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fk001:
Biafra will be the next south Sudan if we go our separate ways.




An average Igbo Man is selfish, power hungry (but they will do as if power no dey hungry dem), tribalist, religion fanatic, jealous, wicked, greedy, Narcissist e.t.c



So tell me how will they live in peace when they secede?

I know many average Igbo men who are nothimg like that at all. One of my dearest friends is Igbo. So u r the tribalist, u prejudiced bigot

Just because people speak the same.language doesn't mean they are the same people. There are various distinct and different nations and peoples within the Igbo-speaking group in Nigeria

Loi. The old classic format. They still use it?

slowbreeze:
We all know he did.He just said that to confuse his enemies so they don't know about his progress/recovery.Get well Ibu!!

How do u know he did. R u his doctor?
Can u even define stroke. If the man says his doctor told him he did not have a stroke, who r u?!

Olamsoh:
DUBAI ROBBERY
The 4 Nigerians robbers completed the Robbery within 7Mins. But it took just 4Mins for the Dubai police to know where they were and apprehend them. All without any Armed police or firing a single shot. Well trained Police rarely need guns in this age of technology.
The overwhelming use of guns by Nigerian Police is a sign of poor training. The gun has become the first resort for them rather than a last resort. Until the police leaders make Training the number one priority; we will never have an institution that will do us proud as a nation
By the way, the 4mins is time taken to locate the robbers (as I was informed) through technology; apprehending them clearly took additional hrs. And I believe it was 5 Nigerians not 4.

Ok, but what has this got to do with mr ibu

Whch one concern this mumu. Peso Billionaire

Nobodyperson:
Mr ibu has always behaved like a chronic slowpoke since he first graced the life of comedy.
Making dry jokes and sleeping with the directors wife so as to gain roles in big movies.
Rumors has it that he is a pedophile as well

Look at this one, trying to tar a man's image with gossip and innuendo. Jealous Oga, you'd need more than that to damage mr ibu. He is a BELOVED Nollywood LEGEND

expert555:
Pls Stop alarming people it’s not fair, people who do not have sound foundations and have the opportunity to move think about moving, Canada is cold, us depending where you are is full of crime too. These can not be compared to the madness in Nigeria where even if you remain in your house or go out in the afternoon tragedy can still struck someone

GBAM!!! Comparing crime in a place as precarious as 9ja to well-organized US or UK with excellent investigative snd policing abilities

Kingkun69:
are you this ignorant Pls research before you post

U r the one ignorant, relying on anecdotes. Everyday u hear of Nigerians killed in South Africa. I asked u a question: how many 9jas have u heard died of gun violence in US this year?

moscobabs:
They do monthly ticket I say it this morning when the checker was checking our tickets.

Some people just jump into conclusion just to discredit the government without doing any findings.

So what's wrong in quin?

U mean queuing

silastemplar:
stupid comment.

But seriously, everybody was saying how they regret voting 4 Buhari the first time, WHO VOTED 4 HIM THE SECOND TIME??

yemmight:
If you really know the history of railway in Nigeria for years you will appreciate this government. For Nigeria today railway is now working from Lagos to as far as Kano. This process might be slow but there is work in progress. Since our second coming of democracy, this is the only time rail-line has come back alive.

So u really believe the country is better now?

lexyman:
even in china you queue to buy tickets ....just that the system can attend to 10people in less than 20seconds .

So China is now our heaven. 9ja don suffer

How can Dulardinho be better than anybody when he is not even there, when he is not even in charge

Larryndelaw:
When u talked abt knife crime in uk, that is nothing compare to gun violence in a county in USA not to talk abt the whole country USA.

Ok, there are hundreds if thousands of 9jas in US. How many of them did u hear died of gun violence this year? How about last year? How about the year b4 that?

Tomide007:
Greener pasture get levels.... Pple from Canada are also moving to Finland and Norway ...nd pple from us move to Canada.

Nobody is moving to Finland and Norway - BORING. To Canadians being able to settle in US is achievement. Many Hollywood stars are Canadians. USA is HUGE, there is so much - there is something 4 everybody.
BUT it is not about where u r. It is about YOU and your circumstances. Someone in 9ja can be a thousand times happier than someone in US.

Pearlyakin:
I find it hard to believe this story, is Nigeria even in the top 20
What about countries like Israel, Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Pakistani and the likes

Citizens of those countries don't think like Nigerians. The average Nigerian always considers there could be other ways. To put it bluntly, they NATURALLY are always on lookout for ways the system can be gamed.

Denikayan:
Nigerian scammers are low profile scammers who are not even educated enough or enlightened to know what plays big.

Russia, China, Pakistan is where you will find this class of people in free range.

Wetin Naija boy sabi? dating sites and all those close to cheap scams.

Does the below look low-profile to you?? Russians and Chinese are incapable of this unless government-aided.
Note 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)

By this point, savvy people 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.

Denikayan:
What are you saying?

Nigerians scam reach Russia and China.

YES! For the most part those countries are only capable of state-aided scams which originate in their own countries. See my story above - ordinary 9jas with no aid from any agency. Only 9jas are capable of that!

Denikayan:
Nigerian scammers are low profile scammers who are not even educated enough or enlightened to know what plays big.

Russia, China, Pakistan is where you will find this class of people in free range.

Wetin Naija boy sabi? dating sites and all those close to cheap scams.

What's low-profile about this: Russians and Chinese are incapable of this unless government-aided.
Note 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)

By this point, savvy people 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.

Denikayan:
What are you saying?

Nigerians scam reach Russia and China.

Communism by definition does not encourage thinking outside the box - the greatest prerequisite of great scamming. Just like the average North Korean can't be a good scammer

Denikayan:
What are you saying?

Nigerians scam reach Russia and China.

YES! For the most part those countries are only capable of state-aided scams which originate in their own countries. See my story above - ordinary 9jas with no aid from any agency. Only 9jas are capable of that!

johnmartus:
This is a landslide achievement,should be dedicated to pdp.

Looked at a certain way it is an achievement. Nigeria is only one of over 200 countries in the world yet they are #1 - in a way it denotes intelligence, creativity, thinking outside the box, and dedication

kzeebaba:
Everything about Nigeria is scam in fact our name should be scam and not Nigeria.

Light you pay for what u don't use - nepa
Charges u don't understand every month - bank
I will do heaven and earth after elected - politicians
Fresh graduate with 3 working experience - job seekers
And many more

That's why Nigerians make very good scammers abroad - they are used to looking outside the accepted procedure and seeing how the systrm can be gamed - see the above story

Platony:
Am telling u!! Even those u call friends will still scam u, d mentality of scamming is very high in Nigeria.

Am telling ya.
And poster with moniker Afonjaaaaaah see the below. Chinese in USA are incapable of such. Only 9jas can do it. Average citizens of other countries are incapable of it without govt involvement (note the bolder):


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.

Kuginzi:
We the people of Southeast will not vote for Buhari again

Again? Did u vote 4 him b4?

deomelo:
[s][/s]


So, Trump and WAEC defeated Jona from otuoke village and athiefKuooter master or PMB?

Why is a lifeless man defeating your masters and giving you so much pain and headache.?

ipobs are really dumbo, ignorant and unintelligent for sure?

Haven't u been following the news?
The electiom ead massively rigged!
Defeat kor, defaulters ni

deomelo:
By who? Some irrelevant, ignorant, unintelligent and inconsequential ipob villagers?

No, by Trump and his NEPA bill WAEC certificate

AFONJAAAAAAH:
No, when it come to scamming, the Chinese are seniors, they are more creative in scamming. they do their scamming is senior ways and hardly get caught, Nigerians is are learners compared to them.
Nigerians just they spoil the scam, you can easily identify a Nigerian scam because they are not really professionals in scamming.

it's like prostitution, you will think that Nigerian is number 1 in exporting prostitutes to the world but they are learners compared to countries like Thailand, Philippines etc,
Nigerian don't do thing in clean/senior ways

WRONG! Let's take USA for example. The Chinese snd other Asians and Italians were there LONG b4 Nigerians. Yet all they did was form mafia, sell drugs, and extort their own people - things that don't require much intelligence. It was Nigerians that came and saw that the whole system had holes. Do u know Wall Street buying and selling was based on honour system. Because of an ordinary Nigerian scammer they had to pass new laws to change that. Examples are countless

deomelo:
The lifeless dullard kicked your otuoke fisherman out of office back to his village.

The same lifeless dullard defeated your athiefkulooTer Hausa Fulani master mercilessly.

You ipob losers are still traumatized and in severe pain, you can not even breath or eat your stale akpu without referencing him

What a powerful lifeless dullard

What a bunch of bitter and frustrated ipob losers..

Doesn't change the fact he is widely perceived as lifeless dullard, home and abroad. Lifeless because Trump described him such and also he is always sickly. Dullard because he didn't go to school.
NO BE ME TALK AM O!!!

Ayoslimzy:
All the countries listed above are advanced technologically even tho Nigeria is not that advanced in technology we still top the list
Kudos to the yahoo boys it is not easy

Though, to be honest, Nigerians started distinguishing themselves in scams long b4 Yahoo boys. It started late 70's, early 80"s

Platony:
Everything na scam for Naija.

Bank dey scam their customers.
Dstv dey scam their users.
Lecturers dey scam students.
Police/SARS dey scam d masses
Hospitals dey scam patients
Pastors dey scam members
NEPA,...NEPA,....Chai!!! Na major scam!!!!!

D list goes on.

Just be aware anybody u r dealing with in 9ja is a potential scammer no matter their title or how righteous they present