Nigeria Job scam

An American man, Marco Ramirez has been held in Kirikiri Maximum prison, after he defrauded Nigerians $565,000 US green card and investment scam. 

The man was arrested by the Nigerian anti-graft agency after he was caught collecting money from Nigerians while promising them of US green cards, and also promise to get some other victim green card if they invest in some business in the US.

     

According to the EFCC prosecutor, Mr Ramirez was in the managing director of USA Now Plc., Eagleford Instalodge Group and USA Now Capital Group – committed the offences between February 2013 and August 2013, and committed the crimes between February 2013 and August 2013.

One of Marco's victims is Amb. Godson Echejum whom he collected  $545,000, telling him the money will serve as an investment in the US, which then could be used to grant him the US green card.

Another one of his victims is Abubakar Umar, who paid $10,000 for an investment company that also never existed. 

Mr Olukayode Sodimu also fell for Marco scam, and also paid $10,000 for facilitation fees with the American Immigration Services for an American green card.

Mr. Ramirez pleaded the no guilty charge against all the allegations, and he was then remanded at Kirikiri prison, and his case adjourned till June 3rd.

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Top Nigerian scammer behind the popular scams, only known as "Mike" was recently apprehended in Port-Harcourt by INTERPOL and the Nigerian security agency. The team is said to have scammed people globally, and their scam is worth $60m.

               

Mike is the leader of the fraudulent team, and their operations involve using malware to compromise email and also romance scams. According to INTERPOL, "In one case, a target was conned into paying out $15.4 m"

Mike also runs a money laundering service in US, Europe and China;

The network compromised email accounts of small to medium-sized businesses around the world including in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Romania, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.

Then Mike and his team would send email to buyers on how to make payments to account under their control.

The suspect and accomplice involved in the scam will face charges including hacking, conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences.

At the moment of writing, the men are out of jail after meeting their bail requirement.

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Enugu, Nigeria : The tragedy of the Nigerian Immigration recruitment that killed almost 23 people  in 2014 will not be easily wiped off Nigerian youth's memory. The latest recruitment woes was shared by a Nigerian via the online Nigerian forum, Nairaland by a username of Naira0. 

The young man had been called for an interview at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Enugu branch. The man narrated that they were given numbers as they arrive at the venue of the interview , while the interviewee were waiting for their turn, the men of Federal Road Safety Command, Udi where the interview was taking place threw decorum into the air by inviting their own friends and also by selecting their own preferred candidates.

                     

Around 5pm, Naira0 said that results were released and that candidates who had said to have high scores during interviews would not find their names on the list, and people who had scored less than 70% were asked to leave the compound. 

The FRSC members told everyone to leave forcefully, and a lot of Nigerian youths were harassed while some were arrested. The commander of FRSC, Mrs Emeordi witnessed the events and did not stop the officers from harassing innocent Nigerian youths. 

The FRSC acted only on their guts and not the FAAN official as no official statement was released. Also, no members of FAAN had come forward to address the situation or appeal to the applicants.

The narration of Naira0 is one of the pain Nigerians go through trying to get a job at government offices. The officials only advertised vacant positions to follow a government protocol that says that all open positions must be advertised in the Nigeria dailies and different media channel to allow open employment opportunities for Nigerians. Most times, the officials already have their own candidates that will be selected for open positions.

 

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