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 [Honest Nigerian]:



hi,
i want to talk ask u..about some company within ur country..
kindly email me at doloresriordan10@yahoo.com...
thanks!!!

regards,
joni

Replying to [HUANGYI778]: Better safe than sorry

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:why is it the www.msmd.org
is directed to monkey see and monkey do .org picture???

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:

This it is a summary of the fraud that a nigerian people have tried to make with my company: ********

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12-sep-2006 4:51++

Thanks for the mail and the content of it well noted. I want you to go ahard and prepare the proforma invoice of 2X40ft in mixture of the Wears both male and female small and large and forward it to my bank so that the can start payment immedaitly.
payment@hallmarkfinancehouse.com
info@hallmarkfinancehouse.com
www.hallmarkfinancehouse.com

Note that our payment teams is 100% T/T in advance.

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.

Dr. Meyor Mark
Director ++++++++

22-sep-2006 9:49++

I got a message from our marketing manager, and he told me that the we have a large number of customers who are looking for the ordered items.
I want you to send your complete banking details direct to my bank right now, because they are waiting for it to start the transfer.

Secondly, you must open an Online Account and HFH Trust Pass Membership account with them for security reasons before the transfer will start.
Send you banking details direct to my bank and also request for the Online account and HFH Trust Pass Membership.

Regards.
Dr.Meyor Mark ++++++

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Now he requests me to pay 500 dollars to his bank to begin the transfer, but if you see the website of this bank www.hallmarkfinancehouse.com, it is very fictitious and doesn't give any security and guarantee. I take the time of revising when this website was created and look at what I found by means of http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp: *****

Domain name: HALLMARKFINANCEHOUSE.COM

Registrant - Administrative - Technical Contact:
Starbic Online Ltd
Benedict Inegbulam (inegbu_ben@yahoo.com)
234-803-7072909
Fax:
20 School Road
Aba, Abia 23401
NG

Status: Locked

Creation date: 23 Aug 2006 14:28:27
Expiration date: 23 Aug 2007 14:28:27


***** Then this bank was created an alone month ago for this only client, it is ridiculous!! ----

Thanks

True That bank website is completely fake and set up by a scammer. I mentioned it to the people at www.aa419.org where they work with shutting down these kinds of fraudulent websites.

Replying to [FraudWatchersDotOrg]:
In my first month being with Alibaba I have received more than 15 offers to purchase my goods. Out of the 15 offers, 1 was from the US and the other was from India. The remaining was from Bennin and Nigeria. All of those were fraud where they stated that Benin requires a registration number and give a website of: www.baffadrug.info. Go to that site and it is laid out as being a official government site. Check our the contact emails and the prices of the certification. I contact the US embassy in Benin and they stated they do not request exporters to obtain a registration number nor do they require the product to be sent for testing. On the request of one of the scammers that I provide my corportate and company profile. I did and they send me back registration forms. On one of the reqistration forms they requested that I send the fee of US 1950.00 western union to an individual not the company name. Bingo. It is sad to me that I am trying to be successful in exporting and this is something I enjoy but when 99% of your orders are all FRAUD it is really upsetting and fradustrated. One scammer even had an attorney contact me and he was contacting me every day because I was moving too slow for them. I glad I did. Just beware of all.

Replying to All: Sorry i need to do some catching up with the forum, I'm just back in Nigeria. I will respond to all request tomorrow, I'm swarmed request now for verification, I will take them on first come, first served basis.

Replying to [wilhelm]:mr man don't think nigeria is the only country known to be fraudsters.they are other countries of the world that is dealling business in hands with nigerians with the highest percentage of commission which is even more than the individual dealing the business
thanks
chuks

Replying to [joni]:it is better to be inqussitive on basic economy problem rather than the companies in particular.
thanks
chuks

Replying to [Honest Nigerian]:your message was quite encouraging.
i want to co-operate with nigeria and i have been victim of fraud from a company that does not exist,and the only real thing i have is a name where i sent the money through western union.
i am interested in buying crude rapeseed oil that i know your country produce and export,and i have found many suppliers in this site. i send you some names and i would please you to tell me if you know anything about any of them:

sacon oil ltd
ZOMAY FORMATIONS
CENTURY OILS
CONSUMERLINK OIL LTD.
E NIG. LTD
ENCRISTO NIG. LTD
LONA OIL
MAXMEX

or please advise me where can i search and find some information about these companies.
also i want your advice about a company called ENCRISTO NIG.which advices me to help me open a legal power of attorney.
what is your opinion about that?is it a safe way?
thank you very much for your time and your precious help in advance and hope to keep in touch.

my very best regards!!!
kastopoulos