It's so sad that scamming people of their money is now a norm in these parts. In day to day conversations you hear it so casually, people referring to it as 'press small'. I get deeply appalled when I hear this especially if it's from someone I'm close to. When did actual stealing become normalised. It's crazy that they're ignoring how ruining someone's finances can totally disstabilize their lives.
They justify their actions by saying they're not killing anyone but what about those who'd become suicidal when their life savings is completely wiped? I just saw a story of an old pensioner who was scammed of his two years savings. If you're in Nigeria you'd know how difficult it is for pensioners to get paid. Seeing that old man in tears makes me want to cry. No one deserves such ill fate.
Two years worth of pension would probably be spent in a bar tonight on weed and alcohol. The old man in question has his life shattered right now. It's so painful. That could be my mum and dad. Same even happened to my uncle's wife some days ago but she was lucky to block her account before they completely wiped it.
The scammers target the older folks now because they happen to be more gullible. The best you can do is warn your parents to be alert and never divulge personal information to any claiming to be from their bank.
Here that happens all the time, many deceive retirees by phone posing as their children and telling them that they have to give them all their savings because the bank is not safe, then they tell them that a friend of theirs is going to withdraw the money and the poor grandparents trust blindly and end up giving it to any stranger.
That's just terrible 😕
That's so sad and disheartening, how can people be so wicked. There are many means to acquiring finance but not like this
Scamming people is easier than actually doing a work. Sure, scamming needs a work too but it's quick, easy money with high profit. It's unfortunate for the affected. When someone choose that route, one of the only things comes to their mind is quick money for whatever personal reason behind it.
The amazing part of it is that most cash gotten from scamming people are not well utilized, most of them waste the money on useless things
My grandma often get that kind of scam phone calls. I think that it's always best to teach them to talk to their children on site or anyone about anything related to money. I already teach my mom to never believe in anything that involves free money or any MLM related investment because often it's a scam.
It's best to teach them to have their guards up because these scammers are never going to stop
It is sad when I hear stories like this. More annoying is when people try to justify it with "the country is hard". First of all the country is affecting everybody but you don't see all of us trying to scam people of their hard earned money.
To think that they never spend the money on something meaningful is just appalling