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DONKEY: Nigerian Nationals Extradited Over Online Love Scams & Money Laundering · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: It's time for donkey of the day. There's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of donkeys out here. It really caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 1: We live a life where we bite our tongue based
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  Speaker 1: off who we may offend. We never would say it.
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  Speaker 1: You are a donkey. That is why Charlemagne is here.
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  Speaker 1: Some donkey todays just saw themselves. On The Breakfast Club. Okay, Charlemagne,
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  Speaker 1: who you giving donkey of the day to today? Well,
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  Speaker 1: donkey of the day for Monday, September 14th goes to
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  Speaker 1: six Nigerian men who were extradited from South Africa to
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  Speaker 1: the United States for allegedly being involved in a romance
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  Speaker 1: scam that targeted more than 100 women and stole millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars. I'm not even going to sit here and
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  Speaker 1: act like I can pronounce these brothers' names, but let's
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  Speaker 1: go to SABC News for the report, please.
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  Speaker 2: The six Nigerian nationals who are suspects in a multi-million
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  Speaker 2: rand online romance scam have arrived at the Cape Town
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  Speaker 2: International Airport for their extradition. to the United States. They
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  Speaker 2: are allegedly linked to the Nigerian cyber crimes syndicate, the
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  Speaker 2: Black Hawks, and face charges of money laundering and wire fraud.
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  Speaker 2: The Hawks say they initially arrested eight suspects in 2021,
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  Speaker 2: with one being granted bail of R210, 000, while another was
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  Speaker 2: extradited to the United States in 2024. This followed cooperation
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  Speaker 2: between the Hawks, Interpol, the FBI and the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Secret Service. You must remember that the crime scene is online,
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  Speaker 3: so there had to be proper investigation and proper money
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  Speaker 3: trail to be traced back to individual suspects so that
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  Speaker 3: we are able to make a case that is tangible
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  Speaker 3: to stand before court.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, she ain't say their names either. So now
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  Speaker 1: I got to attempt. I just say their first names.
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  Speaker 1: Perry Franklin, Asa Ramin, Collins Musa, and Torres Asu. And
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  Speaker 1: last name Osajid. Osajid, Otaga, and Otubu. Definitely not right,
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  Speaker 1: but go ahead. Anyway. They are accused. They haven't been convicted.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll let the court handle that part. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to discuss this morning stereotypes, okay? Because when I
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  Speaker 1: saw this story, my first thought was, my Nigerian brothers,
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  Speaker 1: why are y'all reinforcing this stereotype? You know the stereotype
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, okay? There are people on this planet who,
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  Speaker 1: when they heard young Miami ass wear all the scamming
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  Speaker 1: ass N-words at, the first place they thought about is Nigeria! OK,
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  Speaker 1: I was born in 1978 and Nigerians have been fighting
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  Speaker 1: the scammer stereotype in America for as long as I
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  Speaker 1: can remember. OK, it started with those. Nigerian Prince emails.
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  Speaker 1: You know, remember those you get? Hello, my dear. I
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  Speaker 1: have inherited $ 14 million and I need your assistance. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's what started a lot of this. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: like it because I love Nigerians.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Nigeria has over 200 million people. Some of the smartest,
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  Speaker 1: most educated, most successful people I've ever met are from Nigeria.
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  Speaker 1: Dropping the clues box from Nigeria. Damn it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You got doctors, you got lawyers, you got engineers, you
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  Speaker 1: got business owners. You can look at what Nigerian culture
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  Speaker 1: is doing around the world right now. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: afro beaches everywhere you got burner boy we just was
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  Speaker 1: playing tims okay nigeria has spent years showing the world
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  Speaker 1: that there's so much more to that country than the
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  Speaker 1: stereotypes people have about it and then here come these
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  Speaker 1: six individuals doing romance scams allegedly okay do you understand
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  Speaker 1: how much that has to piss off other nigerians somewhere
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  Speaker 1: this morning there is a nigerian man sending a completely
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  Speaker 1: legitimate business email and somebody is looking at that email
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  Speaker 1: rubbing their chin like hmm i don't know OK, some
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  Speaker 1: Nigerian brother is on a dating app right now trying
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  Speaker 1: to genuinely meet somebody. And the woman is nervous, waiting
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  Speaker 1: to be asked for money. But that's how stereotypes work. OK,
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  Speaker 1: one person does something and somehow everybody who looks like
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  Speaker 1: them comes from where they're from gets thrown into it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't become somebody else's confirmation bias, okay? People already got
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  Speaker 1: ignorant ideas about certain groups, and they just waiting for
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  Speaker 1: something to happen that makes them feel like they're right, okay?
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  Speaker 1: They don't care about the millions of Nigerians who wake
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  Speaker 1: up every morning and go to work, raise their families,
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  Speaker 1: and don't scam nobody. They're going to see this story
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  Speaker 1: and say, see, I told you all them scamming-ass Negroes
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  Speaker 1: Carisha was talking about are from Nigeria. I told you. No. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about six Nigerians, six individuals, okay? And guys,
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  Speaker 1: if you know people already have an unfair stereotype about
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  Speaker 1: your community, why would you go out there and allegedly...
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  Speaker 1: become the stereotype that's what i don't understand and i
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  Speaker 1: know some people don't like that argument because they'll say
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  Speaker 1: why should i have to represent my whole race why
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  Speaker 1: should nigerians have to represent all nigerians you're right you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't that's an unfair burden okay white people don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do that when bernie madoff stole billions of dollars
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  Speaker 1: nobody said man we got to keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: all these white people in their ponzi schemes no we
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  Speaker 1: said bernie madoff was a crook okay one man we
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  Speaker 1: didn't make millions of people answer for him but black
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  Speaker 1: people okay my brothers my sisters from all over the
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  Speaker 1: globe you know damn well that's not how it works
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  Speaker 1: for us okay people shouldn't stereotype nigerians because of what
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  Speaker 1: these six men allegedly did but people will and that's
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  Speaker 1: why if these allegations are true you know These brothers
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  Speaker 1: got to suffer the consequences, okay? These brothers didn't just
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  Speaker 1: hurt the women they allegedly scammed. They made life a
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  Speaker 1: little more annoying for some innocent Nigerian somewhere who already
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  Speaker 1: has to deal with this stereotype. And I have to say,
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  Speaker 1: the actual scam itself is nasty too. Oh, because romance
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  Speaker 1: scammers aren't just stealing money. They're studying people's loneliness. That's
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  Speaker 1: what makes this so foul. You're finding somebody who wants
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  Speaker 1: companionship and you're figuring out exactly what they need to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, beautiful. Did you eat today? I have jollof.
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  Speaker 1: Then three months later, baby, I'm having a little trouble
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  Speaker 1: accessing my bank account. Sir, you don't need a girlfriend. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you need a loan officer. And what really gets me
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  Speaker 1: is the amount of work that allegedly goes into these scams.
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  Speaker 1: If you have enough discipline to talk to somebody every day,
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  Speaker 1: enough patience to gain their trust, enough people skills to
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  Speaker 1: make them fall in love with you, enough business sense
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  Speaker 1: to allegedly move millions of dollars around, then you clearly
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  Speaker 1: have the skill and talent to do something legitimate. You
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  Speaker 1: could have been putting all of that energy into actually
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  Speaker 1: doing something legitimate, but no, you want a scam. But
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  Speaker 1: back to the moral of the story. There's already an
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  Speaker 1: ugly stereotype attached to Nigerians. And these six men allegedly
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  Speaker 1: decided to become somebody's evidence for it. OK, you shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to live your life trying to prove stereotypes wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But you're damn sure shouldn't be working overtime to prove
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  Speaker 1: them right. Please give these six alleged romance scammers from
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  Speaker 1: Nigeria the biggest. I don't get it. How you say
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  Speaker 1: the names? I don't know. Don't do that to him.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that to him. His accent changed and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know why because that wasn't even a
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  Speaker 1: Nigerian accent. I don't know what you're talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that was either. I have no idea. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: Kristen and Montel Jordan will be joining us. They have
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  Speaker 2: Damn!
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  Speaker 1: A book about overcoming fear with faith. All right. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to them next. Why did you do that?
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  Speaker 1: There was no reason to say damn. It's a children's book.
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  Speaker 1: I've been feeling like saying damn all morning. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: just made no sense. This is dope for me from
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  Speaker 1: last night. Damn. All right. My cowboys lost. Damn. That
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  Speaker 1: was a good one. You see what I'm saying? That
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  Speaker 1: was a good one. Now I feel like I need
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  Speaker 1: a damn this morning. I ain't here for Trav. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: check on Trav. I know Trav went to the game. Damn.
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