OREMUSSANCTUS:
Carry cocaine to indonesia, if u want to end it once and for all.

overdrive:
what's ur fb handle let me add u.

Reddit:
I sensed pride

astrodome:
Help!! Friends, family, former school mates and others are killing me with financial demands. Everyday I receive facebook (fb) messages, phone calls, email messages and messages from other communication avenues from family members, friends close and distant, school mates I have not seen in 20 years but with whom I reconnected on fb, and even random fb friends (meaning I do not know them personally but somehow we managed to be friends on fb). They all have the same story: please send me money, anything.

Each month I send nearly 3k to Nigeria and they keep asking for more.

Do they think I pluck money from trees in America?
Do they think every Nigerian in America is doing drugs or credit card fraud to make money?
Are they thinking that since Akin or Emeka made it in America (in many cases by selling drugs and doing credit card fraud), I should also make it and therefore be able to satisfy their unending demands?

How do I explain to them that I have bills (auto, mortgage, water-sewer, electricity, gas, phone, credit card) to pay. And then I have to run my family (of 4) and fuel 2 cars, and on top of that, I have to save also for the rainy day - for when kids get to college.

I am able to resist the random fb friends because I do not have any personal connection with them, but how do I scare the ones I know off without sounding rude and unhelping? I know that when you stop giving, you become an enemy.
Help! Before a fellow nairalander runs amock on the streets of America because of pressure from Nigeria

Just for disclosure: I am well-heeled in the US mid-upper middle class, earning a 6-figure pay. But I live in a US city (name withheld) where mortgage payment alone takes 25% of my monthly income. So you can imagine that after paying all bills, I do not have tons of money left over to give out on frequent basis.

Please advise on how to handle this, Naija style . Thanks

Sunofgod:


Announce your death to them on FB

astrodome:


You dey craze oh! After that what happens?

Sunofgod:


You resurrect with a new FB username and profile,

astrodome:


And who will be my new friends on the new fb page? Those ones will not ask for help?

astrodome:

And who will be my new friends on the new fb page? Those ones will not ask for help?

Sunofgod:


Yeah - only associate with rich people - poor people are trouble!

(Bros - Can you lend me like $2000 until payday? Abeg!)

astrodome:


Okay thanks for the advise.
Regarding your request, please send your bank account. Also, I will need just 20 dollars to facilitate the process of transferring the money to you

BTW, when is pay day again? Shey you no dey work for Osun State, abi?

sultaan:
[b]Apparently PhD is not given for common sense [/b]if you take on their problem it is your problem so there is no need for them to solve it anymore.

Don't log in to Facebook for 3 months the block all calls from Nigeria for 3 months by then your senses would have adjusted to you being responsible to your family they all won't die in 3 months they will have to understand where their lives are if you are incapacitated for extended period. Wean them of free milk and honey.


No insult intended

chigoizie7:
Oga, change ur phone, change ur fb and other social media. Avoid all of them for 2months, no pick there calls, no reply them.
Thank me later.

Sunofgod:


Abeg - Send via 'Western Union' - my account has some overdraft issues at the moment. Send me your account details including online logins, pins and password and I'll send the $20.

Once I've found a new job I'll confirm 'payday' with you,

Thanks in advance!

ice25:
LEARN TO SAY NO..IT WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF TROUBLE.....

astrodome:
I just dropped the phone a few minutes ago after speaking with one of these old friends, got very angry after telling me he lives in Adamawa (Boko Haram) and needs money to relocate to his state of origin. This coming after I sent $700, respectively to a sister and a sister-inlaw this am

Dem wan kill me?

astrodome:


Some of them include relatives I am obligated to help. Na person train me na ? How can I shut them all out? I understand your point, of course. Thanks