EXPOSED: How Nigerians in Mauritius Are Scamming Indigenes

Nigeria, which can also be referred to the world capital of fraudulent activities. Nigerians are well known globally for fraud, ranging from internet fraud, popularly known as Yahoo, to romance scams. As Nigerians keep showing fraudulent skills around the world, they have failed to spare Mauritius, an island country in the Indain Ocean.

Nigerians in Mauritius, which are into different working fields ranging from hotels work, construction, security, caregiver, and others aren’t well satisfied with that, but rather go into defrauding Mauritius Indigenes of their hard earned income.

According to information gathered by Daily Observer, it was noted that some Nigerians in Mauritius usually scam Indigenes by disguising as a loan bank worker through fake accounts, mostly on social media platform, Facebook, and asked Indigenes to deposit not less than RS5,000 to get RS10,000 within 1-2 hours. It was gathered that many Mauritians had fallen for this scam tricks by some Nigerians who are into this fraudulent act.

Recently, a Nigerian with contact number +230 5713 8758 disguised as a Tesla worker, a U.S. company, and messaged a Mauritian stating that the indigene won a $90,000 and a new Tesla car.

The scammer wrote: CONGRATULATIONS!!! This is Mr thankyou Tesla, we are happy to inform you that your name as been randomly selected via your comment on our TikTok post & page with a sum of $90000 and a brand new Tesla car latest model. Kindly get back with ACCEPT to proceed. Thank you. Congratulations to you once again. “

On getting this message, the Mauritian immediately realized it’s a scam and decided to play along. Things turned around when the Nigerian scammer told the Mauritian to pay a sum of €60 to be able to claim the $90,000 gift.

“To receive your prize 90 thousand dollars all you need to do now is to pay for your transfer fees.The main reason why we collect transfer fees before sending you your money is that transfer machine needed to scan your payment receipt before releasing your money to your account. 60euro”. He wrote.

The Mauritian immediately let him know there’s no way to send money in euro, rather if he can accept local currency, rupee ( RS ). Going back and forth, the Nigerian national, whose aim is to defraud the indigene, accepted to receive rupee instead of euro, with a condition that the indigene would have to pay Five Thousand Rupee ( Rs5,000 ). ” You’re going to deposit 5 thousand Mauritius rupees so that you can receive your prize 90 thousand dollars,” he wrote.

However, the indigene in order to know how the scammer is going to receive the money told him to send a bank account so as to transfer the local currency, and he eventually sends a MCB account.

The scammer wrote : I will send you MCB account ok.

Acc Number ••000453490484

Acc Name ••Claudinette jolicoeur

Bank Name•• MCB

Description •• Successful

Use only this Mauritius

After realizing that the scammer wanted to use an innocent Mauritian bank account to carry out his fraudulent act, which may not be known to the indigene who has the bank account, he decided to delay him of the payment with excuses. Later, during the day, the scammer messaged again with a different number, which happened to be a Nigerian contact with the address +234 704 275 0046. He wrote: Make your payment now and send me your deposit recipe immediately so that I can credit you instantly. He then sent another U.S. number for the indigene to contact him. ” +1 3252128496 Massage me on my prize giving account” the scammer added.

With the high rates of fraudulent activities in Mauritius by Nigerians, Mauritians are urged to be more careful on social media pages and profiles that look like below. It’s mostly from Nigerians to defraud Mauritians by telling them to invest a certain amount and double it.