Black Money: The Latest Twist in the Billion Dollar Nigerian Scam Racket

Why would ANYONE give you millions of dollars smuggled out of a 3rd world nation? And anyone caught trying to do this should be sent to prison with the scammers! Greedy…

A Congressman and a heart surgeon? Are these supposedly educated people complete dopes? If I was the heart surgeon I would be so embarrased that I was so stupid that I wouldnt have gone to ABC news. These things are always scams. I am constantly amazed by the the amount of people (especially highly educateded people) who fall for these types of scams.

‘Black money’ is hardly the ‘latest twist’, it’s been around for years! Your ‘investigative’ reporting leaves a lot to be desired!

Its time to stop foul play.
Victims are thieves, scammers are thieves. Education is not an issue. Intelligence is not the problem. Its the human GREED the is the issue. You get greedy, you tend to loose all your marbles and get hosed by some GOOD thieves. As sad as it may sound, we all should take a lesson from this scamming and actually punish the victims since they have shown more greed than normal. They want to rip off a third world country. This has been going on for centuries and now they want their piece of African cake too.. lol
They should just do like the Nigerian leaders do, smuggle it out of the country in a suite case. Everyone involved with this scamming is a thief.
BTW why does everything bad have to be bad ? ummmm Nigeria calls it 419, before that it was Spanish advance fee or payment. Now America calls it Black money ? geepers … I guess its not different when we started calling Katrina victims Refugees lol

I just recently got an e-mail saying that I had won $2.5 million pounds from the United Kingdom lottery. Do you have any idea how much that is in American dollars?! The guy claimed he was the Reverend William Smith. He called me several times and eventually said I’d need to send him $675 so they could “notorize that I wasn’t a terrorist” and then they’d send me my check.
I checked the UK Lottery website which specifically said not to send any money to claim a prize. It also said if I hadn’t bought a ticket, I wouldn’t be winning anything. I found a website about internet scams and saw the same photos and graphics that had been on my email – they just changed the names. The good Rev insisted he was legit and seemed offended that I had so little faith… Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

Funny, if you fall for all the garbage in an email letter, whether from Nigeria, Japan or Australia well, I would say you deserved it. Blindness is real when vission is lost. When one is greedy enough to fall for what you call Nigerian scam, that individual should look in the mirror because for responding to scam, you yourself is out to scam someone else.

I think you should look into online dating site because they are using that medium now as well. A family member has been taken for a ride by a couple of different men. They both clamed to be from england and to be well off but had no problems asking to be sent money. One even taped into her phone line and was making calls from were else but nigeria. The other was able to have credit cards put into her name without her ever knowing it. Take a guess were he was nigeria. These people are praying on single men and women looking for love and then riping them off. That is something to look into.

The Brain Ross Black Money Investigation is nothing new, advance fee fraud aka 419 and scam is nothing new in Nigeria as well as in USA or around the world. People should be careful when they make decisions about their money, especially to people they do not know. In Nigeria 419 is open and accepted, though it is not ethical and legal, but what about in USA, where you have campaign soft money peddlers during election period. I think Brain Ross should have done something different, not only was the information in the investigation old, but totally not accurate, why would he claim that the per capital income of people leaving in Lagos is $1, that’s absolutely not true and inaccurate. You have a lot of Nigerians in Nigeria and around the world doing a lot of good stuff; we do not see Brain Ross investigating on that. I think if you going to report on a country as big as Nigeria, you need to be reflective of the totality of the country, regardless of your topic of investigation. Brain Ross; please do some investigation on corrupt cops in Baltimore, or Soft Money peddlers in Washington.

I am in a situation of scam now. I have consulted the FBI, the local police and any one else that would listen to me. Every one says “It is a scam”. Will I know that, but I don’t know how to deal with it. I can forward various e-mails if you’re interested.

While I don’t condone the nefarious activities of the Nigerian scammers and have very little sympathy for the victims, especially thos who allow greed to block their reasoning, I feel that scammers, called by any other name is bad. Personally, I feel that the Nigerian scammers are doing what some of our telemarketers, insurance swindlers, phony home repairmen, corrupt congressmen, corrupt CEOs, the likes of Jack Abramoff and Andrew Fastows of Enron, etc were doing. A thief is a thief is a thief. “If it sounds too good to be true” as they say, “it probably is.” If there is no demand, there will be no supply.

Anyone who participated in the scams should be held accountable. Also to all Americans we are to intelligent to fall for these scams open your eyes these people are underneath it all are envious of you they want to be us wealthy,happy,successful, educated they resort to any means to take that away from us at any time. Just look at their victims, what do they all have in common? Why dont they try to prey upon the black american community? Because they know that they would not get anywhere fast. Please educate and protect yourselves from these predatory 3rd world wannabe “America” nations. Wake up and realize you are the richest people in this world you have everything you need be proud and say it loud I LOVE YOU AMERICA!!

This doctor is the same man that tried to operate on my mother two years ago, (Thank Jesus he didn’t). Once I took a good look at him I knew his head wasn’t screwed on right.

Why be mad at nigerians, there are more criminals in the US than in nigeria. it’s all an act of greed. And please don’t call every Nigerian you see a scammer, cos they don’t call every American drug dealers or murderers. Not everybody in this world is Honest and they know themselves.

America is just ashamed and surprised that Nigeria out smarted them. In their eyes, they see Nigeria as very poor and undereducated- but they are highly mistaken.SCAMMERS ARE EVERYWHERE!Do not be surprised America!They come here and build businesses and are among the top students.

I too was scammed. Just days after posting on line a time share for sale, I was contacted and involved myself whth several exchanges within a month. Some flags were raised like why would this party from Africa be interested in my condo (even as nice as it is), but there remained a portion of the dialogue I truely wanted to believe in. The party sent me a check and it was brought to our bank where the teller told my wife that there was no worry. The money would be placed in our account following that transaction because of it being a cashiers check. She remained leery and asked that a manager review the check. Once again we were assured that the check would have no problems clear. We received an urgent email saying that a business partner was having some financial problems and wanted us to wire money back via western union. I thought nothing about it since it was assured that the funds were in my account, and it came from this party. I wired the money. It took 2 weeks before we heard from the bank again, now telling us that the check was bogus, AND that the loss would be taken from our other account.I remain very disgruntled. These criminals are good. Just days after wiring the money, the email addressed that was used was closed, and could not be traced. I lost $3500, they initially wanted to send me $8,000.

Someone once told me that “no one minds being scammed as long as no one finds out”. I still don’t buy that but what I would buy is that scams work because people are gullible and afraid to come forward. Instead of castigating the heart surgeon and others, we should be glad they came forward. It takes courage to put yourself out there like that. They are just human too. Being a doctor doesn’t make you omnipotent.

HAHA MUGU!!
what idiot would be stupid enough to fall into such a obvious scam? oh i guess a greedy excongressman.
LOL

It’s such a pity to see what has become of my beloved country and people. I am not justifying the evil that these men do but then more questions should be asked. I reside in the States and have seen a lot of programs on TV demonstrating how poor “AFRICA” is and how the people are suffering. Isn’t it a shame that someone living in a country like USA would still want to cheat the poor, suffering, oppressed and downpressed Nigerians? Someone riddle me this, isn’t it a scam to give a poor man $340,000 or $20,000 or whatever for his $12 billion…come on, which poor, struggling man could be that generous???. Am not saying anybody deserves what they get but lets call a spade a spade here…both the giver and the receiver had one thing in mind…”SCAM”.

What most people don’t realize is that the victims are not just “greedy ” Americans, victims have included elderly people who may not even think in terms of fraud. The scams change as fast as law enforcement can find them. The people behind this type of fraud are masters of social engineering, telling the victims what they want to hear. I work this type of fraud everyday. The general public needs to understand they are responsible for what is deposited into their accounts no matter if they are victims or not. Just because the bank gives you credit on a item does not mean it will be a good deposit. It all comes back to ” if sounds to good to be true, it is”

somebody tells you he’s a smuggler trying to smuggle money and you put your trust in him. Geeeee, that’s awesome dude!

I think its time to initiate an investigation into the crack Nigerian Law Enforcement Unit called “EFCC” Who in Gods name is overseeing them. It would be easy for certain individuals within that so called Elite law enforcement unit to get in on this cash cow. Your only scratching the surface.. as a retired NYC Detective I know full well what can be done to bury/hide corruption and investigations looking into corruption

The FBI and law enforcement organizations in the US have tons of information about 419 scam, yet some fools think they can pay $20000 or $50000 to get millions from the cover of the Nigerian treasury. Is the law here not hypocritical.There are two criminals here, the scam artist and the so called victim. Both of them belongs in jail.
I remember a co-worker of mine told me about three years a go about an email offer from Nigeria asking him to give them his account number and money to move about $45 million from Nigeria because they trace his heritage and discover that he is a lost lost relative. I told this fool that this is a scam. Did you kmow what he told me? He told me that I am not happy for him to get rich because the money is coming from my country. Some people can be dump and stupid at the same time.
As they say in America, dont hate the player hate the game.

Mr Ross, I would say your investigation was quite interesting and some of your info was WRONG. It’s accepted that there are SOME nigerians that are involved in scams but did you know that there are SOME other countries involved in this scam? why did you pick on Nigeria for your investigation? Nigerians here in the US also get scams from other nigerians and other people that are not nigerians.talk about the so called “lottery, dating services and all that” from some other countries.People that are involved in such activities should be brought to justice.
Why would you describe lagos as a “big for nothing and crime-ridden city with 20 million people mostly illiterate and poverty stricken”? How would you feel if your home was described as that ? some of the facts on lagos is true but I bet you that there are worse cities than Lagos. Not all nigerians are poverty stricken. Nigerians are fighting to get back on their feet from the british colonialism. I thought the program was funny and i’m not angry at all. This documantary has made many nigerians and nigerian americans worried.It’s not fair. also, i don’t know how some people could be dumb enough to believe that they could inherit huge sums of money from an african country. that shows the amount of greed in people.Talk about the oil that was taken away from countries like nigeria. I must say i don’t know whether feel sorry for the victims or laugh at them for becoming fools.
An advice, before you do any investigation such as that, start from your backyard. Another different issue is that why isn’t the positive aspect of nigerians shown rather than the negative aspects? this show has just painted nigerians as bad, email, scam, poverty stricken people. This is not fair.

Some people are just simply stupid. Like someone said here, if this brian ross or surgeon or whoever he is, got the money that these “419-ers” Promised him, he wouldn’t be calling ABC news.
I am not in anyway supporting 419 or scamming, i am just trying to pass it across that, NOT EVERY NIGERIAN IS A SCAMMER!
There are 419-ers everywhere, and Nigerian is not the only place where you can find them.

In no way, do you have the right to describe Lagos as “a sprawling, crime-ridden, corrupt, disgrace of a city”
Your fellow Americans were not smart enough to stay away from these scams and it must irk you to think that people from a “3rd world country” are much smarter than you.
If you want to fix fraud, start in your own backyard, and stay out of other people’s business.
But then again, there is a history of invading other countries…

Men, i have gotten a lot of these emails in the past and neva gave them a thought. People should learn to make money by working hard. Everyone wants to make fast money these days. Plz be wise. dont be fooled. Crime exists in all countries. its everywhere, not just in Nigeria. Bottom line, dont be a “MUGU”

Look, I’m a nigerian born and bread and will remain so for life. The bottom line of this whole thing is GREED,I mean, is it that easy to get rich? My dad always tell me ” if something is too good to be true, then it probably is”. If it was that easy to get rich (28.whatever million) then no one would be working.
Besides, I see scams like that here in d US so don’t go about trashing My beloved NIGERIA, Remove the log in ur eyes before trying to remove d speck in someone else’s eyes.

I MET A GENTLEMAN ON A BLACKCHRISTIANSINGLES WEB SITE. THE GENNTLEMEN SPOKE WELL OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. WE SPOKE ABOUT 3 MONTHS. THEN THIS LAST MONTH HE STARTED SAING THAT BECAUSE OF OUR FELLOWHIP HE BELIEVE GOD ALLOWED PROSPERITY TO COME INTO OUR LIVES.BECAUSE THEN HE STARTED SAYING THAT HE HAD JUST FOUND OUT THAT HIS FATHER HAD BEEN SAVING AND INHERITANCE FOR HIM IN A SECURITY COMPANY. IT WAS WROTH 3.6 MILLION DOLLAR AND ALL HE HAD TO DO IS COME UP WITH THE BACKTAXES WICH WA 79,OOO IS US DOLLARS. WELL EVERYDAY HE WAS DOING THIS AND THAT TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY. BUT THE MONEY WAS IN MALAYSA. WELL TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT HE SAID SINCE I WAS GOING TO BE HIS FUTURE WIFE HE NEEDED MY HELP TO RAISE THIS MONEY. I TOLD HIM I DONT HAVE THAT TYPE OF MONEY. AND IF I DID I WAS NOT HIS WIFE AND I WOULDNT GIVE IT TO HIM. HE GOT MAD AND I ASKED HIM WAS THIS A SCAM. GOD LEAD ME TO ASK HIM THEN HE SAID SINCE I COULDNT HELP HIM HE HAD NOTHING ELSE TO SAY. I HAVE H IS NUMBER I WOULD LIKE YOU TO INVESTIGATE PLEASE. SO HE WONT DO THIS TO ANYONE ELSE.

The beef I have with Brian Ross’s report is two-fold:
- alluding to Lagos as being a disgrace of a city; and
- his notion that the salary in Nigeria is approximately $1.00 a week??? Even the beggars on the streets, make more than $1.00 a week (not to make light of their situation).
Mr. Ross –
Where did you get the above data from? If you must make blanket statements like that, could you at least justify them? First of all, as a reporter who I’m assuming should be politically correct in whatever he has to say, you totally disrespected any Nigerians who were watching the show and who may have any ties with the city of Lagos, by referring to it as a disgrace of a city. You owe people like me an apology. That utterance was blatantly rude! Second, I am assuming that people who earn salaries are people who work. How in the name of God can someone earn a $1.00 a week in salary! Would it be worth their while to work? How do you even eat, clothe yourself and transport yourself to work with $1.00 a week? C’mmon! Third, you alluded to the home of a 419-er on lockdown as a “mansion.” Where in the city of Lagos did you reside? I’m assuming somewhere on Victoria Island. Were your eyes bothering you when visited? That was a mansion??? My parents’ modest home in Lagos (note my father is a graduate from the Johns Hopkins University – feel free to contact me and I will give you his name so you can verify for I would hate for you to conclude that he may be a 419-er as well) is 10 times better than what you aired, and is not even considered to be a mansion. For the record, per Nigerian standards, that was NOT a mansion. Finally, there are thousands of Nigerians doing well and who live by strictly honest means. The 419-ers are a fraction of the country’s population and are no different from those in the whole of the US of A who decide to get rich quick by scamming others. What is the difference b/w an American con artist and a Nigerian 419-er? None whatsoever!
The irony is I used to believe that you were a good ABC reporter. Well after you aired that show, it made me begin to look at you from a totally different light. It will be really hard for me to believe anything you have to say from now on.

$350,000 for $41M?$300k for $3.8M?, and the lady hoping to get $50k are all scammers and thieves themselves. Who EVER gets a return like that? I am sure the doctor knew that “money washing” is illegal, but because he is as greedy as the fraudsters he went for it anyway. While I am disgusted with what my country people are doing, I say there are no victims here. Absolutely NONE! We see infomercials that are scams, fraud in congress, fraud in public companies, fraud and scams everywhere in America, so to think you should highlight “Nigerian 419″ because a few greedy Americans lost money because they wanted to illegally enrich themselves is hypocritical, don’t you think?
Mr. Ross, while your reporting was probably most accurate, I am not impressed!

Not all nigerians are scam artists and thiefs.As with all people of the world we have positive and negative aspects. why dont you take your investigative team to the positive parts of the Nigerian culture for a change or would it be too atrocious to think that good things can come out of “desperately poor” Nigeria?

Brian Ross… I am bitterly disappointed in your biased reporting. The first thing that they teach in journalism school is ethics and unfortunately, you don’t have or show any, based on your worthless reporting.
419 (aka fraud/scam) is not a new phenomenon. I mean, someone of your stature should have been able to write about more pressing issues in America instead of chasing old stories in Nigeria. How about reporting on the return to the way of life in New Orleans? Is that too big of a story for you to handle?
It is amazing how people like yourself try to lump all Nigerians as scam artists and uneducated people. To call someone’s city a disgrace is a pathetic gesture on your part to elevate the greedy people (notice I did not call them victims) you were trying to protect.
I suppose that the United States of America is a crime-free nation, filled with honest people and great moral standings. There are no longer over crowding in American jails too. Please… get a life.

Can you blame ABCNEWS?
The most educated people (better yet…the smartest people) in the world happen to be the best scammers. Unfortunately, educated & smart does NOT equate WISE. Nigerians proudly hold crown as #2 corrupt country & have become a disgrace & icon for greed & fraud. While other countries (S.Africa, China, India, Ghana, etc) are making strides & capitalizing on their intellectual capital & natural resources, we’ve chosen to become the riffraff of Africa.
We can’t fault ABC News for trying to protect the innocent at the cost of embarrassing all Nigerians. Perhaps shame from our colleagues will help more Nigerians make wiser choices – not assigning bro-n-law as minister or governor of B.S w/out adequate qualifications…get the gist? If & only if we try to channel energy spent on scamming & extorting that make peanuts to forthright efforts. We have enough wealth & smarts to make inventions & maximize the use of our resources to make Nigeria a staple for Africa’s finest!

I think it is sad that some Nigerians would be involved in this knid of scam business.AS a nigerian, I am highly appalled. However, it is sadder that responsible Americans would be interested in this kind of sheddy business. This is simply greed stupid. Why would you expect to reap where you didn’t sow? Every one needs soul searching at this advent. And from the spirit of greed, Jesus deliver us.

Brian Ross says:
1. Most Lagosians are illiterate – there is no point correcting this obvious lie! As usual, as an American, he automatically assumes he is the fountain of all the world’s statistics.
2. Crime-ridden city? – At least in Lagos, kids are yet to come to school with guns to shoot their classmates and teachers, pedophiles are not running amok on our streets and we dont have to deal with terrorists!
3. We earn less than $1 a week? – Even as a student, i spent that on food a day!
4. Disgrace of a city? – Is New Orleans a part of Lagos?
Dear Brian Ross, what of putting those would be money launderers erroneously refered to as “victims” in jail for attempting to scam poor “third world nations” of millions of unearned dollars? What if Dr. Sloan had truly been able to “wash” the construction paper? Would he have hopped to ABC to report those he now refers to as scammers? What of the girl looking to reap $50,000 she did not work for?
What of Swiss banks that have continued to connive with corrupt African leaders to scam us of our foreign reserve? What of the world bank that continues to scam us by “lending” billions of dollars to corrupt leaders only to turn around and demand more than 100x that amount in bogus debt? Has the US finished scamming the Iraqis in that crime-ridden disgrace of a city, Baghdad?
Did Brian Ross have to waste money coming to catch petty cyber crooks when US legislators are sleeping with teenage boys, the likes of Jack Abramoff are scamming Americans in the name of lobbying, Enron is burning and the Katrina relief fund is still riddled in fraud?
What of the Europeans who scammed our ancestors by giving them broken mirrors in exchange for our priceless artworks, gold, oil, slaves? Are these same people not scamming Nigerians in the Niger Delta? Destroying our farmlands and waterways and stealing our oil in connivance with the scam artists in power?

You only ever hear about this type of victim because it’s good copy and gets the journalistic debate going. The 419 scammer swill use any method at their disposal. Religion, Charity, Romance and yes Greed. But the majority by far appeal to the victims good nature rather than desire for an easy buck.
If you want a society, where the less street wise are just fodder for these kind of crooks, or women in short skirts are fair game for rapists, carry on with your pious attitudes.

i am a maga hunter myself and am enjoying it.
brian is very silly to call lagos a disgrace of a city
with our scam brians some of us have built manson and we are proud
in detroit bullet is like ice cream , think of gays in CA and 14 year old carrying guns, usa is a country with many problems and with poor culture , we have a good culture in nigeria and the scam magas are just trying to forge ahead, as long as there is a greedy american we maga catcher will continue to catch

Nigeria has come to be synonimous with scam and drugs, even at that people still fall victims to scammers. People who do genuine business will never fall victim of scammers, it’s out of greed and stupidity that people are scammed.
Scammers are everywhere and every country, some are nigerians some are not, some claim to be Nigerians. I wonder if Enron officials or Harliburton are Nigerian companies. American companies are ripping off people in third world countries in cheap labor. People are enslaved in Asia and Africa for Americans to drive their big cars, eat cheap chicken and buy cheap from Walmart, but nobody mentions that. I don’t condone scammers, but I think, more people than just Nigerians are guilty. Let’s call evil by its name.

Quoting Tayo, who has already said part of what I had to say to Brian after watching and rewatching his investigation—
Nigeria has come to be synonymous with scam and drugs, even at that people still fall victims to scammers. People who do genuine business will never fall victim of scammers, it’s out of greed and stupidity that people are scammed.
Scammers are everywhere and every country, some are Nigerians some are not, some claim to be Nigerians. I wonder if Enron officials or Halliburton are Nigerian companies. American companies are ripping off people in third world countries in cheap labor. People are enslaved in Asia and Africa for Americans to drive their big cars, eat cheap chicken and buy cheap from Wal-Mart, but nobody mentions that. I don’t condone scammers, but I think, more people than just Nigerians are guilty. Let’s call evil by its name.
—which I think serves the scammers (and their greedy, American victims) right, I’d like to add that I was disappointed that Brian said “corrupt disgrace of a city,” while glossing over the efforts of the Nigerian investigative unit that made it possible for him and his team to stick their heads into a Nigerian cybercafé without being hurt; you also failed, Brian, to realize that if you meticulously trace the roots of Nigeria’s woes (why are so many young men and women in Lagos trying to scavenge or scam a living?) several trails would certainly converge in the United States. Of course, this is not to say that several aspects of Lagos (indeed Nigeria) are not a “disgrace” to Nigerians, but, Brian, saying “corrupt disgrace of a city” was an attempt to stir up strong emotions in people (perhaps to strike the best blow to Nigerians as well as garner the most sympathy for their American victims), and that, I think, is typical, unprofessional, American journalism!

While I am completely amazed that people fall for such scams, I noticed that my email inbox has lately been receiving such hoax emails on a daily basis, which I naturally reported as spam from different email addresses with varying stories. Is there an email address that I can forward these messages or an agency that I can report these hoax emails.

So what got a reasonably educated man (a cardiologist) involved with money laundering for the Nigerians?
I think that the Feds should be looking into Tim Sloan’s activities in the US.

NO SYMPATHY! NO SYMPATHY! This is just an example of what motivates a lot people…GREED! I bet you that this same person (if successful)would not or do not even give a thought to giving to the less fortunate et alia. The money would have been used to buy a larger house, fancier car, or whatever needed to enrich themselves. I say GOOD that he lost such an amount and he SHOULD be embarrassed for falling for such an idiotic and quite OBVIOUS scheme.

I have recently been scammed by a wonderful gentle man I met on a dating website. I am an intelligent woman, greed never was an issue in my case. All I was looking for was to have someone special in my life again — after being widowed in the prime of my life. The money that I lost is not the issue here…what has been the most horrific has been the tears, stress, inability to function normally, and God-awful heartbreak that I have felt after falling for this man. We talked for several months, we talked about God, we talked about children and grandchildren, we talked of nothing but beautiful things. We even discussed the possibility of marriage, since he, too, claimed to have been a widower. We talked by phone, email, and instant messaging. We felt there was nothing else we could do but meet. He was in England and I in the U.S. I called him in London, and he called me from London. Nigeria never entered the picture until after the scam when I discovered his Nigerian connection. Yes, people who try to increase their money like the doctor were greedy. But people like myself who are good, law-abiding Christians with a need for someone to share their life with aren’t greedy. Instead, they are to be pitied. What upsets me is that nothing is being done to curtail this activity. No one seems to care. The emotional upheaval that I have experienced has been devastating to both me and my family. I need counselling at this stage because of someone who stole my heart. Losing my scammer (whoever he is) was like experiencing grief all over again. Money is one thing to lose…but your heart is another. May God bless my scammer if the money has made him any happier, but what he has taken from me is priceless. I suppose I will go on, just as I did when my husband passed, but with a heavier heart than I had before. I can truthfully be called “mugu”. And for the hours, days, and nights that we talked and laughed, the pay he received for his scam was nothing compared to the effort and time he put into it. He was a brilliant man, very educated, and very knowledgable. He knows there is a God to reckon with when his days are done, and I believe he will suffer a much worse agony than I have when that occurs. Somehow I feel he has a soul that knows how much he hurt mine, and I can only hope he doesn’t do the same to another poor woman like myself. Please see to it that some of our government officials listen to what I have said here. I have phone numbers, names, IP addresses, documentation. Yet no one seems to care about any of this.

just wanted to say as a citizen of nigeria, Nigeria is a big country, you have the scammers, the thieves and liers. you also have good people that live a good christian life and work hard to get their money. dont condemn the whole country because of the few people that are bad. take for instance, will it be fair for me to say that the whole America is involved in embezzlement because of the Enron thing.
we are not all like the greedy, disgraceful fools that want to scam their way through life to get through, some of us are true hearted and those who’s ways arent right will get what they deserve.
i sympatise for those who fell for the scam.

Greedy Americans? These scammers are sending out emails to people all over the globe. There are greedy fools in every country falling for this idiocy.

When will we stop being the victims? How do we take these wild bores and make them payback? With all of the TV judge shows (Judge Hatchet; Judge Judy ect), if you are scammed, there should be a force that will go after these dogs, and make them payback. What is the “The EFCC [Economic and Financial Crimes Commission?] doing about this? They need to pay.

These are not the only scams that Nigerians are doing. What about the ones where they pray on women and marry them, then as soon as they get their green card or get their family to the U.S. they leave the women, and when you look around all of a sudden they have an african wife over here in the states. I think that their green cards should be revoked when they do this. Please ladies beware of these ruthless,cold hearted people.

its amazing how people are going on and on about there being a payback or about being scammed but refuse to listen to any talk of the after effects of slavery! perhaps the scam is the payback for slavery and centuries of white man’s evil.

Victims are too greedy and deadly,I have heard of cases where by the victim are told that the money will be shipped to there home by means of a diplomat and when the diplomat gets to them with the box of black the will home that the money is real and will kill the poor black assumed diplomat that came to play his magic.

Some of these responces are disgusting and racial. I am married to a Nigerian man and we have a child. He is a business man and he is not corrupt.Not ALL NIGERIAN CITIZENS are corrupt. My husband helps people gives money is caring and loves god. We met online and he sent me money not i to him.We have been married many years and i would never exchange who he is for anyone.Look in your own backyard before you acuse others!!!!

I have been looking for a house for rent in 2010, and i stamboled accross these scammers. they make you bolive that they just moved to West Africa because of work. I have selected you to rent my house so if you send me the deposit of $800 i will send you the keys and the documents with in 24 hours. Well i almost fell for it untile a have recived another email from a different house in a different city i was also interested in, and everything was the same the story about arfica, work and that i have been selected. well i thought it was too good to be true and it was……………….