Topic: Are most scammers from Nigeria? (Read 784 times)

I totally agree with you, it's high time we learn to leave without money, although money is the one leading in this country, there are most things we need money for especially those our basic needs like foods, shelter etc but learning to trust God and relying on him, he will surely pave way for us, and it's also for our own good, that is when there is no money for us to settle some of our needs, instead of going to stealing or doing any illegal activity to get money, we will just use that energy and pray and hope for God to do his work and it will surprise us how we will get to what we want and like you said, a time will come when the want of money won't no longer be needed and can even lead us to do things we don't want to do, if we can't live without money, so let's try to always do the needful, especially if our government are not helping matters, let's engage ourselves in learning skills to support ourselves and our loved ones.

It will be difficult for you to identify the particular country the scammer came from unless the scammers was caught before you can identify the country, and we have scammers in different countries of the world because they feel that is the best means of earning.

Yes, there are scammers in Nigeria and there are scammers in all the countries of the world which you cannot deny that because is a something that is very common among the lazy people in the society, and there is no way you can stop them not to involve in such habit in the society.

For scammers to have access to your personal details, maybe you have showcased some details online that made them to take advantage of it to scam you, which is a bad habit to those people Carry out such operation.

There are scammers everywhere but I believe the majority of scammers are from Nigeria. Nigeria is the only country with the slogan, we ne dey carry last. When you truly dick deep to that statement, you will find out that it means a lots. One thing I noticed on a genuine foreigners on the social media is that, if they don't want to talk to you, they will never answer you or reply your message even if they manage to accept your friend request. They can not even have that feeling like since you are disturbing them that maybe they should start talking to you with the intention to scam you instead they prefer to block you. Sorry to say this, majority of Facebook users with foreign pictures of a man or a woman are all Nigerian. I mean for fake media accounts. It is very hard to find a genuine girl or guy from Nigeria on the social media who is sincere. In Nigeria, even the person you are seeing live can still scam you. That is why in our country Nigeria today we always use a statement 9ja na scam because the people inside the country na still scam. Remember, when the people are currupt, the country is also currupt as well.

even though all these indices are true for the Nigerian point of view, it's still not a valid reason to make a conclusion that scammers are from Nigeria. Almost all the different countries of the world are blessed with diverse resources of different kind but yet poverty is still very much resident and eminent in those part of the world. The USA, Russia, Ukraine, China, UK and all the developed countries of the world still have poor people that are still domicile in those nations but that doesn't make them chronic scammers. Poor leadership that's most of the time cited as the reason why most people engage in scams because the government have refused to provide jobs for her citizens isn't just peculiar to a particular region of the world but is actually a general global issue that's currently affecting all the different part of the world.

If we continue to agree that the reason why we're faced with increasing cases of fraude not just in Nigeria but in different part of the world is because of bad leadership and economic problem, scammers will continue to justify their actions and keep om engaging in Thier ungodly act without any thought of being responsible for thier lives and ensuring that they earn a living in the most genuine way possible.

As a full blooded Nigerian, I understand that the economic situation of the country isn't good to be honest and that the leaders aren't living up to what's expected of them but that's not enough reason to ever propel me to go into any form of fraud. I believe that I can still survive and create a system that generates wealth not just for myself but for my immediate environment without getting that done in a dubious way. I mean, we have the resource, the best of brains and an hard working mentality that allows us to survive even in the most toughest situation and that's enough reason to flee from any form of fraude.

I'm a full blooded Nigerian and I'm not a scammer and I can tell you any day and anytime that most Nigerians are not scammers.

maybe many of the scammers we encounter come from nigeria, but believe me, they are not the most numerous, there are still other countries such as india, china, brazil and several other countries. usually what they target are people from developed countries, such as america, europe or the middle east, who have limited knowledge of technology. the cause of its increasing massiveness is due to poverty and the lure of big money to them, so they do not hesitate to get involved as scammers.

I would not only focus on talking on Nigeria, you know. Those things you are saying about Nigeria are likely true (it is something I have read being repeated here in the forum quite often by people from that country), but you are given the fake perceptions that it is true most of scammers are from Nigeria or at the very least you are giving some implicit justification for people going through economical hardship to scamm people around the world, which is not right.
Also, you should consider that even in developed countries like the United States, there is an important percentage of people who are characterized as homeless and can barely survive by living in the sewers of the big cities like Las Vegas.

There is poverty and desperation in all countries, the difference is the percentage willing to scam on the internet and also those who would rather to live off welfare (if possible). let us not to continue to fuel the myth all scammers are from a single country or region, it does not do any good favor to the honest people of those places.

Unfortunately, there are 252 countries in the world, of which only 23 are highly developed. What is important for a country is, first of all, the economy, the amount of mineral resources and the population. There is one paradox: Nigeria has a huge amount of oil, but the people are very poor. This can be explained by the fact that Nigeria has a very high level of corruption, insufficient economic development and low levels of health care. And all these problems led to the development of fraud, robbery and violence.

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The government workers and agencies are the major scammers in every country.
Sometimes they steal huge funds without anyone knowing about it. The government also knows how to steal from citizens and sometimes we might not even be conscious about it. Everyone would keep struggling and making money for their lifetime retire and the government would be busy trying to tax the money back through various tax payments. So many things that needed to be discussed about.

True, nothing justifies robbing others of their hard-earned money just because you are being robbed by your governing the name of tax and corruption and also scammers originates in all the nations but Nigeria had been made popular I don't think it's right to stigmatize issues like this. We need to work on putting these scammers behind the bar as only a severe punishment will discourage others from scamming and i remember how some call centres in India was raised for running a scam projects scamming elderly people in USA.

Exactly! Every major country has a banking system that is hooked into the Federal Reserve Banking system in the US. They totally scam the people of the countries by multiplying money, thereby decreasing the value of it all.

If people of any country suffering from poverty or they are jobless or homeless, it doesn't means they'll scam us. There are lots of counties where people have similar situation. And maybe they also do scamming. So why only mentioned Nigeria? I can't deny i saw and heard that Nigerian people were responsible for scamming but scammers aslo live in your's country too as well as mine. So it isn't logical to blame only Nigerian

Where scammers are not there, it is in all countries. If you notice, you will understand how the politicians of your country are scamming money from the people, where as a common man, you cannot find a language to protest. I don't know exactly why you got scammed by a Nigerian. I don't think a country should be declared a scammer by name. You just need to stay away from scammers, don't participate in any project if you know there are scammers.

every country have their own scamming group so there is no country that does not have a scammer even those countries they say that is good country and there are not corrupt and also polluted so those countries they have bad people who is there doing different kinds of illegalities but is unknown to the government of the country many use of different countries into fraudulent activity

Are most scammers from Nigeria?


Most scammers are from the banks of every country. But the government scammers might be greater if they let or help the bank scammers continue to do their scamming. The more developed countries have greater bank scammers.

Watch the movie, All Wars Are Bankers' Wars - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10635880/.

Many scam happened all over the world Wich I concur, just most of our people has the feeling that Nigeria is most scammed due to the happening and the way our media present their news which other nations don't bring some information on the national broadcast I doubt if it such statistics is realised if Nigeria will even be the forth position because many water crossing on the bridge that how many nation keep secrets on revail just the the politics system here exergerate just to gain popularity it doesn't matter weather such is legal or not the bring it to the media space.

Mist scammers is not from Nigeria there is fact's to prove this no matter now bad news may fly around scammers.

I was being scammed by Nigerian guy long ago. Later he confessed and apologize from me. Although he didn't return my money. I don't wanna go for this Story. Yeah, Many scammers belongs to Nigeria. But i still don't support mentioning a particular county where you addressed most of people are scammers. Actually scammers doesn't have any particular county. They can originate to any country. It depends whom you faced. Kindly don't blame a whole county due to some bad people.

The answer to that question is NO.There is absolutely no country in the world that scam does not exist so how will Nigeria among all the countries in the world have the highest rate of scam.Scammers are in all countries all over the world.The reason why you think the rate of scam is high in Nigeria is because the rate of unemployment is high,well it's right to think that way but notwithstanding even when the youths what's to explore with crypto,the government will look for a way to regulate it so in that case why won't there be scam.

I’ve seen how many people call Nigerians scammers. I think that some of them are really good at it. But let’s not neglect all the other scammers. For instance, my dear beloved Indians. They have scam call centers where you will think what they are doing is a white collar job but they spend the whole day calling people and pretending to be a representative of a company. Let’s not over look my lovely British (London) scammers who love phishing emails and romance scam. Even in top countries, there are scammers.

It is not an accusation. As you say, an accusation would imply the existence of evidence and summiting such evidence, one is always supposed to defend oneself against slander. This is more about an urban legend or a stereotype, this stereotype was born since the beginning of the internet, when scammers who used email to try to steal people's money posed as Nigerian kings. It was a way to take advantage of the ignorance of people, who believe there was monarchy in Nigeria in the 2000's.
It is an unfortunate stereotype, in the same manner there are stereotypes against people from India, or people from Cuba. I have heard several times some many people from the United States believe all Cubans are communists.