I'm glad that I'm sharing this experience with joy because they did not succeed. As a Web Developer, I developed a business website and the client was satisfied and decided to pay me in dollars. I called a BDC operator who I once did business with and he told me he would buy at N295 per dollar. I also called a friend who gave me another person's number and that one told me he would buy at N314 which I later negotiated to N319. This guy is a lawyer who operates his Forex business inside an office at the Lagos Airport Hotel. On getting to the entrance, I met many other agents and I decided to find out the going rate. One agreed to buy at N340.
I was very happy and told him I had $500. He immediately calculated it to be N170,000 and brought out a bail of N1000 notes and also signaled to a colleague for the balance of N70,000. He counted the N100,000 while I watched and he gave to me. I counted AGAIN and noticed it was N99,000. The first pointer to me was that as slow as I was while counting the N100,000 given to me, he did not finish counting the remaining N70,000. He was questionably slow and pretended not to be looking at me while I was counting. Immediately I told him one was missing, he collected the whole bunch from me and decided to count again. He also counted 99 and then collected N1,000 from his friend and added it to the 99 notes he already counted.
He handed it to me and asked me to put it inside my pocket. Surprisingly, his friend re-echoed it so I decided to count again because I could feel that the bulk had been halved. Behold, as I started counting, one of them just snatched the whole bunch from me saying he needed to return it to the bank that gave them incomplete notes. Then I confirmed my suspicion and took to my heels. They followed me begging that they would bring a different bail but I kept walking away. I then returned to my gentle self and called the one inside the office who actually invited me before covetousness decided to take over. Though I changed it at N319 per dollar, I'm very happy that some hoodlums are not drinking beer and eating cowtail at an Ashewo joint with my money this evening...
I was very happy and told him I had $500. He immediately calculated it to be N170,000 and brought out a bail of N1000 notes and also signaled to a colleague for the balance of N70,000. He counted the N100,000 while I watched and he gave to me. I counted AGAIN and noticed it was N99,000. The first pointer to me was that as slow as I was while counting the N100,000 given to me, he did not finish counting the remaining N70,000. He was questionably slow and pretended not to be looking at me while I was counting. Immediately I told him one was missing, he collected the whole bunch from me and decided to count again. He also counted 99 and then collected N1,000 from his friend and added it to the 99 notes he already counted.
He handed it to me and asked me to put it inside my pocket. Surprisingly, his friend re-echoed it so I decided to count again because I could feel that the bulk had been halved. Behold, as I started counting, one of them just snatched the whole bunch from me saying he needed to return it to the bank that gave them incomplete notes. Then I confirmed my suspicion and took to my heels. They followed me begging that they would bring a different bail but I kept walking away. I then returned to my gentle self and called the one inside the office who actually invited me before covetousness decided to take over. Though I changed it at N319 per dollar, I'm very happy that some hoodlums are not drinking beer and eating cowtail at an Ashewo joint with my money this evening...
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