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Nigeria: Football coaching scams

Written byElia Varela Serra
Posted 16 July 2008 17 years ago

Foreign Policy's Passport Blog comments on the recent BBC story about Nigerian fake talent spotter scam, in which “conmen pose as sports agents and dupe young, would-be soccer players out of thousands of dollars”.

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