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Thank you. I've been trying to verify my ID on Geegpay since, but they didn't accept NIN as a valid ID. I don't understand. They said international passport is the most preferable form of ID, but my passport has expired.
Upwork isn't accepting Nigerian banks' ATM cards as a payment/billing method for buying connects. Any recommendations on other payment methods one can use, please?
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Bam17: Good afternoon, guys. Please I'd love to know the ideal price in naira for a ghost writing gig. And isn't #1.5 too small for 250K words?
When you charge #1.5 per word for a job, how would you deliver quality submissions? This rate should even be an insult to any writer that knows their onions.
4 naira per word should be the minimum unless your submissions are poor.
Cletus Cholu, the OP (Clet3) that posted this vacancy, is a fraudster.
After I applied for the job he posted, he messaged me instructions on how to do the assessment for the post.
The assessment has to do with translating a complete story book of about 50 pages from English to Yoruba. And he expected this to be done for free within three days.
Because of the harsh terms of the assessment, I didn't take the job seriously.
I don't know which reasonable person expects any professional to translate a whole book for him for free as an assessment when I've sent samples of my past translation projects to him.
This mischievous kept on disturbing me with calls to send the job, and he later said the so-called company would pay me £500 for the translation.
So, I did chapter one of the translation and submitted it to him and requested for a payment of that translated chapter to test if he was a sincere and trustworthy person.
Days later, he said the work had been approved.
A month after the submission, he refused to send the payment for the submission he got and later blocked me on WhatsApp.
Nairalanders, beware of having any dealings with Cletus Cholu with the phone number +2347039155215 and email address cholucletus@yahoo.com
I've filed a report to Amazon and other online platforms this scammer operates on.
Clet3: A reputable company is in need of local language translators in Nigeria and Africa.
Interested applicants must meet the following requirements: a. Good knowledge of his or her local language b. Ability to code c. Understanding of binary language d. Good system preferably Windows 10 e. Ability to manage time and resources
Send your resume and a sample of your binary language work to: cholucletus@yahoo.com
This guy is a fraudster. People should be wary of having any dealings with him. I'll provide more information shortly.
Stop worrying about the past and how time has moved
It is annoying because you wonder. "did I make a mistake going for a masters degree or even a degree with all the effort I could?" , "of what use is my first class or 2:1 in law or psychology if people are asking me to listen to their complex problems for 5,000 naira?
And the most painful part is when you study a five or seven year course like law or medicine then immediately jumped into a masters degree. Now, you have all the papers but your mates who did a four year course and started working earlier are way better off financially than you.
Again, solution is to stop worrying and do what you can with the cards you are dealt with. Never forget that many of your peers are locked up in prison or in worse financial situations than you are.
Just think of your predicament as one who just escaped mental prison, time to start again. Pick up and learn a side hustle -join relevant free telegram groups like webcharmers and search groups like hacksnation to get the courses you need and start work from there.
As you struggle with your day job that pays minimal but sorts out the bills, just give the side hustle 30mins-1hr a day and plan for 6-9 months consistently working on it
Find an additional job, preferably, one that helps you interface with Nigerians abroad, example is academic writing for Nigerian students. These students don't have time because they need to combine caregiver work with school and sort out their papers. You can bill them with the dollar equivalent for each job, minimum of $50- $100.
DO this in combination with trying to improve your other online skills say copywriting or web designing. Just pick one skill and take courses on client acquisition.
Please, do you know Telegram groups or WhatsApp groups for writing and research/academic writing or teaching jobs?
I don't have time for silly back-and-forth. I've delivered my message already. I'm sure anyone that wants to work with this mischievous fellow will be able to see the red flags.
Ugaboy: I knew you will do this...check my profile, it is clear evidence I'm not a scammer.
I can't give you the job.
You sound rude to strangers I will publish your number here...so no one will have to do business with you.
My number is in my posts, so what do you want to publish there? I can provide screenshots of my WhatsApp chats with you backing all I said in that post. Writers: Beware!
Beware of this scammer. Anyone offering 15,000 naira for a 3000-word essay at master's level is a fraudster. The work is even highly technical. He's looking for people to defraud.
The work is 3000 words. He's lying it's 2000 words. Keep this up, and your details will soon be added to that black list (thread) of well-known fraudsters on Nairaland.