VIRGINIA AMUAJIBODate: Tue, 20 May 2003 02:01:27 +0100 (BST)From: "Virginia Amuajibo" Subject: Please reply me through this my private Email: [address omitted] To: [address omitted. It's my real e-mail address and I wasn't born yesterday] From :Virginia Mary Amuajibo. Abidjan, Ivory Coast West Africa. Email: [address omitted] APPEAL FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE. My Dear one, Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact from the Ivoirian chamber of commerce and industry (internet department). I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trust worthy person that I can do business with and by the recommendation , I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business . I am Virginia Mary Amuajibo the only duagther of late Mr. and Mrs. Amuajibo. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory coast, my father was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip . My mother died when I was a baby and since then my father took me so special. Before the death of my father on october 2002 in a private hospital here in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Ten million,five hundred thousand United State Dollars. USD ($10,500,000.00) left in fixed / suspense account in one of the prime bank here in Abidjan ,that he used my name as his only DUAGTHER for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business ssociates.That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where i will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management . Dear, I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways: (1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to . (2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 22years. (3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country. Moreover, Dear, i am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/ input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas. Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within fourteen (14) days you signify interest to assist me. Anticipating to hear from you soon. Thanks and God bless. Best regards, Virginia Mary A. Note:Please do not forget to reply me through this my private Email: [address omitted] Why does God always have to be involved in these scams? Aren't there any secular criminals out there? Oh well, it's comforting to know that if you do manage to get scammed, at least some of the money is going to a local church... or maybe not. Anyway, Dustin renders his services available forthwith... DUSTIN ARBITRAGEDate: Tue, 20 May 2003 03:32:07 -0700 (PDT)From: "Dustin Arbitrage" Subject: RE: Please reply me through this my private Email: [address omitted] To: "Virginia Amuajibo" Dear Virginia, I am so very sorry to hear that your father died in such tragic circumstances. I hope he went quickly, and without much pain. But now down to business... yes, I believe that I'm in a position to assist you, but before I can give you details of my bank account and so on, I need to establish a certain level of trust in you. So, could you please send me a photo of yourself, and perhaps provide me with a few more details (where you live, names of family members who live with you, etc.). Once a level of trust has been established between us, I'm sure we can do business. Likewise, if you require any more details concerning myself, please feel free to ask and I shall furnish them if possible. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours Sincerely, Dustin Arbitrage Might as well put the lad to work straight away. VIRGINIA AMUAJIBODate: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:38:54 +0200 (CEST)From: "Virginia Amuajibo" Subject: Thanks for your concern. To: "Dustin Arbitrage" Dear Dustin Arbitrage, How are you today my dear, thanks for your reply and advice you give to me concernig the proposal I sent to you for assitance in money transfer and investment establishment in your country.Meanwhile I am glad to understand your intrest and acceptance to assist me in this transaction for benefits of both of us and your family. However I thank God for sending a person like you to be of assistant to me.So I will be delighted to detail you once agian the precise areas in which you assistance is required. 1/ For you to assist me and negociate for lucretives and profitable investment where the said will be invested wisly with less tax to your government. 2/ For you to assist me secure a permanent resdential permit in your country, for me to countinue my education while you will be taken care of the investment that will set up by you. 3/ For you to provide a good account where the said will be transferred to with out much tax. Most of all is for you to be good partner who could be trusted when the said arrived to your country.For assisting in these areas I promise to give you 15% of the total sum. As regards to the proof you are requesting from me,below are the picture of my late father and including his burial ceremony picture and my onwe personal photo aswell.And I will be appereciated if you could sent to me in your next message so that i will build more trust in you and also I will see how you look like.Concerning my late fathers perents,I'm no longer in our family house because of security purposes because the death of my late father teache me alot of things and before the death of my father he told that I should be carefull with this funds and also my life.So right now I live in a hotel since ever the death of my father because of security of my life and this funds. Finally,please do not forget to send to me your private phone/ fax number for easy communication and confidentiality of this our long lasting business relationship. Thanks for your understanding and continual coopraetions. Yours Sincerely Virginia Amuajibo Attached were 3 photos: 1) Photo of some African political figure 2) Alleged photo of father's funeral with Associated Press sidebar still intact 3) A photo of a pretty African girl - probably the lad's sister or girlfriend, or maybe just an anonymous photo lifted from the Web? In any event, I became busy myself at that time, and decided to let "Virginia" stew for a few days. I got one e-mail a day, each increasingly more 'urgent' than the last. Below is the fourth of these e-mails... VIRGINIA AMUAJIBODate: Mon, 26 May 2003 10:45:15 +0100 (BST)From: "Virginia Amuajibo" Subject: Urgent To: "Dustin Arbitrage" Dear Dustin Arbitrage, Compliments of the day, Please I'm very worried of not been hearing from you after sending you my photo and the the burial ceremony photo of my late father. Please do write me immediately. Thanks be blessed. Regards Virgina Hmm.... guess I'd better respond before I lose this one... DUSTIN ARBITRAGEDate: Mon, 26 May 2003 04:40:39 -0700 (PDT)From: "Dustin Arbitrage" Subject: Re: Urgentv To: "Virginia Amuajibo" Virginia, hi again! Sorry that I had not responded to your last few e-mails, but I was called away suddenly on business last week. For once I did not bring my laptop computer, as I took some holidays on the weekend and wanted to forget about work for a while. Thus, I could not read my e-mail. Anyway... thank you for the photos. You are such an attractive girl. It will be a pleasure doing (business with) you! I realize now that you are probably in a hurry to get this money transferred, and again I apologize for the delay. By the way, 15% is a very generous commission. Thank you! But I suppose I should tell you a bit more about myself before we take the plunge, so to speak. I'm something of a famous inventor in the field of electronics, best known for my work in developing the Referential Stasis Generator. You see, I come from a long line of inventors, my grandfather being the inventor of the Brownian Capacitor. I'm enclosing a photo of myself taken at a recent inventor's award ceremony. And now that private phone number you requested... I'd better not give you my home number, because I prefer that my wife not become involved in this transaction. I suppose it's best if you call me at work. I live on the east coast of the USA, so please take the time difference into consideration when calling. The number is: [real phone and fax numbers of a poor, unsuspecting architectural firm somewhere in NJ, USA] Please ask for my secretary, Gina Davis (Gina is pronounced as 'jeena'). I look forward to a fruitful business transaction. Sincerely, Dustin Arbitrage Heh heh. Didn't want to take a chance by furnishing them with the correct spelling of Geena's name. After all, the lads presumably can search the Web too! Meanwhile, I attached a photo of Dustin, in reality that of a distinguished yet relatively unknown Irish actor. Dustin, you sure are a handsome devil, gotta hand you that. VIRGINIA AMUAJIBODate: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:51:42 +0200 (CEST)From: "Virginia Amuajibo" Subject: I have recieved your message. To: "Dustin Arbitrage" Dear Dustin Arbitrage, Compliments of the day to you, Well your message has been recieved and its contents are carefully noted by me aswell.I thank you so much for your kindness and understandings towards this our possible transaction and beggininigs of our business long lasting relationship.Well after going through your message I felt so much happy inregards of your advice concerning the confidentiality of this transaction and your interest. Secondly,I will be calling you at my own convinence time due to the confidentiality as you adviced and in orther hand I don't want the people arround me here to know that I'm planning to transfer my inhearited funds to USA because of security reasons.So I will be calling you from my Lawyer's office because I have discussed with him concerning this transaction and he agreed to assist me since I don't have much expirence in any international business and transaction.Well the Lawyer told me that he will be contacting you by tommorrow morning American time,please feel free to discuss with him and his name is Dr Williams Momoh. So I have recieved your picture and I found that you are a very handsome man and I believe that you are also a God's fearing somebody that you will not ran awy with the funds as soon as it gets into your account.Please I need every thing concerning this our transaction to be cncluded soon because I don't want to be waisting much time any longer.As soon as you hear from the Lawyer tommorrow please get me posted with the developments so that we shall proceed immediately with the transfer arrangements.With the information I got from you about your ocupation,well I found out that you are a very hard working man with investments expirience. I will be calling you from my lawyer's office at my own convinece time because I can not call you from were I'm staying or in public centers due to the confidentiality of this transaction.So please as soon as you hear from the lawyer do follow all his instructions so that we can conclude this transact quickly and I will arrang for my travelling documents. Thanks and God almighty be with you. Regards Virginia Ooh, bring on the heavy hitters then! The 'lawyer', Dr. Williams Momoh, comes into the picture. Going to be some confoundedness tomorrow when they call that number... VIRGINIA AMUAJIBODate: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:22:38 +0200 (CEST)From: "Virginia Amuajibo" Subject: Important To: "Dustin Arbitrage" Dear Dustin Arbitrage, Good day to you, It is just to inform you that I called the number you gave to me today and it is unfortunately that the person I got on phone told me that is a wrong number I even ask of your secretary, Gina Davis (Jeena) and the person I got on line told me that there is no body anwsering such name.So even my lawyer told me that he called your line and they told him thesame thing. Secondly,what is happenning? or are you taking this transaction as a joke? or are you realy sure that you want to assist me in this transaction? Please I need to hear from you so that we should proceed with out any further delay.Provide to me your real telephone numbers were I can reach you easily and make sure that you include your mobile numbers for an easy communication and confidentiality of this our transaction. Please I need your urgent response as soon as you recieve this my message. Thanks and God bless us. Regards Virginia Uh oh, they're becoming quite indignant. I suppose I could suggest that we continue this charade via e-mail only, but they do seem suspicious. Maybe they've been baited a few times already? Ah heck, I'm tiring of this. Time to come 'clean'... DUSTIN ARBITRAGEDate: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:36:50 -0700 (PDT)From: "Dustin Arbitrage" Subject: Re: Important To: "Virginia Amuajibo" "Virginia", hi, Yes, I'm afraid I am taking this transaction as a joke :-) You see, I presumed from the very start that you were probably some big, bald arsehole sitting in a cybercafe somewhere in Lagos. Pretty close to the truth, eh? I discovered a copy of a letter very similar to yours, with just a few details changed. I've included it below. Next time, try to come up with something a little more original, and you might even catch a real mugu then! At least I hope you wasted a bit of your money on those long distance calls... but then, your phone is probably a stolen one too. Bye forever, and regards to Dr. Momoh. Dustin Arbitrage, Inventor Extraordinaire And here's the letter you probably ripped off from a fellow 419 scammer (or maybe you are "Larry" as well?): From LARRY LAMIDO MOORE Tel: [number omitted] Abidjan COTE D' IVOIRE please reply to my private mail. [address omitted] URGENT ASSISTANCE DEAR, COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON. INVESTMENT PROPOSAL, PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU ABOUT MY DESIRE TO GO INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. AFTER MY PRAYER, I HAD THE REVELATION THAT YOU WILL SUCCESSFULLY ASSIST ME. I AM LARRY LAMIDO, A GHANAIAN (GHANA) NATIONALITY. THE REAL SON OF MR AND MRS LAMIDO MOORE, MY FATHER WAS A VERY RICH FARMER AND COCOA MERCHANT, BASED IN ABIDJAN,THE ECONOMIC CAPITAL OF IVORY COAST BEFORE HE WAS POISONED TO DEATH BY HIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATES ON ONE OF THEIR OUTINGS TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS ISSUE. MY FATHER WAS MARRIED WITH TWO WIVES,TWO CHILDREN.MY MOTHER WAS HIS FIRST WIFE, WHILE I AM THE ONLY SON. AFTER MY MOTHER DIED ON THE OCTOBER 24TH 1989, MY FATHER TOOK ME SO SPECIAL SINCE I AM MOTHERLESS. BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER ON FEB. 26TH 2002 IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED, HE CALLED ME SECRETLY TO HIS BED SIDE AND TOLD ME ABOUT MONEY , THE SUM OF US$ 18 MILLION ( EIGHTEEN MILLION US DOLLARS ) HE LODGED IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT IN A PARTICULAR BANK HERE IN ABIDJAN . HE TOLD ME THAT HE USED MY NAME AS THE NEXT BENEFICIARY IN DEPOSIT OF THE MONEY. ALSO HE EXPLAINED TO ME THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF THIS MONEY HE WAS POISONED BY HIS BUSINESS PARTNER , THAT I SHOULD SEEK FOR A RELIABLE FOREIGN PARTNER IN A COUNTRY OF MY CHOICE TO ASSIST ME TO TRANSFER THIS MONEY TO AN OVERSEAS ACCOUNT WHERE IT WILL BE USED FOR A PROPER FUTURE INVESTMENT PURPOSE IN ANY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS . I AM HONOURABLE SOLICITING FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE AS FOLLOWS: 1) TO PROVIDE A BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WILL BE TRANSFER TO FOR AN INVESTMENT PURPOSE IN A PROFITABLE OUTFIT WHICH YOU KNOW BEST 2) TO SERVE AS THE GUARDIAN OF THIS MONEY SINCE I AM A BOY OF 22 YEARS OLD. 3) TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR ME IN YOUR COUNTRY TO CONTINUE MY EDUCATION CAREER. 4) TO PROCURE ME A RESIDENTIAL PERMIT IN YOUR COUNTRY I HAVE DECIDED TO OFFER YOU 15% OF THE TOTAL MONEY AS THE MODE OF COMPENSATION FOR YOUR EFFORT TO ASSISTING ME AFTER THE TRANSFERRING THIS MONEY TO YOUR NOMINATED ACCOUNT OVERSEAS. PLEASE I WILL BE VERY HAPPY IF THIS TRANSACTION WILL BE CONCLUDED QUICK. I AM EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND I WILL LIKE YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND THE FAX NUMBER IN REPLYING OF THIS PROPOSAL AND PLEASE CALL ME IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS LETTER ON MY PHONE [number omitted] FOR MORE ORAL DISCUSSION. I WILL FURNISH YOU OTHER BASIC INFORMATIONS CONCERNING THIS MONEY IN THE BANK UPON YOUR POSITIVE RESPONSE. THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO CARE FOR ME AMEN GET BACK TO ME ON THIS e-mail: [address omitted] BEST REGARDS. LARRY LAMIDO MOORE. Oh well, that's that... I was expecting a parting shot back from the lad, but I haven't got a response in about 3 days, and have decided to let the sleeping dog lie. I suppose the experienced scammers like this one have learned to take rejection as a matter of course. Just forget about it and move on to the next potential victim. *Sigh* Next time I won't be so quick to give out a phone number, if at all. Can probably keep them on the hook longer that way. |
