huge paying Nigerian contract

[crochunter]

I got offered a job for Sosoliso airlines flying A-320 or B727.

They say in the contract that the pay is 28,000US$ per month with 75% deposited in a bank account of my choice and 25% payed on site.

Housing is included.

This sounds very tempting. Is this normal for Nigeria ExPat pilots or could it be a scam?

Thanks very much for your comments.

[MrBernoulli]

Sounds like complete bollocks to me!

[Revnetwork]

crochunter,
A search on this forum with keyword "sosoliso" will reveal that others have also been offered these amounts supposedly, by an airline whose AOC remains suspended and is unlikely to be flying anything soon.
Even if you decide the offer is too juicy (what the scammer relies on -human greed) never pay anybody monies for whatever reason.
Somebody is running a scam.
Steer well clear!!!!!

[crochunter]

thanks,

I did the search and it does look like a scam.

It's an absolute disgrace that soeone is trying to scam us through by offering us jobs.

Can you imagine if somebody quit their job at home an ended up getting screwed by them?

I hear Nigeria is one of the worst places for fraud etc...

[merlinxx]

That was a big negative come-on. Be very, very careful with anything in Nigeria. I have genuine ctcs in country in the industry who I trust. Ask & I'll get the latest if poss. Anyway, never handover bankers data to anyone!!!!!

[froggy_pilot]

This a new kind of fraud, called 419 in Nigeria

Don't reply to this

28,000US$ per month !!!:ugh:

[cavertonmanagement]

It is very naughty of peoples to say such wicked things about Nigeria. Self, I am running a very fine, progressive company which everyone knows is the centre of excellence for the whole of Africa and proves that when a well-educated man such as me who has been to modern university with such things as book and computer, brings his awesome intellect to bare on aviation matters, Nigeria can truely move forward.

crochunter,

Return to your backward country and hunt crocs. Nigeria is a modern, progressing country where we have already eradicated croc and every other form of such wild beast by eating it. What is the etc... you are referring to? Surely it must be Education, Tourism and Culture, things for which Nigeria is renowned as the leader in the all of Africa. Myself am a very cultured man, educated most excellently and have toured many places thanks to daddy's generosity. If you can fly helicopter you could come and learn the awesome truth of the way of excellence flying my Jumbolino helicopters, then you will find out the truth, rather than this rumour of scam and other such bad things about my country.

[etienne t boy]

Actually froggy, the 419, or Advanced Fee Fraud has been around since the 1980s and the 419 refers to section 419 of the Criminal Code of Nigeria:

Chapter 38
Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating


419. Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

If the thing is of the value of one thousand naira or upwards, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

It is immaterial that the thing is obtained or its delivery is induced through the medium of a contract induced by the false pretence.

The offender cannot be arrested without warrant unless found committing the offence.

[4144r]

Hi cavertonmanagement,
Sorry but as you wrote, you never been to Nigeria.
Be honest, Do you know the condition of living for seventy/cent of the population?
Please come back on real earth!
Soft landing:cool:

[rockandroll1]

4144r - ever heard about irony? ;)

[oba_idan_amani]

Has any pilot ever been paid $28K in one month anywhere in the world. Why would you want to come to a poor country like Nigeria and expect to be paid that much. Am sorry, if you believe that story, then you deserve whatever happens to you. You guys make me sick.:mad:

Oba Idan Amani

[TomBola]

4144r,

If you search for all the posts by Cavertonmanagement I think you'll find it's just a good wind up. He's usually to be found on the Rotorheads forum - makes me laugh most of the time :}

o_i_a

Do you think maybe it was a misprint and they were actually offering N28,000 a month :E

[4144r]

Ok guys,
I understand!
It's like that when you read to fast, but there is sometimes so strange post!
Good job cavertonmanagement!
Soft landing:D

[NZFlyingKiwi]

Sosoliso don't operate the A320, so that's a little suspicious. Plus $28,000 a year is a huge amount of money; as with most Nigerian offers of "too good to be true" financial rewards this would have to be a scam.

[poorwanderingwun]

Reply by Mr Stanley-Livingstone of Sosoliso International Superliners Ltd..

My friends... It is expicatious of you and indeed expediantley time-proven of your awareness to have perpicaciouscly noted with such immediacy the mis-print so shamefully produced by the advertising office trustfully employed to represent this company. Of course the figureof $28,000 per month is wildly inconsistent with the truth and I am at wonderment that the impoverished intellects of the printers failed to rationalise such a figure and summarily equate it with truth and reality.
Of course the correct figure should have been $280,000,000.oo per month the sums of which are currently residing in a bank account controlled through an extraodinary set of circumstances relating to a passenger jet crashing incommodiously into an erupting volcano leaving me in total and exclusive charge of all the money relating to evry poor passenger and crew member aboard, the souls of which I nightly pray for.
Any pilot whoes application is duly accepted as being of honourable intent shall, after depositing to my personal and guarranteed bank account the sum of $150,000 have the aforementioned monthly salary at his or her disposal upon application to the finance department of this wonderful airline...

[Balmy]

Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!.....Oh please please please PICK ME

[MungoP]

Bloody brilliant... So PWW... you're the one sitting in an internet cafe in Lagos sending out all those letters... must pay better than contract work :E

[kaiser bill]

Would you please be looking for an agent in New Zealand to find many pilots for your airline ? Also i think in all my most honest thoughts that I am the last living relation of some of those unfortunate passengers who most horribly crashed into your volcano, now this is what i were thinking..if you take a few thousand dollars for your trouble you could then send me the remains of the money, you will also need to send me your cheque account details, passwords etc because I will need to send you the fees I charge the pilots... perhaps we could have coffee together somewhere, like a nice hotel in Lagos. Hoping very much to hear from you soon, I am your obediant servant and very great friend. Kaiser Bill

[Agaricus bisporus]

Why would you want to come to a poor country like Nigeria...

Nigeria, a "poor" country? BWAHAHAHAHA!!! What colour is the sky on your planet, Mr Omani?

It must be all those oil $000Billions make that it poor, then?

Oh! Silly me. You must mean poor government.

[OneWorld22]

A GDP per capita of US$1400 and a life expectancy of 46 years of age for males = a shockingly poor country

[alexmcfire]

Nigeria is considered the most corrupt country on the planet, so if you´re going there go work with people you know before and not "someone" you met
on internet.

[bcpilot_00]

Got the scam sent to me. Caleb BRIGHT put a posting on Aviation.ca, of course it's missing now. SCAMMER!
Too bad he doesn't know the industry very well and can't even figure out that Sosoliso doesn't operate A320, A300.
That's if Sosoliso was even operating! No answer to the phone numbers either for that airline, even though their website is up and operating stil.