Some time in 2010 I think someone met me at my junction asking for directions to a church. He had a bike.He claimed there's a popular herbalist that's good in tying and fixing broken bones. Then there was another guy just passing by. That one convinced me to take him there since I knew the area. On our way when we got to the area, he claimed that he had a snake diamond and it was worth millions. The other dude said oh he knows that area where the herbalist resides and he didn't know he was talking about that particular guy. I said okay since you know the place just take him there I have done my bit. The other guy insisted please I would like to reward you for your time and everything if I sell it off I want to give you something. I was very young not even 18 at the time so I followed. Then we got there, the herbalist put the snake diamond stuff in a bowl saying he wants to confirm if it's legit. Then it changed to several 1k clean notes. The herbalist then said he will call a popular rich man who needs it to come pay for it and collect it. I don't remember what happened but they started requesting money. I didn't have to give. At the end of the day the said not to tell anybody anything and just go else I'll die.
Fast forward some years later my roommate in school fell for the same prank and emptied his mother's account and gave them 80k. This was a final year student at the time

old format tha only greedy fellow will fall for

Mine was table tennis scam around 2005 at oshodi....I ran away

spiritedtete:
I remember in 2006 when I was working in punch news... my first job actually so the press id card was "shaking" me I use to wear it around my neck so everyone can see PRESS lol.

So one afternoon this around alade market this guy approached me and was asking for morphiz plaza.... i was like ahh nooo it's not here, by the way he was forming French accent;

The 419 guy with French accent : excuse me... priss wheris moRphiz plaza...

Me: ahhh no morphiz plaza is not here it's in VI

419: ohhhh nooo Juliet why why... where do u do dis to me...( forming victim).

419: everywheRe ir go they say memo memo ( meaning I don't know I don't know)

419 : oh my money my goods... I came all the way from Congo, my name is shabani Congo I gave Juliet all my goods she said in should come to morphiz plaza... people have Rob me, my watch my chain, I am scared I can't trust no one. orhh u pRess?

Me: yes press. ( then I as I turned to leave one guy was passing by and he asked, bros wetin dey happen?, I explain to him. And then he was asking the guy questions).

419: please airport here? I ( I didn't understand that... the 3rd guy said bros he ask if airport they here.. so we pointed the direction to him)

419: Thank you VeRy much you are kind ( he handed a dollar bill to me... then immidiatley the 3rd guy grabbed it from me(

3rd guy: bros na wa na alade you dey abeg no let make them see this thing o.. make we go change am share am.

3rd guy: bros come oo this guy need help oo.. and you be press man na... he go fit trust you, remember he talk say plenty people don dupe am. Bros help this guy na.

( that was the point.. They got me).

419: I have plrenty goods I need someone I can trust to help me take charge I want to go back I am tired of this place.

Me: calm Down I will help youuu.. where is your warehouse?

419 : it is at magodo

Me: I am not after your money or goods... I just want to help. Don't give me anything.

3rd: (whispering) bros abeg I wan follow una oo.. tell am say I be you brother oo. ( don't forget the dollar bill is still with him).

Then we called a bike... from that Allen roundabout to ogba the 419 guy was on the same bike with me... I was the one who paid the fare too.

So when we got to ogba.. something just stroke me... it was like i dropped my ajebo gown...

Me : (talking to the other 3rd guy). Bros you no say I no trust you. If una Bleep up.. this whole area ogba na my kebba oo. I got welley una enh.

3rd guy: (shouting) Shabani shabani...

419: what! Do you people want to rob me.. are you planning to rob me.

Me: shutup! No one is robbing you...

Me: ( facing the 3rd guy) bros bring that dollar sef make I see am.. ( no so this guy begin argue oo)

I just saw some agberos.. just shout omo iko... wan ti fe gbemelo o.

( wise men ... They are trying to abduct me)

Na so this two guys... ran ooo.

Men.. see wetin... forming Mr calm cool and nice wan cause me. Lol. It was a very interesting experience... I just laughed anytime I remember... I just don't know where that spirit came from.

Lol

spiritedtete:

Lol.

A good friend of mine lost his well paid job as a cashier to these fraudsters some years ago. This should be in 1999/2000 when he was scammed of nearly 250000,money meant for workers salary.

TheUbermensch:
Word, OP.

There's also another scam I've been told about and also experienced.

It works best when you're wearing a sandal. A young guy would approach you to tell you you aren't putting on the Sandals well. He'd further say that the way you are wearing it may spoil it. Now when this was happening to me I didn't dismiss the nigga immediately. Indeed I was experiencing a certain pain in my foot from the Sandals. "Maybe I wasn't wearing it well I thought".

The best thing to do in this situation is to dismiss them. Be very harsh. Raise an alarm if possible.

But if you don't they'd keep on commenting on your Sandals. The guy would later say he makes sandals and he can help you readjust it so it won't spoil. At this point you should really really tell him off.

But if you don't, and you shrug and let him come to adjust your Sandals, he'd ask you to see him. Then he'd be readjusting your foot sort of. At this point all your concentration is on your foot and what exactly the guy would do.

Alas! What's really happening is as you bend, he's dipping his hands into your pocket and you'd be in a position where you won't feel it. Maybe they use Jarz I don't know.

When it was happening to me I let the nigga have a go at my foot. I wanted to see how exactly it worked. He kept on readjusting my foot and telling me to bend down, but my eyes were on my trouser pockets.

He was lucky he got away with a knock from me. Had I seen the policeman at the bend of the street I'd have handed him over.

Bottom line: Y'all have to be wise in the street of Lagos.

Lol, tell the truth.. he got away with ur money

That number 2 happened to me like last year or so. This guy came to me speaking with a french accent saying he is a stranger in lagos and he's looking for saint Mary's church. I told him the one i knew was at isolo. He said i should help take him there that he will pay me in dollars. My brain don dey ring already o. Na so one bike man just show from nowhere. He asked what was going on and told him the foreigner was looking for st Mary's church. He said he knows the place and that we should help take him there. That's when my eyes opened. From where i was at that particular time to the particalur church was like from oshodi to maryland. Imagine taking a bike to such distance! Omo na so i wise tell them say i no fit follow them. Say them send me message. They started begging me but i was adamant. I watched them go. Later later o i kon jam this 'foreigner' for my area, i ask around kon hear say na confam ibo boy. Omo i just laff

Haha...... E still dey wonder me how people still dey fall victim of this mumu scam



Stop me for road say one thing one thing the kain look I go give you ehn, you go apply acceleration

I see everyone on the street as criminal, especially anywhere around marketplace or busy area, I zero my mista nice guy to everyone, even street beggars self, come meet me shii shii, you will not see from me.

PRO1992:
DONT BE LEFT OUT YOU CAN MAKE IT TOO NOBODY IS BORN TO BE A FAILURE

Another scammer spotted

Most ladies were lucky not to fall for this scam but some, their pussies were not

harriet412:


Lol, tell the truth.. he got away with ur money

Naw.

My money and phone were in my other pocket. If he had attempted to reach that it'd have just been foolhardy of him.

TheUbermensch:


Naw.

My money and phone were in my other pocket. If he had attempted to reach that it'd have just been foolhardy of him.

I see..

What's with the uber on ur nick

This is exact way my woman was scammed sometimes ago #firstformat only that I don't know whether they sample her

adedayoa2:
It happened to me o, in mile 2. That should be 2001

You mean, you payed those that raped you?

This format don tey for Akure.. Metcheww

mrdan:
It's been happening for more than 20 years.
And they still seem to get to scam people every time.

Because some mugu gives birth to maga

Op ur head dey there. I fell victim of format 1 at Oshodi in 2007. the thing pain me gain o

I was a victim at oshodi tooo, year 2007... I gave them the money I was supposed to send my brother..chai.

lifestyle1:
Old trick..

If you are greedy you will definitely fall for this.

..

It can only happened to a greedy person. It happened to a lady I was dating back then in the university. She returned from school and started behaving abnormally. I asked her, but she kept her mute. 2 days after by way of boast she told me how rich she will become from that day. I was curious, I used diplomacy to make her speak. She told me almost this story. That on her way to school few days ago she met a man who told her he's d son of a former president of one of these African country. That he deals on electronics, that he came in with a lot of goods through Lagos but d custom intercepted d goods and took him to Abuja. That while in Abuja where he lodged, he was drugged and everything taken away from him and he is left with nothing. She assisted d man wid what she had. As she left d second person approached her and inquired what d man said and she xplained. She followed them to some where. She almost finished money at home. She demanded for money I gave her unknown to me she gave same to them, she only told me d story bc I refused to give her more money untill she justfy what she's doing with d money. That's how she told me this story and I told her she is a victim of 419 but she wouldn't listen rather she accused me of being enermy of progress. To prove to her it was a scam, I told her to call them and told them u have a friend that is a senior officer in Lagos, he can be of help. She called but they warned her not to inform any one but rather demanded she should go meet them. I warned her not to make an insh. But she refused and went without my knowledge. The address given to her at airport road was non existence yet she was stubborned. When I realized she was not at home, I called her line, she told me she is already in d vehicle to meet them. By this time it was already 5:pm. I was calling her till she got to d direction but suddenly, her line went off as if it was snatched from her. I was so agitated. Her line was not on till d following day at about 3pm after I had lodge a complain of a missing person. Till date, I never knew what exactly happened. Only that she could not meet them and she had a low battery and was stranded. Honestly people need to learn.

harriet412:

I see..
What's with the uber on ur nick

Übermensch. German for "Superman". It's more of a philosophical thang.

Mine was at Oshodi overhead, the scammer was showing fake dollars in his wallet because he saw I was just from another state and carrying laptop bag thinking he has seen jjc

Lemme say my own story..... I was coming back during my IT those days at oshodi when it was still rowdy A guy came to meet me that he just came from port Novo that he came with foreign currency and want to change it to naira that he doesn't know calculation that I shd Pls come n help him so they wont cheat him... That he ll give me big share of the money, during his speech I kept moving n never said a word (I was meditating on lessons my parent taught me about kidnappers n strangers that I ll reply I ll be hypnotised) when I figured he wasn't going to stop following I shouted at him that: if you don't leave me now I ll shout on you... He immediately left

Didn't proof read

Hahahaha Format 3 happened to me at Warri,

NPA Expressway precisely, few years back. I boarded a cap to drop along. Just after the Refinery Overhead bridge towards Nigercat the taxi dropped a woman, left in the car is the driver, a passenger sitted at the front seat, a woman clutching a bag and myself. The drama begun, driver asked why the last passenger didn't pick the traveling bag in the booth, woman sitting beside me said it's her bag, driver accosted her threatening to expose her if she doesn't tell the truth as he claimed he saw part of the contents through a torn part of the bag. She narrated a long confessional story of how her ritualist boss just died, they (domestic staff) broke into a secret room and she's making away with$1.5M in the bag. Our other passenger now started contributing as to how/what to do. Lastly they all agreed to go somewhere secluded to share the money, at that point I had reached my destination and to their surprise I chosed to drop rather than follow them to share the largess. Come see provocation, they shouted at me to quickly comot for the car say I be mumu wey no like better things. Na so I kukuma drop O!

Other near instances still in same Warri didn't advanced to long stories as I immediately dropped when I sensed the drama will start. Hmmmm this hustling eh!

Auladimeji:
On the bridge, right?

Infront of those government schools,

nearly happened to me last year

i just finished using the atm and was waiting for keke, then this very tall guy walks up to me speaking something that sounded like ''susule susule me from guniea me looking for hajia binta money she owe me susule susule'' all of a sudden this other guy appears and was like lets help him oh before this hausa people dupe. Me i just hold my wallet flag down keke, entered and waved them bye.

I was a victim of No 2. Akure people in Ondo State are mad oo. They nearly sent me back to sq.1 ..