"Living conditions too tough"? Better be more than that. Otherwise get back in there.

they can't be bothered with real crime, but want to harrass everone who can't afford tax attys or lobbyest to write laws to help their case. they should keep it open to have some place to assign bad agents.Their union wont let us fire them

We're talking about Nigeria here. This is the country where foreign oil workers get kidnapped every couple months and pipelines get blown up weekly. It's insane to have criminal investigators living anywhere where they're safety can't be at least 90% assured.

I'm sure Lagos is an awful place to live and work- but so is Baghdad, and the troops there can't whine about it and come home. Why can't our government officials just suck it up. Pretoria a short flight? Right.

Cut off their internet connection to the world untill the crimminal activity is cleaned up.

This is typical approach by the government. They can never get the job done.

The world knows when the going gets tough, we get going...

Living conditions ... my foot. I live in Lagos. Do you know how high rolling an average US embassey staff lives in Nigeria? They have all they need out there (booze, sex, food, etc in abundance). Even their own clubhouses and boats / private islands. They all move around with armed security details everywhere they go. YES, Lagos might be a high crime city but so is NYC & LA. How many reports have you gotten about a US personnel officer being attacked.
Please do not confuse Lagos with the Niger Delta Region where all the kidnapping (story for another day) is going on.

I have "won" 5 or 6 international lotteries (In which it is illegal for U.S. citizens to participate) and I have received numerous opportunities to "stand in" as a relative for some deceased millionaire who left millions in a bank account somewhere thanks to the Nigerians.

it saddens my heart that am from nigeria and i see these happens but i also blame the greedy ones who wants to earn money they didnt work for, but one things is that these guys will always device new ways of scams, if you want to catch a fish you must first behave like the fish not if not you are not gonna get it, be wise anyemail that comes your way thats got some question mark dont go for it it might just be one of them.

Brian Ross if you're reading this...this exact type of scam also exists on singles websites, usually a pushy girl will immediately give you her email address. At first some of these profiles had really awful English. Then with time the scammers must have hired an English professor. If you contact one of these girls they will send you pictures, eventually one of them might be very provocative or soft porn. Then it will finally end with them asking for money or you get a Nigerian email scam all of the sudden.

My question as victum of money order scam.Has anyone went to court over this?Or are we wine and dineing these agents.Now it is to boring so now they want to go.This is pitiful.

And this supposed 'news' comes from where? your head?

It beats me that everyone now assumes all these cyber-scams originates from Nigeria, just because the media brands them "Nigerian scams"! While I have personally recieved a lot of these scam emails from Nigeria, I have also recieved as many from other parts of Africa and the Far East. The next time you recieve a scam email, look closely at the URL and the name of the domain hosting the email address. It is decietful for the media to tag this a Nigerian problem, it is a global problem.

Nick is 100% right...the e-mail addresses these people use tell it all: they are almost always a "yahoo.com" address. I,too, have received literally dozens of these things over the years and some of them are downright hilarious--how could anyone fall from the crap they send? Wasn't it WC Fields that said that there was a sucker born every minute?

I think a simpler solution would be to ban all IP address that originate out of Nigeria. If the country can not crack down on there own for doing this then they should not be allowed to participate in the internet community!

Hi my name is Nanette Soto and I was almost a vicitm of one of these Nigeria e-scams. I posted and ad on Craig's list for a condo that I have for rent. I received about 7 emails in 1-2 days from different people wanting to rent the condo. They were saying things like, they were on assignment from UK in Africa working for W.H.O., UNICEF, a modeling agency all being transferred to the states. They tell me their company is going to send me a certified check but it's over the amount that I need and for me to cash the check and then send them via Western Union the difference to pay for their movers/travel agent. I'm not one to watch the news too often but tonight, I'm glad I was watching and saw your report and investigation.

Uh Nick...the only reason all these people are saying these scams originated from Nigeria is because (and this can be seen in the 20/20 piece that aired on fri night), the traces they placed on the email addresses and phone numbers they were given were traced straight to somewhere in Nigeria. Just because its said in the email that they are from Africa, does not neccessarliy mean thats where they are. Yes these scams can be happening in other countries but Nigeria is most likely the one country that started it all. Just go to the Secret Service's website, and look at how long this has been going on. It all originated in Nigeria, they've been doing this for almost 2 decades.

CLASSIFIED ADS SCAMMING: I host a classified ads page on my web site for insect specimen collectors. We have been besieged with fraudulent ads from Cameroon. As it turns out Cameroon has the largest beetles in the world, which are highly desired by collectors. The Cameroonianss know this and are posting ads all over the Internet offering the beetles at a cheap price. 99.999% of these 'dealers' are swindlers using Yahoo e-mail addresses, posting their ads from Internet cafes. Once they get your money they will not deliver the goods. My clients have lost thousands and thousands of dollars on this. After 5 years of running my classifieds I have finally had to resort to banning ALL ads from Africa. It's sad because there are a few honest dealers there who are now going to suffer.

You havae won only 5 or 6 lotteries!!!??? Gee, sometimes I win that many in just one day. Likewise, I get to stand in as a relative all the time, and then, I am asked for donations all the time. Plus, other e-mails making so many request, I don't even remember all the different lines. I didn't know I was so well-known and connected.

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