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Meet our customer of the month for the month of may - Famoofo Seyi.

Don't just take our word for it when we tell you that saving with us makes hitting your finance goals really easy. Meet our customer of the month for May, Mrs Famoofo Seyi, an entrepreneur based in Ibadan who has found staying focused on her finance goals much easier since she started using our mobile app, in her own words she has been able to save towards particular goals and smash them without stress and her business and financial lifestyle have greatly improved as a result. Be like Famoofo Seyi and join the ranks of those who save smart and better with F&K Savings, you too will find smashing your money goals not stressful at all. Thank you, Mrs Famoofo Seyi for being such an amazing customer

How to detect ponzi schemes, a piece by Olamide Oseni

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul is literally one of the oldest fraud tricks in the book, and it’s alarming that people still fall prey to schemes such as this especially in the wake of one such dubious schemes that has invested participants looming on the precipice of disaster. These schemes are no new trend in the Nigerian environment but it’s still alarming how people fall for them, it would have been funny if it wasn’t a matter of such serious concern, space a couple of years between these things and the story remains the same, people rush, invest their money and inevitably a sizeable number of them got swindled. The term ‘ponzi’ can be traced back to US Italian immigrant, Carlo Charles Ponzi who pulled off one of the biggest investment scams in history that had people losing as much as millions of dollars, and this was as far back as the 1920’s. Following the pattern laid back by the progenitor of such scams, Ponzi/pyramid schemes promise an unusually high returns