The First mail was received on Sat, 23 Mar 2002
09:41:31 -0800
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It read as follows :
ASSISTANCE
ATTN,
I wish to solicit your help in migrating to your country and
investing my funds. Briefly, i am from
south africa nationality.
my husband is a car dealers in south africa, but he later fold up
the business because of political crisis
in south africa.and came to abidjan ivoire coast, on his way to
ivoire coast he has a plane crash and he
died.
now he left alone and with my only son we are here in abidjan ivoire
coast west africa to look for a god
fearing person out side africa to help us transfer this fund to your
country for investment.
the money has been in the bank of BIOA BANK OF ABIDJAN COTE D IVOIRE
WEST AFRICA. for some years THE MOEY IS 6MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS IN A GENERAL TRUST
ACCOUNT INTHE BANK OF BIAO BANK OF COTE D IVOIRE WEST AFRICA.
I still want to invest the money in the same motor car business in
your country. we now needed your help to arrange with the attorney that will stand to arrange the transfer to
your country.
get back to me so that we can arrange to give you the contact of the
attorney for you to call him for this
assistance.
THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU.
MRS Maurren Dozi
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My reply to this letter was:
I am not interested in your business . I don’t have time to do
this . Sorry about that.
May god bless you.
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Then again I got an email on Mon, 25 Mar 2002
01:45:15 -0800
MY Dear Beloved.
Thanks for your response to my message. I have told you that IAM
from south Africa and the wife of DR
MACCANATHY DOZI of M D motors L T D in south Africa who died in
plane crash in the western water cost of COTE D IVOIRE by KENYA
airways on his way to the country.
I happen to get your contact through a friend that works in ABIDIJAN
international business relationship. But never disclose much of this
transaction to any body here.
Why I have to look for a foreign contact is that the bank told me
that my husband deposited this money that it must be transfer to a
foreign beneficiary s account with instruction pay as received and
as he is dend that a lawyer must and normerlize the transferring documents and
that I have to submit to the bank the banking data of the foreign
beneficiary and his private phone and fax number whom the money will
be transfer to.
I will like you now to send this so that I can go to the bank, as
you the foreign partner of my late husband. To clear every thing to
you please you can contact the Director of international remittance,
DR JOHN BALIY, his office phone is 225 07.77.78.20, and I will like you to
get the attorney on line his name is SADIQ ALLOU ESQ his phone is
225.07.84.82.81.
Principal attorney of SADIQ chamber ABIDIJAN.
Thanks for your kindness and co-operation I awaiting for your urgent
response thanks God bless you best regard MRS MAURREN DOZI
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To this , I replied (I
wanted a gracious and decent way out)
To be frank, I am disinterested in money matters and a amount like
what you told never interests me more
than a ice candy.
I wish you that the Almighty be with you and help you out.
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Again, I got a mail on Wed, 27 Mar 2002
01:03:08 –0800
Dear
Thanks for your email and l wounder what makes you still doubt me
while l have given to you all clearification and is left for you to
get yourself right. Yes is true that we may live our riches to die
but remmember that as it in heaven so is on earth.if you are a poor
mam or woman on earth so you will be poor in heaven. such of that of
Lazurus who was a servant to Nebccaduniezz on was still servant to
him at heaven. Since l was born it is only you that l have since to
say that you are disintersted in money matter only GOD knows how
rich you are, but for GODsake l needs your urgent assistant to help
me as the beneficiary whom my late husband made the deposit on his
behalf. It will also be a good thing to the sight of GOD is also
help to humanitarian. You should understand me and help me unless
you are not capable to execute this transaction well. as l think you
can do it. Thanks and GOD bless you. l awaits your urgent response
as it matters.
Mrs Maurrine Dozi
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This mail frustrated me and annoyed me a lot. I knew they were a
bunch of scam mongers guising as a hapless widow.
I wanted to teach them a lesson for all their wrong doings.
I used to be online all the time .When this mail reached me , I
trapped the IP from which the mail server of www.onebox.com received
the mail.
Immediately, I traced the origin of the IP and found the ISP details
and got all the information required.
I searched for such scams in Internet and found some similar mails.
But I send them my bank details of a dead account which has just
30c. This account, I have no idea of renewing it as I am sentimental
that when I put money in this account, it just disappears!!!!
You will know why I gave my account details to them soon…..
I got a reply from them after I send my almost dead account details.
Even then, I just gave the account number and BSB number so that
they can just put money (never will they do that).
This mail was recd on 31st March 2002.
Dear.
Thank you for your mail and for sending of the banking perticulars.
This is to inform you that I have submitted it to office of
international remmitance depertment of the bank. and i was told by
the chife telex officer that he will contact you as soon as
possible, and they have to follow there banking pocceedure of
money transfer. That you will be contacted soon.
Thanks God bless you.
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I wanted to give them a surprise gift for
Fools Day (April 1) 2002.They play with people thinking that
we are fools. Let them be more cautious the next time….
Here is the mail I wrote to them…..
I have given you my bank details. The account balance in it is -30c.
It needs to be replenished. Please put $20000 US in my account
before you talk further through your bank or solicitor. Also I am
sure what your next step will be. This is your mode of operation:
There are a number of variations for this scam, but they all involve
the same themes. You receive an unsolicited fax or e-mail from a
foreign country (usually Nigeria). Someone has a large amount of
money that they need to get into or out of the country. They offer
to make you a business partner. Your role is to set up a legitimate
bank account and let them use it to transfer millions of dollars. For this, you get part of the money. If you
contact them, they will ask you to put money ($10,000 to $25,000)
into the account to cover some initial expenses and then give them
access. As soon as you do that, your money disappears and so do your
business partners. Common variations on the Scam include "over
invoiced" or "double invoiced" oil or other supply
and service contracts where they need your help to get the overage
out of Nigeria; crude oil and other commodity deals; a
"bequest" left you in a will; and "money
cleaning" where they have a lot of currency that needs to be
"chemically cleaned" before it can be used.
Also, My Dear Friend,
Your address details are as follows which I have traced (I
have deleted some important details of my trace for this
presentation)
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:inetname: AVISONET
descr: ISP for COTE D'IVOIRE TELECOM
descr: ****
descr: ABIDJAN
descr: IVORY COAST
country: CI
admin-c: JZ1631-RIPE
tech-c: AE5-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
descr: France Telecom
descr: OPENTRANSIT
origin: AS5511
mnt-by: FT-BRX
source: RIPE
person: Jerome ZANO
address: *********
address: *********
address: ABIDJAN
address: IVORY COAST
phone: **********
fax-no: ***********
e-mail: *****
nic-hdl: JZ1631-RIPE
source: RIPE
person: *********
address: COTE D'IVOIRE TELECOM
address: ********
address: ABIDJAN
address: IVORY COAST
phone: **********
phone: *********
fax-no: ********
e-mail: ********
nic-hdl: AE5-RIPE
mnt-by: FT-BRX
source: RIPE
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If you try to act smart with me, I will send my Troops of Goodwill
to make the things worse for you.
Better send the $20000 US to my account or I will hand over all your
details to FBI and Interpol. Also, I know your names, phone numbers
and address and will establish the connection of your racket with Al
Queida and get the American Troops there to do justice.
Don't think I am dumb. I will certainly do what I tell. $20000
before this week ends or your fraud details to FBI and Interpol. If
you don't respond to this mail before tomorrow (monday) and agree
for the transfer of $20000US ,believe me, you are all going to land
in American Detention Centres for life.
Cheers
I just wanted to scare them off to death on World Fools Day for
fooling a lot of people!!!!! I never need this money from those
bunch of thieves. Even if they budge to me, I am going to hand over
all these details to FBI for necessary action to be taken.
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So just tell me friends……. Did the
scam mongers get what they deserved?
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------- WHAT CAN
BE DONE ABOUT THESE SCAM ARTISTS? -------
Not much. We don't want to sound fatalistic,
but the reality is that the scam artists hide behind
untraceable email addresses, sending their scam letters from
pay-by-the-hour Internet Cafes. The governments of Africa
are generally in a survival mode, with little interest in
dealing with some Internet scam artist in a local village.
There are always bigger fish to fry.
Plus we have actually talked with West
African government and business officials about their
perception of these 419 scams. They have expressed amazement
that anyone could be fooled by the empty promises
contained in emails from a stranger in Africa. In their
eyes, the culpability goes both ways. "Who could be
such a fool to give money to someone they have never
met?" This is a valid question for all of us to
ponder...
What we have done at The Freeman Institute
is to provide a free service to warn individuals who may be
flirting with the idea of great wealth coming their way. Our
motto is: Run, don't walk, away from these scams and then do
what you can to warn people about this pervasive problem.
Feel free to provide a link to www.freemaninstitute.com/419.htm
-- so that more people can see the truth about these 419
scams.
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