The African Mafia - Global message on Fraud

CAUTION  #  While most the  fraud schemes specifically target the Europeans and America, the chilling revelation contained in Chapter 4 pages 50 to 62 alone is worth hundreds of thousands dollars, rather thousand times the price of this book to Africans in Diaspora, Asians, and  Arabs -  professionals, politicians, military officers, business men who operate oversea accounts, or own stocks, properties and insurance abroad. And this is only a tip of the iceberg.

This book is not fiction but a result of investigation and collaborative effort between Global Action 24/7 and the author Don Nathan.  

It began a few years ago, when Global Action 24/7  broached to Don Nathan an attorney and a victim turned fraud buster the idea of penetrating and investigating  the African mafia, a largely unknown or rather the world’s most misunderstood  but highly sophisticated and secretive fraud network that span over several countries across the globe.  More to the point,, A clandestine, creative, subtle and effective fraud network that rob, and cheat people and organizations around the world. That Presently operates more than 20, 000 offices in over 250 countries, and channel its money through many respected banks from United States to Dubai and Lebanon etc. before it find its ways to Africa.

We simply needed the inside vantage position to tell and reveal story, how they do their thing - believing that the more vantage point from which a complex problem is seen, the easier it becomes to solve. This would involve working from the inside. We all knew this was a /It was considered a bold and risky initiative that would also require someone with the intestinal fortitude to stay the course. no one had faintest idea of the magnitude of information the investigation would turn up or le.

First, the African Mafia is a closely knit organization, a community that had made secrecy and privacy its operating policy.  Put differently, these guys run strangely closed operations that show an intense penchant for secrecy and control of information. The operators hardly disclose the dynamics of the scam operations publicly. Outsiders do not know what is happening inside. “Only those who are deep in the ‘inside’ get to peep behind the curtain to see the mechanics of the ‘magic’”. This obsession with secrecy and control eventually created a cultic following and a sort of fraternal loyalty, while, members also feel proud to belong to such a special organization that outsmarts outsiders. It is also a syndicate that maintains a high level of wit and painstaking energy. – a sophisticated operation with immense benefits. Members are smart, savvy and slippery.

Secondly, even though, compared to their Italian or Russian counterparts, they are not very violent, nor do they harbor murderous instincts like their American creed. They do not go about killing one another, for example, nor do they walk about with guns in the holster tied round their waists. ‘No black leather coats, and gloves and the slough hats’. Yet, they are nonetheless ruthless and pernicious in their own undertakings. And no one who knows this organization would underestimate its capacity to inflict pains on any one that stands on its way of making money.

However, the breakthrough came as Don Nathan gained access, played along and won their trust to sift the information you will read in this book. This is therefore  a product of deep penetration that has lasted five years   comprising – interviews, conversations, observations and mingling with the gangs at a great personal risk .  

It’s the story of The African mafia (referred to as guy-men)

 “a brotherhood drawn together in a loose association by sinister intent. It is a world of “brawny” men addicted to vice or if you like “brazen criminals who owe everything to diabolical deeds. Seeking materialism at all cost is the primary aim of the African mafia. They have an insatiable appetite for money. And, “intoxicating spell for money making.” Like their  counterparts American, Italian and Russian, money and prestige define their vision.

Specifically, it is a criminal syndicate and economic terrorists

that run the world’s most gigantic fraud operations, an

organization which steals everything — goods, services and money

from individuals and companies or their representatives, across

the globe through deception and lies. - Men and women who earn

their living through sharp practice, misrepresentation, and

manipulation. Put bluntly, it is an organization of swindlers

and thieves that constantly invents schemes to defraud people,

folks who live their lives preying the gullible, a volatile

people with rash actions. Their vision is gloom and doom. Like professionals, they are very good at what they do.

Stupendously rich, the African mafia owe their success to

dishonesty and ruthlessness and not to their business acumen.

They are as vicious as hawks and had no compassion. Their

prevailing attitude is that all business men are crooks. They

see wealth acquisition generally as one dirty business in which

the acquirer must take advantage of the acquired. In a nutshell,

they are men and women who subscribe to the notion of life being

a game of crimes for economic gains.

It is a true story from the perpetrators point of view, though certain characters and events have been fictionalized for obvious reasons. The conversations, interviews, observations and communications took place in different places – offices, restaurants, social events mostly used as cover for more nefarious /sinister activities.   In the course of investigation, we encountered several interesting characters that displayed wit, courage, intelligence and cruelty. Some were victims while others were criminals.

 We have made every effort to present the experience accurately. We have also combined several dialogues into one conversation to facilitate the flow of the narrative.   And as the world would soon find out, it was a mind boggling revelation of great proportion where, stealing, extortions, diversions and betrayals pervades. No one had been able to explain the basic operational modes of this scam in the manner it was treated here. No writer had gone deeper into their methods of operation, lifestyle, structure and the reasons why they operate and expand rapidly.

The conversation with Dr Joe Musa, a veteran of the scam business reveals a lot about the root causes. And as Joe  pointed out   “when African  countries are awash in foreign debt and develop an inordinate share of their national budget to paying them off - money which could have been used to help the millions of their citizens at the verge of starvation. All of these people are potential criminals”   

The aim of presenting this information is to help people around

the world protect themselves against the world’s most creative

and dangerous fraudsters. Because the victim’s worst enemy

is, ironically, himself. Our main objective for presenting the

information and stories here is to guard the reader against

areas of possible fraud attacks, show him the danger signals and

how to protect himself. Go to www.african-mafia.com or www.globalaction247.com    Contact  Don Nathan  email  globalaction247@yahoo.com  (+44)775-239-4456