I'm a Nigerian resident in Nigeria and a sound businessman who always allows sound business judgement to dictate my actions. From my experience on this website just a little over 2 months. I discovered that the major swindlers on this site are from asia and they are in swarms. Making bogus claims and promising a lifetime bargain and asking you to transfer money to them.

Most of the so called Nigerian scammers are usually school dropouts between ages 12- 24 of average intelligence who post just anything on the web at unbelievable price. From Household items, plasma tv, watches even cell phones. I marvell endlessly at how people fall for such trap because A simple check will have revealed that doing business with such people is not worth while.

1. Nigeria doesn't manufacture most of the items posted by Nigerians on alibaba - that is one clue, most of them are imported into nigeria from Taiwan, Dubai, China etc. The only Company that manufacture cell phones in Nigeria is ZTE and they don't manufacture enough to export. If you want to import electronic items, then look at sources from which Nigeria imports them from. We are majorly a consumer nation not an industrial one per say.

2.Any Nigerian promising to sell Nigerian Oil, LPFO, aviation fuel, AGO, PMS etc from this site is a scammer. Allocations for Oil are usually snapped up immediately at NNPC because the demand is more than the supply. You cannot see anyone peddling Nigerian Oil on websites because the President himself has brought sanity into the industry.

FInally there are more honest people in Nigeria than dishonest people, if anyone makes you an offer that is too good to be true - shut down your emotions and greed quotient (GQ) and allow your sense of reason to direct you.

Except where a strong trust bond has been built i.e. several transaction completed succesfully, never send a dime through WESTERN UNION, if you do well - you've just flushed your money down the drain.

Insist that you will do business directly through the bank - where the volume of transaction is huge - request an advance payment guarantee (APG) which makes the bank liable if anything goes wrong. when you are sent the (APG) get the address of the bank (independent of the sender) from the Nigerian Central bank http://wwww.cenbank.org open up correspondence with the bank independent of your nigerian customer and ask them to send you a confirmation letter that the APG was issued by them. This keeps you in safe hands if anything goes wrong as the Nigerian Bank would have secured a collateral of the amount they are guaranteeing from the customer.

If you have been scammed by a nigerian get in touch with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) www.efccnigeria.org they will help you with the recovery of your money. In most countries of the world when you're scammed your money is gone forever - but in Nigeria we are doing something about it and millions of dollars are being recovered and sent back to their owner annually. A sample success story is here:

If you want to do business in solid minerals, contact the ministry directly www.msmd.org

If you want to invest verify from the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council www.nipc-nigeria.org

If you have any problem or any company you want verified, you can get in touch with me, I'll try and verify for you.

Nigeria is not as bad as people think, remember one bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch

Replying to [shariff]: Please forard/post details as we all need to know ???? before it is too late for many of us

Replying to [el fito]:
Please note, I tell that I have the exact proof about that
Can I send a scanner copy in this forums??

I would like the following company verified, as I am interested in purchasing mobile phones from this company.
Please can you verify this company for me.

Teedon International Ltd guang zhou china

Room 1302 bao hua Building Ming zhu Road Guang zhou china

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:
where you get the AGP from you requeted from the bank and if you wnat to buy how can you ask the cc office about acompnay you buying from if they do not permit emails
regards;
soliman
1514-996-2210
leoinc1@gmail.com

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:Thank you very much. I ever got many offers from Nigerians, but I replied none. But I hope to do business with honest Nigerians. Good luck and good business.

Replying to [Tell me why]:www.intshoes.com
msn:lotus_ke@hotmail.com

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:
Hi, we have been manufacturing candles in Central America for the past 20 years, and recently we had a request from a Nigerian company for export prices of 3 of our products.
We sent our quotation and got back a request for a Proforma Invoice and Banking details to make a funds transfer (we are selling and getting the money). So, you may ask, what is the problem? so they are ofering you to buy your products and to transfer the funds for that? The problem is... too good to be true. No samples? No testing? No obstacles? This sounds to me as a scam, but I can not figure out the way for this. I can only imagine that this might be the way for them to send illegal money out of the country (probably loundry money). I will appreciate your comments on this issue. Thanks in Advance.

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:
You did a very good job. Please we need to let the world know that there are more honest Nigerians doing honest business to put food on their tables who are prepared to dupe anyone. And another important thing is that it is very difficult to cheat an honest and content person. Most people that fell prey to cheats were victims of their own greed. How on earth will anyone believe that someone will steal money from govt and tansfer it into your account a total stranger? Every man should turn down his greed quotient (GQ) and fraudsters will be out of business.

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]: what can i do if i get scamed?
please contac me klaudie4u@hotmail.com

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]: Dear Sir! Thanks for useful information. You know in every country there're difficulties explained in your article. Your country-Nigeria-is only an example of unfair or honest business relationships. But in any way I think you did great in giving the audience such information and though goods from Nigeria are not rather popular in our country (I'm from Ukraine), you've done good and let other people know that you country also has a bright future and potential :)