This is true story. It did happen and it is not false. This is a warning against Nigerian scammers. Do not send them any money, Bibles, or anything.
A number of the scammers, having approached Rev. Patricia Jaynes, founder/operator of Outreach Ministries Unlimited correspondence Bible college in Clinton, Tennessee, convinced her that they were desperately in need of able ministries in America to help sponsor several financially-challenged Christian outreaches in Nigeria. For a period lasting about nine months she sent them Christian training materials and funds. They had for a time put her under the illusion that through her interminable resources they were able to establish and maintain a branch of the OMU Bible College in Idoani, Ondo State, Nigeria. Patricia paid teachers' salaries and shipped off about eighty diplomas for the alleged graduate students. She also ordained about seven or eight of the leaders with OMU credentials. She has since broken off all ties with these people, abrogating any past certifications granted to them through her organization.
What first alerted her that there was a problem, and sent her on an enlightening investigation, she explained to us in an email, was their insatiable demand for more and more materials, no matter how much she sent. A Nigerian mobilization officer with whom she was in contact later confirmed to her that none of the Nigerian addresses that she had been given by the scammers existed. Through the use of an online investigative resource she discovered that every name she researched gave an address for a residence in Florida. And these people were supposed to be living in Nigeria. A mobilization officer warned her that these Nigerian scammers were very dangerous.
Patricia has passed on this warning to others on her website; listing on a separate page the names and some relevant details of those who had defrauded her and others who had tried. Patricia is of the opinion that they intend to set up legitimate looking umbrella organizations of Bible colleges and churches in the United States as fronts to funnel money, weapons and other contraband. Invasion U.S.A.? While we agree with Miss Jaynes that this is an entirely plausible scenario, we would like to acquire more evidence -- since we haven't yet ascertained all their true motives. One sentiment that we do presently share with the Rev. Jaynes, however, is that these are criminal factions who have their own beliefs and are not spending their time memorizing the scriptures simply to strengthen their Christian walk or for any godly edification of the body of Christ, but rather as a tool of infiltration to accomplish their own wicked ends. What a pity!
One name we can confirm on Rev. Jayne's list, a Mr. A. J. Aduchi T., has also written to us requesting scripture and materials for a prison ministry that does not exist. We can also confirm that some members of their network(s) do reside here in the U.S. The following two xeroxed letters, from 'poor Nigerians' who allegedly could not afford Bibles, were snail mailed to us from locations within the United States!
example # 1 from Evang. Mahoney Muffa in Ondo St., Nigeria -- mailed from zip 17107
example # 2 from Apostle Osaro Igbiniarode also in Ondo State -- mailed from zip 37690
If you have any tips, information, evidence, or such like, that you want to contribute to this site, please email us at sneakyweasel@mail.com.
Forward to us any email requests and scanned copies of snail mail requests that were sent to you by Bible scammers and we will post them in our scammer request Data Dump, where we will also include profiles on scammers like Edomwande Austine (often reversed to Austine Edomwande) when we have sufficient information to do so.
Check our archived sites of Ms. Jayne's and Mr. Lineberry's for names and/or IP addresses of known and suspected scammers that you want to crossreference with potential ones who have contacted you.
We will post other names at a later date. Beware, you have been warned. Do not send any Nigerian any money. Chances are that it is a scam.
