"My mom has been trying to send me and my brother abroad." —Lady shares a heartbreaking story.

Brace yourself for a heart-wrenching tale that unfolded on a Facebook page, shared by an anonymous woman. With her identity concealed, she recounted the hardships her family faced due to the relentless grip of the pandemic. In her narrative, she revealed how her mother made valiant efforts to support her education and secure a brighter future, only to be thwarted by the unforgiving circumstances imposed by Covid-19.

Undeterred by the setbacks, her family decided to give it another shot once the pandemic subsided. They reached out to a man residing overseas, filled with hope that this time they would finally succeed. Little did they know that this man would turn out to be a heartless scammer, preying on their mother's hard-earned money.

Prepare yourself to delve into the details of this devastating story below.

She said,

"My mom has been trying to send me and my brother abroad. Our first trial was Cyprus and it worked but unfortunately, COVID-19 happened and the whole wait exhausted our visa duration.

We decided to try again via study and I decided to give this travel agent I know a trial. He's from Imo State but is based in Abuja with his wife and children.

I told my mom about his company and she asked to speak with him directly. She spoke with him and took her time to explain herself and her struggle as a young widow with seven children. 

She explained to him how she suffers to make her money without the help of any man and she's trying her best to invest in our future.

They talked at length and she asked him a lot of questions to be sure he knew his onions in the visa stuff and finally decided to work with him. He gave her 100% assurance that it would take 6months to be done.

The package was N2.2m each but we were to pay a compulsory advance of N700k, to be completed when the visa is out. This is for Canadian working visa full package with accomodation and one way flight ticket.

We made arrangements and I and my brother went to Abuja on the 14th of April 2021 to kickstart with our personal data forms at his office in Wuse 2.

While we were still on transit to Abuja, he kept calling my mum for her to make an advance payment but my mom kept delaying the payment until we arrived Abuja and went to his office the next day.

She made the first advance payment of N1.4 million that day, we filled the forms that day and left the next day. On 8th September 2021, he told us we were due for medicals and asked us to pay N50k each for it and  my mom sent N100k, we travelled again to Abuja and did our medicals

He told us to get ready to come for biometrics. He asked us to send money for him to pay in advance for our biometrics, N100k each plus N20k each for police clearance report. My mom sent the N240k to him

On 1st February 2022, he sent us job contract forms and asked us to fill and send back to him via mail and we did.

We kept waiting to be called for biometrics that we already paid for until April 15th 2022 made it a year. 

He never calls to explain any reason for delay or atleast calm our nerves. Most times we call him and he won't pick. This continued until 21st June 2022, he called and told us about a slot he got for Denmark and suggested that we try it out since Canada was taking more time.

He said it was going to take 2 months as an express slot and pressured us to accept it cos there were limited slots.We gave him the go ahead order to try so if anyone works out, we'll go with it.  

He asked us to waybill our international passport to him the next day, I personally went to the airport and made the waybill. On 23rd June 2022, he demanded for our medical fitness report and we got it and sent to him.

 Something he said will take two months lingered from that June until January 27th, 2023 when he sent me a message telling me that our Denmark visa has been approved. I asked him to at least show me proof and he said he is yet to get full confirmatory mail on it.

We kept waiting for that confirmatory mail until he called me on 20th May 2023 and told me super story of how our passport was seized by immigration officers with the reason that our passport was smuggled to Kenya and after it had been stamped, they tried smuggling it back into Nigeria and it was seized.

I asked to see proof that our passport was truly stamped and he couldn't provide any. I asked him if there's any way to resolve it and he said no, that the whole Denmark thing is over.

He suggested that we get a new passport and even immediately started proposing another visiting visa deal for Canada. I told him to take care of replacing our passport first. 

He paid an immigration officer at PH for a lost case and we travelled down to portharcourt twice for capturing and then collection. He refused to take care of our own cost, we spent 40k on those trips.

We collected the new passport on 16th of August 2023 and told him that we are not interested in any further travel deal with him and we opted for refund.

He didn't argue about the refund because it was already out agreement that if he fails, he would refund us. He tried arguing how much he would refund and finally told us that he would work on their refund policy and we should expect our money by ending of October.

From ending of October, we called him and he changed to ending of November. We have been calling him since then and he hasn't been taking our calls.

Meanwhile, the first day we went to their office for our data registration, I saw his wife but I didn't know she was his wife.s

They were very formal, she was like his secretary. When I found out they are married was when his mom d.ied and he invited me for her burial in 2022.

My mom advised me to go so I would know him down to his village. I was surprised to see that his secretary was actually his wife and I also saw their children. I went for wake keep so I helped them with dishes and all, I left after the burial the next day.

His wife later sent me a friend request on Facebook early this year and occasionally comments on my contents. I wrote her on Facebook with regard to the refund and she completely ignored me.

I called this man last week to know what was still holding the refund, he told me bluntly to calm down and that he has already made a police entry about our business with him.

That was obviously to threaten me with police and that we can't do anything since the police is already aware. He doesn't take my mom's calls anymore.

I can't find words to express how my mom feels about this whole thing. She has been lamenting bitterly and I don't know what to do.

This is her sweat, my mom suffers to make her money. She goes to the bush every week, buying and selling lands, with all the intimidations and disputes that comes with land matters etc and then someone just decided to rip her off her money just because she patronized him.

Credit: Facebook|Humans of Abuja