I am dealing with a family member that is being scammed right now by a Nigerian scam artist that goes about it by charming single women with words of poems, and words of hope and love.
All it takes is for someone that is a lonely person and looking for love, and believing that the fake handsome pictures, and the idea that this person lives in the USA, but was raised in the Carribean, but now is working over in Lagos, Nigeria as a sociologist. And then they charm you enough to send them money and gifts to help them out, and then they spend the money and sell the american goods for even more money, and string you along before you get so frustrated, that you ask for this guy to arrive and be with you, only to get many excuses, like the Presidential Elections are going on and the guy can't leave the country due to that, and come to find out that some of these desperate women end up leaving the USA in search of their handsome model looking man, and only to either find out that this person doesn't exist, and you get kidnapped, robbed, raped, and if you're lucky to survive and not end up dead, to having to find a way back to the USA after being attack. That's if they don't kidnap you and put you into slavery.
This Nigerian Scandal has its many ways to con people out of money. Just in 7 months alone in the USA, the Nigerian scammed people out of $100,000,000.00!!
This is no joke people. Just go to any search engine and type in Nigerian scams and find out which one is scamming you. Their are ways of deterring the scammers, by giving them a taste of their own medicine, but if you have been a victim of one of these scandals, don't expect your local police department to just employ one of their own men over to Nigeria to arrest the con artist, and don't expect the Nigerian police department to send one of their own cops over here to arrest you for fraud. This because majority of the police over there are corrupted and doing the scams also. If anything comes out of it, if you are cashing in false checks for a person in Nigeria, and sending them the cash, be prepared to have the bank sending you a statement that you owe such amount of money for the bounce checks. This is right folks... it's on the web everywhere. Just don't sign in to a link that ask for money for you to join, some of those websites are run by Nigerians as well, and they are just getting more money out of you.
Yahoo.com has a great support group to help victims of such scandals. So if you're one of those victims, go to the web and find the yahoo support group for Nigerian Scams. Many people are on there!! Also, the only other way is to alert your U.S. Security office online and fill out the form and send it in with the information you have on the scam artist. But until they get enough people complaining about this serious issue, they are just going to hope that us americans will just be wise and not fall for it.
As for my situation... my sister is blinded by love right now, and is going to crash hard when she realizes that my research and finding out that the same man tried scamming me out of money as well. She is in denial right now and won't listen to me. She is angry and upset, and I am just plain scared, because she is now talking about wanting to fly over to Africa to meet this GQ model guy, who's voice over the phone does NOT have a carribean accent, or an australian accent as the man claim to said having. I have found the facts and have tried to show her the proof. Even going as far as phone recording his voice, but my sister has hung up on me, and refuses to believe in it all. Sad, but true.
I just wish I could find a way to get her to open her eyes and get her head out of the clouds, before something bad happens. Any advice or help Dr. Phil or Robin ???
