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condemn:
This is why I always tell people not to date or marry an Igbo woman. See as their men dey disgrace us. As their men greedy and desperate na so their women be too. That's why they are all prostitutes.

Not all of them.

In fact, the women are usually good because they've been shielded from all their worldly ways.

GeekfromLasgidi:
How come they are all Igbos?

scammers don't use real name

meeky007:
stupid you
u will die first

Seems your brother is among.

Might be a while till you see him.

Certainly not this Christmas.

majamajic:
scammers don't use real name

They are all Fulani using igbo aliases.

dokyOloye:
e better say dem do fraud,than to go de harvest people head from their shoulders

Mumu most yahoo.plus are accompanied with human body sacrifice which often require monthly or yearly renewal.

All crime are evils

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ipobarecriminals:
my problem is how th3se bastards secure their visa/paper.Dey should hang dem all

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CanadaOrBust:
If u only knew how wrong u r.
NIGERIANS INTRODUCED IDENTITY THEFT AND CREDIT CARD SCAMS INTO USA long before Yahoo and laptops.
You'd be surprised, the AVERAGE American and European thinks in straight lines. He is not corrupt becsuse he doesn't know how to be. Much of their system was based on honour and that's all they knew. It took NIGERIANS to show Americans there is another way.
It never occured to Americans u could steal someone's identity and apply for credi cards, claim their tax refund, etc. NIGERIANS STARTED IT!
PROPORTIONATELY, other countries don't even come close. In 9ja, we EXPORT scams.


Take the scam described below. Average citizens of other countries are incapable of it without govt involvement (note the 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)

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.

At the highlighted statement is nothing but a huge fallacy. Europeans were the first set of corrupt humans.

Biritiko:
Mo daran!
Most of them are from southeast .

Wow! Just wow!
99.99% of them are from the southeast mehn !
This one weak me, I can’t lie .

It may just be because they caught a ring leader who ratted out the others. You'd expect that most of the dealers will be from one stock. In this, I suspect it is linked to that "young advanced yahoo entrepreneur" guy nabbed few weeks ago.

Now in the same vein, if they were to catch one dealer or ring leader of peeps from SW Nigeria, what names d'you think will populate the list? SW names of course.

So it's just that these met their waterloo this time around. At other times, some others will meet theirs sooner or later.

The sad and most important part though is that all Nigerians, irrespective or tribe or clan, will be recipients of the backlash of this negative publicity. We should cease being selfish in our actions and always think of the consequences and the collateral damages such actions will have on the lives of those people, which may even be innocent total strangers, that are not in on our actions.

Commentor:
Not all of them.

In fact, the women are usually good because they've been shielded from all their worldly ways.

80% of beautiful Igbo ladies are prostitutes. Come lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt and see things for yourself.

flowmama:
Oga, don't even go to country providing opportunities... We are all in this together and I am not a scammer...

Besides, if that nonsense narrative is your defense then how come they still went to a country that provided good opportunities only to go on scamming spree.


Respect yourself Oga

i wonder o..
whether buhari follow them go US

PureFace1:
You guys can tag other tribes traitors,snake and all kind of unprintable names but you don't want others to do the same

God bless you sir , u are right.

condemn:
80% of beautiful Igbo ladies are prostitutes. Come lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt and see things for yourself.

That's not true.

Less than 1%.

sreamsense:
Unbelivable, close to 99% from one region! Was Abike Dabiri right or not when she said 20 out of 21 Nigerians awaiting execution in Indonesia are from Anambra? She was speaking from facts while many were countering her based on sentiment and tribalism. Here is another proof, this is one of the reasons PayPal and many other online businesses don't want to include Nigeria in any financial dealing which is affecting many legitimate users from Nigeria. EFCC should intensify more effort locally while other countries around the world should collaborate with EFCC to flush out fraudsters and drug dealers in their midst. Nigeria, will be great again! And believe me, there is something in the east aside poverty that we are yet to understand, but pushing youngs and adults into drug and fraud related cases than other regions in the country.

There's no morality in the east - everything is about money. Just make money, irrespective of the means.

izombie:
Solution is simple. Biafra. Give us biafra so that we won't be giving nigeria bad name. Shikena.

I can't wait oo. The biafra must be granted ASAP

Catchfirez:
This Guys are Pickers/account holders, they open different US bank Account for money to be sent. They take there own share and send the rest to Nigeria. The real Yahoo boys are in Nigeria. The nick name attached are the names they use for various usa bank account.

you know as e dey go

nikkygal:
This list is blood curdling haba!

Does it mean Nigerians don't have any other job abroad now than crime and fraud? How can this number of people be involved, and yet they've not even finished their arrests?

This is such a huge disgrace. This country is on a downward spiral...geez!

Look at their nicknames: 'Thank you Jesus, 'Pastor Ken', Son of God etc. Bunch of fraudsters constantly making things more difficult for legit folks like us...Awon adojutini gbogbo...

Please lock them up & throw away the keys...

lalasticlala
Mynd44

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sreamsense:
Unbelivable, close to 99% from one region! Was Abike Dabiri right or not when she said 20 out of 21 Nigerians awaiting execution in Indonesia are from Anambra? She was speaking from facts while many were countering her based on sentiment and tribalism. Here is another proof, this is one of the reasons PayPal and many other online businesses don't want to include Nigeria in any financial dealing which is affecting many legitimate users from Nigeria. EFCC should intensify more effort locally while other countries around the world should collaborate with EFCC to flush out fraudsters and drug dealers in their midst. Nigeria, will be great again! And believe me, there is something in the east aside poverty that we are yet to understand, but pushing youngs and adults into drug and fraud related cases than other regions in the country.

That's the outcome of a society that prioritizes money over everything.

In the South East a man is worth nothing if he's not rich, no matter the source. Thus, they're driven by their desire to impress their family, friends, peers, and everyone else that they've "arrived".

Any wonder they love "oversea" so much that they'll live, kill, die for a visa.

I don't trust a single igboe man abroad.

Yet they see none of this and instead dwell on the shortcomings of others to call Nigeria a zoo.

Hmm...

Not a single Northerner on the list.....

.....says a lot

IGBOSON1:
Anyone caught, tried and convicted should pay for his crime! This is the main thing!

Trying to draw attention to their ethnicity is for what? If your country had provided them with opportunities to earn a decent living i doubt we would be here discussing this today! This issue of getting gov't to be accountable and work for the people is all what IPOB is about! If you have a problem with their modus-operandi then start your own movement to change things....just like Sowore tried to do before they silenced him!

Everything you wrote is true. Although, on the bolded, some people will commit crime no matter what. Shame on those trying to ethnicise this.

Yes fraud is bad.. I don't support it but don't push it to to one ethnic group forgetting everyweek efcc arrest close to 40 yahoo boys from Lagos,Ogun and osun...

sreamsense:
Unbelivable, close to 99% from one region! Was Abike Dabiri right or not when she said 20 out of 21 Nigerians awaiting execution in Indonesia are from Anambra? She was speaking from facts while many were countering her based on sentiment and tribalism. Here is another proof, this is one of the reasons PayPal and many other online businesses don't want to include Nigeria in any financial dealing which is affecting many legitimate users from Nigeria. EFCC should intensify more effort locally while other countries around the world should collaborate with EFCC to flush out fraudsters and drug dealers in their midst. Nigeria, will be great again! And believe me, there is something in the east aside poverty that we are yet to understand, but pushing youngs and adults into drug and fraud related cases than other regions in the country.

This is ridiculous. Regardless of tribe, this is horrible for the Nigerian image.

And as an Igbo lady, I’m doubly ashamed about it.

Tufia

kushme:
See the idiot here again trying to defend the dirt..
What fvckin' opportunities is your biased deeqhead saying.. So, after leaving Naija for the US and other Asian countries they still couldn't find opportunities and earn a decent living there, hmm? Like I said, most of them got sh**ts twisted in their heads... Unnecessary competition..
Shey na only una dey overseas...

martineverest:
say no to crime

[quote author=kushme post=81517049]See the idiot here again trying to defend the dirt..
What fvckin' opportunities is your biased deeqhead saying.. So, after leaving Naija for the US and other Asian countries they still couldn't find opportunities and earn a decent living there, hmm? Like I said, most of them got sh**ts twisted in their heads... Unnecessary competition..
Shey na only una dey overseas... [shut up there we are in this mess together give us biafra ur demonic govt refuse since we are all Nigerian as u and ur demonic govt claim ur chances of traveling abroad will also be limited as me being a Nigerian man also]

I think the British should come recolonize the shithole again cos its obvious we have failed in all ramifications. The government is a fraud, most of the people are frauds, event the nation itself is a fraud.
Those that coined the name fraudgeria for the shithole might not be wrong after all.

sreamsense:
Unbelivable, close to 99% from one region! Was Abike Dabiri right or not when she said 20 out of 21 Nigerians awaiting execution in Indonesia are from Anambra? She was speaking from facts while many were countering her based on sentiment and tribalism. Here is another proof, this is one of the reasons PayPal and many other online businesses don't want to include Nigeria in any financial dealing which is affecting many legitimate users from Nigeria. EFCC should intensify more effort locally while other countries around the world should collaborate with EFCC to flush out fraudsters and drug dealers in their midst. Nigeria, will be great again! And believe me, there is something in the east aside poverty that we are yet to understand, but pushing youngs and adults into drug and fraud related cases than other regions in the country.

We thank God that it was not abike that released this list, we for no hear word... Instead of us to speak the truth to ourselves, we're asking why she released names.....nonsensical country

i neva expere it.........shame!shame!shame!shame!!shame!

i neva expere it

daddytime:
Hmmm

These are the Neanderthals reaping from a farm they never planted and expecting to enjoy the proceeds thereof, making the legit 9-5 hustlers seem as though they weren't hustling right.

I'm sure it was Buhari and our politicians that sent them away from Nigeria to go to the US, a country that hasn't been bastardized by the ruling elites to go and steal instead of hustling and earning a living by legitimate means.

When Buhari said most of the youths were lazy, so many failed to understand the sense in that statement even though I might not be cool with every one of his utterances and governing style.

The average Nigerian youth's psyche has been programmed and messed up to believe that the fast lane is the only and best way, not knowing it is indeed the highway to destruction and doom.

How do you intend to help God do his work in your life, or jumping the gun of life due to peer and societal pressures/impatience to make it big. This, I tell people is akin to avoiding the mandatory NYSC where, if you are found out to have deliberately skipped service, there'd be consequences.

Life is a process which has never been a Bed of Roses. Even God never promised us a life devoid of topsy turvy, his promises are that he won't saddle us with more than we could bear, and shall surely help us overcome.

So, if you decide to circumvent the NYSC of life, you'd be found out when the time is ripe and made to get back on queue to do your service and follow the procedure. No short cuts. Just pray you get found out in good time when you are still young and healthy to re-serve, and not when you might have been beat-down walking on a stick.

Life is simple if only we could sit back, reason and refuse to be pressured. We must quit with complicating our lives.

I learned these life lessons the hard way and I have given up myself to speaking up for this and other societal ills particularly among the youths. I won't stand aloof watching Nigerian youths self-destructing without lending a voice, God forbid.

Finally, whatever you garner up by crooked means shall be decimated by the same means and you won't even have an idea how it happened. I am a living witness to this and did a book on my life to teach the youths.

We are precariously seated on a keg of gun powder with our youths, we need to start changing our orientation and value system.

On a lighter note, expect American cars to start getting more and more expensive because the dealers are being swept of the streets. Some of our NL dealers fit dey among dem sef.

Nothing beats living and earning legitimately. No matter how little.

Most people didn't understand where EFCC was getting the renewed vigor in clamping down on these boys nationwide. Now you have your answers. FBI dey their nyansh.

These boys must hear word. Their laulau noise making don dey reduce sha

Lazy thieves home and abroad.

Exactly

The funny thing is that most of these guys are now US citizens. But typical of immigration system, when you do right.....they call you their own. When you commit a crime.....your file is dug up and your country of "origin" lambasted.
Yahoo issagoal!

Hotfreeze:
I like the fact that you've embraced your destiny to follow your family footsteps.

Enjoy your passion, then. However, I believe there are more constructive ways to use your time this morning. Those boys whose names are on that list probably didn't use their time judiciously. Have a nice life.

These are the people buying expensive properties up and down in Lagos and Abuja thus making salary earners feel like they are lazy.

All of a sudden the proponent of "fulani herdsmen" are saying we should not look at the tribe constituents because it is generally bad for Nigeria.

Yes we know it is bad for Nigeria's image.

However, 99% of those names that just spoilt the name of the country and that has been spoiling our name in Asia are from a particular ethnicity and it says a lot.