Hi all,
As you all may or may not know, this last 6 months or so I have been on a huge kick of scambaiting 419 scammers (mainly because low effort, and my mom hates scambaiting for some reason???)
Ill make a post on how to find so many that you’re drowning in them later, but one of the main places I have found a lot of scammers is on conspiracy theory groups on telegram (I guess they are the most gullible, and telegram really is just unmoderated for the most part). In my travels across telegram I came across this one Nigerian going under the name “lina stacy”. They didn’t really try to run a scam as much as they tried to be friendly and then asked me for a $100 gift card. Not perfect but I’ll give it a pass based on their situation, and its certainly not as cruel as most of the other scammers so 
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That was the end of march 2022. When he asked me for the gift card, I decided to grabify him and see what device he’s on and what device he is using, and saw that he is in Lagos, Nigeria, and on an old android 4 device running chrome v33. I asked him if he just really needs the money, and he said yes he does. Me and my friend (ex-friend now) then went and found job listings for people in nigeria, but as some of you may expect, chrome v33 isnt going to do so well doing… anything. I spent a couple months trying to help him get an updated browser on the device, but upon further investigation it was a fakephone with 2gb of storage, pretending to have 32gb, so that wasn’t really going to work well lol.
After that he brought up the idea of him buying a new phone with financial support from me. It is a little awkward for me to be sending around money at the moment, however I was willing to ship off a spare phone I have… except it would be illegal for him to pick it up. So at this point the only solution we can think of any more is to ask for help. Here I am passing along the word of someone who I believe to be a good person who happens to be in a time in need. Here is the message they wrote for me to pass along to you.
Hello everyone who is reaching through this messageMy name is Ayomi amoo
I’m 17years old
I’m from Nigeria
I’m a student of Jollat model college in Lagos Nigeria
But I couldn’t finished my study because my father can’t raise up money for me to complete my study I’m in ss2 but I left school since 2019 because I couldn’t pay up my debut seeing my self everyday without a secondary school certificate it so sad I’m so sad everyday looking myself as a nobody but I know when their is god everything is possible so many of my friends convert me to start doing Internet funds but I told them I can never do that because I hate anything about cheating or scam since then there have start avoiding me and also stop talking to me but I don’t mind because when their is life their is hope since my self everyday is a lesson to me I have been struggling suffering alone cause I have no one
My past had teaching me a lot that you should always trust and never do bad to someone one day I taught of killing my self but I remember wat my Dad always told me when their is life and you’re in good health their is hope I have work with my uncle but he cashed me away because I don’t have a good standard I was trow away like a child who didn’t have one or exist I sleep along the road for more then one years I’m suffering please I need someone to help me out I pray and hope to see my self in the next three years in school so that my further can be bright and shine I hope someone help me out of this present now I don’t have anyone to help or give me something in need I met a good friend of mine Joe he is from America he had been their for me trying to help me out but we are not in the same country I pray wat I have been through and still on it you and your family will never go through it ijn last month I lost my grandmother I miss her a lot and I have always say I will make her proud of me but he left me alone in this suffering world I miss you grandma please to everyone who is reading this now please try to help me out to go back and study and pray god bless you all
Anything you can pitch in will be a great help and greatly appreciated. Currently the best form of money transfer I can think of at this point would likely be giftcards, however we also agreed that I could receive the money in my paypal and transfer it (though I wouldn’t prefer this option, and also you’ll need to contact me since my name is identifiable and I don’t know a good way to hide it from the paypal.me). I told him that he can repay my efforts (and by extension anyone else who helps) by promising to pass along the favor once he got on his feet, and he has promised to do such when he can. You could also message me and we could figure out something like bank transfer or western union if you message me. I will be putting my contact information and forwarding the messages to him as I know the internet can be a nasty place, especially to people of color, and often likes to kick people while they are down. Below will be my contact information, please reply here or message me if you have any questions.
My contact information:
+1 740 481 1253 - whatsapp and sms (whatsapp probs best if images of stuff so I can just press forward in whatsapp without having to download), telegram t.me/+17404811253
@jjj333_p_1325:matrix.org - matrix, my preferred platform of communication
[email protected] - my public email
@Jjj333P - my twitter, dms open.
