Dear sir,
Thank you for using the Nigerian trader as a reference in your blog. Your story is very interesting except that you stopped in the middle without telling your readers if the Nigerian scammer ended up scamming you or got close to that. I would also like to bring to your notice that instead of allowing the Nigerian scammer to go free, you could easily get him arrested by reporting him to the Nigerian EFCC (economics and financial crimes commission). This is a body responsible for arresting and prosecuting Nigerian scammers and fraudstars (419 people). Nigerian government is doing it`s best to get rid of these bad eggs. Thank you.
You are very wrong. Not all customers from Nigeria are scammers. Here is a nation of 140 million people and you can't meet up to one million in a lifetime, even if you lived for 500 years. So, when the urge to generalise comes, simply get the crime statistics in your country and find out how many of your countrymen and women are also engaged in scams, purportedly claiming to be Nigerians. The best thing to do when you get a trade enquiry is to verify with the necessary offices of government and possibly any contacts you may have in the private sector in Nigeria.
You can also contact the media to verify information about trade contacts and enquiries. Better still, get across to your country's embassy and they definitely should give you helpful information.