₦airaland Forum

phantom24:
Our clueless govt. Will never encourage or support this kind of innovations so they can continue to loot from nnpc

That is biogas. Government is not your problem. Go and look for someone to set up one for you. Some firms do that in Nigeria. Abi you no get toilet? Everything is not government. Help yourself

NockMedia:
Whenever a lady tries to get violent with you as a guy, the best thing to do is to walk away from the heat of the moment.

No Sir! That's an error.

It's against the ethics of nature. You do that, you create a problem for the next generation of men.

Angelfrost:
Congrats to a hardworking individual... I wish him greater heights. May he fare better than his fellow African that went to Emirates.

All Gattuso needs to do now is build his attack and formation around him... Next season in Serie A will be quite interesting!!!

Around him for what? Napoli is not a struggling team. They have mad strikers. From all angles, OSI is overpriced. They're willing to pay that extortion because he's just 21

Albatross1:
It should be affordable and allocated based on merit only, so the masses that really need the houses can benefit.

The house is not for free.

maisauki:
that their projection costs in excess of one trillion.
You see, if s politician promises you and fulfils twenty to forty percent which in this case is about four hundred billion, then he has tried. Let's jus hope that they'll surprise us by performing more than that

They just told you what it will cost to build a 3-bedroom bungalow using that method. It's not a politician promising something.

It's now up to us to find out how to use that method to build our private houses cheaper

chatinent:
If it's preventive, it's cool even if I know the black man has grown immune to the virus.

Which virus?

einsteine:
That's because you didn't read.

If he was going to be released, the case would be dismissed with prejudice, making it illegal to file the case again. The case would be refiled within a month.

That is because you didn't understand what you read.

The case can be filed again. I didn't say it couldn't be filed again. I said the operation (moving him from Dubai to US) was illegal. There is already an indictment on him. What they have to do now is release him, place a red notice on him, then legitimately extradite him to US, and charge him to court.

The same thing will happen in Hushpuppi's case. Hush has not yet been indicted.

einsteine:
He has not been released and the case was not dismissed without prejudice. He would be rearraigned in a few days.

By the way, their accomplices are still in prison in the UAE

Case dismissed means it's left for the FBI to tell him bye bye from US. The. US government dropped the case. That movement was illegal. It was literally a kidnap. If US can do that, then they've given other nations the greenlight to also do it to US citizens.

He has been indicted by a panel already. He'll be released soon.

That operation was illegal because you can't extradite anyone from Dubai to US. There's no extradition treaty between the two countries. The US government probably doesn't want to set the wrong precedence.

He shouldn't come near Nigeria because na EFCC straight. Then Nigeria can extradite him to US.

I bet that of Hushpuppi will be dismissed too. I don't like US but I love their justice system

nairavsdollars:
Those thinking Hushpuppi will get 20 years in jail will be shocked. Corruption is everywhere, just worse in Africa

It's not corruption. It's a system that works

babasolution:
Look at the opportunity cost also not just profit,the jobs it will create will even out profits lost

Sustainability is more important than job creation. Focusing on job creation is mere charity work. That's why we have Nigerian government spending billions annually on unprofitable ventures all in the name of job creation, from NPower to agencies.

This country will eat itself, eventually. Cost of buying abroad is way cheaper than that of buying from Nigeria. Business people want to maximize profit. That's why they import

joinluqman:
Gambling is gambling my man. There is nothing like investment in betting. If you stake 100k on 1.05 odd for 5k profit, remember that you have to win 20 consecutive times to cover just your 100k any single loss, you lose everything. It is this kind of mindset that leads to problem gambling. Bookies aren't fools and if this does work as you think, everybody would be doing it, even banks.

I said, don't be greedy and don't be too optimistic. If you do any of the above in any financial dealing, you become a gambler, irrespective of where you're investing your money. Once it becomes too good to be true, stay away. Anyone putting money in virtual sports is gambling. Always go for the real thing.

Lorayne:
It's Marca, a sports magazine that voted benzema best player. If anyone from Madrid will get this season's la liga's best player it should be ramos.

Exactly. If a striker should win it, it should be Messi. He has the stats on his side. Anything else should be Ramos

It's not fraud. It's investment gone wrong.

Yes, sports betting can be part of your investment strategy. Just don't be greedy and too optimistic. You see that 1.05 odd? That's 5% profit.

She planned to invest in sports. I wouldn't recommend anyone try that with people's funds. The risk is too high. Putting in 1k to get 1m (100000% profit) is gambling. Trying to get 1-5% is an investment. Anything over 1.1 odd, baba you're on your own. There's a reason the yield is that high: very high risk.

Don't use anyone's money to invest in sports

If you've fūcked her, dump her

dalass:
French people are also thieves and corrupt... You know where these artworks were stolen from. Yet they continue to profit from it knowing its illegal

They plundered Africa and still ripping us off economically... If its theirs, that will be one hell of wahala as they will trace the thief and make him pay compensation for all those years... Wicked western people

Madam, they were not stolen. They were sold to them. It's like saying all those slaves were kidnapped from Africa. Africans sold Africans to Europeans, Arabians, and Americans

I bet Nigerians sold those stuff to them. Next mumu talk, abeg

If what they wrote there (stealing from him) is the only thing they have on his PA, then they have no case. Motive ke? So if I quarreled with someone yesterday and he died today. Does that mean that I have a hand in his death? I thought that BS was a Nigerian thing.

Abeg, they should dig deeper. What they're using to pin murder on that guy doesn't hold water at all. The lives of innocent people have been ruined in Nigeria over things like this

Don't be surprised to hear that she paid less than $1m for it. That's less than what a detached duplex goes for in Banana Island. Some clubs have even been sold for less than $500k.

Buy low, build up, sell high. Rinse and repeat. Every smart investor should have at least one sports club in Europe in their portfolio. The cheaper the better.

Simplyleo:
#324m for Import Duty of just 2 vehicles?

Nawao.

Yes, that's why Nigeria is one of the worst countries to buy a car in. It gets worse if the car is not too old. Duty is around 70% of the value of the car

The problem with making allegations like these is that the average Nigerians will believe it. That's how daft and unreasonable the average person is, especially Nigerians. Till next hundred years, they will use it against that person.

Fūcking paedophile. 17 year old? Disgusting

Crispels:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/402004-how-we-tracked-woodberry-via-iphone-whatsapp-bitcoin-transactions-fbi.html


Have you read this news? The FBI already has access to some of their Bitcoin details. I told you. There are certain tools special agents use for operations like this in collaboration with other American tech companies. So far you use the internet to defraud Americans, they can definitely track you down. Forget blockchain whatever - the FBI/CIA have secret/super agents that run many of these things. When I showed that my guy doing his PhD on this stuff your comment, he just laughed and told me the FBI will already have access to all their Bitcoin addresses by now because they would have tracked the transfer of funds and transaction IDs to their wallets - using data mining systems.

The only people American agencies find it hard to track are Chinese and Russians - and that is because they don’t really rely on American internet for their own operations.

Tracking is what they're talking about, not hacking.

I downloaded and read the full report of both Hush and Woodberry the same day they were released on US Justice department website. There was no hacking involved. They simply contacted the owner of the bank account money was wired to for purchase of Bitcoin. They showed him that the money used for that purchase was from fraud. He cooperated and gave them the BTC address the Bitcoin was sent to. With that address, they contacted Bitcoin payment processor service providers and wallet companies (like Coinbase, BitPay, Blockchain, etc) to run a check on all transactions involving that particular address, to see if anyone has used that address to make payment through them (by them, I mean the Bitcoin payment processor and wallet companies). It happened that Woodberry used that BTC address to make payment through BitPay he supplied his email address (hustle...) in the course of the transaction. All they had to do was contact Apple and Google to furnish them with all they have on that email address. Apple searched their database and showed them that an iCloud account was created with that email address. That's where they saw incriminating stuffs that he had backed up (iPhone users know about this). Nothing sophisticated about the investigation.

Woodberry didnt even make it hard for them. You don't make "anonymous" payment using your real identity. Always create a new email and BTC addresses for every BTC transaction. Don't forget to mix your coins, then run the funds through Monero and ZCash then back to BTC. By the time you're done, there would be no trail left to follow.

Your identity is the key. Hide it. Internet is Internet everywhere. It's just a network. There's no magic involved. They can only bank on your negligence or errors

levi2:
I thought DSTV said pay-as-you-go was impossible to implement....Always thought �� those guys(DSTV)were thieves...

Startimes doesn't have pay as you go. What they have is daily subscription, which is almost double monthly subscription. 90 Naira for 30 days is 2700 Naira.

Pay as you go is like using prepaid meter, or recharging your MTN line. Pay as you go, in its true form, would be disastrous for even Startimes

Mayflowa:
There needs to be policy prohibiting public officer from receiving gift. This law is coded in most countries of the world

Exactly. If the law is mute on public officials receiving gifts, then they are free to claim that any amount of money found on them is just a gift, and there'd be nothing a fair judge could do about that. This case, he said he received the money after he left service

damola1:
Matter is easy.

Let them follow the numbers on the money.

Anything outside 10k and the number followed each other.

Then

1. He has perjured himself
2. Them don catch am

But with that animal that was just kicked out of EFCC . I am sure what made them allow charges 1,2 5,6 be dropped. 3 and 4 will too.

Na Nigerians wey e steal d money from. I pity

You must be joking or trolling.

In real life, the numbers on the currency notes a person has don't follow one another because the notes were not printed at once and given to the person. If it ever happens, it's just a coincidence. You can't use that to reach an objective conclusion. Also, currencies are fungible.

tamdun:
U are not supposed to have such amount in your house, ur house no b bank

Yes, you are allowed to accumulate any amount of cash in your house. But you must declare them in your tax returns. Note the word "accumulate". Receiving over $10k cash at a time could raise AML flags.

The laws that govern money in the bank also govern money in your house.

maturemindsonly:
Not in support of crime, but he's actually right

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/drug-dealer-loses-codes-for-53-6m-bitcoin-accounts-1.4180182%3fmode=amp

Paper wallet. He created 12 new Bitcoin addresses and sent those funds to the addresses. Those codes they're talking about are the private keys of those 12 Bitcoin addresses.

If anyone find the paper he wrote those private keys on, the person don hammer big time. They just have to import the private keys into their Bitcoin wallet (online or hardware). The person with the private keys own the coins

Crispels:
I understand what you are trying to say but you are still not getting my point. Do you know how data mining works at law enforcement levels? The FBI already have many of their gadgets in custody with them. Even with just a transaction ID, they can mine as many data as possible using certain tools. All they need is just the email address linked to that wallet or even a transaction ID/history, and they will match it with the data they are mining.

If someone have access to your phone or any of your electronic gadgets now, there are tools they can use to mine your data from 2010 to this day - including all your passwords and deleted files. So far Hush Puppi has gone online to log in to that bitcoin address before, forget it, they can use data mining tools to get his password. I have a friend whose PhD thesis is on this. Give this fellow the phone that you use online for transactions. There are tools this fellow can use to mine out your bitcoin passwords and emails even though your gadget is switched off.

People use data mining and machine learning tools to crack scenarios like this.

There is no log in when you are using hardware wallet. The device is something that looks like a flash drive. Anytime you want to perform a transaction, you plug in the device to your USB port, launch the software, enter PIN and do your transaction.

While doing the transaction, you go offline. The software will "send" the coins to the address you want to send it to, while you are still offline (it signs the transaction). You must press a button on the device to complete the transaction. That means even if someone takes remote control of the computer, they cannot send anything because they must press a button on the device itself. The hardware device is also cheap (less than $60).

The way hardware wallets are designed, hacking is not much of an option. People that control huge funds use cold storage to get absolute privacy.

The fact that Woodberry was using only one Bitcoin address shows that he was using cold storage (probably paper) because it's not easy to keep track of multiple Bitcoin addresses.

Crispels:
And they can easily access private keys via advanced data mining. That’s my point. So far you have ever typed in your private keys while accessing your wallet(or address if you prefer that) online, your data can be mined using certain exclusive and advanced tools. They can also use network sniffing technology depending on circumstances. There are several ways the FBI can hack into any Bitcoin address or account - whatever you wanna call it.

Baba, hacking is not magical. It's not. Some voodoo technique.

First, you must identify the person behind the address, which is almost impossible if the person is cyber security conscious.

Second, you have to acquire the target network. That is, the computer network of the entity whom you have identified to be behind the address. Computer network here doesn't mean mobile network like MTN and co. You must infiltrate their computer network.

Third, your listening tools (spywares, rootkits, worms, etc) must remain undetected in the network.

Fourth, you have to wait for the person to use that network to perform a transaction using that particular address you wish to acquire the private key. A person in custody will not perform a transaction. Anyone who does that is not security conscious. Never spend directly from the fat address. The best move is to send the funds to a new address and spend from there.

Also, security conscious people don't use Bitcoin wallet companies (Blockchain, Coinbase, BitPay, etc) because these companies get to see the private keys of their clients. Instead, they use hardware wallet or paper wallet (cold storage). Hardware wallet allows you to complete a transaction offline within the software that comes with the hardware wallet, before finally registering the transaction on the Blockchain. This means that even a spyware cannot see your private keys because everything about the transaction happens inside the software. You don't type any private key except you want to import coins into your hardware wallet.

You wonder how coins can be stolen from a cryptocurrency exchange.

You have to find the private key to a particular coin address, and the coins are yours.

How do you find the private key to an address? This is where hacking comes in.

Network sniffing using spywares, worms, etc. You have to infiltrate the computer network of the address user and spy on them