage. Yeah there are some tradition we should drop, but dis one isn't part of it. Respect, ethics and reverence are very core in sustaining our tradition. We can't just eradicate all our cultural heritage and identity because of the emergence of civilization. Chinese people won't drop any of their tradition for anything in the world, even India and Japan among others. But does that stop from advancing as a nation? Whites tell their dad "You're Crazy" "Bleep you dad" and the likes, should we adopt that too because we are advancing? There's nothing wrong in OBJ prostrating for a young monarch, tradition is tradition.

It is about everything taken together. We shouldn’t pretend our traditions have no beginning or that we can’t guess how and why it likely began and by whom. We take all that into consideration in deciding wether elderly people should keep risking injury and dirtying their clothes or wether it is enough that they bow and tip their hats.

segunmelvin:
my daughter or anyone close to me will not be raped

(See my post above)
I pray not. I also pray none of us or our relatives are ever accused of any sexual misconduct.
Having said that, if women are automatically demonized for coming forward it will teach victimized women to never dare come forward. The rampant practice will continue and grow until it inevitably reaches someone close. That’s just logic

Ideyontop:
Going low by insulting shows you are an obstinate accuser without licence, therefore your work is illegal. All of you accusing this man are all enthusiastically incorrect. It has not been proved, yet you happily jumped into conclusion wishing in your heads you are correct.

Like you said ex head of rapist cult ( can you see your bitterness even in your descriptions? Just say ex leader in a cult group ( we are talking about college gangster group here ooo not even real cult). Now he was the one that quit and have his life to Christ and went ahead to preach the goodnews to other members of the group.

Victimized women should cry out immediately, call for help while you can still het evidence, say something so the culprit will be apprehended immediately not keeping quiet like the sisters, daughters, or relatives of the guy above who kept quite when they were raped.

I never insulted u and u r the one who first said people should be falsely accused of rape, “say amen”!
I’m not sure u know the meaning of the word “accuse”. Once again, we are not the ones accusing him, various women are.
You are the one demonizing a woman just for coming forward. I never said and will never say Fato is guilty. I DON’T KNOW! But there are things I do know:
1) He said he’s never been in a room alone with Bukola. People, even u, do not believe that
2) Other women have come forward with accusations against him
3) He was chief priest of a cult that sometimes used rape for initiation and sometimes murdered rivals
4) MOTIVE: what else would be Bukola’s motive for putting herself and family through all this

Finally, here are some things real Nigerians posted (not the usual COZA people or paid agents)

“If a woman braves public humiliation to come out to openly say a man raped her, she deserves a hearing. More so if there are other women are also accusing the the same man...
and the man used to be the high priest of a cult that sometimes used rape for initiation!”

“One striking thing about these CONSENSUAL SEX proponents is that they have forgotten something called statutory rape - that Pastor Fatoyinbo was SUPPOSED to be pastor and spiritual father to then YOUNG AND NAIVE BUSOLA. Careful GROOMING made it appear like consensual sex. Betrayal of trust on the part of a pastor should be condemned.”

“There are other more prominent pastors. Ask yourself why this particular one is the one being accused by several women.”

“Fatoyinbo was the high priest of a cult in Ilorin. You can’t attain such position without killing people. He should kindly confess how many people he killed.”

“Once a cultist is always a cultist , forget either pastor or no pastor”. (I do not necessarily agree with this. I put it here to show that such view exists)

“To think that people are still attending that church”

“These COZA people posting all these stuff, what they are doing is that they are making sexually abused women afraid to ever come forward. And they’d pay the price because they’d eventually personally face such a situation one by one (karma being karma).”

Highshuula1:
mumu....you believe everything Chai...I can call out tons of diamond from nowhere..how about that?
There is a glass under that water but mumu you do not think deep.

You and blingxx, I’m surprised u can’t tell I was being sarcastic. Here is my reply to someone who said some people have juju power to do anything:


Ok, but we have a right to ask questions like why don’t they use those powers to rob banks, or win in sports or kill wicked leaders, or smuggle drugs, or get visas, or enter without visa, or get Dangote’s banking info, or get people’s atm, or win lottery or bet9ja, or...

Or better yet, why not demonstrate it to this guy below and win the $1 million he’s had in escrow since the 60’s:

JAMES RANDI

James "The Amazing" Randi (born 1928) is a former magician and a scientific skeptic perhaps best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. He is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, originally known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

The million-dollar challenge is a prize offered by the James Randi foundation to anyone "who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event."
It has yet to be won though there have been a vast number of attempts.

Randi started the James Randi Educational Foundation to monitor applications for the $1 million prize, and to serve as an organizing body to help promote skepticism and provide educational resources on claims of the paranormal.
The foundation was headed by James Randi for many years before he retired from its presidency.
In 1987 he exposed the Peter Popoff ministry for faking their faith healing claims. The resulting scandal drove Popoff into bankruptcy.
When challenged in 2011 Sally Morgan did not even attempt the challenge.
Sylvia Browne is the only widely known psychic who has offered to take up the challenge. Sylvia was a popular television psychic who claimed that she could communicate with the dead. On March 6, 2001, she agreed to take up the challenge.
To her dying day she did not take the challenge. Sylvia's first excuse was because she did not know how to contact Randi. That is comical: a professional psychic who speaks to dead people cannot figure out how to reach Randi. Her following excuse was that she did not want to take the challenge because Randi is a godless individual—all the more reason she should take the challenge. If the supernatural could be proven and demonstrated, and the $1,000,000 were claimed, it would be a tremendous blow to Randi and the skeptical community, and a tremendous boost to her career as a psychic. Sylvia Browne was special because she was the only professional psychic to accept Randi's challenge, though she later backed off.

“I regard Randi as a national treasure, and perhaps one of the remaining antidotes that may prevent the rotting of the American mind.”
—Arthur C. Clarke

segunmelvin:
bros do you think at all before you type...... na people like una dey make people no believe and support the real rape victims.... when all youre are saying is not even related abi na junior secondary you still dey

The old “if you have no points, abuse the plaintiff”.
Here is my post again, I see u missed it:

“...Several women are the ones accusing him.
People like you will cause victimized women to never dare come forward. The more they keep quiet, the more it continues and grows and will eventually reach your daughter, sister, or other relative, say amen?

gypsey:
because he paid them to play his music.

And I haven't heard Davido music yet over here in cali. I wouldn't even know if have. don't know what his music sounds like.

That’s why. He is very talented. Start with skelewu. His song that has made US breakthrough is called Fall.
If dj’s play music by being paid then only the super wealthy will be played. Davido doesn’t have anywhere near the money of top American rap stars.

lilbest4:
mtcheew those stupid women never said he raped them, they said he made sexual advances or manipulated them to have sex with them. Stella Damasus is just one of the sack of oestrogen who reacts based on emotions.

I see you haven’t watched the videos. Watch the video. You will hear first person account of rape

Bluezy13:
Market dey go smooth o.
Sometimes, the yeye people dey behave like craze dey worry them. Just four days ago, one mumu banned me for few hours simply because I posted "séx" while replying a comment. Just as if he was a new recruit or village people gave him a bad day, or maybe na section wey I reply the comment cause am. So I just dey manage myself jejely before I go mistakenly match person for leg.
Na dem platform, na dem rules, na dem misbehave.
Hope say you don chop this morning ??

Ok, now I understand. I no dey Naija right now. But I go come back soon. Where I dey na night, I dey prepare make I chop dinner. After that na sleep straight. I get very busy day tomorrow. Importation biz no easy

JUJU IS REAL!
Whoever doubts juju hasn’t seen anything yet. You will see with your own korokoro eyes

lilbest4:
name the several women

Read my post again. It’s been modified. That will answer your question.

But, by the way, here is someone that was the high priest of a murderous, rapist cult, who, because of him,
a parent’s dear child is not alive today. Maybe the only hope of the family. Maybe an only child. Also who knows how many innocent girls were brutally raped. Fine, we forgive. BUT if u know u have such a history shouldn’t u thenceforth live a life totally beyond reproach or suspicion??!!

Ideyontop:
All of you accusing this man of God of rape without confirmation, na so dem go dey accuse una dey go without confirmation too , say amen?

I don’t want to call u mumu, but we are not the ones accusing him, an ex-head of a rapist cult, of rape or sex with his church members. Several women are the ones accusing him.
People like you will cause victimized women to never dare come forward. The more they keep quiet, the more it continues and grows and will eventually reach your daughter, sister, or other relative, say amen?

Bluezy13:
Because Nairaland ogas will not code.

You wey spell am well, how market??

Market no fine at all but we are managing. Hopefully they will lift some of these importation bans. It is killing us. As for sex, u could have just spelt it as sex not sxx. There is no rule against it whatsoever except in your head. Now something like fùck they have a rule against it. Same with shít. Fúck changes to bleep while shít autocorrects to poo. But as you can see that doesn’t stop me from writing fvck and shít which proves how useless those rules are.
How is market on your side?

Why do u spell sex as sxx?

otipoju:
That is irrelevant. He is doing well for himself. That is what matters. But what i said is known by those who know.

The movie Wakanda created in many African Americans, a longing for anything African.They have started visiting Ghana in droves and Ghana is reaping mightily from the tourism.

Meanwhile Nigeria is still doing RUGA and Uncle Lai says you can become a masquarade.

So easy to know someone who’s never been to US. So naive