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How To Fight Nigerian Scams as an Honest Nigerian?

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. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is.. by parryFromIndia · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...that good men do nothing. I guess good people in Nigeria did not do anything to stop the scammers even as they watched the whole country's credibility go down the drain. What you can do now, in my opinion, will have to be at a very large scale involving the government , the police and common man in Nigeria. Given the volume of Nigerian scammers it would have to be history's biggest revolt yet if it intends to regain the whole country's credibility. Good luck.

  2. Re:All that is necessary for the triumph of evil i by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You self-righteous a hole. What are you doing now as pollution destroys our ecosystem, slave labor produces the majority of the world's consumables, millions starve unjustly, and military despots wreak havoc on countless numbers of people?

    Anything? Just pointing fingers at others? Comfy?

  3. What I do when I'm abroad... by Aeron65432 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Pretend you're a Canadian.

    Or since that won't probably work, pretend you are from the Ivory Coast.