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Australian grandmother loses $480,000 to three different African 'Relationship scammers'

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Inspite of the warnings from others scammed, people still falling victims to online love scammees. Australian grandmother, who said she's lost AUD $480,000 (£264,768 / USD $359,088) to three different online scammers is now warning others about the dangers of looking for love online. Speaking on Info-tainment show: A Current Affair show, Suzie, who chose not to reveal her surname, said she was 'brainwashed' in her pursuit of finding her one true love. The first man she met online claimed to be a British guy called David Fisher. After beginning an online romance, Suzie eventually handed over AUD $80,000 (£44,141 / USD $59,848) she had inherited from her dad - but once 'David' had the cash he disappeared. Suzie then got chatting to a man calling him Johnson Williams - he told her he was an American soldier, fighting the Taliban. Before long, he also started asking for cash. "I went along with it because I thought, 'Wow, I've actually got som...

Ponzi Scheme: Nigerian man sues EFCC, others for defamation, harassments over Swiss Golden

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Nigerian man, Dickson Nonso Onuchukwu has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Inspector-General of Police (IG) and the Lagos Police Commissioner to court for alleged defamation of character, harassment and unlawful detention. Onuchukwu, who had been arrested several times by the security agencies, was recently paraded by the EFCC together with one Augustine Emenike and a Russian, Max Lobaty as the faces behind Swiss Golden International Company. The commission, which described the online gold networking business as a ponzi scheme, had declared on all its social media handles that the sum of N216 million was recovered from the company following petitions by some Kano residents that they were scammed of their money. But in a twist of events, Onuchukwu, who said he was first arrested by the EFCC in November at his office (Swiss Golden Africa) in Ikeja, said he had provided documentary evidence to the agency that he was not an affiliate of Swiss Gold...

NNPC Reacts To Ibe Kachikwu's Allegation About Contract Awards Scam... Says He Lied

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Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said that it duly informed the Minister of state for Petroleum, Dr, Ibe Kachikwu in the award of crude oil contracts. Kachikwu had accused Maikanti Baru, group managing director GMD) of the oil firm, of sidelining the NNPC board while taking some key decisions in leaked memo addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, . The minister also accused Baru of insurbodination, alleging that the GMD awarded contracts worth $25 billion without following due process. But in a statement by Ndu Ughamadu, the corporation dismissed Kachikwu’s claims, saying it decided to respond based on a directive from the president. The statement reads in part: “Following the publication of alleged lack of adherence to due process in the award of NNPC contracts, the President ordered the Group Managing Director (GMD) and Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to consider and respond expeditiously to the allegations. “The sub...

What Minister of State For Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu Did After Meeting With President Buhari

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The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu did not utter a word to journalists after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari over leaked memo. The meeting between the President and the Minister of State for Petroleum, according to Channels Television, lasted for about 1hr and 20mins. Mr. Kachikwu declined to make any comment after the meeting with the President which had raised eyebrows concerning the issues affecting the Board which he chairs and the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Maikanti Baru. The meeting with the President comes after the Minister expressed sadness over the recent changes in the NNPC and accusing Dr. Baru of humiliating him and the board.

RED ALERT: FAKE Account Of Wife Of Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Is On Facebook Asking For People's Bank Details [PHOTOS]

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A Facebook friend yesterday alerted me of the activities of an existing account of the wife of the Nigeria acting president, Dolapo who was chatting him up and asking for bank details alleging her NGO was embarking on some charity to assist people.

YIEDP SCAM? CBN/Heritage Bank Frustrates YIEDP Awardee 1 Year On [MUST READ]

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My name is Uche Femi Usman (not real). I am a supposed awardee of the first batch of YIEDP ( Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Development Programme), a programme initiated by the CBN and facilitated by Heritage Bank Nigeria.  The purpose of the programme as given by the CBN governor Mr Godwin Emefiele at the launch of the programme in march 2016 (Last year), in the words of the governor was "to provide TIMELY and AFFORDABLE credit to assist youths in implementing their business ideas, and will target 10,000 youths in productive activities within the next four years". The loan, up to the tune of 3 million naira was to be provided for selected NYSC serving and past members who qualifies from many applications.   Take note of the capitalised words in the speech of the CBN governor (TIMELY and AFFORDABLE) because it is on these words that I am hinging this article on. Let me start from the end, by letting Nigerians know that, since March 2016, that the programme wa...

‘Doctor’ Who Swindled Lover In The Sum Of N6.7m Arrested By EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested one Chike Nnaemeka, alias Dr. Justified Isioma Nnaemeka Emerald, for conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of about N6.7million.

Eight Nigerians Arrested In Malaysia Over Scam Activities (Details Here)

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Police have arrested eight Nigerian nationals and a local in Cyberjaya near here on suspicion of being involved in African Scam activities resulting in losses amounting to more than RM7.2 million.

BREAKING: World's Most Wanted 'Notorious' Criminal Arrested In Nigeria

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The head of an international criminal network behind thousands of online frauds has been arrested in a joint operation by INTERPOL and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). The 40-year-old Nigerian national, known as ‘Mike’, is believed to be behind scams totalling more than USD 60 million involving hundreds of victims worldwide.