419: NNPC Sanarium and Engr. Wale Balogun

I made a promise last week that I will tell you about some 419 guys that want to scam me but I was smarter than all of them.

I received a call on 08086899324 from a man who introduced himself as Engr. Wale Balogun. He said he was in the same office with me when I was in Newstar but he was in the engineering department. He said he enjoyed reading my column then.

The guy praised my writing seriously and I was flattered. He said he left the company for a course in Germany and came back to pick a job in NNPC. I said I was happy for him.

He now asked where I now worked but I was evasive. "Well," he said, "there is a business proposal that you can also benefit in."

My antenna went up. I cut the line and called a former colleague at Newstar who said there is nothing like engineering dept and no Wale Balogun ever worked there. It is a small place!

He called me back and I apologized that it was network problem. He said there is one Alhaji Usman Bello who supplies ‘Samarium petroleum care’ but he doesn’t know where to get the product or at what price. He (Engr) usually get the product from one David Ayodele (07033408040) at Ilasamaja.

Engr insisted that I called David that night to confirm that he has enough products (Alhaji needs 50 gallons) on ground. I buy from David at N250,000/gallon and sell to Alhaji at N300,000/gallon. Then we split the profit.

I told him I was interested but had no call credit on my phone to call that night. Engr. Said I should call the following morning as Alhaji would be coming from Abuja to get the product. I still insisted that I had no call credit.

Eventually, the mumu David called me and said I had to buy a gallon that would be shown to Alhaji as sample. I told him I had no N250,000 and we started haggling. At the end of the day, he agreed to collect N50,000 from me.

All these while, they were the one calling me because I insisted I had no call credit but very interested in the business. I told him I have a car that I want to sell for N750,000 and the guy went crazy.

“You have to be fast about it o. If you can even pay more, the better for you,” he said. I pleaded with him that I will reach him.

Since then, the Engr. has been calling me but I am ignoring them. 

I don't have any call to sell o and I have wasted their call credits. I want money but not desperately. You can call them, if you like.