I Go Chop Your Dollars
Did you know there is a Nigerian top hit named I Go Chop Your Dollar? It’s hugely popular in Lagos, and hit the Lagos radio stations a few months ago as a CD penned by an artist called Osofia (his real name might or might not be Nkem Owoh.
It’s as catchy as Nigerian music can be, and since it carries a message that thousands of young Nigerians seem to be able to relate to, it has become a huge hit in Lagos.
Here are the complete lyrics:
I Go Chop Your Dollar
I don suffer no be small
Upon say I get sense
Poverty no good at all, no
Na im make I join this business
419 no be thief, its just a game
Everybody dey play am
if anybody fall mugu, ha! my brother I go chop amChorus
National Airport na me get am
National Stadium na me build am
President na my sister brother
You be the mugu, I be the master
Oyinbo I go chop your dollar, I go take your money dissapear
419 is just a game, you are the loser I am the winner
The refinery na me get am,
The contract, na you I go give am
But you go pay me small money make I bring am
you be the mugu, I be the master… na me be the master ooo!!!!When Oyinbo play wayo, them go say na new style
When country man do im own, them go de shout bring am, kill am, die!
Oyinbo people greedy, I say them greedy
I don see them tire thats why when them fall enter my trap o!
I dey show them fire
Watch the video!
Hear I Go Chop Your Dollar, and watch the video at:
www.tlcafrica.com/I_go_chop_your_dollar1.mov it’s actually really good.
Los Angeles Times and Yahoo! News has a great feature article about Samuel, a young Nigerian, who works professionally as a 419 scammer.
Read it at: news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/…/iwilleatyourdollars&printer=1
In the La Times article, there is a great list of the most popular 419 scams. You’ll find examples of all these here on N!kke’s Index:
• The “next of kin” scam, tempting you to claim an inheritance of millions of dollars in a Nigerian bank belonging to a long-lost relative, then collecting money for various bank and transfer fees.
Example:
» www.lindqvist.com/en/edward-lugard-or-luggard
• The “laundering crooked money” scam, in which you are promised a large commission on a multibillion-dollar fortune, persuaded to open an account, contribute funds and sometimes even travel to Nigeria.
• The “Nigerian National Petroleum Co.” scam, in which the scammer offers cheap crude oil, then demands money for commissions and bribes.
• The “overpayment” scam, in which fraudsters send a bank check overpaying for a car or other goods by many thousands of dollars, persuading the victim to transfer the difference back to Nigeria.
• The “job offer you can’t refuse” scam, in which an “oil company” offers a job with an overly attractive salary and conditions (in one example, $180,000 a year and $300 per hour for overtime) and extracts money for visas, permits and other fees.
• The “winning ticket in a lottery you never entered” scam — including, lately, the State Department’s green card lottery.
• The “gorgeous person in trouble” scam, in which scammers in chat rooms and on Christian dating sites pose as beautiful American or Nigerian women, luring lonely men into Internet intimacy over weeks or months then asking them to send money to get them out of trouble.
February 3rd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
f***ers stilen our money got to h*ll and get a life mother f***ers
[Comment slightly beeped by Nikke]
February 21st, 2007 at 7:20 am
scamming is bad. . . . . .sugbon,
oyinbo people greedy. i say them greedy
lol
LONG LIVE NIGERIA.
March 19th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Anyone foolish enough to send a stranger money because they sent you some sob story by way of e-mail deserves to have their dollar chopped. Obviously such a person does not have any common sense. As the old saying goes, “A fool and his money soon parts.”
May 9th, 2007 at 9:12 am
the real question is…..refinery? :/
May 28th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
This isn’t a scam. I got 6 million dollars from Nigeria last week.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Right Comedy. Sure you did.
You can’t even start to imagine the number of comments along that general direction. Most of the time there’s 10 of them at a time from the same IP address…
June 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
you think they are stealing your money “WELL YOUR A DUMB ASS IDIOT BECAUSE THEY DON’T STEAL I MEAN DON’T GET ME WRONG ITS NOT RIGHT TO SCAM PEOPLE BUT DON’T BE STUPID ENOUGH TO GIVE A STRANGER YOUR MONEY FOOL” you all have a nice day
and remember don’t give your money to strangers
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 am
booooooring….these scammers are morons preying on greedy submorons. That moron-in-chief-Osofia has had some kind of ghetto hit with this cr@p is depressing but not surprising. Oh, and the twit was arrested recently for 419 scamming. Way to go commiting crime and releasing a record bragging about it. Nigeria is a total kleptocracy and this type of thing is no surprise. Good luck to them; last one to leave the corrupt, broken country its with corrupt, broken inhabitants turn off the lights.
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Update with specifics: He was arrested in Amsterdam. And of course I meant “last one to leave the corrupt, broken countryWITH ITS corrupt, broken inhabitants turn off the lights”. I have known many, many Zimbabweans, South Africans, Egyptians, Congolese and Nigerians. I have known precisely TWO trustworthy Nigerians in my personal life, out of perhaps 10 or so that I have come in contact with. It is nothing to do with Africa, nothing to do with education or lack of it (one of the worst I knew was educated to MA level) its a cultural thing: Kleptocracy.
July 4th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
im a Nigerian! i dnt scam or hustle anyone. i think it’s more to do w/ every1’s character. Im God fearing, i wnt lik some1 to scam, hence i wnt scam ny1 else! not all Nigerians r scammers. To me, education gives me power to b a better person and achieve my goals on merits! i use my intelligence wisely and legally! So i say it’s not fair to categorise 419 as a cultural thing!! These scammers will scam ny1, including Nigerians like them. So it’s not a cultural thing. And i think ppl r stupid for tryin 2 make fast money and fallin into 419 hands. It’s pretty stupid, u earn what u work for. i cnt deny my heritage, Im a Nigerian and always will be. I just pray the 419 will stop damagin the image of their country. Hence no stereotypin will be made.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:51 am
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July 6th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Do you have a heart?
Does it beat?
In the stillness of the night
Why is it you do not sleep?
A murderous grin
You wear upon your face
You think you’ve managed to disappear
Without a trace
Police sirens in the night
Will you give up without a fight?
When they catch you
What will you do?
Will you confess to all you have done?
Or will you end it all
With a bullet from a gun?
Will you leave the families wondering why?
Or will you confess before you die?
Will you wear that murderous grin?
Right up until the end?
Or will you beg for forgiveness
And pray that God will take you in?
As you lie in bed
You should think of all these things
And ask yourself one question:
‘Was murder really worth it
In the end?’
July 7th, 2007 at 10:42 am
I have a dream. I can see millions of children without role models. They see all around them on a daily basis people only making it quickly in a vast land where honest hard work does not lead to anything tangible. In this way the soul of the land is in danger of being lost…
I see a positive role for myself in all of this. I wish to let it be seen by all these bleary eyed children that honest hard work does pay; that it is possible to make ends meet with integrity; that preparation and determination are virtues that pay dividend.
So help me God.
I need your prayers brothers and sisters.
God Bless Nigeria and Nigerians
July 7th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
white people are than greed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why going for money that they never dreamed of having????? you wanna take money which belongs to someone else.maybe dead or living. no regret of taking ur cash you sily armed robbers.
July 9th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
THIS IS A FORM OF REPARTRIATION, WHEN THE WHITE MEN FIRST CAME TO AFRICA AND OFFERED THE AFRICAN FOREFATHERS MIRROWS AND CUPS ND TOOK AWAY MANPOWER IN FORM OF SLAVERY..NO BODY THOUGHT THAT WAS A SCAM…AND NOW YOUNG INTELLIGENT AFRICANS ARE GETTING THERE MONEY BACK ,,AND ITS CALLED SCAM..WHY?WHITE MEN SCAMMED AFRICANS BEFORE AND NOW AFRICANS ARE SCAMING THE WHITE MEN..SO PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP.
July 10th, 2007 at 8:49 am
baba alaye,
I can understand your comparission, but don’t agree with you. The people that are being scammed aren’t the same people who fooled your African forefathers. I am opposing them as much as I am opposing any scammers.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Fibber, do you also refer to Americans as Kleptomaniacs? (Hallibuton etc) What do you call Britons? (BAE Systems). You are a dim wit for saying we have a kleptomaniac culture.
There are several millions of Nigerians who have never been involved in illegal activities yet people like you sit and throw stones at all of us.
At least we are not the savages who go around the world with weapons killing and maiming just in order to destroy the ways of life of other people and in order to steal their resources.
I beg make we hear word jare
July 31st, 2007 at 3:31 pm
It is very painful that some greedy people fell victim of this pranks. It is however, not to amazing since some people could be stupid enough to reap were they never sow. And most expecially, business men - so to be, who went into a shady business and was lucky enough to be made business itself. It is very important that we all try to be very careful of how to relate to people, even those we know. I cetainly don’t like people that stereotype inside and outside Nigeria. They are as stupid as those that invest huge sum of money with a stranger without any investigations and legal backing. The funniest thing is that they also dupe Nigerians at home and abroad. Those that are greed though. But I have seen Nigerians working with big companies with finance responsibilities but never taughtof duping. Nigerians are responsible, respected, truthful, reliable and intelligent people. Of cause, it depends on how you apply your intelligence- it is a matter of choice. Moreover, what is bad is bad. It is very irretating that a person can dwell on someones stupidity to make his or her money and sit back to enjoy spending it. That is terrible and horrible. In any case, God will have many things to judge people for at the end of everyone’s life. Remember, yesterday cannot be changed but it can affect today and tommorow. Think about what you are doing and what you want to do.
Bless You.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Chop Your Dollars, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I am a Nigerian first and foremost, I think in my opinion it is wrong for any one to stigmatise and crucify a people or group because of a few bad elements who have vow to destroy a nation as Nigeria.
We all are aware of other evil activities coming from many parts of the world and no one appears to be paying attention to it, ask me and I will tell you of international conspiracy of the West against the developing world etc.
Nigeria, I think unofficially is about one hundred and sixty million in population, half of which still can’t read and write or better still have access to computer, is it then a fair judgment for any one or groupings to stigmatise a whole nation? Is it possible for twenty million Nigerians to be 419 Scammers?
I doubt it my self. Do all Americans carry guns? Do all Scottish or Portuguese drink, do all British people sell guns or are all Italians rogues, are all Iraqis and Palestinians Suicide bombers, I could go on and on.
I detest 419 Scammers, I have tried to reply many of their letters to me telling them that I am a Nigerian and that they must stop their dubious trade but I also think that there is an international media conspiracy to continue to assassinate the Nigerian national character by putting beloved Nigeria on the front line of Global Scam.
During the Cocaine boom, Nigeria was blamed, but we do not produce Cocaine in Nigeria neither do we use it yet we got the blame. Nigeria is an emerging regional economic power hence enemies are hell-bent to destroy it.
Thank God for the likes of Bill Gate and South African MTN who continued despite the plot against Nigeria to do business with Nigeria and in Nigeria.
Only a fool will fall for a cheap scam as 419 because if the victims are not dubious in themselves they will never fall prey for such scam. If any one is interested in legitimate business deal with Nigeria, the simplest thing to do is to contact any Nigerian diplomatic mission in that country and I am sure they will put such a person through.
For the 419 Scammers, it is time for all of you to reconsider your stand, you are hurting our nation and a whole generation yet unborn.
God has blessed our country with natural resources we can harness them and put them into good use towards a national prosperity.
The Nigerian leaders must do more by distributing the God-given wealth for common good instead of amassing it for personal use, I leave in Britain and I am sick and tired of having to suffer for crime I never or intended to commit.
My God help all Nigerians, Long live Nigeria
September 20th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
The following line in the first verse:
Upon say I get sense
Should be edited and translated to the following correct translation:
Omode. I get sence
Omode is a Yoruba word that means kid or young child. Hence the proper translation means the following:
Since I was a little kid, I get sence.
The getting of sence since omode implies poverty and hardship.
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Awareness has been created about the topic in quote “SCAM” and I am not in support of media assassination of the Nigeria’s image globally; the only remedy for this sickness called *SCAM* is that people should take it upon themselves as a duty to ignore mails of such by deleting them.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:37 am
lawrence Joseph said:
The following line in the first verse:
Upon say I get sense
Should be edited and translated to the following correct translation:
Omode. I get sence
Omode is a Yoruba word that means kid or young child. Hence the proper translation means the following:
Since I was a little kid, I get sence.
The getting of sence since omode implies poverty and hardship.
The original translation is correct and YOU are wrong. it’s “upon say” not “omode” and “omode” doesn’t imply poverty and hardship. it basically means young child or inexperienced.
It is people like you that go to Africa for 9 months and come back feeling like you know all about us. writing stupid racist books.
I like the song. It’s more like a parody/ satire anyways.
the singer is a well known comedian.
and no! he wasn’t arrested in amsterdam for doing scam. he was arrested for singing his song. racist belgians. soo much for free speech.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:44 am
he was arrested for singing his song at a concert as well as many Nigerians who came to watch him were rounded up by the racist belgian police. the whites at the concert were not arrested however.
and whoever said kleptocracy was a cultural thing for Africans, ori e o ni da. thunder fire you. Go read your history and you’ll know that stealing is more of a cultural thing for europeans. It their survival tool. belgium built itself based on stolen minerals from Congo.
don’t get mad about it. just don’t be too greedy to fall for it.
December 15th, 2007 at 11:14 am
SERVES THEM RIGHT, I DESPISE GREED AND BOTH 419 SCAMMERS AND THE VICTIMS ARE BOTH GUILTY OF DECEPTION, HOW CAN YOU WANT A SHARE OF MONEY THAT YOU NEVER WORKED FOR. WE SEE THE SCAM WITH AID, SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY ESPECIALLY IN OIL RICH COUNTRIES, THE LOOTING OF COLONIES AND OTHER ATTROCITIES COMMITTED BY THE WEST AND THEIR POLICY OF DO AS A SAY NOT AS I DO. GREED KILLS
January 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Hay has any one seen this? very funny. http://stage6.divx.com/user/Kiha/video/1185946/Tenacious-D—Beelzeboss
January 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
So why can’t the government of Nigeria harness all this talent and put it to some positive use. Oil has ruined Nigeria. Back to agriculture and trade. Nigeria has huge land resources and lots of intelligent people. If they make certain areas safe for investors the areas will expand and profit everyone. Fed up with racism fed up with negative stereotypes. Look at Singapore. It has no resources….just people and brains. People are your future or your downfall
January 28th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
this is really sad to read about nigeria.am a nigerian living abroad and when i read these i feel very sad but all the same we have nigerians doing great stuffs . 150 million people cant all be scammers and i believe every country has this bad people..am not supporting this in anyway that all nigerians are bad…it takes two to tango..whoever gets scammed is also a scammer and greedy person looking for fast,dirty way to make money.so both parties involve are bad.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:32 pm
419 is being carried out by crooks. but there are crooks in all countries and continents. The British have scammed and raped and looted most of the world and even fought China when it refused to plant opium. Bush is presently scamming Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi-Arabia. If Castro was not there, Americans would have turned Cuba into a sea of hotels where Cubans will be working for minimum wage.
Long live 419ners.Please continue your work!!