2 Nigerain Arrested for scammed me cost me 50,000 euros

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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:03 am

Hello,
I just wanted to share my story to help reducing the number of victims of 419scams.
4 years ago I was in a bad situation with my family and my job, and suddenly I received an email to offer me 7 000 000 $ to help to clear some drug money. I understood this was not a good thing to do, but I kept going forward, and the problem I wanted to keep it secret. So I was not aware of what was going on. The first contact I had was from Nigeria, and after they told me the money was transferred to Amsterdam and waited to be cleared. I had to pay 8000 euro, but I went to Amsterdam to pay them to clear the funds I will receive later. They pick me up from the airport with a nice Mercedes; brought me to a new building with office, and then a lawyer came with the luggage full with my money with a red ink on it. When I came back to France, they asked me more money to remove the red color from the bank notes ( 20000 euros). Once you have seen the money from your own eyes, you just forgot everything and think you will be rich soon, and do not matter what happen. After that they told me funds were ready to be transferred to my account but I had to pay an extra 20000 euros to clear the drug clearance paper. After to pay that I started to get suspicious and contacted the special French police. At this time I first time ear about 419 Escroquerie. The police told me that I should consider my money lost, but it was so much pain for me, and I had nothing more to lose so I kept contact with them, and told them my last money was 10 000 euros, but I was so busy with my sport activity that I could not take any plane before 2 weeks. And suddenly they called me from Paris saying they were on the way to south of France with a next plane. I advise straight away the police, and they came, wait to see if these 2 Nigerian were coming for me, and arrest them. They found on them some fake papers, and all my contact in their phone numbers. So they’ve been in prison for 1 year, and released but under police control. After that the European police found some other contacts and arrest 10 more Nigerian in Amsterdam. I know my story will not bring me back my money, but at least maybe stop some other Nigerian to keep scamming good people that work hard all their life to get some money. I wish the French court to be quicker to close my folder, but it seems an important story, and I do not want they close it too quickly without getting my money and to see these 2 Nigerian in Prison for all their life.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:11 am

Hi blaise !

Welcome here.
Very interesting story. Unfortunately you lost money but at the end the scammers were caught...

If you want to go to our french-speaking scambaiters community you can send me a PM.

See you
J.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:30 pm

@blaise

A sad story. AFAIK we do not encourge victims to take action against the scammers, as there is allways a certain risk for the victim in that.

Good to hear, that in your case at last, in the end you have beed successful. From my experience, the police does not allways jump to action against the scammers, as this kind of crime is seen as a petty small thing not worth of attention by many prosecuters and they cannot arrest without a warranty (correct me folks if I am putting it wrong Rolling Eyes

).

Perhaps this place can invite you to see the lighter site of things. We do a lot of funny things to these criminals and bringing them into jail is one of the highest archivements, rewarded with a

in your siggy line.

Personally I had the honor to bring two guys into jail Cool

, though I doubt that it did last too long, as it was in Ghana and not in Europe Sad

Welcome to the eater, blaise Exclamation

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I second that this deserves a badge!

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:20 pm

Comiserations on losing your money, which is gone forever.

Congratulations on the arrests, though, rare but satisfying. I'll ask about badges for you in the Mod Lounge.

@ e6ffdyr0, I wouldn't be too sure that the lads you and I got arrested in Accra aren't still in prison. From reading Ghanaweb, they are very strict there, particularly with visiting Nigerian criminals. You can get 8 years hard labour for stealing some yams! Shocked

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:26 pm

If the story checks out I'm also for the 2 badges in the sigi.

Félicitations blaise!

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:48 pm

e6ffdyr0 wrote:

I doubt that it did last too long, as it was in Ghana and not in Europe Sad

Never be in any doubt about the severity of African justice, especially for crime committed by foreigners like those Nigerians... Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:23 am

Very interesting story Blaise, thanks for posting it.

Do you, by any chance, have any links to articles in the French newspapers or court records about this? They would make excellent further reading Smile

Sorry to hear you lost so many � which could have done so much good instead of lining greedy scammers pockets Sad

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:27 am

Simba wrote:

e6ffdyr0 wrote:

I doubt that it did last too long, as it was in Ghana and not in Europe Sad

Never be in any doubt about the severity of African justice, especially for crime committed by foreigners like those Nigerians... Twisted Evil

Which is why I'm sending my lad to Ghana with a fake bank slip. Wink

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 82

Stealing,cheating,scamming,are all evils in every decent society.
I would gladly condem every criminality whether its by a Nigerian , African, European or American.

I have been scammed once,I know how it feels to be a victim and the scammers thought I was bright and that if I joined them I would be a lot better off than them.I declined, said thanks but no thanks.

The story on this post is about this victim willingly conspiring to launder drug money.I hate scammers but I hate drug dealers more and I am a Nigerian.Drug dealers ruin more life in day than a scammer would do in a life time.

This site is about righting wrongs or at least pretending to try to,but I can see from the responses on this thread no one ever told this victim that laundering drug money if it was real and succesful was pure evil.

Blaise,thanks for putting some scammers in jail and I am sad you lost money before that,but you should know better to not want to help criminals to launder drug money.It could have been a sting operation and you yourself would have been the one sitting in the slammer.

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:25 am

Thanks for the post
I hope you get some of your money back one day

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:31 am

The regrettable fact is that many people do face jail because of the activities of scammers through unwittingly passing forged cheques.

The fact that the underlying transaction was purported to be illegal does not absolve the instigators of blame or criminal liability. The person who lost money must take his chances with the legal authorities when they are faced with trying to recoup their losses or obtain redress.

However, it must not be forgotten that the initiating criminal action is instigated by the scammer and if they try to uphold that the complainant is guilty too then the scammer ought equally to be prosecuted as drug-money launderers AND scammers.

I think that the dangers and risks of dealing with criminals are all too obvious now to the victim (i.e. the person who lost money).

Edited for grammar.

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:32 am

Thanks for posting your story blaise. Unfortunately you won't get your money back but at least you have the satisfaction of knowing these criminals were brought to justice. Sadly, it doesn't happen very often and many victims are left without their money AND the knowledge that the criminals who stole it are still out there scamming others.

Another way you can 'fight back' is to tell your family, friends and colleagues about the activities of these internet scammers so they don't fall into the same trap.

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:55 pm

Btw, the nick blaise reminds me of Prince Blaise Nwene, a scammer who was arrested on 3/26/2003 by Sacramento detectives Cool

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