A young man, Abdul-Qawiyy, has lambasted internet fraudsters, popularly called ‘yahoo boys’, after losing a deal worth $425,000 for being a Nigerian.

Abdul-Qawiyy, who described himself on Twitter as a pro digital marketer cum freelance copywriter, trainer and author, in series of tweets on Thursday said he had closed the deal online before jokingly saying: “damn this Nigerian network and their wahalla“. He also asked that they reschedule the call.

However, when they reschedule the call the foreign company was no longer interested in working with him, saying “they can’t continue it because Nigerians have a bad record globally”.

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Qawiyy explained:

Yahoo boys are really destroying the reputation of we Nigerians that are doing legit jobs online.

Imagine closing a deal for a company on content creation only to be discovered you’re Nigerian & the deal is called off ???!

These idiots are ruining our businesses ??? Haha ?

Loosing a $425,000/3 months deal because of my nationality and some bad eggs amongst us ???

Wow, my mention is really going crazy. I didn’t expect this to blow up the way it did numbers.

Too bad we have a lot of folks who have experienced terrible things because of our nationality.

I guess I should explain what happened.

I’m a pro digital marketer cum freelance copywriter. I’m certified globally and I’ve got numerous certificates in my name. So I did what we call prospecting, that’s seeking clients by proffering solution to their issue

We had reached a conclusion all via mail and they were impressed that at a young age of 20 I have a lotta of achievements to my belt.

Now we had finalized everything & all that was left was a Skype call to seal the deal. We started the call & there was network issues

I jokingly said damn, all these Nigerian network wahala and asked that we reschedule the call. Now here’s what was stunning, I got a call saying they can’t continue it because Nigerians have a bad record globally.

Tried convincing them to no avail, so that was what caused my outburst on here and led to this tweet.

I’m a young man with goals, focus and determination that I will succeed without doing anything illegal.

I believe your sweater and integrity with skill sets will take you farther than frauds will.