If you are in a country that is covered by MTN One World, get hold of an
MTN Benin SIM card and use the Benin MTN tweaks (see Benin). You can
try an MTN Nigeria SIM card and the Nigeria MTN settings (see Nigeria)
too.
There is no governmental censorship going on as
far as we know, but Your Freedom is nevertheless widely used in Nigeria.
Though no-one really has ever told us what it is used for it's quite
obvious that it's being used for toll bypassing on the country's mobile
networks. I am sure you will understand that we cannot encourage you to
use our service for criminal activity -- and toll bypassing is nothing
else but fraud. On the other hand, we cannot tell nor do we want to tell
whether you are using our service with your mobile provider's consent
or not -- it is none of our business. Please use Your Freedom only via
paid-for data connections.
We have been told that there are a number of blogs
and forums on the Internet where other working solutions are being
posted. Please note that as we are not offering our service for this
kind of use we cannot guarantee that any of these solutions work, or
will work permanently. Also, please not that if you are paying someone
else to get you connected this does not bind us legally in any way.
More information on what we can do for you and what we cannot do can be found on our
Mobile connections page.
Please read this page! It will likely answer many of your questions.
Allow us one last remark. If you cannot get
connected to our service without paying us, you won't succeed either if
you pay. So please establish a working connection first!
Enable "ipuse" by dialling *406#
Try the Blackberry subscription.
If both are met, YF should be able to get you connected using UDP (port 500) and ECHO mode.
Enable the "Nigeria Glo" tweaks.
Try APNs "gloflat", "glosecure", "glolink" and "gloprofit".
Use "Nigeria Etisalat" tweaks with mode "https".
We have been told that you'll need some credit on your SIM. It will get used, but only very slowly.
Set the tweaks to "Nigeria Multilinks" and try POST or UDP. Make sure you have a current version of the YF client installed!
Please use the latest YF client version and enable the tweaks called "Nigeria ZAIN".
We're not sure about Vee but people seemingly are
able to connect via HTTPS from their network, using proxy 172.18.254.5
and port 8080. You can also try the tweaks in the latest YF client
version ("Nigeria ZAIN" should do).
(Please provide input!)
We believe that UDP port 53 is working.
(This could be outdated information.)
We do not permit FreeFreedom users from Nigeria
on some of our servers. If you are being told by the server that your
authentication is not valid for the country you are connecting from,
then this is why. Please use other servers, writing to support about it
is no good at all. On ems02, ems15 and ems32 we do not permit connections from Nigeria at all (but there are plenty of other servers).
Why do we do it? Because we've got a problem with
SPAM. While we are filtering SPAM sent via SMTP very effectively
(because it is possible) there is nothing we can do about a new
way of sending SPAM: through vulnerable web mail servers via HTTPS. How
do you block malicious access to a server that you don't control and
that you don't even know? We cannot look into the connection (that's
what SSL is all about!) so we don't see what is going on. We only learn
about the latest SPAM flood when our providers receive notifications
that an IP address in their network is a source of SPAM, and of course
they don't take it friendly. So far we've been able to avoid further
measures by the providers but this won't go on forever.
Right, you might say, but what has it got to do with
FreeFreedom users from Nigeria? The simple and sad-but-true answer is:
because most of the SPAM is sent by FreeFreedom users from Nigeria. Few
paid-for accounts, almost no other country. Whenever we receive a note
from a provider and trace it back (we keep one-way hashes of connection
details for short periods so we can trace back SPAM and other abuse, but
we haven't got logs telling us what people do), and we receive lots of
these notes, we end up in Nigeria. Therefore, blocking FreeFreedom users
from Nigeria is the only selective means of PROACTIVELY blocking the
SPAM. Blocking it REACTIVELY (by disabling user accounts and/or client
installations) just isn't good enough -- we do that as well. Recently we
have developed some automated means that are pretty effective but
unfortunately not very selective.
Unjust? Yes. Clan liability? Yes, certainly.
Self-defense? YES. We hate doing it but there's no other way. We have
received many suggestions, for example
- threaten them on the web page -- we do that already, no effect
- find them and kick them out -- we do that already, but new spammers emerge daily
- send
email to all Nigerian users, telling them to stop -- this would make us
spammers too and we don't spam; besides, it won't help at all
- detect
the spamming and disable accounts automatically -- we do that too but
the patterns change all the time and there is always a chance of
misdetection
- "tell me and I'll do all I can about it" -- yeah, sure
- set
up some kind of white-listing -- not feasible, way too much work that
no-one pays for; and who would you put on it besides yourself?
- block
their IPs -- the whole country is behind just a handful (literally) IP
addresses -- how are we supposed to do it? All of them are being used
for spamming
Please, do not send the same suggestions in other words to support. It is a waste of time for all of us.
Servers that currently accept FreeFreedom users from Nigeria: try ems03-ems10, ems18, ems12, ems19, ems29, ems30, ems31.
The reason is that the FreeFreedom account is
only permitted to be used 6 hours per day and 15 hours per week. Please
note that this restriction does not only apply to the account but also
to the client installation (i.e. the PC) used. If several FreeFreedom
accounts are used on the same PC they count as one for this PC, in other
words: it is no good creating accounts by the dozen, it won't get you
more free usage time.
If you see this message and you don't share your PC
with anyone and you are sure you are not over the budget, update your YF
client installation. The problem should be fixed in version 20090829-01
and above. Uninstall the YF client first before you install the new
version. We cannot fix this for you, you need to fix it. If you have the
latest YF client version on your PC and still have this problem, please
run in dump mode (see the FAQ how to do this!) and reproduce the
problem, then send us the dump.log file from your desktop together with a
few explanatory words.
To check out why the servers believe you are over the time budget, log in to our web page and click on "ACCOUNT", then on "
Usage time" on the left.
Please do not email support about this unless
you have the latest client version and are put in the same drawer with
strangers, the time restriction system is well-tested and works
correctly.
We do not permit access to certain pages for
Nigerian users. If you access them anyway (not casually... only if you
click through the pages) your account will be disabled and your client
installation will be banned. Both restrictions are automatically lifted
after some hours.
Why do we do it? Unfair? No, it's not unfair.
Neither Craigslist nor DBA nor any of the other pages on our list (we do
not publish it for a reason... many webmail servers are on it too)
offer services targeted at the Nigerian market. If you access them
anyway chances are very high that you are not doing it for respectable
reasons. We are simply fed up with having to deal with all the
complaints and police investigations.
Yes, we know you are not doing anything wrong. You are not scamming people, you are not sending spam. But enough do. And our servers cannot tell the difference. Please consider it self-defense.
