Abeg Oga Sola wetin u dey talk now. This na serious business, it is high time we stand up for ourselves. How long are they going to lambast us and paint us dirty. Yeah i know the scammers are faulty but at the same time make we no just ignore the fact say dem Americans (especially dem white people) just dey stain us and dem dey spoil our rep(at least the little wey we get) Ok how can i be stupid enough to give my account # to someone wey say he wan put $250,000 for my account. Haba the money wey i no work for. If no be say na greed dey chop me for belle. Men i don't know if u did watch the Program at all it was just annoying. I mean we just need to stop them. They even went as far as breaking down Nkem Owoh's song "I go chop ur dollar" and saying all Naija people be Scammers. Men Naija people are really mad and they r demanding an apology from abc. Which to me i think we do deserve no matter what cos dem no carry out their investigation well.

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Fellow Nigerians, this is long but pleaes read.

Last night, 20/20 on ABC supposedly "exposed" Nigerian scammers in the most condescending and biased way. While the greed of the people scammed was acknowledged, it was downplayed to vilify Nigerians. For example, they have a heart surgeon who threw away his life savings over a stupid black money scheme and later had the nerves to talk about how his trust had been violated when he knew the scheme was illegal anyway. They also used a church as an example and said how they were cheated because of their FAITH, when in reality they were cheated out of greed as well. The Western world always paints Africa as poor, but when they hear of a scheme in which they send $40,000 and receive $40 million from Nigeria in response, they fall for it? None of them would donate any money to African countries but they will take as much as they can, which is already going on in the country right now. Watch the videos and read the articles because these were all mentioned in the piece last night.
A piece like that damages Nigerians as a whole. It paints the entire country as scam artists or people who revere scam artists, and the only time they would compliment Nigerians is to say, "They're geniuses at understanding human nature." They referred to the song "I go chop your dollar" by Nkem Owoh as the country's theme and said how Nigerian citizens hail 419 artists as heroes (far from true) even though that song is the soundtrack to a movie and we all know Nigerian movies are based off things that happen there, both the good and bad, but they picked one thing and ran with it. We know that most Nigerians who come here are hard-working and educated and successful and we are the products of that success and carry on our parents' legacy, and we should not watch passively as we are slandered when we are great in number in this country and can respond.
Umu Igbo Alliance in Chicago has drafted a letter demanding a formal apology and we have contact info for ABC, but it would be more effective if we responded in numbers rather than as a few individuals. Any Nigerian organization that you may be involved in, I strongly urge you to take a stand. I've listed contact info at the end:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2712350
For this link, the first story (after the commercial) should be "Billion Dollar E-mail scams." Then there are like four more clips after that - all part of what 20/20 showed last night.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2711477

When you watch this video, the story that should come up is "Brian Ross turns the table on e-mail scammers." After that, click on "Brian Ross with an inside look at a con artist at work." Those are two clips from last night.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/..._of_chels.html
This link is a story that they covered last night.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...es_minist.html
This link is another story coverd last night.

Honestly, these scams are not genius. The people that fell for it were just greedy and foolish. $25,000 for like $20 million? Please.

Contact info:
Contact 20/20 at: 2020@abc.com

Or go to:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/ and go to “Ask Brian Ross, then click on “email Brian Ross your questions”

Letters can also be sent to:

ABC News 7 WEST 66th Street

New York, NY 10023

They also ask for feedback via camcorder or webcam and they may air that as well so that is an option that people could try as well. I am tired of Nigerians being portrayed negatively as a whole when those are individuals, not all of us, and we should respond and express our dissatisfaction.

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they have done such programmes on south south african television a million times....i dont what they are trying to achieve

I have no sympathy for victims of 419 or wayo . They are greedy like hell and should swallow the poisonous medicine. Who invented 419? Is 419 not the brain child of capitalism? All forms of deceit to gain advantage is 419. That is what America and the Western world glorifies. When the black man attempts to deal the same deck, it becomes international crime. The white man wants to "catch and kill dem." Either you love Nigeria for what it is or you don't. If you don't, could you kindly excuse us? For crying out loud, that country is only 46 years old. What was Britain and America like at that age? I am very very proud of the country called Nigeria and in my next world I will be Igbo and Nigerian.

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I have not recovered from that description "a sprawling crime-ridden corrupt DISGRACE of a city"



That hurt !!!


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Another perspective !!!

At least Osofia will make more money after this. Every publicity is good publicity. And maybe this will make some people think twice before getting into this type of business.

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@ Obariba's last post & it's attachments:

How far do you want to take this? I mean, do you want to deal with the problem of your brothers & sisiters scamming the whole world and thereby giving you a bad name, or you want to come up with excuses by talking about oil money & slavery?...'cause if you really want to go there, don't forget who sold fellow Africans out as slaves to the European bastards, and who sold nigerian oil to the foreigners and kept billions of naira in his own pocket. See now how far back these few unscrupulous elements have been tarnishing our image?

...so, bottom line, do you want to fix the problem by exposing & denouncing these scammers or you want to parambulate by talking about history & geography?

My take...It's time for tough love! Denounce all scammers!!! I know what I'm talking about 'cause even I have been scammed by very close friends in Nigeria.

Tarnish image ????
Thats good now !!!!

abi all Nigerian are now affected by the bad image....terrific !!!

so maybe we should ...wake up and smell the coffee the little boil has now become cancer ...infact I pray that all first world countries should drive every Nigerian back to Nigeria ....let me see if we will not be forced to develop our country and address the corruption and poverty issues !!

(Just look at Dubai ...they have the same oil...their leaders are wealthy but they are still developing that dessert into something else)


Dsam ...I can denounce them from today till tomorrow ....that will not put food on their plate ....what we need to do is denounce corrupt leaders past and present ...we need to start asking for executions ....for anyone that has embezzled money meant to develop and provide for our society !!

I mean IBB has the audacity to run for president and he has supporters !

If those scruffy boys can scam a Surgeon ....who wants to make fast money ...I cant denounce them !!

Maybe Nigerians will start taking the issue of poverty in Nigeria more seriously !!

I will never sit down while Im sunbathing at the beach in the US to......... denounce a poor survivor in some dejected town in Naija trying to put food on his plate! Can you suggest any other options he has ...I mean they all have college degees ....do u have jobs for them ??? or maybe u know where they can get a loan to start a business ....Tell me DeSampler what are their options in Nigeria ??????


If they had free visa's to come abroad like u dont u think they will make a honest living too ??

Haba Obs, you are not suggesting that because of the lack of opportunities and poverty back home, that it is ok to try to defraud people under false pretenses?

How about the thousands of carpenters,plumbers, cooks, cleaners etc, who are under the same economic restriction in nigeria, but inspite of or despite of these conditions,still forge ahead to make an honest living in Nigeria!

I need to read this thread from the start sha, but it is imperative that at all times, we look at the situation from both angles. There is a lot of enterprise in naija, there is no excuse to be a 419er!

Dont make a case for them, even though the 20/20 show was misrepresentative. You're right about Babangida and co however, tief nah tief and they should all be hanged cos they have caused all the problem for naija by their "Authority Stealing"

Kiks its not ok

but how does that matter to them ....they know they are wrong !!

There are many churchs in Nigeria teaching about sin !!

But a hungry man is an angry man and an angry-hungry man will steal for food !!

My point is let this not be about pointing at them being naughty for scamming .........

let folks look at the bigger picture and start coming up with solutions to mend this mess ....or very soon Nigerians will know what real racisim is abroad !!


419 has been around for quite awhile ....very few people were doing it...... infact it was even hard to tell.....

why are there so many people doing it in Naija today ???

What has changed ? Im guessing people are desperate and need help there.

Yes, Obs you are right, there is a canker worm in nigeria, and people who are desperate are following the path of the leaders who are thieves and philanderers themselves, and 419 has been in existence tey tey! But it doesnt make them right does it?. You've identified the problem, the solution must include the criminally minded misfits that are now the very fabric of our society!

You could even make the same argument for armed robbers who steal, rob and kill at will.They are also nigerian youth robbed of opportunity, but these guys arent just robbing the rich with ill gotten wealth are they?NO!. They are murdering, robbing and raping the honest nigerian family, who have also worked their asses of to make ends meet! From that same strain of desperation came people that didnt need to resort to the sword to survive!

I hear wetin you dey talk oh, but in the attempt to identify the problem, lets not glorify the result!

Na true talk be that ...
Its just so embarrassing and frustrating too


I know a Naija man that hung himself in the UK after being duped in naija ...he put up his house and got a loan from the bank ....he returned to the UK and eneded his life !!

Victims are suicidal too.

Maybe the 20/20 clip should be broadcast in Nigeria and maybe they will stop . It would be nice if there were more jobs and opportunities for the locals.

Na person wey wear shoe know were e dey pain !!

For real? Na wah oh!

More to reflect on !!

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