Post by Yastreb on Nov 5, 2024 8:29:45 GMT
When scammers make mistakes, they can be small glitches, or massive blunders.
Here's a scammer who definitely made it into the second category!
This was a short bait (only four emails in total) but there were calls made, and the last two might be of interest.
The scammer's emails are date-stamped; his name has been changed. My comments are in bold.
26 September 2022
Dear Valid Beneficiary.
I am Barrister Philip Nicholson Esq.i receive your mail {Property and Inheritance Lawyer}.I am a Citizen of U.S.A in Canada. I know you don’t know me and I don’t know much about you, I will be very please if this transaction will make us know each other, as we both are going to benefit from helping the refugee francis Igho Family here in Ghana at the moment, I am a solicitor, for 21yrs old boy Francis Igho, he is the son of late Francis, a gold dealer and Farmer in Sudan, who was killed by the Sudan Government due to Crisis that erupted in their country, before his death he has secretly deposited two consignments with a Security Company here in Accra, Ghana and have let it known to his first Son Igho only, as at the time of deposit.
At the moment my client Francis Igho and his only surviving family, which are his mother and sister are here in Ghana, at the Bujumbura Refugee Camp. Infect their situation is very bad in the Camp, and they are having $5Million in one of the boxes and the other contains gold, but the late father deposited it as family valuable and that was the information he told Peter as at the time of deposit, not until about One year after his death that he found out in a secret diary the true contents and the documents showing the deposit of the consignments in the Security Company. Like he narrated to me, many people have tried to swindle them to get the Consignments out for themselves, but failed. At the end of the day, he was linked up to me to help him. That is why I have contacted to you to come to the aid of the survivals of the Igho family, to help get consignment out the security company.
And i was be sent to Africa to come and help Beneficiary which had spend a lot of money to Africa Scammers and Fraud star ,which you have not receive a cent, but i Barrister Philip Nicholson Canadian Citizen in Toronto we make you to receive if you are honest with me as well.my U.S.A Government said i should to come and assist you to empower every of your funds transfer to you if you are honest and sincere with me as a Barrister from Canada.
I will instruct you on how to go, for you to get things done, but I must tell you, that consignment is not safe, to be opened here in Ghana, so I will want it to transfer out of Africa, so that the Government here in Ghana or any Africa Countries will not seize the funds and the gold, I want them to be transferred to you, all necessary arrangements will be made for you to get this consignment safely shipped to you in your country, so that the funds will be invested in a profitable business in your country, for the family and get them a better life in your country, you try your best so that the $5million can be transfer to you immediately. I will write you more, but first I want to you to know that you will be rewarded with 20% of the entire contents and 5% of the entire cash will be set aside to upset any expenses made to get the consignments released from the Security Company and shipped to your country, or Europe, to where you think the funds can be wisely invested. I am not left out, I have been spending for the family too, so I will be giving 10% of the entire funds excluding the gold which I will not get anything from, only cash, but you will be reward with 20% of both the funds and the diamonds. Everything is done under legal grounds with out any breach of our local laws and any international laws. If it is necessary for you to come I will let you know ASAP
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regard
Barrister Philip Nicholson Williamson
Citizen Of Canada
Kwame Nkrumah Avenue,
Adabraka, Box 4150 No. 30/1,
I am Barrister Philip Nicholson Esq.i receive your mail {Property and Inheritance Lawyer}.I am a Citizen of U.S.A in Canada. I know you don’t know me and I don’t know much about you, I will be very please if this transaction will make us know each other, as we both are going to benefit from helping the refugee francis Igho Family here in Ghana at the moment, I am a solicitor, for 21yrs old boy Francis Igho, he is the son of late Francis, a gold dealer and Farmer in Sudan, who was killed by the Sudan Government due to Crisis that erupted in their country, before his death he has secretly deposited two consignments with a Security Company here in Accra, Ghana and have let it known to his first Son Igho only, as at the time of deposit.
At the moment my client Francis Igho and his only surviving family, which are his mother and sister are here in Ghana, at the Bujumbura Refugee Camp. Infect their situation is very bad in the Camp, and they are having $5Million in one of the boxes and the other contains gold, but the late father deposited it as family valuable and that was the information he told Peter as at the time of deposit, not until about One year after his death that he found out in a secret diary the true contents and the documents showing the deposit of the consignments in the Security Company. Like he narrated to me, many people have tried to swindle them to get the Consignments out for themselves, but failed. At the end of the day, he was linked up to me to help him. That is why I have contacted to you to come to the aid of the survivals of the Igho family, to help get consignment out the security company.
And i was be sent to Africa to come and help Beneficiary which had spend a lot of money to Africa Scammers and Fraud star ,which you have not receive a cent, but i Barrister Philip Nicholson Canadian Citizen in Toronto we make you to receive if you are honest with me as well.my U.S.A Government said i should to come and assist you to empower every of your funds transfer to you if you are honest and sincere with me as a Barrister from Canada.
I will instruct you on how to go, for you to get things done, but I must tell you, that consignment is not safe, to be opened here in Ghana, so I will want it to transfer out of Africa, so that the Government here in Ghana or any Africa Countries will not seize the funds and the gold, I want them to be transferred to you, all necessary arrangements will be made for you to get this consignment safely shipped to you in your country, so that the funds will be invested in a profitable business in your country, for the family and get them a better life in your country, you try your best so that the $5million can be transfer to you immediately. I will write you more, but first I want to you to know that you will be rewarded with 20% of the entire contents and 5% of the entire cash will be set aside to upset any expenses made to get the consignments released from the Security Company and shipped to your country, or Europe, to where you think the funds can be wisely invested. I am not left out, I have been spending for the family too, so I will be giving 10% of the entire funds excluding the gold which I will not get anything from, only cash, but you will be reward with 20% of both the funds and the diamonds. Everything is done under legal grounds with out any breach of our local laws and any international laws. If it is necessary for you to come I will let you know ASAP
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regard
Barrister Philip Nicholson Williamson
Citizen Of Canada
Kwame Nkrumah Avenue,
Adabraka, Box 4150 No. 30/1,
That looks like a standard orphan script; a bit longer than usual, but no real surprises.
Mr Williamson
I'm confused by your email. Why exactly am I needed? Please explain that.
Regards
Malcolm Reynolds
I'm confused by your email. Why exactly am I needed? Please explain that.
Regards
Malcolm Reynolds
There's an answer... but it's got nothing to do with the first email.
29 September
Dear Foreign Investors.
This letter From Barrister Philip Nicholas William Canadian Citizen,i am being sent from Canada to Africa to come and release funds to all beneficiary please i receive your mail and i so much appreciate your effort .Please i was in the United Bank of Africa making arrangement with them regarding your valid transfer of $15.5million to be transfer to you and with God so kindly have a Signal from United Nation ,Africa Union,Eco-was Board of Director with World bank president regarding your progress of your funds that is why i could not able to reply to you on time ,so please i am very sorry for my delay as well.
Please email . They are all scammers. They just need your money and for which they have known funds to release to you .
so you have to let me know the amount you have so i can release funds to you without any further charges..
So special all your transaction you have here in different countries are in my custody to release to you as my rightful partner ,the United Nation Africa union,Ecowas Board of Director with World Bank president has already given me the power to release all your entire funds to you as soon as you provide the requirement and i will permit all the banks to make the transfer to your valid account one by one as well.
please i really want you to be honest and truthful with me because i am your representative in Africa content as a whole and i must protect your interest as my reliable partner.please i have to let you know why you have not being receiving your funds because you are working with scammers which they have nothing to offer to you that is why i am being mandated to be your representative so that i can protect you interest for you not to be fraud again,
kindly forward any email you are receiving from any part of the world to me so i can help you verify it so you can not be scam,please all the email you forward to me they are all scammers and fraud so i am looking for them now to get them arrested and sent to ever lasting jail as well,please provide me your direct telephone number and your home address with your Bank details.And what is making you not to receive a cent from any part of all the countries is all this certificate which you have not been able to obtain on your name .
And you have to know that before you can receive any funds from any part of the World you need to obtain all this Certificate obtained from the High Court of Justices in England Content here.
1 ) You are going to obtain Non Inspection Certificate on your name as the rightful beneficiary
2 ) You are going to obtain Africa Membership Card on your name as the right full beneficiary
3 ) You are going to obtain United Nation Access Immunity Passport on your name as the right full beneficiary And all this document will back you up to receive all your total funds from any part of the world as far I am cosign as your partner and truthful person, but all this document will cost you sum amount of money to get the three Certificate on your name,And you have to know that this three Certificate cost you sum of 1,220 pounds to obtain it on your name after the Certificate i can permit any bank to make transfer to you without any interrogation or any more further upfront will not occur as well,so try all your best to raise the fee of the 1,220 pounds to get the three Certificate obtain on your name to enable you receive without any further delay from know organization, and as soon you get this three Certificate obtain on your name the transfer will comment in to you valid account and also our Red Cross Diplomat can Deliver your Consignment to you in your doorstep as a reliable beneficiary.because right way the United Nation ,Africa Union ,Ecowas Board Of Director with World Bank President have mandated me to work with you as well.
These are all the Banks I have investigated where your funds are pending in their system. As far you are now working with my all your total funds will be transferred to you immediately.
1) And this is for your benefit i was in ECO BANK today and i meet with the real Managing Director and he let me to know you have $5million dollars in their System, and he also let me to know that before this fund can be transfer it we cost us some of $500dollars for the transfer Charges of the total funds ,so i let him to know that let me get in touch with my brother which is you that i am coming back for the claim of the fund to transfer to your Bank Account,
2) i was still in INTERCONTINENTAL BANK today and i meet with the real Managing Director and he let me to know you have $8million dollars in their System,and he also let me to know that before this fund can be transfer it we cost us some of $630dollars for the on Non Residential Account on your name so that the total funds $8million dollars can be transfer into ,so i still let him to know that let me get in touch with my brother which is you that i am coming back for the claim of the fund to transfer to your Bank Account,
3) i was still in CAL BANK today and i meet with the real Managing Director and he let me to know you have $7Million Dollars in their System,and he also let me to know that before this fund can be transfer it we cost us some of $550dollars for the on (COT)Cost Of Transfer Permit Certificate on your name so that the total funds $7million dollars can be transfer to you ,so i still let him to know that let me get in touch with my brother which is you that i am coming back for the claim of the fund to transfer to your Bank Account,
4)I was still in Western Union In Togo Lome Today to meet with the Controller over there and she is a Woman so i discuss with her she let me to know that you have fund of $700.000.00 dollars in her system ,so she also let me to know that before it can be remit to you through MTCN in each day it cost us sum of $450dollars to get IMP Certificate on your name ,and 5MTCN we be transfer to you each day before the fund we finish from their system as well ,
Please due to our transaction i really respect people like you and for what my Government has sent me I will like you to know that i am a honest lady and truthful some one for which many beneficiary knows me everywhere and they receive all their funds with my power, but right now I so much appreciate your nice questions. please the amount you are having in Africa content is a huge amount but I will quickly like you to know that some funds will be deliver to you through our Red Cross Diplomatic agent and the rest funds will be transfer to your valid account in any country you choose where you want the funds to be transfer to as well. And as soon you receive your funds i am not sharing anything with you if you like to compensate me is out of your wellness in your mind.
So you have to know that the funds $15.5million belong to you as the rightful beneficiary as a honest person to me and the Federation of Ghana and i have instructed the United Bank of Africa ( UBA )so they are waiting to hear from me with the necessary Certificate so that they can start making the transfer to you immediately to your valid account without any further delay. and as soon you receive that I will be in all the banks in West Africa one by one and I will permit them to release all your entire funds without any delay. But have to know as a right beneficiary then you have to obtain three documents which will empower all the funds transfer to you without any interrogation in your country or any part of the World as well. And this is the three documents you are going to empower all your total funds release to you as soon you get the requirement as well.
Please call me with this mobile phone number. +234REDACTED So any Money you are sending to Africa should be send to my name so that i can go their and make the payment to them if they are real , So this are the Banks i have being to which your funds are holding their, So you are my reliable partner and brother you are to let me know the Transaction we are to face now because between one Week you are going to receive fund from Africa Ghana here through my power as well,because you have spend a lot of money to Scam so i want you to have the best from West Africa through me your Sister in Africa here ,that stand on behalf of you here in Africa,And i we like you to keep our transaction in secret between me and fore you we receive all your total funds from West Africa Ghana Here, because i we make sure that you we have the best from Ghana through my power if you are honest with me as my reliable Partner as well ,and all your money which you have spend to Africa Ghana to Some Scam, Through me you are going to receive all your total funds and pending Consignment in Security Company and AIRPORT WAREHOUSE on time without Any interrogation by any Government as well, So you are to keep to my words and i we also keep to your Words so that you can enable to receive all your funds from West Africa Ghana,Benin,Togo lome and Abuja Nigeria on time through my power asyour partner,
So as soon receive my mail you give me a call,That you receive the mail and also reply to me back as well, and forward-every mail you are receiving from West Africa Ghana to me as Well,
So i look forward to hear from you on time so we can proceed to enable you receive all your total funds as well on time,
Any Email you are receiving from any part of the World quickly forward to me so I can help you verify it on your behalf if they are real or Scam so that you can not be fraud as well,
And what are making you not to receive is all this certificate which you have not able to obtain on your name .
please i really want you to be honest and truthful with me because i am your representative in Africa content as a whole and i must protect your interest as my reliable partner.please i have to let you know why you have not being receiving your funds because you are working with scammers which they have nothing to offer to you that is why i am being mandated to be your representative so that i can protect you interest for you not to be fraud again,
Regard.
Barrister Philip Nicholson Williamson
This letter From Barrister Philip Nicholas William Canadian Citizen,i am being sent from Canada to Africa to come and release funds to all beneficiary please i receive your mail and i so much appreciate your effort .Please i was in the United Bank of Africa making arrangement with them regarding your valid transfer of $15.5million to be transfer to you and with God so kindly have a Signal from United Nation ,Africa Union,Eco-was Board of Director with World bank president regarding your progress of your funds that is why i could not able to reply to you on time ,so please i am very sorry for my delay as well.
Please email . They are all scammers. They just need your money and for which they have known funds to release to you .
so you have to let me know the amount you have so i can release funds to you without any further charges..
So special all your transaction you have here in different countries are in my custody to release to you as my rightful partner ,the United Nation Africa union,Ecowas Board of Director with World Bank president has already given me the power to release all your entire funds to you as soon as you provide the requirement and i will permit all the banks to make the transfer to your valid account one by one as well.
please i really want you to be honest and truthful with me because i am your representative in Africa content as a whole and i must protect your interest as my reliable partner.please i have to let you know why you have not being receiving your funds because you are working with scammers which they have nothing to offer to you that is why i am being mandated to be your representative so that i can protect you interest for you not to be fraud again,
kindly forward any email you are receiving from any part of the world to me so i can help you verify it so you can not be scam,please all the email you forward to me they are all scammers and fraud so i am looking for them now to get them arrested and sent to ever lasting jail as well,please provide me your direct telephone number and your home address with your Bank details.And what is making you not to receive a cent from any part of all the countries is all this certificate which you have not been able to obtain on your name .
And you have to know that before you can receive any funds from any part of the World you need to obtain all this Certificate obtained from the High Court of Justices in England Content here.
1 ) You are going to obtain Non Inspection Certificate on your name as the rightful beneficiary
2 ) You are going to obtain Africa Membership Card on your name as the right full beneficiary
3 ) You are going to obtain United Nation Access Immunity Passport on your name as the right full beneficiary And all this document will back you up to receive all your total funds from any part of the world as far I am cosign as your partner and truthful person, but all this document will cost you sum amount of money to get the three Certificate on your name,And you have to know that this three Certificate cost you sum of 1,220 pounds to obtain it on your name after the Certificate i can permit any bank to make transfer to you without any interrogation or any more further upfront will not occur as well,so try all your best to raise the fee of the 1,220 pounds to get the three Certificate obtain on your name to enable you receive without any further delay from know organization, and as soon you get this three Certificate obtain on your name the transfer will comment in to you valid account and also our Red Cross Diplomat can Deliver your Consignment to you in your doorstep as a reliable beneficiary.because right way the United Nation ,Africa Union ,Ecowas Board Of Director with World Bank President have mandated me to work with you as well.
These are all the Banks I have investigated where your funds are pending in their system. As far you are now working with my all your total funds will be transferred to you immediately.
1) And this is for your benefit i was in ECO BANK today and i meet with the real Managing Director and he let me to know you have $5million dollars in their System, and he also let me to know that before this fund can be transfer it we cost us some of $500dollars for the transfer Charges of the total funds ,so i let him to know that let me get in touch with my brother which is you that i am coming back for the claim of the fund to transfer to your Bank Account,
2) i was still in INTERCONTINENTAL BANK today and i meet with the real Managing Director and he let me to know you have $8million dollars in their System,and he also let me to know that before this fund can be transfer it we cost us some of $630dollars for the on Non Residential Account on your name so that the total funds $8million dollars can be transfer into ,so i still let him to know that let me get in touch with my brother which is you that i am coming back for the claim of the fund to transfer to your Bank Account,
3) i was still in CAL BANK today and i meet with the real Managing Director and he let me to know you have $7Million Dollars in their System,and he also let me to know that before this fund can be transfer it we cost us some of $550dollars for the on (COT)Cost Of Transfer Permit Certificate on your name so that the total funds $7million dollars can be transfer to you ,so i still let him to know that let me get in touch with my brother which is you that i am coming back for the claim of the fund to transfer to your Bank Account,
4)I was still in Western Union In Togo Lome Today to meet with the Controller over there and she is a Woman so i discuss with her she let me to know that you have fund of $700.000.00 dollars in her system ,so she also let me to know that before it can be remit to you through MTCN in each day it cost us sum of $450dollars to get IMP Certificate on your name ,and 5MTCN we be transfer to you each day before the fund we finish from their system as well ,
Please due to our transaction i really respect people like you and for what my Government has sent me I will like you to know that i am a honest lady and truthful some one for which many beneficiary knows me everywhere and they receive all their funds with my power, but right now I so much appreciate your nice questions. please the amount you are having in Africa content is a huge amount but I will quickly like you to know that some funds will be deliver to you through our Red Cross Diplomatic agent and the rest funds will be transfer to your valid account in any country you choose where you want the funds to be transfer to as well. And as soon you receive your funds i am not sharing anything with you if you like to compensate me is out of your wellness in your mind.
So you have to know that the funds $15.5million belong to you as the rightful beneficiary as a honest person to me and the Federation of Ghana and i have instructed the United Bank of Africa ( UBA )so they are waiting to hear from me with the necessary Certificate so that they can start making the transfer to you immediately to your valid account without any further delay. and as soon you receive that I will be in all the banks in West Africa one by one and I will permit them to release all your entire funds without any delay. But have to know as a right beneficiary then you have to obtain three documents which will empower all the funds transfer to you without any interrogation in your country or any part of the World as well. And this is the three documents you are going to empower all your total funds release to you as soon you get the requirement as well.
Please call me with this mobile phone number. +234REDACTED So any Money you are sending to Africa should be send to my name so that i can go their and make the payment to them if they are real , So this are the Banks i have being to which your funds are holding their, So you are my reliable partner and brother you are to let me know the Transaction we are to face now because between one Week you are going to receive fund from Africa Ghana here through my power as well,because you have spend a lot of money to Scam so i want you to have the best from West Africa through me your Sister in Africa here ,that stand on behalf of you here in Africa,And i we like you to keep our transaction in secret between me and fore you we receive all your total funds from West Africa Ghana Here, because i we make sure that you we have the best from Ghana through my power if you are honest with me as my reliable Partner as well ,and all your money which you have spend to Africa Ghana to Some Scam, Through me you are going to receive all your total funds and pending Consignment in Security Company and AIRPORT WAREHOUSE on time without Any interrogation by any Government as well, So you are to keep to my words and i we also keep to your Words so that you can enable to receive all your funds from West Africa Ghana,Benin,Togo lome and Abuja Nigeria on time through my power asyour partner,
So as soon receive my mail you give me a call,That you receive the mail and also reply to me back as well, and forward-every mail you are receiving from West Africa Ghana to me as Well,
So i look forward to hear from you on time so we can proceed to enable you receive all your total funds as well on time,
Any Email you are receiving from any part of the World quickly forward to me so I can help you verify it on your behalf if they are real or Scam so that you can not be fraud as well,
And what are making you not to receive is all this certificate which you have not able to obtain on your name .
please i really want you to be honest and truthful with me because i am your representative in Africa content as a whole and i must protect your interest as my reliable partner.please i have to let you know why you have not being receiving your funds because you are working with scammers which they have nothing to offer to you that is why i am being mandated to be your representative so that i can protect you interest for you not to be fraud again,
Regard.
Barrister Philip Nicholson Williamson
Mal needs answers!
Mr Williamson
Let me break things down for you.
In your first email you talked about "21yrs old boy Francis Igho, he is the son of late Francis, a gold dealer and Farmer in Sudan, who was killed by the Sudan Government due to Crisis that erupted in their country, before his death he has secretly deposited two consignments with a Security Company here in Accra, Ghana and have let it known to his first Son Igho only, as at the time of deposit" - and how you apparently need my help. So I asked why you would need my help.
You then answered my email by addressing me as "Dear Foreign Investors" and talking about something totally different, such as "your valid transfer of $15.5million to be transfer to you" and "They are all scammers. They just need your money" and "So special all your transaction you have here in different countries are in my custody to release to you as my rightful partner" and "i am your representative in Africa content as a whole and i must protect your interest as my reliable partner" and "you are working with scammers which they have nothing to offer to you"... and that's just the first couple of paragraphs! No mention of Francis Igho for one thing, and for another, I don't understand how any of it applies to me!
Explain this, and make it good, mister!
Malcolm Reynolds
Let me break things down for you.
In your first email you talked about "21yrs old boy Francis Igho, he is the son of late Francis, a gold dealer and Farmer in Sudan, who was killed by the Sudan Government due to Crisis that erupted in their country, before his death he has secretly deposited two consignments with a Security Company here in Accra, Ghana and have let it known to his first Son Igho only, as at the time of deposit" - and how you apparently need my help. So I asked why you would need my help.
You then answered my email by addressing me as "Dear Foreign Investors" and talking about something totally different, such as "your valid transfer of $15.5million to be transfer to you" and "They are all scammers. They just need your money" and "So special all your transaction you have here in different countries are in my custody to release to you as my rightful partner" and "i am your representative in Africa content as a whole and i must protect your interest as my reliable partner" and "you are working with scammers which they have nothing to offer to you"... and that's just the first couple of paragraphs! No mention of Francis Igho for one thing, and for another, I don't understand how any of it applies to me!
Explain this, and make it good, mister!
Malcolm Reynolds
I decided to call and get some answers. It took a while to get the scammer to stay on the phone, but persistence paid off.
After the last call, the bait came to an end. For some reason, the scammer didn't like being called a beggar!
x 4 (Lagos to Abuja, Nigeria to Ghana, Nigeria to Benin, Ghana to Benin)