Disadvantages of being a middleman

Why do people put themselves in trouble? Like, have you ever come across a situation when you see someone cause of what is happening to him or her? Though they never thought it would affect them negatively, they only thought about the advantages of it before venting into what they did, some never knew that the disadvantage is worst than the advantage and is like 30% chances of advantage, while some don't know about the disadvantage of what they got themselves into. 

In my recent article, I wrote about a guy that died and some people were claiming they killed him spiritually and the friend of the guy that introduced him to them is panicking because they told him that he would be next. 

So many young people's lives have been cut short because they go into what they believed would make them rich quick, some will become a middleman connecting two persons to run a deal and at the end of the day they will have a share in it, though the money is sweet because they won't have to stress too much to get it, it can clash on them at any time unexpected and they will end up regretting it, haha, when you were enjoying the money, you didn't know that it was bad. 

In my country, the only reason yahoo (internet fraud) isn't legalized yet, is because it's illegal, though 70% of the youth are into it, they see it as a normal business to themselves, they can use anything of their victim's item to defraud them and they have people that are good in that kind of fraud, it's no longer about the victim sending them money, they can just ask for their IDs and used it to cart iPhones or use it to collect load in the victim name, then they will ship the phone to someone that lives in the same country with the person or some might ship it to the victim themselves and give the victim of the IPhones, they won't and tell the victim to ship the rest to an address they will send, the victim will be happy because they won't realize that the phones were bought their money, maybe after some months or weeks or even days, they get a message that they are owing to the company money for phones they brought, that's how some go into debts. 

Some will be looking for someone that has an international account that can accept a huge amount of money, that's when the middle man comes in, he will be the one to bring someone that has victim that is ready to pay to the person that has an international account that can accept a huge amount of money, they usually call it sure aza. 

Before they use to do these transactions on a low that no one would know, but these days, you can see them posting on their WhatsApp status and other social media, just a few days ago, I saw someone that did AdSense Facebook with it, they don't think about the consequence at all, because they believe that success is for risk-takers, like why can't they take a risk with other business like trading and investing, why must it be to scam someone of their hard earns money. 

After they done with their transaction and the victim eventually sends them the money, if the owner of the account becomes too greedy as decided to run away with the money, they will call him a ripper and they will start sharing his pictures while they place money on his head that who ever catch him or see him, will be rewarded with huge money, they can place 500$ or more on his head, some people would still share the picture on their WhatsApp status or group, knowing fully well that the money the person ran away with is an illegal money, some of them do get lucky enough to run far away that they can't be caught, some even process their Visa and travel out, while the ones that aren't so fortunate will get caught, either in a hotel or a club squadding the money, after they get caught, they shall eat beating, the beating will turn their looks to black Chinese, of course the one that caught the victim will ask for the money and if the one they call ripper can't provide the exact money, they beating the person and some will end up dead. 

They weren't able to catch the one they call the ripper, the middleman that introduced him will have to provide the money, they will beat the middle man and pack his things until the money is complete, imagine if it's like a million-dollar they were able to defraud from the victim and the middleman told the person that he has someone he trusts that can accept the money, then the middleman now call his sure aza who has been doing business with him, they will talk of percentage on how they will share it, after the agreement, they will do the transaction, the sure aza man might see the money like his breakthrough out of poverty and he runs away with it, the middleman will face the consequence or if the account got blocked while the money entered, then the owner of the account and the middleman will be in trouble. 

There this one that happened last year, two brothers that were into fraud, one of the brothers caught and a victim and the victim paid $36k, something happened and the money was either blocked or something, the one that his expectations were cut short blamed his brother and he killed him, that's how dangerous these kinds of money can get, it the end of the day, its still blood money. 

The bigger the money, the greedier they will become, it's like being a vampire, you can't resist the taste always but when you decide to taste human blood, you will eventually want more, it takes big discipline to control the taste and stop. 

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03-02-2022