Whre can I get some of this special paper. Sounds like a great idea. I already have a lot of credit card debt and this will definetly help me out. I recently purchased some ocean front property in Nevada and will sell that for a great profit after the holidays. Keep the great ideas coming ABC

Why do you not put more effort on how US oil companies (Exxon Mobil& Chevron) are degrading the Niger Delta environment, in Nigeria. While you were in Nigeria you should have visited the Niger Delta and seen the BIGGER SCAM. This report should have been more objective.

It is the greed of people like Dr Sloan who enrich these scammers. We should start questioning the character and morals of the people who get sucked in by these 419 scams because that is what they prey on.

Dr Sloan you are a person who has the means and knowledge to make money yet you allow your greed to overule your reason. 419ers will always be around because greedy people will always be around.

Tim Sloan is also a crook in this matter so lets not forget about that. Any person with half a brain would know that accepting blackened money shipped out of a third world country in exchange for a huge profit is a scam. Only his greed put him in this situation and I am glad to see he lost some money. Everyone I know gets these stupid scam letters from around the world and yet not one of my friends has ever sent them a dime. Why? Because we are the average working man who thinks before they act. The people who fall for these scams are the really stupid or like DR Sloan, people who already have too much money and are obsessed with finding more.

Come on.........how DUMB do you have to be...or how MONEY HUNGRY do you have to be to fall for such scams???
Almost think these people deserve to lose money just for being so dam dumb!~!!

I saw this special, the stupidity of the people who get scammed is mind boggling. How can this guy be a doctor yet so dumb to be bilked out of $350,000 and given black sheets of construction paper?

I don't understand how people can be this dumb I really don't.

If you ask me this guy deserves it for being so greedy that he simply threw common sense out the door.

Dr Sloan may or may not be a good doctor. Only his patients know. I DO know that he is a fool, and a fool and his money soon part ways. In this case it went to Nigerian 419 scammers. I too have recieved these "offers". I set up a phony yahoo account and identity and played with a few groups of these idiots until i cajoled them into sending me a photo with them in it posing with a sign that said "chump" asked them to fax and mail things to random companies in India...generally had some fun with them. I sent one guy a penny then told the scammer he had been scammed...then closed the email account. Be careful but have fun with them if you have time.Just dont be a chump and send 340k to anybody. Greed sent this doctor over the edge.

We have just recently been scammed out of $11,000.00 by a "company" in nigeria. It put a cabash on our christmas spending ... there will not be any Christmas spending. I would like to report it somewhere but I don't know where. Anyone got any ideas for me? Thank you ~ Candi

Those people are pretty brazen. There is a website at where some people make an online sport of "baiting" these scammers and get them to do some really stupid things in an effort to get money.

I would like to see these Nigerian Scammers run for congress for several reasons.
1. You always receive nice emails from them.
2. They are consistently coming up with Great money making ideas.
3. They are more honest than my current congressman.
4. They do a lot better job at spending the money I send them than my congressman does.

Anyone who loses $340,000 from a Nigerian scam these days is beyond help.

I'm sure the good doctor will find a way to make up for the loss.

How can anyone as erudite as Dr. Sloan get caught in a scam I can only describe as so obvious it borders on the ludicrous. Dr. Sloan gets no pity from me. GREED is one of the seven deadly sins for a reason. As for "Mr. Ebi," he's only taking advantage of the old adage, "A fool and his money are soon parted."

These leaches will contact you through IM and even through myspace. I've been contacted more times that I can count. My money is my money, of which I have very little and have worked my butt off for. As one of the paupers in American society, I am well aware that there is no such thng as a getting rich quick! I am dumbfounded as to how anyone could possibly be so stupid. Sure as hell am glad the I have a healthy heart....would hate for Dr. Sloan to be my surgeon!! He may be book smart but needs to spend some time on the street with the little folk!

This Dr. Timothy Sloan guy sounds like an idiot. How do you get to a point in life, where you've earned the title Doctor, and you're too stupid to realize sending someone 300+ thousand dollars in Africa is a poor investment? As far as I'm concerned he deserves to be out his money because he's gullible. There are laws on the books in the USA against theft by swindle, but the US can't govern Africa. Cudos to the guy who got the cash in the end. Shame on the idiot who lost his money. Tough lesson learned.

Thank you very much for exposing this scam/fraud (419)to many people, so that they won't fall to this people. I'm a Nigerian living in Nem Mexico, and im a vitim of fraud too.

These scams have been going on for a very long time. There exists a small group of people who "play along" with these scammers and bait them to see where it goes. Some of them are quite funny but don't be fooled. There exists the possibilty that these Nigerians could harm you so make sure you know what you are doing if you decide to tug on the line and lead these criminal along for fun.

I do not understand how people can believe someone they do not know, let alone from another (third world) country wants to give them millions of dollars. I can feel no sympathy for greedy people who are educated and not "desperate" financially who are trying to procure money illegally. I'm glad he got duped and he needs to see a doctor himself-a psychiatrist!

While I am not defending the scam artist, I blame the doctor as well. How does someone promise him black money or whatever and he pays $340,000 for it? Surely our resident doctor knew that the money would be counterfiet? Even if it wasn't counterfiet money, surely he knew such a transation would be illegal. And if the money was all it was cracked up to be and legal did he ever consider why would the person selling it need to sell it, surely he would want to keep it for himself? I have to say that it is nitwits like him that encourage fraud especially those kinds of cyber fraud. No wonder he lost so much money. Obviously for him money grows on trees because if it didnt, he would not be so stupid. I think he is as guilty as the scam artist. I have an ammulet that brings good luck that has been in my family for 500 years. It brings the wearer unpresidented luck. It is his for a measly sum of $250,000!!!!

I think the documentary was unfair and it depicted a Great Nation as Nigeria so poorly. Yes we as Nigerians are aware of some of crimes that plague our country ,yet there are many many more Nigerians out here who earn good and meaningful living through hardwork. Now, some people use the word 'Fraudster" has been synonymous to a "Nigerian".How about the greedy Americans who fall for it? I am a proud strong Nigerian and my country deserves better publicity of The US of A.

This is hillarious. THis is how you foreign media cause conflicts. Get your facts right before writing about events in places you hardly know. I would like the managment of ABC to note that a whole lot of Nigerians even in the united states wont take kindly to our beloved Fatherland insulted.