be aware of the 419

[Cryptohygenic]

Yesterday I received a call from someone telling me that I am qualify to receive 75,000 from APC.. that is a fund we should put in our business for growth and whatsoever. I was just having patient to see how where he gonna land on his talk, I sent my account number to them and after few minutes I received an automated code starting with my FCMB as message from the bank without them knowing I knew where they were driving to, I just have to endure to see what they would do. When sent me automated messages to copy code and sent to them, on the process they would call I will pick and they said I should call otp send to me that I shouldn't share with anyone and I said ok, but guess what?

E good to really know the angles way these scammers dey take come so that e go for dey easy for us to resist dem when dem open strike on us.
But Op, I really take some risks by sending Demeur account number oh, I no say u no jus want catch cruise with Dem but to give try if wetin dem talk u initially na real otherwise, I no see any reason to go da far sending Dem ur bank account number.
See nobody know everybody means these scammers dey take operate oh so e just good for us to stay clear once we sense dem.
U no wonder how dem take get ur phone number? Now Dem dey ask u for account number and u send give dem. What if na jus to get the real bank account number way dey associated with that phone of ura dem need to execute their mission? Na so I for don just submit urself to dem.
Wetin u do dey risky oh but e good las las dem fail.

[CryptSafe]

This is very funny, though, or should I say, these sets of scammers are apprentices learning how to scam because this is an old scam method used by scammers, and to be frank, it is an old trick. I have had similar experiences in the past were they send me campaign money and all of that and they want me to send them little funds to secure them for me till I am chanced to go pick them up, some are farmers grant that they would call and said that I should send funds to complete the process of securing the grant from the bank of agriculture and al of that. I had known their tricks so I did not bother about all of that stuff that is why whenever I see messages of such nature, I just smile it out of my phone immediately so I do not make the mistake of doing anything careless. These are old pattern and e sef no fit catch our granny them because them too don wise to dey avoid these kind of things for the government wey we dey so.

[Dailyscript]

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

[DiMarxist]

Dis method still dey ? I thought this one e don cast of. If na before people dey fall well well but now I no think say people go still fall foe this kind scam dem again. Scammers must bring one thing to scam people every year. Op thanks for bring this to the forum. This will help many people wey never understand this kind of scam before.

Another one sef dey, the scammer go send card to you and asked you to resend the card back to his father. I never really understood that one. But whenever I received a call like I told them to send back their fathers.

[CryptSafe]

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

This is not new, but be it as it may, there are still people who would fall for this scam as the target is likely the unemployed in the society because when they see such a message, they will be desperate to get the job and in so doing, they would begin to follow up with the scam unknown to them and end up getting scammed in the process of trying to secure a mouth watering job they have no clues about for the time being. I have also received similar text messages in the past, so I do not doubt this scheme, and most times, they get their dirty job done.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Sharing this number as you did is good, so that if possible everybody will save it as a scam so that anytime they received a call from that number  they would no from the onset that this is the scammer that has also called several others to trick them, actually they have met someone very smart and wiser than them because from all this they were the ones that loss through their airtime they wasted, however I wonder how shallow they think people are by using APC name to scam people when we already no that there is no way any party in this country will give anybody money unless is during election they want to buy people conscience.

Hope say you know this scammers dey get plenty mobile line wey them dey use work so only saving their numbers won't prevent you from them but knowing their format will prevent you from becoming one of their prey. Knowing wetin 419ers dey like and prepare for encounters against them go help you better. Anything wey you no apply for and you get the offer, just know say na scam. The ones wey you still apply for and got the job but they're asking for money to secure it, know say na scammer too. Dey always observe how you dey receive the message (whether na test or calls) as something fishy is always present in the scamming message. Some times misspelling dey plenty as the scammers no too dey dey brilliant or are in a rush to send you the scam messages.

[SmartGold01]

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

Yes there is!
That is why we must know the kind of message we should give attention and again I don't also respond to messages sent from friend without calling them to confirm if that messages was truly from them because phone can be stolen and hackers can easily start sending random messages to people around and also inside the contact to borrow emergency funds. So I go advise people to dey careful became this we country no ever pure again if not things go really dey bad in timing coming.
Most people are too lazy them decide to dey scam people than going to source for a better job for themselves instead of scamming people.

[Obari]

Omo these kind pattern of scam still Dey exist ?
Well, na Naija be this and people are always seeking for ways to easily get paid and as such, I no go blame anybody wey go fall for these kind scam because I Dey sure say, if them send this message to let’s assume about 100 numbers, no how wey atleast one person no go fall and at the end of the day, I go still drag the blame to our government and how them Dey make the poor masses indulge in things alert them no suppose.
It’s very bad say, e get people wey go wake up for morning and the next thing wey Dey their mind na how to scam the next countryman even with the consciousness say the economy rough and that’s really disheartening and I pray whatever them Dey believe make e forgive them and give them the change the world and country deserve.

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

Yes there is!
That is why we must know the kind of message we should give attention and again I don't also respond to messages sent from friend without calling them to confirm if that messages was truly from them because phone can be stolen and hackers can easily start sending random messages to people around and also inside the contact to borrow emergency funds. So I go advise people to dey careful became this we country no ever pure again if not things go really dey bad in timing coming.
Most people are too lazy them decide to dey scam people than going to source for a better job for themselves instead of scamming people.

Another funny thing be say, these whole scam Dey even make people lose a whole lot of opportunities because we no fit differentiate scam from legit and that’s disheartening.
One make reason wey I don observe say they cause all these things be say, nobody wan suffer and everybody just wan make am and work possibly from the confirm of their homes and for we country, the first thing and possibly way to achieve this to the average youth na scam.

[Mr Reporter]

Omo these kind pattern of scam still Dey exist ?
Well, na Naija be this and people are always seeking for ways to easily get paid and as such, I no go blame anybody wey go fall for these kind scam because I Dey sure say, if them send this message to let’s assume about 100 numbers, no how wey atleast one person no go fall and at the end of the day, I go still drag the blame to our government and how them Dey make the poor masses indulge in things alert them no suppose.
It’s very bad say, e get people wey go wake up for morning and the next thing wey Dey their mind na how to scam the next countryman even with the consciousness say the economy rough and that’s really disheartening and I pray whatever them Dey believe make e forgive them and give them the change the world and country deserve.

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

Yes there is!
That is why we must know the kind of message we should give attention and again I don't also respond to messages sent from friend without calling them to confirm if that messages was truly from them because phone can be stolen and hackers can easily start sending random messages to people around and also inside the contact to borrow emergency funds. So I go advise people to dey careful became this we country no ever pure again if not things go really dey bad in timing coming.
Most people are too lazy them decide to dey scam people than going to source for a better job for themselves instead of scamming people.

Another funny thing be say, these whole scam Dey even make people lose a whole lot of opportunities because we no fit differentiate scam from legit and that’s disheartening.
One make reason wey I don observe say they cause all these things be say, nobody wan suffer and everybody just wan make am and work possibly from the confirm of their homes and for we country, the first thing and possibly way to achieve this to the average youth na scam.

na the problem be that preson no fit put mind for opportunities like to fit come because if opportunities like this show up person much dey really careful and do your own research, like I was telling a friend of mine I say this Nigeria na only God go fit help us because how will someone call you saying u have won a good sum of money wey you yourself no say I no work for, most time I no dey blame the scammers I dey blame the victim because na greed wey lead am, how wish greed no enter am he for no become there victim. Mak we just shine our eyes ohh every where don red.

[7juju]

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

Of course there are plenty people that will fall for these things. That you are exposed to these scammers strategies doesn't mean that many people outside there are exposed to it. About three weeks ago, I saved a bike Man that carried me from emptying his account to send to one scammer who was impersonating Untouchable Comedy. Many of us should be aware who Untouchable Comedy is if you are familiar with social media in this Naija. He met one fake untouchable who promised to give him #500k to add to his business. But he will need to send anything from his heart to an account number provided to him to help one struggling woman.

 This Man was willing to do this, luckily he told me when I was on his bike. He was very happy, until I told him it was a scam. At first he doubted me, then I asked him to bring where he is chatting the so called untouchable. He did and I texted the person and said Alaye rest, immediately scammer responded and started quarreling and calling me names. The next thing he blocked the man. That was how I was able to save this Man from being scammed.

[MainIbem]

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Of course there are plenty people that will fall for these things. That you are exposed to these scammers strategies doesn't mean that many people outside there are exposed to it. About three weeks ago, I saved a bike Man that carried me from emptying his account to send to one scammer who was impersonating Untouchable Comedy. Many of us should be aware who Untouchable Comedy is if you are familiar with social media in this Naija. He met one fake untouchable who promised to give him #500k to add to his business. But he will need to send anything from his heart to an account number provided to him to help one struggling woman.

 This Man was willing to do this, luckily he told me when I was on his bike. He was very happy, until I told him it was a scam. At first he doubted me, then I asked him to bring where he is chatting the so called untouchable. He did and I texted the person and said Alaye rest, immediately scammer responded and started quarreling and calling me names. The next thing he blocked the man. That was how I was able to save this Man from being scammed.

That's the sad truth, lots of people would fall victim to that scam people here see as cheap, some out of ignorance, some greed and the majority would be out of frustration from the hard economy, people are suffering and these scammers are aware of that, they know some people would want to try their luck regardless of whether they have knowledge of such scam activities, that alone would make them fall victim not only to scam activities but ritual killings or organ harvester. Well from your statement I don't think the bike Man is learned cause he's suppose to know hoe to differentiate a celebrities real social media handle from the fake one, also he didn't even think that untouchable would've used the #500k the scammer claimed he'll give him to help the poor woman instead of asking for his little money, those are stuffs a learned person would consider, expect the person is greedy.

[Berryfolia]

Yesterday I received a call from someone telling me that I am qualify to receive 75,000 from APC.. that is a fund we should put in our business for growth and whatsoever. I was just having patient to see how where he gonna land on his talk, I sent my account number to them and after few minutes I received an automated code starting with my FCMB as message from the bank without them knowing I knew where they were driving to, I just have to endure to see what they would do. When sent me automated messages to copy code and sent to them, on the process they would call I will pick and they said I should call otp send to me that I shouldn't share with anyone and I said ok, but guess what?
They burned their airtime keep calling me to make sure they got the code but I didn't give them right code till they got tired.

Above is the number and be very vigilant and take note of those numbers, the reason why I didn't blur it is for you guys to know that number and how they are operated. The text Inside the image fully explained everything about how they start.

Please be warned and do not be deceive lot of things is happening in our country and everyone is looking for a way to survive by scamming their brothers and country people.

Omo diz men no dey everly taya o,dey should look 4 something new and testrun weda e go work cos diz dia usual strategy don cast o,e no even dey hold water again cos everybody don decode am o.
To be honest,i think is high time our country people should look for something doing that will better their life,because dey way I dey see o,nobody go dey fall victim of  diz trick again….like if on ur own u never wise up,Nigeria go reset ur brain normally may u know Hafa.
Now sef even old skulz don wise up tok more of Gen-z
Make everybody Juz dey careful shaa.

[letteredhub]

Sharing this number as you did is good, so that if possible everybody will save it as a scam so that anytime they received a call from that number  they would no from the onset that this is the scammer that has also called several others to trick them, actually they have met someone very smart and wiser than them because from all this they were the ones that loss through their airtime they wasted, however I wonder how shallow they think people are by using APC name to scam people when we already no that there is no way any party in this country will give anybody money unless is during election they want to buy people conscience.

Maybe revealing the scammer's number may help but it's much helpful to make use of the true-caller app. With true caller app it helps reveals the real name of any one behind any phone number and you get to know the actual person calling that if they decide to fake a name you will easily know because before you pick the call the true-caller app has revealed the caller's name already. If it's a scamming number it will be easier to indicate when the person is saying something different from what they bear.

[Jegileman]

Above is the number and be very vigilant and take note of those numbers, the reason why I didn't blur it is for you guys to know that number and how they are operated. The text Inside the image fully explained everything about how they start.

Please be warned and do not be deceive lot of things is happening in our country and everyone is looking for a way to survive by scamming their brothers and country people.

This is bad and taking advantage of your people’s current economic situation  is unlike it. I have heard of this scam method before but I don’t really know how they conclude in scamming people off their money, but thanks to the explanation you’ve given in this thread, it explained it much better and would serve as a notice to one when we come across such scam portraying themselves towards us in the future. The economy is hard, and scammer will keep looking for ways to scam their victims, we need to be extra careful and vigilant especially from what sounds too good to be true.

Today i received a message from a foreing number. Here is the content of the message;

'"My name is Lily Bella!!
Thank you for your reply. Our company cooperates with [AliExpress-ShopVerse] who are willing to pay to increase the attention of their products, so our company needs to recruit a lot of co-operative employees to like their products on the mall and earn 100k-200k Naira every day.
Are you interested to know more?"

It did not took me much time i have to delete the message immediately. No one is a baby anymore although there are still people who will fall for this type of scam.

I am just seeing this type of message for the first time here but haven’t heard of it before. From the content of the message, it looks too good to be true. How can you be paid 100-200K a day for such work, that’s untrue. There are some level to which you’ll work and you’ll be paid more than what you’re for and you’ll begin to doubt if that’s only what they want from you. This look too good to be true and it’s good you deleted the message so that you don’t start thinking maybe you should give them a try or not.

[IjawMan]

Scammers want to scam and it's APC they are using as the  country hard reach. Them no try oh.  This government when find am hard to pay NYSC their 77k na them go come the dash out 75k to the public just like that.

[AmaGold70]

I dey always laugh anytime wey I see message like this for my phone, na greed and too much love for money dey make people fall for this kind small scam na, because you know say you no work for anybody so how come you want dey receive free money? No body fit do anything for anyone free for this country and not even the government can give you free something unless there's a good reason and even if there's a good reason for me to receive free money from any government party, I will always wait for verification and a thorough inspection before I respond to such messages or I ignore them entirely as I don't like taking unnecessary risk and avoidable scams.

[Jerrycrypto2024]

Op this thread laugh no gree me but it burst my brain to see that things like this is still happening, this is a great reminder that one don't need to put off in memory because this set of scammers keep strategizing, just to get a victims who ignorant of the tactics, this remind me when I was searching for job one sight I put application just use my details they send me scam messages I realized I have fallen to fake sight, what pist me up is that this are neighboring countries who call me with private number and sometimes speak language I don't understand . Information is power mostly the one that has to do with scammers need given agent attention to avoid falling prey.

[Y3shot]

I dey always laugh anytime wey I see message like this for my phone, na greed and too much love for money dey make people fall for this kind small scam na, because you know say you no work for anybody so how come you want dey receive free money? No body fit do anything for anyone free for this country and not even the government can give you free something unless there's a good reason and even if there's a good reason for me to receive free money from any government party, I will always wait for verification and a thorough inspection before I respond to such messages or I ignore them entirely as I don't like taking unnecessary risk and avoidable scams.

Common sense supposed let man no say dem no deserve to get money wey dem no work for , e pain me say people no dey gey this understanding,  this na common thing wey person supposed to reason with him brain but they act so fast to get money that they didn't work for And end up losing it. Scammers no say dem fit use this means to dey use scam people because dem understand say people will always fall to get quick money.

[AYOBA]

Before this same scammer they will call you and say they are calling from the bank and banks has already informed customers to know that they will never call any of their customers on phone to collect any details from their customers, if any call comes from the bank at all they will be ask their customers to come to the bank. They know this format of scam is well known,  and now they are using APC as format because they know this goverment and party is well known for sharing money to people for them to get what they want. It I'd unfortunate that many will fall for this scam.

I blame those that will sharing their bank details to 419 after all bankers have informed all the customers that’s they will never call he/she to ask of their bank’s details, anybody that there account have issues should direct themselves into the bank for complain. Because even the banker’s awareness of how the 419 are been going around by scams the innocents.

Especially those that will go and sit down for one place and will be texting people through SMS that government want to give loan or sharing a money, what I want make people understand is that if government want to share the money in think I will directly going to the CBN and give them directive; but peoples 419 will be wasting their time and energy just make people lose their money.

[knowngunman]

Yesterday I received a call from someone telling me that I am qualify to receive 75,000 from APC.. that is a fund we should put in our business for growth and whatsoever. I was just having patient to see how where he gonna land on his talk, I sent my account number to them and after few minutes I received an automated code starting with my FCMB as message from the bank without them knowing I knew where they were driving to, I just have to endure to see what they would do. When sent me automated messages to copy code and sent to them, on the process they would call I will pick and they said I should call otp send to me that I shouldn't share with anyone and I said ok, but guess what?

We suppose don know say nothing like free money for this country again, anything wey look like free money, make we Dey suspect am, e fit be scam. The current government wey be say na their pocket dem care about, na the same government go come they share free money, instead make them share the money give masses, them go hide am join the ones wey they don still before, so anything for this country, me I Dey see am like say na scam.

If the government come even decide say they wan give out money, make we assume say our country don change, and true true they wan give money, nobody go even call Dey ask the back wey you Dey use, or go they ask make you send them OTP code, na automatically na him government go credit account, you go just come see credit alert, and nobody go even call you. Anything wey make you don Dey receive OTP code, and person don Dey call you make you send the Code give am, then na 100% scam, government no go do like that.

E really make sense as you carry the matter come here, no Dey surprise say something like this never even happen to some people before, and they never hear about am before, but as you carry am come here now, everybody go learn.