I'll write about how my friend was scammed and his shoulders was collected. I've also been scammed but I think his own story will teach a lot of people, especially Nigerian students, a lot of lessons than my own.
I was once scammed by group of young men who came to my town selling soap. They said they were promoting a new brand and because of that they are giving out a lot of lives to anyone who would buy from them. They brought out a list containing all the potential items to be won. I was particularly interested because I saw laptop on the list and that was the year I'm about to enter the university. Considering that I needed the laptop and I also have blind faith that God will make me win, I went to borrow money to buy the soap.
They did a raffle after I bought the soap and I selected one paper. I only won a boiling ring. I later got to know that the only thing written in their raffle papers was boiling ring. So there was no way you could win another thing. They were caught in town and driven out.
Their soap was fake. Their booking ring didn't work for a month. I also learned my lesson.
We call these kind of people "Snake-oil salesmen" . In the old days, travellers would visit the town sell ing so called "snake-oil". They promised it could cure every illness known to man.
By the time you discovered it didn't work, they had already left town.
It was never "Real" snake-oil, but you had to believe them because that is what it said on the bottle.