The $1 Billion Nigerian Company That Doesn't Exist

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
  • Dive into the astonishing story of Nigerian billionaire Dozy Mmobuosi and his company Tingo Mobile. Once poised to acquire Sheffield United for £90 million, Mmobuosi's empire crumbled under SEC accusations of massive securities fraud. Discover how Tingo, initially celebrated for its revolutionary impact on Nigeria's agriculture and fintech sectors, was exposed as an almost non-existent operation, with fraudulent claims of customer numbers and finances. This video explores the rapid rise and dramatic fall of Mmobuosi's venture, offering insights into one of the most shocking financial scandals in recent history. Join us for a compelling journey through ambition, deception, and the harsh realities of the financial world
    0:00 - 1:35 Intro
    1:36 - 7:50 Founding of Tingo Mobile
    7:51 - 12:45 Red flags
    12:46 The Fraud
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  • @od9694
    @od9694 5 месяцев назад +1802

    There has to be no bigger red flag than appearing on the cover of Forbes

    • @krozareq
      @krozareq 5 месяцев назад +1

      Jim Cramer is BULLISH!

    • @jsimsgt96
      @jsimsgt96 5 месяцев назад +19

      Lol

    • @Jeez001
      @Jeez001 5 месяцев назад +32

      Pay to play

    • @egal1780
      @egal1780 5 месяцев назад

      Absolutely. Just Like Martin Shkrelli, Sam Bankman Fried and Elisabeth Holmes. Anybody on those lists can be (Most likely) classified as a fraudster, or a lucky Intern.

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 5 месяцев назад +42

      Or being a successful African businessman

  • @egal1780
    @egal1780 5 месяцев назад +1193

    It's insane that he only got caught because sports fans looked at his claims, instead of literal financial analysts or other financial experts. It just goes to show how absurd any fraud can be without being noticed...

    • @geezerbutler4582
      @geezerbutler4582 5 месяцев назад

      Soccer clubs are magnets for scammers and fraudsters
      Robert Maxwell and Oxford United?
      So fans and journalists start from a highly sceptical stance to begin with

    • @DerMeisterKreig
      @DerMeisterKreig 5 месяцев назад +67

      The problem with auditors is that they are hired by their clients and have to please the same clients to get paid.

    • @YuNherd
      @YuNherd 5 месяцев назад +35

      sports fans probing instead of financial analysts. deym.

    • @Sataka23clips
      @Sataka23clips 5 месяцев назад +22

      Wokeness worked to his advantage

    • @TheDarkHarper
      @TheDarkHarper 5 месяцев назад +11

      Also goes to show the auditors are sleeping on the job..

  • @Opeyemi.sanusi
    @Opeyemi.sanusi 5 месяцев назад +741

    I am Nigerian and I can confirm I have never heard of this guy or Tingo before this became news

    • @aanuiwueze48
      @aanuiwueze48 5 месяцев назад +31

      I heard of the guy when he wanted to buy Sheffield. Didn't know he was a fraud mehn😂😂

    • @favourbede5889
      @favourbede5889 5 месяцев назад +79

      He's name doesn't even look like a Nigerian's name...

    • @archimedes2261
      @archimedes2261 5 месяцев назад

      Looks South African or Congolese 😄​@@favourbede5889

    • @thathandsomedevil0828
      @thathandsomedevil0828 5 месяцев назад +3

      Same. 😂

    • @kalactose348
      @kalactose348 5 месяцев назад +12

      Exactly omo this country

  • @solomonokpobrisi4799
    @solomonokpobrisi4799 5 месяцев назад +96

    Im a Nigerian and from the first line about loaning phones to 9 million farmers. My face went😒

    • @TheCorship
      @TheCorship 4 месяца назад +12

      That's just bonkers.
      Assuming each phone would cost 100$ that would already be almost one billion$ in phone costs alone

    • @benji9639
      @benji9639 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@TheCorshipnot digital phones though. More Like cellular phones which cost less that $5. But this never happened, so dude is a scam

  • @erbol0011
    @erbol0011 5 месяцев назад +498

    He is prime example of Nigerian prince who became businessman. Photoshop is his best tool and friend.

    • @andalonds
      @andalonds 5 месяцев назад +13

      Scammers all call themselves prince.

    • @o_m8717
      @o_m8717 5 месяцев назад +17

      Crazily, the Nigerian prince was white, and I think, American.

    • @martinsgates1141
      @martinsgates1141 5 месяцев назад

      @@o_m8717 lol

    • @africaart
      @africaart 5 месяцев назад +18

      Elon Musk does the same scheme but sonce he is not a Nigerian, he gets a pass.

    • @fitbounties
      @fitbounties 5 месяцев назад

      no he doesnt there is no difference between what elondoes with what google and microsoft does
      @@africaart

  • @nawwk79
    @nawwk79 5 месяцев назад +117

    Ahh… Nigeria, the name of a country that always exudes confidence and trust.

    • @digitaldrreamer
      @digitaldrreamer 5 месяцев назад +5

      Yes. We do 😂😂

    • @subodeibaghatur4300
      @subodeibaghatur4300 5 месяцев назад +12

      Elizabeth Holmes agrees.

    • @Marcus-dw5ly
      @Marcus-dw5ly 5 месяцев назад +2

      You're goddamn right, and don't you ever forget it.😅😅😅

    • @ugwuanyicollins6136
      @ugwuanyicollins6136 4 месяца назад

      Where was this comment on America when Ftx,Nikolas, Theranos, Hyperloop, Enron, binance where shown to fraud or Americans criminals defrauding 3rd world countries
      All over the 🤨 I will wait.

    • @marcus-sky
      @marcus-sky 4 месяца назад

      😂😂😂

  • @eudofia
    @eudofia 5 месяцев назад +197

    Dozy founds Tingo Foods in September 2022 and has revenues of $400m in 4 months from the agri business? What kind of agricultural products do they sell? Weed? That should have been big red flag right there. This is more than 4-19

    • @AncientHebrewNeverDied
      @AncientHebrewNeverDied 5 месяцев назад +4

      😂😂😂

    • @fatcontroller27
      @fatcontroller27 5 месяцев назад +14

      facts that math aint mathing, and all prior companies before that failed. the fact he had no cash flow and he bought and merged companies with share equity only and was always the ceo of those companies is a super red flag

    • @tshimenagauthiernsaka2945
      @tshimenagauthiernsaka2945 5 месяцев назад +2

      Let call it 420😂😂😂

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@fatcontroller27'Math'?

    • @andyakamitang6987
      @andyakamitang6987 5 месяцев назад +4

      Dozy had all the financial experts and auditors dozing on the job. 😂I remember a good friend urging me to buy Tingo shares. I was sceptical because the name didn't ring a bell.

  • @ElLotdog
    @ElLotdog 5 месяцев назад +360

    Shocking that the auditors didn’t confirm the cash balances with the bank directly. That’s auditing 101…

    • @Bentley7Cruize
      @Bentley7Cruize 5 месяцев назад +52

      The bank probably didnt exist either lol

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 5 месяцев назад +9

      It's probably a matter of a single accountant given the official size of the firm.

    • @pertnerk
      @pertnerk 5 месяцев назад +21

      Yeah this is where I blame them. Every year I have to coordinate audit letters to our banks, and we're not even a public company.

    • @toomanyaccounts
      @toomanyaccounts 5 месяцев назад

      that would be racist to not trust dr.dozy. yeah he puled the race card when people started investigating

    • @reasonablespeculation3893
      @reasonablespeculation3893 5 месяцев назад +19

      Auditors, regulators, Western Govmnt and Investment Firms get starry-eyed when dealing with particular demographics.

  • @shink9844
    @shink9844 5 месяцев назад +235

    This guy is actually kind of a genius. I actually applaud him for being able to reveal the incompetence of the outside parties he dealt with.

    • @user-wm9oz5nk3q
      @user-wm9oz5nk3q 5 месяцев назад +12

      bro there thousands of white folks like this guy

    • @theoriginaldemiurge
      @theoriginaldemiurge 5 месяцев назад +11

      ​@@user-wm9oz5nk3qwhat does race have to do with this lol

    • @MA-go7ee
      @MA-go7ee 5 месяцев назад

      No, he isn't. You think he is because you're ignorant.
      Literally millions of people are capable of doing what he did - forging financial papers, buying fake sites, creating fraudulent companies to merge with etc...
      None of that requires anything other than basic financial knowledge.
      The reason almost no one does it is because 1) they're honest people who don't want to scam others and 2) it is DUMB AS FUCK BECAUSE YOU'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO GET CAUGHT.
      Like, how long do you think someone claim to have millions of customers or forge financial documents before being caught?
      Only people to stupid to think long term will even attempt such idiocy.

    • @jayo3074
      @jayo3074 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@user-wm9oz5nk3qwoah who said anything about race???

    • @SpiceAndFox
      @SpiceAndFox 4 месяца назад

      @@user-wm9oz5nk3q f off, racist

  • @CastawayHikes
    @CastawayHikes 5 месяцев назад +653

    I'm beginning to think that Nigeria doesn't even exist, its just a fictional state that only exists on paper by scammers 😂

    • @gurinderpurewal3689
      @gurinderpurewal3689 5 месяцев назад +59

      I have to give props to this guy. He actually did a lot of work to pull off this scam. Homeboy utilized a back door to get onto the stock market (Reverse Merger). Also, it was way too easy to bluff Deloitte, like come on, an email to the supplier to verify purchases? There needs to be better checks and balances when it comes to auditing.

    • @micahlish
      @micahlish 5 месяцев назад +12

      A collective imagination of the world

    • @AkinolaEmmanuel
      @AkinolaEmmanuel 5 месяцев назад +56

      As a Nigerian, I can confirm this.

    • @takgillo
      @takgillo 5 месяцев назад

      Nigeria was Zanarkan all along @@micahlish

    • @awdrifter3394
      @awdrifter3394 5 месяцев назад +8

      The Onion has a skit about something like that about a fictional country Koy4Goff.

  • @user-uf1mb5bj4x
    @user-uf1mb5bj4x 5 месяцев назад +83

    Finally someone found a real Nigerian prince

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 5 месяцев назад +5

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @PokeYourEyez
      @PokeYourEyez 3 месяца назад +2

      He owes me $10 million

  • @captainaffection
    @captainaffection 5 месяцев назад +200

    I'm Nigerian, this makes me sad because fewer opportunities will now go to the thousands of legitimate businesses operating here.

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 5 месяцев назад

      Not that there was much outside of oil. Most people in the west ONLY KNOW Nigeria for scams. They have no idea that Nigeria even exports oil.

    • @sethaldrich6902
      @sethaldrich6902 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah it's sad, now no one will want to business with any Nigerians because better safe than sorry.

    • @jonfreeman9682
      @jonfreeman9682 5 месяцев назад

      They give Nigerian companies a bad name so no one will trust them. You mention Nigeria and red alert red alert.

    • @jaqueitch
      @jaqueitch 5 месяцев назад +7

      How can investment be best implemented in Africa? Which companies are safe and legitimate to invest in?

    • @josephbickerton1506
      @josephbickerton1506 5 месяцев назад +17

      The fraudsters are giving you all a bad name

  • @Nohandleentered
    @Nohandleentered 5 месяцев назад +155

    All of the work he put into an elaborate fraud; if he put that energy into legitimate business you’d think he’d do fine. I don’t get it.

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 5 месяцев назад +29

      Not in Nigeria. For instance, their oil exports are a fraction what they could be because people often risk their lives to steal buckets of oil. Most of the refining is in unlicensed open pits and the government simply fines foreign firms for the pollution created by criminals. You have to fight to stay profitable in Africa.

    • @amyx231
      @amyx231 5 месяцев назад +16

      Not so many millions to spend so fast. But yeah, agreed. So much energy and brains put into fraud.

    • @davidrobertmalcolm2967
      @davidrobertmalcolm2967 5 месяцев назад

      You must be mad to have dealings with a Nigerian
      They are the biggest conmen in the World.

  • @chigozieubah5816
    @chigozieubah5816 5 месяцев назад +39

    This is one of Nigeria's most prolific nothing-burger. He had zero customers, zero products, zero liquidity. Nobody knew him in Nigeria and this was how we heard about him.

    • @james_smith9
      @james_smith9 5 месяцев назад +2

      I read on Wiki he had 53 dollars in tha account😉🙃😉😆😆🤣😂😂🤣

    • @princemc35
      @princemc35 3 месяца назад +1

      This guy is good thi

  • @JoeyCarb
    @JoeyCarb 5 месяцев назад +199

    There are few things more British than being totally ok with financial fraudsters right up until they try to buy a football club.

    • @tarunvaishnav6432
      @tarunvaishnav6432 5 месяцев назад +11

      Drawing lines on the maps would still top tho.

    • @GTV-es7jp
      @GTV-es7jp 5 месяцев назад +5

      Especially Sheffield United - he should’ve done his due diligence. Sheff United fans do not play about! 😂

    • @kendalson7100
      @kendalson7100 3 месяца назад

      Ha so true!!!

  • @melanineyedoc
    @melanineyedoc 5 месяцев назад +98

    I am Nigerian and I hadn't heard of this guy before it became news.

    • @bellaolum9768
      @bellaolum9768 5 месяцев назад +1

      Well there are over 200 million Nigerians, what are the odds?😂

    • @melanineyedoc
      @melanineyedoc 5 месяцев назад

      @@bellaolum9768 you'd think one would have heard of a company of this size owned by a Nigerian given how many (read: few) they are

    • @kite2surf
      @kite2surf 5 месяцев назад +2

      Wow you know everybody there , crazy. hahaha

    • @victorugo3875
      @victorugo3875 5 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@kite2surfDon't be silly. If you're a high net worth individual in Nigeria with a business like his, your name will crop up in the news or social media; your business, likely to run advertising on billboards or other platforms. We'd have heard of him.

    • @primeleverage2266
      @primeleverage2266 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@bellaolum9768the super wealthy are well known

  • @Alex.8081
    @Alex.8081 5 месяцев назад +7

    Nigeria in itself is already a RED FLAG!!! 😅😂🤣

  • @victorohiovbeunu2730
    @victorohiovbeunu2730 5 месяцев назад +28

    me here in nigeria wondering WTF is tingo 😂😂😂😂

  • @jasonshaw3605
    @jasonshaw3605 5 месяцев назад +82

    My favorite part of this is once he got caught and the SEC filed its court documents, he tried to claim the SEC was targeting him because he was a member of a protected class. I miss the old days where fraudsters blamed subordinates, the economy, bad reviews etc. 😅

  • @GodotOfficial
    @GodotOfficial 5 месяцев назад +35

    This dude took the Nigerian Prince scam to a new level

  • @ngozichukwuneke7863
    @ngozichukwuneke7863 5 месяцев назад +42

    I'm Nigerian and I've never heard of Tingo food or Tingo Mobile

    • @vanhuvanhuvese2738
      @vanhuvanhuvese2738 5 месяцев назад +1

      All of you have this one comment as if its rehearsed

    • @lestatblaq84
      @lestatblaq84 5 месяцев назад +12

      @@vanhuvanhuvese2738maybe because it’s true? I mean the video literally tells you how he faked everything

  • @iamlasbrey6334
    @iamlasbrey6334 5 месяцев назад +118

    As a Nigerian, I can confidently say we all knew this guy was a fraud....... It just took the world a long time to find out

    • @user-fd7ju5sb6b
      @user-fd7ju5sb6b 5 месяцев назад +6

      So did we. Guess how.

    • @o_m8717
      @o_m8717 5 месяцев назад

      You're not Nigerian, because the majority of Nigerians never heard of him till this fraud news came out. So who is the we?

    • @brianstokowski5731
      @brianstokowski5731 5 месяцев назад

      You're all frauds in Nigeria.

    • @4evertrue830
      @4evertrue830 5 месяцев назад +8

      When, where and how did you know about him? Never have i ever heard about him. 🤔

    • @fiififrempong-ansah1895
      @fiififrempong-ansah1895 5 месяцев назад +1

      Nigerians know better …always!

  • @theeagle7054
    @theeagle7054 5 месяцев назад +30

    Instead of knocking on the front door Doozie decided to come through the side window😂😂😂😂

    • @blacksatoshi6486
      @blacksatoshi6486 4 месяца назад +1

      Best line in the whole vid

    • @theeagle7054
      @theeagle7054 4 месяца назад

      @@blacksatoshi6486 they make him out to be some kind of a r@pist or a thug 😂😂😂

  • @gregjerry4110
    @gregjerry4110 5 месяцев назад +35

    What a stressful way to live, always looking over your shoulder and double checking everything you claim. If I had ice in my veins like this fraud I would be far in life

    • @DerekT860
      @DerekT860 5 месяцев назад +6

      Crazy all of the effort put into this scam. Hed probably make good legitimate money if he put his resourceful to good use

    • @easyware
      @easyware 5 месяцев назад

      @@DerekT860 absolutely correct!

    • @kofisachey3782
      @kofisachey3782 5 месяцев назад

      Fraudsters on this scale have no such attacks of conscience nor do they worry if they'll be caught. They're driven by the high of successfully besting the system.

    • @kofisachey3782
      @kofisachey3782 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@DerekT860The fraudster's psychology is reverse-wired. He is averse to anything remotely "legitimate". The high is in establishing and successfully enabling a fraudulent scheme that puts one over sane, lucid, intelligent people who should no better.

  • @oluwakemishotayo1028
    @oluwakemishotayo1028 5 месяцев назад +15

    As a Nigerian, I have never heard of Tingo pay or his name before the scandal.

  • @hydrohasspoken6227
    @hydrohasspoken6227 5 месяцев назад +21

    He was in the front Page of Forbes. That is how you should have started the video to put things in perspective.

  • @clarenceonyekwere5428
    @clarenceonyekwere5428 5 месяцев назад +175

    Almost nobody in the Nigeria Business, Agriculture or Social Development space knew the guy,
    I wonder how big investors failed to do due dilligence or have no feelers in a relatively big (potential) market like Nigeria.
    A big/ corporate investor should be able to pick the phone and talk to 2 or 3 people/ professionals in Nigeria prior to any major investment, China, South Africa, Indonesia etc.

    • @jonnycoolg
      @jonnycoolg 5 месяцев назад +27

      Great point, and considering how much Venture Capitalists got scammed the last couple years, it's impressive they keep falling for this stuff.

    • @clarenceonyekwere5428
      @clarenceonyekwere5428 5 месяцев назад +25

      @@jonnycoolg All the big audit companies have offices in Nigeria, at the very least investors could have demanded the audits be done by such companies or companies there. This was no complex fraud at all.

    • @dopemusic6414
      @dopemusic6414 5 месяцев назад +21

      The more videos I watch about corporate frauds the more I realised just because someone has money it does not mean they are smart. And vast majority of individual investors are not sophisticated and have no business engaging in businesses they don't know.

    • @krozareq
      @krozareq 5 месяцев назад +23

      I can't help but be impressed. I know he's a scam artist. But the dude knows how to exploit the stupidity of idiotic investors who have clearly more money than sense. He knew how to get the usual bottom-feeder suspects (Forbes, CNBC, etc) to hype up his BS.

    • @antoniofernandesmarchetti1097
      @antoniofernandesmarchetti1097 5 месяцев назад +6

      2 words: FOMO and greed!

  • @StephenSatire
    @StephenSatire 5 месяцев назад +24

    This is the Nigerian Prince final boss.

    • @Biobele
      @Biobele 5 месяцев назад +6

      Not even close, check out the guy who sold an airport that didn’t exist to a Brazilian National bank.

    • @dubbyx8490
      @dubbyx8490 5 месяцев назад

      @@Biobele I was going to say this same thing.

  • @jerryeguavoen3203
    @jerryeguavoen3203 5 месяцев назад +25

    Give this man a Grammy

  • @hydrohasspoken6227
    @hydrohasspoken6227 5 месяцев назад +20

    As a bolivian farmer myself, i can confirm he lives in Nigeria.

  • @MixedGears
    @MixedGears 5 месяцев назад +31

    LOL, Forbes is becoming a running joke, every second CEO billionaire they preset turns out to be a pro scammer 😅😆

    • @aberba
      @aberba 5 месяцев назад +2

      😂

    • @xexsy_kaos
      @xexsy_kaos 3 месяца назад +3

      Forbes has a unique business model. If you can pay the “PR Fee”, you can be on the cover.

  • @Cynthia-lr7he
    @Cynthia-lr7he 5 месяцев назад +56

    Nigeria is a great country; the Criminals should stop dragging down the nation out out of mere individual greed 😡.

    • @vanhuvanhuvese2738
      @vanhuvanhuvese2738 5 месяцев назад +10

      Nigerians should elect l;leaders who admit fraud is Nigeria biggest Problem then this can be resolved right now walk into a room and say you are Nigerian and see if money comes out before 10x checks they do on other Africans

    • @LowValueMan
      @LowValueMan 5 месяцев назад

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@vanhuvanhuvese2738What’s called bribe, fraud, and corruption in African countries is called lobbying and corporatocracy in the west. You’re getting your butt cheeks spread open and mutilated just as hard as these African nation’s by your elected politicians only difference is they can at least somewhat maintain infrastructure decent enough where people aren’t concerned that their politicians are robbing them all dry for individual wealth. When these countries can no longer make the minimum payments on their nation’s outstanding debt they’ll unfortunately get the 3rd world experience that many developing nations have experienced and gone through.

    • @JamesMullarneyIsAFraud
      @JamesMullarneyIsAFraud 5 месяцев назад +2

      no its not

    • @Jblcc
      @Jblcc 5 месяцев назад

      @@vanhuvanhuvese2738because they the leaders themselves are fraudsters, looting and defrauding Nigerians.

    • @kofisachey3782
      @kofisachey3782 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@JamesMullarneyIsAFraudIt indeed is. It is a putrefaction eating away at every strata and fiber of that country. The whole totem pole is fraud-ridden.

  • @JeffCahill-tp8ik
    @JeffCahill-tp8ik 5 месяцев назад +118

    A fraud from Nigeria? No way!!! I'm shocked!

    • @jonathanj8303
      @jonathanj8303 5 месяцев назад +11

      But is he really from Nigeria? Even that could be a lie.

    • @ultimaIXultima
      @ultimaIXultima 5 месяцев назад +2

      Well, not that shocked...

    • @Dan16673
      @Dan16673 5 месяцев назад +2

      Dont forget china was mixed in

    • @vanhuvanhuvese2738
      @vanhuvanhuvese2738 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Dan16673 Its Taiwan China is a thorn on their ^%$

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 5 месяцев назад

      A racist bigoted boomer? I'm shocked!

  • @AYVYN
    @AYVYN 5 месяцев назад +14

    The reasons scams flourish is because various auditors and agencies are also lazy scammers

  • @sblijheid
    @sblijheid 5 месяцев назад +10

    The large numbers were the giveaway. The people who bought his lies, just wanted to believe them. 400 mln profit in a low income country? Even in the US farm profits are low. Farmers rely on scale and they only have so much land and buyers. If the farmers are supposedly so broke that they can't afford a cheap cell phone, how was he making money off of them?

  • @brendanwiley253
    @brendanwiley253 5 месяцев назад +13

    Another perfect example of share price has nothing to do with the health of the buisness.

  • @landonkirk5444
    @landonkirk5444 5 месяцев назад +57

    I had puts on Tingo that expired 2 weeks before the Hidenburg report came out. Then I re-bought puts and held slightly profitable until Oct. Then a month later they're delisted. This stock scammed the shit out of me LOL

    • @julius_themadhatter
      @julius_themadhatter 5 месяцев назад

      Finance TikTok convinced me to buy call options on this stock 24 hours before the Hindenburg report. That was the first and last time I take advice from TikTok

    • @sethaldrich6902
      @sethaldrich6902 5 месяцев назад +7

      Nigerian should have been the one and only red flag you needed. Did you also get scammed by the Nigerian princes?

    • @snooganslestat2030
      @snooganslestat2030 5 месяцев назад +2

      How much did you lose?

    • @Biobele
      @Biobele 5 месяцев назад

      @@snooganslestat2030probably lost 2 bucks

    • @thefidgetspinnerofdoom
      @thefidgetspinnerofdoom 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sorry for your loss m8, but you scammed yourself for not doing proper research

  • @JizzMasterTheZeroth
    @JizzMasterTheZeroth 5 месяцев назад +7

    A scammer from Nigeria? No way! 😮😮😮

  • @joeschmoe6908
    @joeschmoe6908 5 месяцев назад +13

    If a farmer can't afford a cell phone, are they a farmer or just someone with no income who feeds their family by growing their own food?
    I don't see how ANY company can make money with clients like that.

    • @sam.p12345
      @sam.p12345 Месяц назад

      Savage, but true😅

  • @kleinbach2608
    @kleinbach2608 5 месяцев назад +6

    The word Nigeria should have been a red flag

  • @thabang7393
    @thabang7393 5 месяцев назад +6

    This frauds will further damage any legit Nigerian businessman reputations

  • @jaqueitch
    @jaqueitch 5 месяцев назад +15

    Actual journalism? On RUclips? Kudos, my man! I'll be subscribing now.

    • @frag0638
      @frag0638 4 месяца назад +1

      He paraphrased a Heisenberg research article

    • @jimmyaki849
      @jimmyaki849 4 месяца назад

      The short seller did the research not him

  • @hydrohasspoken6227
    @hydrohasspoken6227 5 месяцев назад +30

    The Myth, Mabozi, the Legend.

  • @anthoniavincent8129
    @anthoniavincent8129 5 месяцев назад +7

    Every day for the thief but one day for the owner. Stay away from fraudulent acts, it does not pay, it only brings shame at the end of it all.

  • @PaladinA6
    @PaladinA6 5 месяцев назад +8

    "Only the liar can swindle the greedy man".

  • @destinyhope5773
    @destinyhope5773 5 месяцев назад +18

    everyday being a Nigerian, im bloody tired with the rate of fraudulent activity, I sometime feel im not a Nigerian😞

    • @kayn6858
      @kayn6858 5 месяцев назад +1

      Very dodgy people

    • @Food00
      @Food00 5 месяцев назад

      Oh please, you think Nigerians are the only ones that scam?

    • @webbymonk5228
      @webbymonk5228 5 месяцев назад

      He made no money out of it

    • @bolu101
      @bolu101 4 месяца назад +1

      That's because you haven't researched outside your environment otherwise you'll know it's everywhere

  • @wale7342
    @wale7342 5 месяцев назад +10

    As a Nigerian this is sad to see :(

    • @andalonds
      @andalonds 5 месяцев назад

      You said with your note pad

    • @gemh89
      @gemh89 5 месяцев назад

      Nigerian girls kill it in the British school system, other Africans too to be sure, but you can be proud of them at least, *that* is African excellence

    • @bolu101
      @bolu101 4 месяца назад

      Why? So you want to let people who don't know jack about your country define it for you??

  • @strangelovesensei
    @strangelovesensei 5 месяцев назад +33

    lol I love that bit of shade thrown at Nigel Farage. "The fee was about $90."

    • @archimedes2261
      @archimedes2261 5 месяцев назад +1

      Seems like Nigel could have turned it or ask for more money 😄

    • @frevazz3364
      @frevazz3364 5 месяцев назад

      @@archimedes2261they used a coupon lmao

    • @chrissmith3587
      @chrissmith3587 5 месяцев назад

      Also pronouncing his name like fa ridge 😂
      For Americans, farage is the Anti Europe knob cheese that was heavily associated with brexit, “farage” pronunciation originated from French, so this is a way to take the piss of a dick who helped caused britains recent political problems

    • @xoliswasolombela7631
      @xoliswasolombela7631 4 месяца назад +1

      This Dozy, sleeps and wakes from a dream

  • @moxictasculinity
    @moxictasculinity 5 месяцев назад +41

    This video was inspired by Patrick Boyle

    • @vooteimer1234
      @vooteimer1234 5 месяцев назад

      Brain think thing

    • @od9694
      @od9694 5 месяцев назад +13

      To be fair this is actually done better, I'm a huge fan of Patrick ( I'm also irish so have a bias)but his video was harder to follow

    • @Nohandleentered
      @Nohandleentered 5 месяцев назад

      All the topic channels are managed by the same management company. They’re given topics to cover

    • @moxictasculinity
      @moxictasculinity 5 месяцев назад

      @@Nohandleentered I follow a lot of RUclipsrs in the finance domain and so far only Patrick and WSM have talked about it so far. I will wait and see.

    • @biguattipoptropica
      @biguattipoptropica 5 месяцев назад

      @@od9694agreed. I’m not really a fan of either (although I am a regular viewer of both). I watched that video twice and couldn’t figure out the order of events.
      Also, I don’t really understand how the scam happened? If someone had revolutionized Nigerian business, wouldn’t the international community know of him? Seems like it would’ve been news. I mean, Time Magazine loves to profile innovators like this.

  • @billead
    @billead 5 месяцев назад +19

    As a Sheffield United fan, its fair to say BULLET DODGED

    • @jaxcoss5790
      @jaxcoss5790 5 месяцев назад +1

      Indeed.

    • @abdouj7116
      @abdouj7116 3 месяца назад +1

      You guys didn't pay Reparations.. Nigerian will be back 😅😅😅

  • @0xArgyle
    @0xArgyle 5 месяцев назад +7

    The scam is so ridiculous its hilarious 😂

  • @NotKimiRaikkonen
    @NotKimiRaikkonen 5 месяцев назад +52

    A scam? In Nigeria?
    Gtfoh. Next youre going to tell me that Indian companies arent all legit.

    • @toolbar12423
      @toolbar12423 5 месяцев назад +8

      The telephone guy helping me with with my paypal account told me DO NOT REDEEM but I already redeemed :(((

    • @MatzeMaulwurf
      @MatzeMaulwurf 5 месяцев назад

      @@toolbar12423REEEED DEEEEE NUUUMBBERRRRRS

    • @moxictasculinity
      @moxictasculinity 5 месяцев назад

      This reputation has made me trust Nigerians and Indians less.

    • @NotKimiRaikkonen
      @NotKimiRaikkonen 5 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@moxictasculinityI lived in India for six months and it's CONSTANT. Every time you step out of the house is a battle with every waiter and cab driver you come into contact with, all trying to rip you off.

    • @yusufagboola5269
      @yusufagboola5269 5 месяцев назад

      Im a Nigerian, and some of the biggest scams I’ve ever witnessed were by Americans, most recently ftx Sam. Which scammed lots of Nigerian startups and individuals out of millions they kept in as usdt. so keep sulking in your self righteousness . Lol

  • @rodbritton360
    @rodbritton360 5 месяцев назад +9

    Nevermind the missing door, have a good look at the tail of the airplane. There is a shadow the length of the fuselage that suddenly stop to a brilliant all-white tail. And, there is a random shadow in front of the horizontal stabilzer. Also, the plane's registration is missing.

  • @on2thenextthing
    @on2thenextthing 5 месяцев назад +22

    Anyone who has been involved in the process of any high-level business acquisition, merger, etc knows that the due diligence is beyond extensive. Whoever was handling all of these audits, approvals, etc. didn't verify anything from any reputable sources. The red flag should have been Nigeria and China right from the get-go.

    • @blacksatoshi6486
      @blacksatoshi6486 4 месяца назад

      What are you trying to imply that everything that comes from Nigeria or China is a scam both of these countries have thousands of legitimate businesses I honestly hate the sterotype

  • @LIONTAMER3D
    @LIONTAMER3D 5 месяцев назад +13

    This one was GENUINELY hilarious

    • @Johlibaptist
      @Johlibaptist 4 месяца назад

      Dozy has been running rings around some very dozy dealers and merchant bankers.

  • @MidnightIam
    @MidnightIam 5 месяцев назад +8

    So AT NO POINT DID SOMEONE THINK TO TAKE A FLIGHT TO NIGERIA TO SEE THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF TINGO?

    • @Senigeorge
      @Senigeorge 5 месяцев назад

      😂

    • @stage6fan475
      @stage6fan475 5 месяцев назад

      Welcome to Modern Finance! Everything done from the PC in your office. No problem, because it is always other people's money they lose.

    • @mrj774
      @mrj774 Месяц назад

      Or do a Google lol, or send a few texts or make a few phone calls... Pretty sure the fraud was easy to expose without flying to Nigeria

  • @_KnuXles
    @_KnuXles 2 месяца назад +3

    0:35 the "Activate Windows" should have been our first clue. bro couldn't even afford a Windows 10 license ahahaha

  • @jongxina4908
    @jongxina4908 5 месяцев назад +9

    He sure is a Nigerian prince

    • @sengvang3718
      @sengvang3718 5 месяцев назад +1

      So now we are going from the Nigerian Prince scam to the Nigerian Entrepreneur scam these days 😂

  • @EdwinSteiner
    @EdwinSteiner 5 месяцев назад +13

    I think Dozy is that email friend of mine who always writes in ALL CAPS.

    • @sam.p12345
      @sam.p12345 Месяц назад

      He said he was my friend only, and had a million pounds for me from the bank of Nigeria.

  • @5th_legion513
    @5th_legion513 5 месяцев назад +36

    I would give credit to Patrick Boyle

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 5 месяцев назад +4

      Boyle was going off mostly what Hindenburg said. They have a newsletter.

    • @ChineseKiwi
      @ChineseKiwi 5 месяцев назад +2

      It was Hindenburg Research who did all the research originally.

  • @ecoideazventures6417
    @ecoideazventures6417 5 месяцев назад +4

    Adobe Photoshop would be proud of creating a startup that earns a billion dollars!

  • @mistyblues6762
    @mistyblues6762 5 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks for another interesting video!

  • @JP-mc4gl
    @JP-mc4gl 5 месяцев назад +1

    Great story and great vid! really enjoyed it!

  • @karpathian_slaw7928
    @karpathian_slaw7928 5 месяцев назад +24

    There's an interview clip of him basically complaining that it's difficult for him because people associate Nigerians with scams and scammers. Like the call is coming from inside the house

  • @jadeswormfarm
    @jadeswormfarm 5 месяцев назад +11

    I admire his nerve of steel. I'd never be able to pull a massive lie like that and not flinched once like he did !!!

    • @Food00
      @Food00 5 месяцев назад +1

      Sincerely his confidence is unreal!

    • @destroya3303
      @destroya3303 4 месяца назад

      There is nothing to admire about a mentally unwell man. People who can lie like that are missing something human or are delusional to the point they believe their own lies.

  • @Cactus_A_man_of_all_seasons
    @Cactus_A_man_of_all_seasons 5 месяцев назад +28

    🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😅Surely we have to give Nigerians their recognition now, they have proved themselves beyond any speck of doubt about their capabilities and abilities. I mean since the 1990s they have managed to top these type of headlines. Its 2024 and with all the regulations and technology the west claim to have, they still cannot beat this wave..very powerful nation indeed. One of these days they wlll be selling countries, just watch the space.

    • @opanugatobi1131
      @opanugatobi1131 5 месяцев назад

      😂😂, you guys make me laugh. these guys are learners. wellsfargo, madoff, onecoin, ftx, Nikola, wirecard, Enron, theranos.... 5 of these alone over takes all of Nigerian scam out. Together.. y’all don’t have the moral standard to talk, just enjoy the program amd shut up.

    • @user-fp1ow1qn6j
      @user-fp1ow1qn6j 5 месяцев назад +1

      hahahahah you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @veraaddoyobo8482
      @veraaddoyobo8482 5 месяцев назад +1

      Well their leaders have already sold Nigeria 🇳🇬

    • @jamesbuttery3862
      @jamesbuttery3862 5 месяцев назад

      Nigeria needs to get their scams under control. It's ridiculous!

    • @ADM.II.
      @ADM.II. 4 месяца назад

      😂

  • @milkman2758
    @milkman2758 5 месяцев назад +8

    Tingo is a wonderful word, it's from a deeply exotic country, it's from the Easter Island in the deep Pacific and it simply means to borrow objects from a friends house, one by one, until there's nothing left.

  • @hkmp5s
    @hkmp5s 5 месяцев назад +3

    This dozy guy extended my car warranty.

  • @jamesadeyemi2540
    @jamesadeyemi2540 5 месяцев назад +11

    My question is how was he able to scale billions of dollars pass regulatory bodies. They did deligent verifications, right, before various approvals. Also for Forbes, they verify all the requirements before publishing, so, how did all these happen? It baffles me really.
    Nigerians are great thinkers and problem solvers bringing life to problems.

    • @veraaddoyobo8482
      @veraaddoyobo8482 5 месяцев назад

      If only they could give life to Nigerian problems 😪

    • @kofisachey3782
      @kofisachey3782 5 месяцев назад +1

      Says a Nigerian....😂😂😂

    • @juliusv.cnwachukwu6076
      @juliusv.cnwachukwu6076 5 месяцев назад

      Jealous ghanian ... you cant even play ordinary football. ​@@kofisachey3782

    • @leesteal4458
      @leesteal4458 5 месяцев назад +1

      Noone checked anything, obviously.

  • @danielnascimento6300
    @danielnascimento6300 4 месяца назад +1

    It shocks me how there is never any due diligence in this stuff. It’s crazy….

  • @mosabari7681
    @mosabari7681 Месяц назад +1

    Im shocked that a scam came out of Nigeria

  • @elementaltamago1297
    @elementaltamago1297 5 месяцев назад +14

    Microsoft tech support must be taking notes so hard right now.

  • @dimplesd8931
    @dimplesd8931 5 месяцев назад +38

    Never underestimate the audacity of scam artists. Scammers always try to be the loudest one in the room and English fans/press are gonna shine a flashlight up your butt to make sure you’re the right person to own their team, if you’re not British. Lots of foreign owners and investors but that doesn’t mean you get a free pass even if you are actually rich.

    • @princemc35
      @princemc35 3 месяца назад

      So basically
      White people 🤔

  • @emmanuelugwu6205
    @emmanuelugwu6205 5 месяцев назад

    Good documentary. You earned a subscriber.

  • @HemiChrysler
    @HemiChrysler 5 месяцев назад +8

    Dude is a prince

  • @joezawinulreviewsandreacti2509
    @joezawinulreviewsandreacti2509 5 месяцев назад +3

    Wow this was a doozy! Thanks for the video

  • @Blastros01
    @Blastros01 5 месяцев назад +3

    At this point im just going to assume anyone on the Forbes issue cover is a professional scammer

  • @CatsMeowPaw
    @CatsMeowPaw 5 месяцев назад +97

    It's safe to say that when dealing with anyone in Nigeria in business, you quadruple check everything they claim. The auditors emailing a company using the email address the scammer gave them to double check the mobile phone orders is also dumb beyond belief. These auditors get paid the big bucks, yet act so stupid at the same time?

    • @agentahron
      @agentahron 5 месяцев назад +13

      Or not do any type of business with them at all.

    • @sethaldrich6902
      @sethaldrich6902 5 месяцев назад +10

      Or just avoid any business with them alltogether just to be on the safe side.

    • @opanugatobi1131
      @opanugatobi1131 5 месяцев назад

      😂😂, you guys make me laugh. these guys are learners. wellsfargo, madoff, onecoin, ftx, Nikola, wirecard, Enron, theranos.... 5 of these alone over takes all of Nigerian scam out. Together.. y’all don’t have the moral standard to talk, just enjoy the program amd shut up.

    • @samijay
      @samijay 5 месяцев назад +16

      Everyone isn't the same, because someone decides to live like that doesn't mean everyone else does

    • @sethaldrich6902
      @sethaldrich6902 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@samijay true but it's not just someONE, its many someones

  • @SimoneGianni79
    @SimoneGianni79 5 месяцев назад +3

    I think he's the Nigerian king I've got so many emails from..

  • @dementesf
    @dementesf 5 месяцев назад +3

    True story of the Nigerian Prince.

  • @joewest3901
    @joewest3901 5 месяцев назад +12

    The thing that I wonder now is what if someone actually tried to create the company that Mmobuosi claimed he did? Could they make money?

    • @biguattipoptropica
      @biguattipoptropica 5 месяцев назад +15

      Probably not on the phone leasing aspect. There are budget phones tailored for every market now, and nearly everyone has a phone. That time has passed. On the agricultural matchmaking side, that is interesting and I don’t know if anyone has tried anything like it(?).

    • @andalonds
      @andalonds 5 месяцев назад

      The Agri aspect will work

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 5 месяцев назад +1

      Hell no.

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 5 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@andalondsyou know anything about African agriculture? A lot of it is barely profitable because of hopeless transport infrastructure and high transport costs, AND THEN th EU just ends up sending SUBSIDISED canned food like Italian grown canned tomatoes which are cheaper than you can even buy the pesticides in Africa to grow tomatoes. They don't have famines because it's EASY to grow food there with the HUGE and never ending numbers of pests.

    • @opanugatobi1131
      @opanugatobi1131 5 месяцев назад

      @@OffGridInvestor 😂😂please, go and sit down, ‘huge pests’ 😂😂... y’all know noting about Africa! NOTING!

  • @Visiontech
    @Visiontech 5 месяцев назад

    Stunning and I believe that there could be a case against the auditors for failure to perform due diligence.

  • @Stoufclown
    @Stoufclown 5 месяцев назад +15

    In the end , the original idea of a marketplace for agricultural development is brillant. Someone should dig the idea.

    • @naoyanaraharjo4693
      @naoyanaraharjo4693 5 месяцев назад +4

      It's been done here and fail miserably
      Its cheaper to deal with the distributor directly as they are local

  • @jamezday
    @jamezday 5 месяцев назад +4

    Wait a Nigerian scam, life imitates art imitates life

  • @dubbyx8490
    @dubbyx8490 5 месяцев назад +3

    10:32 Reno Omokri linked to Tingo.. Not surprising, given that criminals move around in the same circles.

  • @deunderdogs
    @deunderdogs 5 месяцев назад

    You did an incredible job brother,I must tell these cheap guys are not smart at all,the worst part government of all the so countries played a very little role investigating fraud for over 23 years

  • @kebuhrogers
    @kebuhrogers 5 месяцев назад +3

    Deloitte shoukd be ashamed. When we went through our Deloitte audit, they spent a week on site, reviewing the inventory and processes personally. Including spot checks and pressure tests of all kinds.

  • @brookss2141
    @brookss2141 5 месяцев назад +5

    Nigerian prince scam? Dozy said "hold my beer"

  • @DM-yj9qf
    @DM-yj9qf 5 месяцев назад +6

    he could've kept this going if he didn't fly so close to the sun and try to buy a football team. how far did he think he was going to get with that?

    • @eudofia
      @eudofia 5 месяцев назад +3

      It all boils down to one thing: Greed. As he had gotten away with so much thus far, he was now thinking he is invincible, and that's why he was going for more. Pure greed, and that is how they all get caught.

    • @joeadeleke
      @joeadeleke 4 месяца назад

      This kinda scam is not sustainable

  • @nomchomsley854
    @nomchomsley854 5 месяцев назад +1

    It's the Nigerian Prince of legend!

  • @brentbeacham9691
    @brentbeacham9691 5 месяцев назад +2

    ‘I’m a Nigerian prince. I am in exile. My family needs your contribution to let Jesus Christ know I have support.”
    Only tRump should be given this.

  • @Khanopolis
    @Khanopolis 5 месяцев назад +4

    The forged bank statements are inexcusable on the part of Deloitte. Audit 101: Verify internally supplied support to external evidence (ergo, contact the bank directly using publicly available channels).

  • @RavarsenBlogspot
    @RavarsenBlogspot 5 месяцев назад +3

    Poor whit people: Nigerian email scam
    Rich whit people: tingo mobile

  • @rigg13
    @rigg13 4 месяца назад +1

    This guy's Ghanaian office sat in my neighborhood for maybe a year or two and I never saw their doors open for business. Just a fancy logo on a building.

  • @jabbar.tengah
    @jabbar.tengah 5 месяцев назад

    i am sick and tired hearing this scam... we need justice

  • @DAVID-io9nj
    @DAVID-io9nj 5 месяцев назад +3

    No disrespect to Nigeria, but back in the day, Nigeria and scam went hand in hand. And I am not surprised this was done at a supposedly high level of finance. Big fees, real or otherwise, greases the path.

  • @theeagle7054
    @theeagle7054 5 месяцев назад +3

    He must have played his Race card HARD!!! 😂😂😂😂

  • @IamSisu
    @IamSisu 17 дней назад

    Am a Nigerian, and this is the first time I am hearing about this scammer. You mean no one cared to even use google to research this guy and his fake companies? What a brazen fraud! Guy should be in prison

  • @questionmaker3795
    @questionmaker3795 5 месяцев назад +1

    There's also a great video by Patrick Boyle on the subject !

  • @bereal6311
    @bereal6311 5 месяцев назад +3

    If you ask me, I will say this guy is a genius! Putting together a scam like this? Wow!

    • @user-wm9oz5nk3q
      @user-wm9oz5nk3q 5 месяцев назад

      it call ponzi scheme

    • @bereal6311
      @bereal6311 5 месяцев назад

      @user-wm9oz5nk3q What he did got nothing to do with Ponzi Scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a completely different type scam!