Originally Posted by
B747-437B
Why the assumption that the travelers were Nigerian?
Comments like yours simply serve to reinforce the negative stereotype against Nigeria and Nigerians.
My guess is that the OP saw the charge, called United and asked what it was about, and United told him the exacting routing from LOS-IAD-LGA and the names of the passengers for whom he had supposedly bought the tickets. The names were Nigerian. I don't think he's assuming anything.
If my card was used for a fraudulent purchase of plane tickets from Dublin to Boston in the names of Seamus O'Riordan and Siobhan Barry, I would reasonably conclude that Irish people traveled on my dime, I don't think that would be an unfair racist assumption.