Typical of the threat message seen on MMM website yday

Typical of the threat message is this seen
yesterday on the MMM website: “Hello
Mavrodi. You can’t eat my money and go like
that.See, let me tell you Mavrodi:my father
is a native doctor.I give you two weeks to
pay my money or my father will kill you in
that Russia.I’m ready to kill anybody
including my guider and referral.Make una
no play with me ooo…If you like joke with
me.”
One Hayat Mohammed said: “I really need
help. I provided help of 50,000, now I made
a request to get help. The request was
processed, but I’ve not being matched with
another participant who will pay me. They
won’t even pick my calls. So my money is
lost, isn’t it? Last time I checked, this was
supposed to be a platform where we would
be able to tender our problems for solutions.
I guess they don’t care anymore since
participants have grown in population.”
Harrison Ita Etim posted: “I am still in the
same shit too till today!”
Sergey Mavrodi of inventor MMM
Owhotemu Maryjane said: “What is really
going on with MMM? If it’s gone you should
let us the participants know. And why is that
when someone wants to GH it will show or
create error? You guys had a month to sort
this out during the so-called break! So what
then is this so called withdrawal limit that
you are now talking about?”
From Santos Maemi came this: “To all
Nigerians, please wake up. This is totally a
scam. Don’t be blind!!!” while Christopher
Chinedu said: “If I knew that this would
happen, I shouldn’t have become a
participant. Let’s admit we have lost our
money. That is business I guess, lose or gain.
Somebody has been matched with different
people, four, to be precise and they have not
paid him now, many days and months after.
Hmmm so who is going to pay who? I think I
have cried enough, it’s time for me to clean
my eyes now and forget my N700,000. This
is not my end.”
A cross section of participants interviewed in
Ado Ekiti fear that their money is gone.
Tope Aladeniyi, who said he was to be paid a
day before the scheme was shut down in
December, said he learnt some people
received little payments, but he was yet to
be matched for payment.
“At the moment, I have not been matched,
and last year we were told that once the
scheme resumed on January 14, they would
be the ones to release those who were ready
to be matched, even if you were due for
payment,” Aladeniyi said.
Another participant, Sola Abidakun, who
provided help in November and asked for
help on January 13, said he was matched
with four persons but only two paid.
“I was only paid N4000 and N10,000,
leaving two failed transactions waiting to be
rematched,” he said.
A top guider of the scheme, Bode Wilson,
while explaining the reason for delayed
payment, said that the number of people
requesting for payment was higher than the
number providing help.
“They have started matching people, but
there will be delay in payment, especially for
those that pledged huge amount of money.
There should be enough money in the system
before everybody can get paid. However, I’m
sure we will all get paid”, Wilson said.
A lawyer, Femi Oyeniyi, warned that
participants in the scheme may not be able
to recover any money lost in the scheme
because of the anonymity the business is
shrouded with.
Oyeniyi said: “who do you sue, you don’t see
the person you are doing business with, you
can only sue the person you see and it is
only the person you see physically that you
can do business with.”
A broadcaster,Carol Oladeinde, said: “I have
a relation who did the MMM thing and was
benefitting from it before they went off. I do
not think that we should condemn the
financial scheme (MMM) because a lot of
people have benefited from it. I am into
another networking stuff. I am a member of
another one and it is working.
“Yes, I will continue with mine because I
know what I am benefiting from it. I can’t go
anywhere to borrow money so if I am
involved in a financial scheme where I see
someone give me indirect loan and even
increase my opportunity to get more, why
won’t I continue?
Martins Okafor, a participant investor in
Awka still believes in the scheme.
He said that those who have not received
any payment were those who have not been
matched for payments, especially those
invested shortly before the break.
Another investor, Miss Blessing Nwankwo,
was also optimistic that her investment
would not be lost
She said she was willing to forfeit N10,000
of the N20,000 she invested, adding that she
had no regrets whatsoever.
Mrs. Chiamaka Udu, a participant in Port
Harcourt, said: “ We thank God that we are
able to be alive to see today.
“The last time when you came to my house to
talk to me, I told you I was going to die, but
I think there is hope. What is happening now
is that those of us with big funds are not
being paid now. They told us that we should
wait; that after providing help for those with
small amount they will consider us.”
Mr. Geoffrey Nnamdi said: “My brother, I ‘m
yet to understand these people. Though they
are paying some, when I clicked help they
rejected my request, saying I should wait but
I need this money.
Another customer, Mr. Davies Onyema
reacted this way, “Please, I don’t want to say
anything, I almost committed suicide last
time. I was very happy when I heard the
news of their coming back. I have entered
forty days of praying and fasting over my
condition with MMM. How can they return
and tell me that they are not going to
provide help to me, so when are they going
to provide help?”
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