Scambaiting

[Dual]

> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:02:09 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Greetings
> To:
>
> Greetings
> Hello my dear,
> I know this mail will come to you as a surprise since we have not had previous correspondence, please bear with me. I will really like to have a good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you. I am Madam. Janica Labbah from Sierra-Leone now in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.
>
> I lost my husband in 2006 when he went to Bouake (Northern part of Cote d'Ivoire) to negotiate for the establishment of cocoa processing factory by the rebels who wanted to take over the Government. Before his death in hospital, he briefly gave me information about the fund (US$10.5 Millions) he deposited with a bank here.
>
> since the death of my husband, his brothers have been seriously chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them.They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank accounts of my late husband,which I did, but I never disclose to them of this deposit. Because my husband made the deposit in a suspense fixed account with a clause attached to it for onward transfer into a foreign account.
>
> Now that the situation is becoming uncontrollable because of pressure on me from the family, which I will no longer like to take more risk staying here with my only son who is just Seven year old, I am now soliciting for your help to stand as my foreign business partner to receive the fund into your account. You will help me to invest the money into real estate once I come over there with my son.
>
> If you agree to work with me, I will give you 15% as your commission and also 5% for any expenses you might incur, all making 20% which you will deduct from the total money once transferred into your account.
>
> I am waiting for your reply so that I will give you more details about this transfer. Please call me: +22548374265
> Have a nice day,
>
> Janica Labbah

 

[VKD]

Here's one I got:

> Dear Beloved One.
>
>
> I am Mrs. Mary Johnson. from Switzerland I am deaf and has cancer of the
> breast, I lost my husband 12yrs ago without a child of mine.
>
>
> I have to sell all my properties left by my husband because the doctors say i
> have less than 2months to live. I have deposited the funds of $5
> Million United
> State Dollars,which i sold from my properties and deposit into a Bank.
>
>
> I want you to help me use the funds to help the charity,deaf and the
> motherless
> babies home before i die.If you are a good and honest Christian ,i shall give
> you the contact of the Bank and also the Deposit Certificate,so as to claim my
> funds before my death.
>
> Expecting your urgent response,and may God bless you as you carry out my wish.
>
>
> yours dying sister
>
> Mrs. Mary Johnson
>
> [email protected]

my reply:

Dear Mary Johnson

your story moved me to tears. I'd definetely like to take care of your funds. My only question is, do I have to give them to charity? I'd much rather keep the money for myself.

Get well soon, or at least die well soon.

yours,

Timothy Leary

"her" reply:

My Dear Beloved One,



Thanks for your confident response in receiving this fund and using it for the said purpose.The reason why i chose you is because God led me to you ,Now this is what you will do to receive this fund in your possession, I will like you to contact my bank, contact them on my behalf requesting for the transfer and release of the fund into your
account.



These are the informations you need to forward to them because when the fund was deposited they gave me this secret informations should in case I want to withdraw it for them to identify my consignment. The informations are below, I am giving and releasing this vital and secret informations of mine to you with trust and confidence because I have gotten you as my next of kin to do this faithful work for God and subsequently to Humans. My Dear please forward the informations below to the bank so that they can be able to access and release the funds to you.



Depositors Name Mrs. Mary Johnson
Batch no oxf/01/ngr-004
Year Deposited 2002
Secret Question Who is Depositor
Answer Mrs. Mary Johnson
Security Code 90600040020



The above are the informations you need to forward to the Bank and send to the bank also your full name address and contact phone numbers for easy communication.
Bank Contact Details Below



Bank Name: Zenith Bank
Contact person: Mr. Micheal Sholanke
Email address: [email protected]


My Good friend, please contact them with them above informations and please make sure you send your phone number or mobile number to them for easy communications ,keep me posted as soon as they transfer the fund into your bank account. Always put me in your daily prayers and do not forget my wish.


Thanks For Your Kindness.


God bless you.
Mrs. Mary Johnson.

 

[Conchaga]

I've never opened one. Maybe I should. There's an article on ED about this stuff. I'll be back in a second.

 

[Conchaga]

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/419_Nigerian_Email_Scams

 

[VKD]

the wiki article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

 

[Gagh]

I kept one going for a few months a few years back. A few of us at work used to this every now and then for a laugh. Unfortunately in the instance I post, he had had a gutfull of me after a while.

From: [email protected]
Subject: GREETINGS FROM GHANA.
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 0510 -0800

FROM: MR. AHMED OWUSU.
THE MANAGER INTERNATIONAL
COMMERCIAL BANK GHANA
FIRST LIGHT BRANCH
ACCRA, GHANA.

ATTN: DEAR.

I GOT YOUR CONTACT DURING MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE, HONEST AND A TRUST WORTHY PERSON TO ENTRUST THIS HUGE TRANSFER PROJECT WITH.

MY NAME IS MR. AHMED OWUSU. I AM THE MANAGER OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK GHANA, FIRST LIGHT BRANCH. I AM A GHANAIAN MARRIED WITH TWO KIDS.

I AM WRITING TO SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THE TRANSFER OF US$2,550.000.00.

THIS FUND IS THE EXCESS OF WHAT MY BRANCH IN WHICH I AM THE MANGER MADE

AS PROFIT DURING THE LAST YEAR. I HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED AN APPROVED END OF THE YEAR REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2004 TO MY HEAD OFFICE HERE IN ACCRA AND THEY WILL NEVER KNOW OF THIS EXCESS. I HAVE SINCE THEN, PLACED THIS

AMOUNT OF US$ 2,550.000.00 ON A SUSPENCE ACCOUNT WITHOUT A BENEFICIARY. AS AN OFFICER OF THE BANK, I CANNOT BE DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THIS MONEY

THUS I AM IMPELLED TO REQUES T FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO RECEIVE THIS MONEY INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. I INTEND TO PART 30% OF THIS FUND TO YOU WHILE 70% SHALL BE FOR ME. I DO NEED TO STRESS THAT THERE ARE PRACTICALLY NO RISK
INVOLVED IN THIS. IT'S GOING TO BE A BANK-TO-BANK TRANSFER. ALL I NEED FROM YOU IS TO STAND AS THE ORIGINAL DEPOSITOR OF THIS FUND.

IF YOU ACCEPT THIS OFFER, I WILL APPRECIATE YOUR TIMELY RESPONSE. PLEASE RESPONSE TO THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS: [email protected]

WITH REGARDS,

Mr. AHMED OWUSU.

Dear Mr Owusu.

I am writing back to you, to let you know that unfortunately you are not the first person to e-mail me today asking for financial support.

So far today, I have received the following:

31 e-mails from other gentlemen in Nigeria asking for financial help.
27 from folk Zimbabwe who are apparently farmers who couldn't grow asparagus or something, and now want my money.
22 from people in Ghana who want to empty my accounts so they can purchase the finest of titanium-plated nostril hair trimmers.
15 from some kind folk in Senegal who not only want my money, but want to impregnate my female relatives, and sell the offspring as 'Miracle Babies' to some bloke in Kenya.
28 from people in Kenya offering me 'Miracle Babies', a nasty dose of the clap, and wanting my money to be placed into holding accounts where they can take it.
2 from a man called 'Rasta Pete' in a tiny town in the Caymans asking if 'I also use the stuff' and requesting I transfer money for his Uncle who was touched to death in his special area by a rogue Pygmy tribe from Tanzania.

I am a kind man, and am willing to help most people who come to me for it, but alas I have already thrown my cards in with 7 of these people, who will at least spend my money on producing 100's of more mouths to feed in hard up, third world African countries like your own.

I am a proud man, so please continue to send me these e-mails, and I promise I will e-mail you a reply back every time with the latest news of my personal affairs, should I be able to help you, and all the women you have infected with the HIV virus.

Thanks for e-mailing,

Mr Odysseus M. van Buuren
Director of 'Waaterworld', The well known Dutch movie
12th Jan, 2004.

Dear Mr. Chris,

Thanks you very much for your response and information you gave to me.

But I must tell you that if you have received mails from people is to show you that anything that has original has fake too.

You have interesting to do business with me it has noting to do with money what I need what I need now is for us to know our self for more relationship to our family’s.

For the moment this what I may need from you so that we can start from here.



Full name
Contac t address
Age
Sex
Nationality
Country of residence
Occupation
Company name / Address
A personal phone and fax number
A scan copy of your international passport.

The modalities I have mapped out to actualize the transfer involves the following steps:
Step1: I program your full names and address on the entire database of the International Commercial Bank Ghana as the depositor and the beneficiary of the fund.
Step2: I shall issue a backdated deposit slip of the fund to your name.
Step3: I shall provide you with a draft of an application for transfer that you are going to: forward to my Head office in Accra as all International transfers are carried out from there.

At the completion of these steps the transfer will immediately be effected and the fund will hit your account in 72 hours.
I await your prompt response

yours truly,
Ahmed

Dear Mr Owusu.


I would like to be thanking you for the response that was indeed most rapid. Firstly, Mr. Chris is only my stage name, I am a Dutch national who is known for his nomadic ways, and directing very popular low-budges movies across such countries as Belize, Yemen & Laos. Indeed, it is my wish to bring exposure to these countries that drives me to be such a good director.

As I said, I am short of funding, and of alternate currency that we can use in your country, such as sea-shells, beads & dead babies, but I will indeed endeavour to complete the detail with post-haste on the form that you have sent to me.

Full name

Odysseus Maximillian van Buuren

Contact address

402c Arcadia Broadwalken Hoogstraten
Haarlem
Koolten missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!
J.missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess!missmanners is a goddess! Drooven
Nederlands
692

Age

52

Sex

Only on weekends.

Nationality

Dutch (although I have passports for 6 different nations worldwide)

Country of residence

Holland, Yemen, Laos, Belize (again, I am part resident in 6 nations)

Occupation

Film director, raconteur, philanderer, philosopher, entrepreneur. I am also a paid prophet to the Laos peoples on Tuesdays.

Company name / Address

I have my own company

Odyssey-Magical Productions
Hoogstraten AOMB
OMG 4201
Haarlem
Nederlands
692

A personal phone and fax number

Phone +66 7201456 992
Fax +66 7201456 993

A scan copy of your international passport.

Alas, my good lady wife broke our scanner when attempting to scan her posterior for her art display at an Italian gallery. I shall pursue the copying of several of my passports. Would you like the one from Belize with the photo taken when I was a black man, or the post operative one on the Laos passport?

You are obviously a man of good standing, high education, and proud background. Can you provide me with a scan copy of your international passport & personal details before we can proceed, perhaps in future days due to current lack of personal motivation due to long standing testicular injury?

Many thanks for your kind & devoted overture, forever your devoted servant,

Mr Odysseus M. van Buuren
Director of 'Waaterworld'
13th Jan, 2005.

PS. It has come to my attention that yesterdays e-mail was erroneously dated '12th Jan, 2004'. It appears my assistant secretary forgot to update the calendar in the office correctly upon my return from business over the Christmas & New Year festivity periods. I have dismissed her with immediate effect and will also have her publicly flogged to appease local authorities beyond my control.

Dear Mr. Chris,

How are you doing today? However, I acknowledge your massage but I don’t really understand it very well. It looks like you are playing with this transaction, which you can see with my position in the office I don’t have much time to play around.



If you want me to believes in you as you said I want to know the gospel true from you.

I am not in hurry anyway, but I want to do this business now for a personal reasons.

In other hand if it might interest you to know me or about this business I will invite you to my country for more understand to this transaction.

Here is my direct phone line: 00233-244-511729. upon your response I will forward to you the application letter which you shall send the my head office for the transfer.

I am looking forward to hearing from your response.

Ahmed owusu.

 

[Gagh]

Dear Mr. Ahmed.

I am fine today, and thankyou for asking after me. I feel that we are rapidly beginning to get a good, understanding relationship here, so please call me Mr van Buuren - Mr Chris is a pseudonym that I use professionally and is not my true name.

There appears to be some confusion here with ourselves. I am an honest & proud man. I am willing to provide a transaction, but time is not on my side. I am required in Laos on business, and fly out tomorrow.

I have hired a new secretary to deal with my affairs in the meantime. She will be contacting you for at least the next three days until I return Holland. It is likely that she herself will call you tomorrow - will you be in your office at around 2pm? Please also be very cautious with her. She does not speak very good English, and suffers from Tourette Syndrome, so do not be surprised if she shouts profanity at you - do not be alarmed, she is not in full control of her faculties.

Also I would like to enquire if you have any other business ventures that we could possibly share together. I am looking to get a good footing in Ghana, a country with rich history. I like your Voodoo so very much, and I am sure we are both big fans of the 'Austin Powers' series of movies, which remind me of your home.

Can I ask if you still requite a scan copy of my International Passport? I would like a scan copy of yours too, just so both parties are happy, and know what each other looks like. Also, of you are interested in some more business, I can offer you some Sega Megadrive games, or Vintage Lego - very good for resale in the secondary market for astute business men like ourselves.

Anyhow, I would like to conclude by saying that the phone call should arrive tomorrow, and that I am very excited in the future for our business. Please reply if you would like to give me more ideas, or offer me some more of your products - I like the look of the ladies bike saddles particularly - do these come used?

Also - if you would like to tell me more about yourself personally, please do. Perhaps we could make a personal meeting for business. I would very like much to meet with you, and if you have a wife and children, we could become very good friend in business and much good for business with our future business transaction for meeting with each other to talk business - no?

Fighting for the Future, and the freedom of our cultures.

Mr Odysseus M. van Buuren
Director of 'Waaterworld'
14th Jan, 2005.

Last bit. The fucking character restriction takes the piss.

 

[Tisiphone]

How come I never get shit like that?