worry359:
Unfortunatly the football agent scam is one of the oldest in the books.
Please note, your friend is about to be robbed!!!
Football mad young boys from Africa are still falling for this every day!
Many, many examples here.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&site=&source=hp&q=football+agent+scam&oq=football+agent+scam&gs_l=hp.13..0i22i30l2.2229.11737.0.14205.20.16.0.4.4.0.195.1454.13j3.16.0.msedr...0...1c.1.62.hp..1.19.1368.0.lqzdwkdsCYk

Sorry that this news is hard but it is true, your best help is to explain to your friend and stop him paying money to THIEF agent.

42n8dzydoo:
Tell your friend to write the story here himself with evidence of those papers u said he has already.... Scammers are so much now, ppl don't know who to trust

onatisi:
I don't think he mentioned paying any agent for the letter of invitation. @op,abi u don send money to fifa agent in russia

samuelson06:


Well, he is not a member of this forum. He doesn't even have a smartphone to come here. He is not aware of what am doing here right now. Am just coming here to see if I can get help because we have tried all we could offline. For the papers including his passport, I can ask him to bring them to my office on Monday let me scan and upload them to your box. I think it's not appropriate uploading them here.

samuelson06:


No. We have not sent any money to the Agent. He is even the one using his money to process the invitation including the hotel that he'll have to stay.

onatisi:
so in essence what do u need ?your epistle is too long and too personal.

samuelson06:
Hello House,

My friend needs help to travel to Russia for Football Trials. He's known to me for some years now in church because we function in the same unit. So he came to me and discussed about his invitation for Football Trials in Russia. I happen to be someone that support and encourage bright ideas and for him, he is good in what he's doing. He plays for the Hill FC in Uyo. So he got this connection with a trusted FIFA Football Agent in Russia who is interested in him. It is a direct connection with the Agent. So the Agent at the moment is processing his invitation papers and advised that while he's doing that he should get his papers ready so that once the invitation comes, he can proceed to embassy for Visa. We are working on clearing with NDLEA to get Character Certificate. And we have been able to get Police Clearance and Guarantors but for Statement of Account, it's not forth coming and time is running out. All the people we have talked to in and off the church has refused help. Some just display high level of ignorance that he would be using the account statement to withdraw money from the account. So far, I have been the one sponsoring almost everything and I know how much I have spent since I agreed to work with and actualize his dreams. For the account statement issue, it's sad that I can't help. My salary is just 60k/mo. The condition for the required Statement of Account is that the least balance in it must be 500k and transactions on the account must have crossed a million in the past.

Am bold to say that my friend is trusted, cool headed, focus and would never get involve with anything incriminating while in Russia. He has promised never to forget whoever would help him in this direction. I solicit your help for him if your account satisfies the stated conditions.

I wish to say that this thing has taught me some lessons in life: you only know who is who around you when you have challenges. So many that we thought could help have disappointed. Sad to say that even in the church, helpers are going extinct. For me, am not just starting doing this. Had to suspend my personal problems for my January salary just to help this guy because if I said let me also get some stuff for myself, my salary wouldn't permit me and he has not one else to run to.

The only thing this guy has and does is this football and am afraid if he misses this opportunity I don't know when it'll come again. He has no one to turn to. His background is poor. Yes, very poor. My prayer is finding someone we can join hands to push him out of Nigeria with this opportunity. I can furnish you with more details of what we have done so far if you wish to know.

Thanks for reading through.

samuelson06:


Am sorry I had to explained everything. I don't like incoherent stories. All we need now is a Statement of Account with minimum balance of 500k and transactions on the account must have crossed a million naira in the past. One more thing I forgot to add in the original post is that, the person providing his/her account statement to him is automatically his sponsor (not necessarily given him the needed money for the travel but given the account statement first).

justwise:

Please stop believing in this scam, you are not dealing with any trusted FIFA football agent, just one of those silly football trial scams. If this is real then your friend need no bank statement because the agent or club inviting him for trial will take care of everything including ticket and hotel accommodation.

samuelson06:


Waoh!!! Still a good thing that I brought this here even though all the loss would be on me. But atleast I wouldn't be spending more again. In any case, I'll try to follow up and see how this ends and also report everything here. By the way, the bank statement is needed by NDLEA as part of requirements to be issued Character Certificate so I'll still appreciate if I can get someone to help atleast it wouldn't involve money.

samuelson06:


Waoh!!! Still a good thing that I brought this here even though all the loss would be on me. But atleast I wouldn't be spending more again. In any case, I'll try to follow up and see how this ends and also report everything here. By the way, the bank statement is needed by NDLEA as part of requirements to be issued Character Certificate so I'll still appreciate if I can get someone to help atleast it wouldn't involve money.

justwise:
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Hmmm...very unfortunate, I hope you don't add to the statistics of victims because this is a perfect example.

shegsky:
I never knew it's a crime to tell the op the way out o.

samuelson06:


So are you saying that he is not supposed to be asked for anything? Or if I may put it this way, what part is he suppose to play if he was dealing with a genuine agent?

justwise:


Don't promote your brother's fraudulent activities here.

shegsky:


LOL. Fraudulent you say ? He is only helping the less privileged ones who don't have the means of SOA.

justwise:


You or your brother are not helping any less privileged, you are lining your pocket, account building is fraud and puts the applicant in danger.

shegsky:


I rest my case .

justwise:


What people like you do is to take advantage of naive and desperate applicants, collect the little money they have and give then forged bank statement and increase their chances of getting banned by the embassy.

shegsky:


Forged Bank Statement ?. Nah Nah. He does not involve in such. I believe you knew a SOA has the phone number of the account holder and some other infos , and the account holder gets involve cos there arises a scenario where The embassy calls either the bank or the account holder to verify the authenticity of the said SOA

You know what, Lets just swerve away from these. Neither my bro nor I need his money. Just tryna help a brother. No harm intended.


ONE LOVE BROTHER.

justwise:


This is exactly why I said before that you and your brother are just putting applicants in danger and collecting their money, embassy will not call the account holder for verification, they call the bank headquarters and whatever your brother had forged will be exposed at that level. Of course it's forged, the bank statement does not belong to the application, you only use his surname to match an existing bank customer.

justwise:


If at all any club in Russia spotted him and wants to give him a trial then they will contact his local club or his agent (if he has one), they will send him letter of invitation which he will use for visa applications. Ticket, accommodation, feeding and everything else is the club responsible. He is not paying for anything.

The fraudster you are dealing with will send you fake IV and it's not free, you will be asked to pay for all sorts of worthless papers, they will only stop collecting money from you when you have nothing more to give them