Good day all ,

Am Achife and working with Decision Support.
We do marketing research but am head of mystery shopping department.
We are based in Nigeria and can work for you any where in West Africa
You can reach us on info@dscafrica.com 009234 1 761 7324.

Thanks and warm regards
Achife
www.dscafrica.com

I am not interested.

And what would the shop be? Pretend you are a foreign aide worker and evaluate whether you are given and trained on using proper Ebola protective gear?

Sign me up!!

Let's see, how would we mystery shop the scammers who fill our email boxes with attempts to steal our money?

1. did the letter offer to send a cashier's check or a money order?

2. What was the amount you were told to keep?

3. What was the amount you were to send back by wire transfer?

4. Did they change their story from purchasing your car to purchasing a piano in the second letter?

5. how much postage did they spend sending you the counterfeit check or money order?

6. how many times did they email you desperately demanding the wire transfer password so they could claim the money you were supposed to send them?

7. when they realized you had conned them into wasting $25 sending the check by overnight mail, did they use profanity?

8. which police agency did you give the counterfeit check to?

9. please be sure to make a copy of the check before turning it over to the police so you can attach it to your report.


I'm sorry, Achife, but after all the scams and con games that have come out of your country in the last 20 years, there is nobody who wasn't born yesterday who will do business with anyone from Nigeria over the internet. I'm sorry, because I'm sure there are many fine, honest, hard-working people in your country. But the ones your government refuses to do anything about, who rip off thousands of Americans who didn't know better every year, have ruined trade relations for all of you.

Also, this board is for people who mystery shop. There are no businesses here who are looking to hire a mystery shop company.

Tips it's a Nigerian Scammer:

1. Poor grammar

2. Extremely high pay (like $1,987.47) to walk into Wal-mart for 20 minutes at the Western Union Store.

3. If their brain is the size of a pea, it's a Scammer.

4. Poor, uneducated, young lads, working out of internet cafe's and they are known as "mules" which makes them a donkey's ass

They're actually just doing it to survive. For their government, it's easier to let them "make a living" ripping off Americans than to do anything to create jobs and opportunities there.

I don't blame the scammers; I blame the Nigerian government.

There are no mugus here. Or would that be mugi?

There are good Nigerians, too. A popular local doctor is from Nigeria. He speaks English well, too.

Nope, I blame the scammers. It's their choice to rip people off to "survive"...

You need to understand something... these people think all Americans are rich. They are dirt poor with no prospects for a better life. If you had to choose between picking the pocket of some rich dude or starving to death you might make the same choice they did.

I'm not excusing them, but I saw a documentary about them and this is a brainwash sort of thing. they honestly think we won't miss the $1500-3000 they might take us for because they think we're all rich. To them, it's no more stealing than what our government does when they tax the rich to fund welfare programs. The only problem is, the people who actually fall for these scams are usually the ones who can *least* afford it.

It's the Lagos government who doesn't prosecute them even when caught that is the problem. But why should they care? If they get money from Americans, that helps the local economy and then the government doesn't have to try to help the scammers.

The scammers go to these internet cafes like we go to our jobs each morning. It's what they do for a living. They don't even see it as stealing; they figure if we're dumb enough to fall for it, we deserve to get scammed. They figure they've earned it by doing a good role play.

If Nigeria would start prosecuting these people and do something to create some jobs they can do instead, the scammers would stop having to scam to make a living.

I checked out this company and they have been around a long time and have offices in the UK as well.

The website has been registered for over a decade and they have real people on the Linkedin page:
[ng.linkedin.com]

If it was a fake company, I'd have had the website nuked by now.

You make some interesting points, but at the end of the day I have no sympathy for thieves regardless of their situation.

Stealing is stealing no matter how you put it!

Trying to make the point that there is more involved here than thieves stealing from us. It's about misperceptions all over the globe about Americans, and third world governments who do nothing to change those misperceptions and stop the crimes that are perpetrated due to those misperceptions. American TV and movies tells the world what we are -- and it's a false image. I know a woman who was traveling in southeast Asia about 30 years ago who was nearly raped with her husband in the next room because the Pakistani they had befriended over dinner assumed that all American women were willing to jump into bed with anyone, any time, after seeing the movie "10" that was being shown in that country about that time. Another couple they visited on the same trip showed them porno movies and expected them to engage in an orgy with them because that's what they thought Americans do.

We can't combat these people's impressions of us if we don't recognize what they are and how they got those impressions. Nigerians will rip us off because they think we are rich and not feel a moment's guilt about it. The Pakistani thought my friend should be pleased that he wanted to "service" her and was offended when she rejected him and her husband threw him out.


I'm quite sure OP is legitimate -- but he's soliciting in the wrong place and "cold calling" like this will be met with hostility and suspicion because of what his countrymen are doing in those internet cafes. Maybe he should go find mystery shoppers in those cafes and give them something to do other than steal. This is not a Nigerian website and if we have any Nigerian members they would be shoppers, not business people who could use his services.

One of my favorite free sites was "nuked" this weekend. I miss you Megashare! I thought the original OP posting was a joke until I read Scanmans response which left me confused - this is a real MSC? Just seemed like an odd time to look for shoppers in West Africa.

My thought exactly teriraia. That and what type of reimbursement will I get for the 21 days manditory quarantine I'll have to endure upon return?

Why is it when you first signed up with this forum, you introduced yourself as a mystery shopper but now you are head of a mystery shopping company? Why didn't you mention your affiliation with your company the first two times you posted?

West Africa just made the list for this years top 10 scariest places on earth.

I can do it. I need a $4.oo bonus and I'm all yours.

Scammers steal $120 million a year from innocent victims.

I hardly see them as "poor" but more as "opportunistic" to take from others....

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2014 05:09AM by SunnyDays2.

Good day,
How are you? Hope your fine.Please i appreciate all the efforts you implore in trying to help me transfer my funds,though it did not work out with you but finally i received help from a spanish expertriet.
Kindly contact my Attorney in Bangkok Thailand to claim your compensation check worth $750,000.00usd,which I left for you as a token for trying to help,Thanks for all the efforts.
Now I am in far away Bahamas on an investment project.Below is the contact details of my Attorney:
Kung Chambers and Associates.
15TH Floor Landmark tower . Sukhumvit Soi 5.
Klong toey 10400 .Bangkok Thailand
Contact Person: Barr. Noorie Janyalikit..(Esq).
E-mail: noorie.sff@gmail.com
Thanks for your concern and I want you to deal strictly with my attorney because I may not be responding to emails regularly due to the poor internet facilities down here now.
Regards
Corporal Amanda Cox.

Look at all the money I'm going to be getting!!! I won't have to be a Shopper anymore! Love and be wary, signed, The Night Owl.

My husband lived in west africa for 10 years while in the Peace Corps. He's very familiar with the Gambia as well as Nigeria and lived near Lagos for quite some time. Ironically one of my doctors here is actually of the royal family over there and he could talk to my husband about places familiar to both of them.

Yeah I dunno, unless you live in Africa you won't know what it's like.. It's no different than modern day Americans scamming and stealing so judge not. And the Ebola comment isn't even close to being remotely funny.

Ummm, yeah, this is SPAM.

dspeakes Wrote:
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> You need to understand something... these people
> think all Americans are rich. They are dirt poor
> with no prospects for a better life. If you had
> to choose between picking the pocket of some rich
> dude or starving to death you might make the same
> choice they did.
>
> I'm not excusing them, but I saw a documentary
> about them and this is a brainwash sort of thing.
> they honestly think we won't miss the $1500-3000
> they might take us for because they think we're
> all rich. To them, it's no more stealing than
> what our government does when they tax the rich to
> fund welfare programs. The only problem is, the
> people who actually fall for these scams are
> usually the ones who can *least* afford it.
>
> It's the Lagos government who doesn't prosecute
> them even when caught that is the problem. But
> why should they care? If they get money from
> Americans, that helps the local economy and then
> the government doesn't have to try to help the
> scammers.
>
> The scammers go to these internet cafes like we go
> to our jobs each morning. It's what they do for a
> living. They don't even see it as stealing; they
> figure if we're dumb enough to fall for it, we
> deserve to get scammed. They figure they've
> earned it by doing a good role play.
>
> If Nigeria would start prosecuting these people
> and do something to create some jobs they can do
> instead, the scammers would stop having to scam to
> make a living.


I've heard that that is how the illegal aliens feel, too. If they can get in, it is a good reflection on them. They don't need to be honest.

A man from the Middle East told me a joke from his country.

"How do you tell a rich American from a poor American?

A poor American washes his own Cadillac."

There's a lot more truth in that than first appears. Americans really are richer than people in most other countries. Count your blessings. As a former coworker used to say, "There but for the grace of God go I."

My sister actually works for the State Department of the U.S. and has been stationed in Nigeria (4 years ago before she went to New Delhi and then Afghanistan). She is now getting ready for her deployment to Ghana. But anyway, when she was in Nigeria, she had on more than one occasion, phone calls at late hours of the night (of course because of the time difference) from distraught women trying to locate their Nigerian fiancee whom they could not find (my sister sometimes being the embassy after hours contact person). These women (generally over 50) had been online "dating" these men and had sent them $50,000 or more for one reason or another. These women would tell my sister that they (the man) wanted to come to the U.S. to marry them! These women would call my sister in desperation because the men had not contacted them since receiving the money...go figure. At any rate, these scams go on and people fall for them all of the time.

And yes, I am freaked that my sister is going to Ghana. Even though most of the Ebola outbreaks are going on in Liberia and more of the NW African continent...

This from Ghana Web: "The United States (US) government has commended Ghana for its “impressive” Ebola preparedness plan and promised to support the plan to achieve its goals."

The Ebola-plagued nations -- Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea -- have recorded 10,000 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths.

This just all really sucks.