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How To Fight Nigerian Scams as an Honest Nigerian?

Posted by Cliff on from the code-419 dept.

A Nigerian asks: "As honest Nigerians, it is painful to us that everyone assumes that we are all scammers. We can't use e-payment services like Paypal, 2Checkout.com or make payments online without having the transactions flagged as scams, denied, or our account and funds arbitrarily locked for months or years. We want to make the scams from our country stop so we can be trusted again. We don't want to be left out of the Internet revolution taking place all over the world. What can we as ordinary and honest Nigerian citizens do to fight Nigerian E-mail Scams?"

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  1. try this by briancurtin · · Score: 1, Funny

    put $sys$ in your email address, or username for paypal, and you will get right around anything stopping nigerians.

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    My UID is a palindrome, that must be good for some type of prize.
  2. well... by flamesrock · · Score: 5, Funny

    you can start by sending the money.

    It's been 6 months...

  3. The real problem is... by PostFutura · · Score: 4, Funny
    The real problem is:
    How to get trust as a *real* rich Nigerian who want's to transfer his money out of the country?
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    I don't know what i'm talking about so could you Please stop reading my post.
  4. Re:Curious. by F_Scentura · · Score: 2, Funny

    Niger please.