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Friend coming back to United States from Lagos,Nigeria but no BTA and in need of VAT can't board the plane?

  • a friend and his son is at Lagos, Nigeria Airport at this moment and didn't go on board the plane, they looking a BAT from him and VAT,they advised him to obtain this in order for him and his son to come home to United States..is this true ...

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    Beware of anyone who requests funds for a BTA, or Basic Travel Allowance, as a requirement to depart another country for the United States. There is no such thing as a BTA. In other cases, your Internet "friend" will claim to need a travel allowance, or travel money, to be able to travel to the United States. Again, there is no such requirement under U.S. law. http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/scams.html ..

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This is 100000% a SCAM Besides the warning on the US Embassy in Nigeria's own website, read these and thousands more sites http://www.country-couples.co.uk/datingtips/basic-travel-allowance-bta-dating-scam/%22Second only to flight money, the Basic Travel Allowance (BTA) is the scammers highest paying income. Also known as the Personal Travel Allowance, Travellers Allowance Fee, Travellers Assistance Fund, Travellers Assurance Fund and numerous other forms of “I have to have wodges of your cash or they won’t let me fly”. Let’s get this over with now … THERE IS NO SUCH THING any more, anywhere, it’s an online dating scam." http://www.romancescam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7231: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BASIC TRAVEL ALLOWANCE!! Please remember: there is NO such thing. There is NO such requirement, in any country of the world. This is an invention of the scammers. " If anyone has asked you for a BTA you need to cut off all contact ASAP and report this person to the FBIs IC3 division for investigation http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx If you have sent money or enough personal details for your identity to be stolen (full name, birthdate, home address, etc) you need to contact your local police as you are the victim of fraud and identity theft If you have ever sent bank or other financial details, you need to follow the FTC's Identity Theft site to protect your credit http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/defend.html This scam is so common. I scambait on dating sites and I have never found one single person on a dating claiming to be in Nigeria that has not turned out to be a scammer asking for money -- and that's out of more than 100 people over the past few years

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No it is not true at all.

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