be aware of the 419

[Agbe]

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.

That's true it's good that you shared this number because it will serve as a lesson to other who will save the number because in the future people can easily identify the number and can easily detect the number when it sends messages to us because these scammers are really advancing in knowledge

[SmartGold01]

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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.

Though I know as e be and people wey no dey smart enough fit fall flat about this type of scamming methods and even as that they used and number to call me this night weda I get chance to talk them because say I really need the money to set up business, okay, oya ask me weda na 70k dem dey talk run business. In fact reason am weda that kind thing dey possible for we Nigeria onto say things never pure as we think am and everybody dey find how them wan take hit people of their hand earned money.

[Nheer]

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.

I am still wondering why people are falling for such scams, because there is no how federal government will contact through an unknown person to give you any support where they have federal government bodies that are in charge of all these.
Scammers are always looking for ways to survive by all means, that is why Ponzi schemes are rampant and some of these scams are even outdated and they can only scam people that are greedy of illiterates that don’t know anything about privacy or about such scams going on. If the person that called you or text you will be given the money to share to you, they will never give you the money, they will hijack the money, so it is easy to detect it as a scam and a means of getting access to your personal information, let’s be vigilant.

Lack of awareness is the major cause of all this, I believe if people are not ignorant they wouldn't fall for such scams. Sometimes being new to scam format or seeing it for the first time make a person to believe it is not a scam.
There are lots of scams happening in the country with scammers always looking to come up with new deceitful strategy just to make people fall victim.
Any body wey just come to you on their own to offer you help or any form of assistance we supposed de suspect their moves because na how scammers de do be that so anything wey we de do we just have to be careful to not give out sensitive information.

The problem is not those that are  are aware of all this but those that are not aware, those that are ignorant how can they safeguard themselves and what can be done to help them.

[Y3shot]

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.

I no really blame soe people for giving it out because some people do it due to ignorance especially our elderly people,  na dem don be victim to scam like this, if na for the young ones we no get problem because we know bank will never call to ask for details.  I know lots of elderly people wey dey always act so fast thinking that na bank wey dey always call to ask for details but I'm happy that many of dem don't dey get wiser to know say bank no dey call person.

[odunybiz]

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.

This 419 most times are using our government deficiency to scam the people. Imagine when government talk about palative then, na so we just hear ham for radio and nothing more. The same thing with some other initiative raised by the government. Na so we dey hear ham, we no dey see ham. This made it so easy for scammers to hide under this. Citizen easily fall victim because they sometime hear something related on news. If our government are plain with their ways it will make things more easy and people will easily identify scams from real.

[Zanab247]

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.

This 419 most times are using our government deficiency to scam the people. Imagine when government talk about palative then, na so we just hear ham for radio and nothing more. The same thing with some other initiative raised by the government. Na so we dey hear ham, we no dey see ham. This made it so easy for scammers to hide under this. Citizen easily fall victim because they sometime hear something related on news. If our government are plain with their ways it will make things more easy and people will easily identify scams from real.

The scammer no that people will fall victim wen dey use government initiative to promise people,  but some people no how government initiative work in the community because there are different channels in the country that will broadcast the news for people to believe that is real initiative. But some people who don't no how those scammers operate will believe that the fake initiative is from the government until dey got scam before dey will realize that the initiative is not from the government.

I don't think government will be able to stop scammers in the country because scammers are everywhere, even in this forum there are scammers despite the rules and regulations that governed the forum, but it hard for them to scam people that understand how this forum work.

[Perfectbaby]

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.

That's true it's good that you shared this number because it will serve as a lesson to other who will save the number because in the future people can easily identify the number and can easily detect the number when it sends messages to us because these scammers are really advancing in knowledge

It's pitiable to see that our country are now turning to scamming zone where we can't even trust the people Inside and how they could launched a fake program by our president just to scam and lure people into believing them that the federal government are actually doing something like this, and even though if the federal government is carrying out such acts it should come from the State government down to our local government where they could asked our LGAs to have a total submissions of names of people who actually anticipated on the election exercise so that they could received their allocations to their respective accounts and not by calling people on a random asking for their accounts details while their real intentions is to scam people.

[rachael9385]

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.

Immediately I saw this I started laughing because a lot of us are used to messages like this, we get them everyday. It makes me wonder if people still fall for such scams. At the end of the day when you finally get in contact with them they would ask for your bank informations and their reason is always that they need those details to input in their system but it's all a scam. The effort Nigerians put in to coming up with scam tactics they can actually use that same energy to look for freelance jobs online and get paid. It's disappointing that at this time and age people still fall for this trick.

[DaNNy001]

This is an old scam scheme, be like this men done run out of strategies to use perpetrate their illegitimate activities on unsuspecting ignorant Nigerians. It's very disturbing how some set of persons will just seat somewhere and calculate how they can milk the already suffering and struggling Nigerians of their funds that are not even enough to take care of their basic needs by taking advantage of the hunger way day the land to take scam poor Nigerians. Sincerely we are better than this as Nigerians this isn't our culture and norms we're known for.

Absolutely right, people who still use such formats are probably not up to date...some gullible still fall for things like this, this is just like the bank scam fraudsters run,  they call you and claim that they are calling from your bank, lol, people still communicate with them ignorantly after being told several times that your bank would never call to ask you for informations they already have... scamming is such a hard work,  all those brain work can be put into a legitimate business if they are serious with life... Would Nigeria ever recover from these vices, it seems to be getting worse everyday.

[Lida93]

This is an old scam scheme, be like this men done run out of strategies to use perpetrate their illegitimate activities on unsuspecting ignorant Nigerians. It's very disturbing how some set of persons will just seat somewhere and calculate how they can milk the already suffering and struggling Nigerians of their funds that are not even enough to take care of their basic needs by taking advantage of the hunger way day the land to take scam poor Nigerians. Sincerely we are better than this as Nigerians this isn't our culture and norms we're known for.

Absolutely right, people who still use such formats are probably not up to date...some gullible still fall for things like this, this is just like the bank scam fraudsters run,  they call you and claim that they are calling from your bank, lol, people still communicate with them ignorantly after being told several times that your bank would never call to ask you for informations they already have... scamming is such a hard work,  all those brain work can be put into a legitimate business if they are serious with life... Would Nigeria ever recover from these vices, it seems to be getting worse everyday.

Conversely, it's not only in Nigeria where all these scam activities are found. No society is workout fraudster that's why the government creates an agency to tackle such menace. But something striking which you said is about the effort and hardwork these fraudsters had to put into carryout these scams, it's so trivial of them not to know that if such efforts is exerted into legal areas online it they could be making more money than they think they're doing with scamming people, and in addition to that they also have to live with the fears of not being caught by the authorities. What a life to live.

[Mate2237]

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.

Immediately I saw this I started laughing because a lot of us are used to messages like this, we get them everyday. It makes me wonder if people still fall for such scams. At the end of the day when you finally get in contact with them they would ask for your bank informations and their reason is always that they need those details to input in their system but it's all a scam. The effort Nigerians put in to coming up with scam tactics they can actually use that same energy to look for freelance jobs online and get paid. It's disappointing that at this time and age people still fall for this trick.

Even though that there is information every where and the enlightenment levels of people are getting much better there are people who are still in a state of ignorance and easily fall into this kind of trick by these scammers, you may look at it as old scamming format because you have come across it before but not every one is informed about this kind of information.


In the fight against scammers in the country the best tool to me that we will use in fighting against scammers is information sharing because there are people who has perfected the act of scamming people and unfortunately they are also found in this forum posting things and telling members to pm them privately

[DubemIfedigbo001]

Any body wey just come to you on their own to offer you help or any form of assistance we supposed de suspect their moves because na how scammers de do be that so anything wey we de do we just have to be careful to not give out sensitive information.

The problem is not those that are  are aware of all this but those that are not aware, those that are ignorant how can they safeguard themselves and what can be done to help them.

Who even comes to offer assistance unsolicited in this country that almost everybody needs assistance, that is the first question you should ask yourself and before you accept any form of assistance from anybody, be sure to verify the identity of the person from relevant parastatals or entities of claim and seek redress from them before agreeing to engage in any dealings with the person.

I was almost scammed last year with promise of a package being sent to me from the UK, but I just copied the package number and went straight to the cargo airline official website and searched for the package and it was non-existent, went back and told them the airline company does not know about the package and they blocked me till this day.

[DaNNy001]

Well if you look at the text message you would see that it looks so fake to be true and whenever something looks to real then you should know that it is fake because I am not sure if our president is that generous to start giving out 75k to people after all he has spent on running his campaign, I am not even sure if he has recovered from what he spent during his election so how could he be that generous to give out 75k to people under curtsey of APC. Abeg try shine eyes oo because we country many people dey hustle Left right center to see how them fit see food chop.

Lol, Nigerians would never learn, they have being in this country all their life and they have never witnessed such generosity from the government But they believe a text like this... sometimes I don't blame people who Fall for things like this because it's either they are just being ignorant or the level of hardship has made them so desperate to believe anything.. I wonder why some Nigerians would defraud their own people knowing the hardship and scarcity in the country..The government needs to do better so that all these ridiculous things would stop going on.

[Versatile_choice]

Well if you look at the text message you would see that it looks so fake to be true and whenever something looks to real then you should know that it is fake because I am not sure if our president is that generous to start giving out 75k to people after all he has spent on running his campaign, I am not even sure if he has recovered from what he spent during his election so how could he be that generous to give out 75k to people under curtsey of APC. Abeg try shine eyes oo because we country many people dey hustle Left right center to see how them fit see food chop.

Lol, Nigerians would never learn, they have being in this country all their life and they have never witnessed such generosity from the government But they believe a text like this... sometimes I don't blame people who Fall for things like this because it's either they are just being ignorant or the level of hardship has made them so desperate to believe anything.. I wonder why some Nigerians would defraud their own people knowing the hardship and scarcity in the country..The government needs to do better so that all these ridiculous things would stop going on.

I think it will be so unwise of those people who will fall for this type of scam, honestly I think it will be very difficult for one to fall for this type of scam so easily. After all the challenges we have been facing in this country all in the name of the soul called (Tinubu)  who happens to be the Nigerians president and you still expect people to easily accept this offer? Hell no" because I have never dream of good things coming from his tenure. But is obvious that most people can still end up being a pray to such scam, sometimes this can happen as a result of being so ignorant or greed. I think this are the only things that can lead one into falling victim to such scam.

[Moreno233]

Well if you look at the text message you would see that it looks so fake to be true and whenever something looks to real then you should know that it is fake because I am not sure if our president is that generous to start giving out 75k to people after all he has spent on running his campaign, I am not even sure if he has recovered from what he spent during his election so how could he be that generous to give out 75k to people under curtsey of APC. Abeg try shine eyes oo because we country many people dey hustle Left right center to see how them fit see food chop.

Lol, Nigerians would never learn, they have being in this country all their life and they have never witnessed such generosity from the government But they believe a text like this... sometimes I don't blame people who Fall for things like this because it's either they are just being ignorant or the level of hardship has made them so desperate to believe anything.. I wonder why some Nigerians would defraud their own people knowing the hardship and scarcity in the country..The government needs to do better so that all these ridiculous things would stop going on.

You will not blame some people sha because no be everybody get access to the internet like you do. For people wey never see food chop, how them wan save money take buy smart phone and data wey price don increase by 100%? For people wey get access to the internet, them fit don learn some of these formats them and know say na scammers get different ways to take obtain them. Make we no also forget say this Tinubu government don talk plenty things about empowerment. People fit just dey reason say na one of them be that. I don learn not to dey fast to condemn person wey fall into scam, some no be with clear eye.

[DPHOR]

Things dey happened for we country sha imagine how person go just dey comfortable dey call their fellow country person to send them otp so that them go use am access their account to collect their money onto say the person na mugu or wetin self?
I know say things hard but e go better say them fall in street hustle than rip off their fellow country people with the fake news say na APC wetin wetin self, I no know for them. As you update us here e good so that when dis kind call come una go dey at alert.

[Ever-young]

This is an old scam scheme, be like this men done run out of strategies to use perpetrate their illegitimate activities on unsuspecting ignorant Nigerians. It's very disturbing how some set of persons will just seat somewhere and calculate how they can milk the already suffering and struggling Nigerians of their funds that are not even enough to take care of their basic needs by taking advantage of the hunger way day the land to take scam poor Nigerians. Sincerely we are better than this as Nigerians this isn't our culture and norms we're known for.

Lol, na E be people for you, them go Dey pity person yet na still them Dey still Dey kill people. Yes, money no they, people Dey suffer before them go still try get and if they get am, some group of people just Dey one side Dey monitor people like say they put monitoring device for people body, so that them fit scam them, yet them go still put everything for our leaders head even when they are innocent, na them go still carry am for head, na why E be say nobody everybody deserve help for this our country because no be everybody Dey innocent even if they appear to be so.
The thing be say make everybody Dey very very careful because some people no Dey tire to Dey scam person o and them no Dey run out of strategy o, if they try one and E no work, them go still try again.

[odunybiz]

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.

Immediately I saw this I started laughing because a lot of us are used to messages like this, we get them everyday. It makes me wonder if people still fall for such scams. At the end of the day when you finally get in contact with them they would ask for your bank informations and their reason is always that they need those details to input in their system but it's all a scam. The effort Nigerians put in to coming up with scam tactics they can actually use that same energy to look for freelance jobs online and get paid. It's disappointing that at this time and age people still fall for this trick.

Well said and done. This scammers go so far to scam people. They make even more research than we that call ourselves crypto gurus. If they have channel those effort just you have said to other real channels online, they should be able to make a more legitimate money than try to scam people which may put them into trouble if caught. Well, another thing here may be lack of information. They may not know much about all this freelance job and other online legitimate ways of making money and moreover, they may not be ready to learn as well.

[Cityhunter34]

Thank you OP for bringing this to our notice. Because so many things dey happen well well now scammers dey always use different strategy just to scam people's funds. if no be say you don dey aware of their operation like this na you for don fall victim. Had it been say you just send them the one time password you for don end up losing all your funds, but thankgod that you know earlier. However, sometimes e no really dey good to even give them attention because e get how una go talk reach Dem fit charm you by then you no know wetin you do again.

[ejikeme24]

This is not actually my first time of seeing such thing like this, and as a matter of fact I have experience this before. though they didn't bring the offer directly to me rather they passed through my Boss, and he was smart enough to detect that he is actually dealing with scammers. But he pretend as if he never knew thier intention, and he was like following them up with the intention of wasting thier airtime. It was later run that they realize that my boss already knew thier intention, and have decided to waste thier time and thier airtime as well. Though most people can be so naive to fall for this scam, but they wouldn't have included the name of the president I the first place. Because even if one can fall a victim for them, once he saw the name of the president in the text. Definitely he won't give it a thought than to conclude that the person is actually trying to scam him, because they don't see any good thing coming from the president.