Here is an exchange I had with a scammer. I "adopted" one, so to speak.
p.s. I go by Lord Kenneth
bennard egoabia ekpontuDear Hansen ,I am Bennard Egoabia Ekpontu, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to Mr. Mark Hansen a national of your country, who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 1999, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Sagbama express road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clientÕs extended relatives. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the finance compan!y where the deceased had an account valued at about USD$7.95 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next few weeks. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the proceeds of this account valued at USD7.95 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the money in the following ration: 60% to me and 40% to you. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me by my email and send to me your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further on this transactionA E Best regards, Barrister Bennard Egoabia Ekpontu lord kenneth mcgeeGreetings, Mr. Ekpontu (If I may call you that). I am quite interested in your proposal, however, as you know how things are over the internet, I am slightly curious over your sincerity. I personally feel the best way for me to validate your legitimacy is to contact the spirits. I seek guidance in them whenever I am unsure of something, you understand. My astrologer told me that today will be a very lucky day, as he specifically said "something good will happen". He was very specific, as you see, and something good did happen, so I'm guessing this is the real deal! Please, reply to this message so I can confirm I am actually in correspondence with a real person and not some computer program, and I'll get back to you with what the spirits tell me. -Lord Kenneth McGee, Esquire bennard egoabia ekpontuMYLORD GREETINGS ,YOUR MAIL WAS RECIEVED WITH THE CONTENT NOTED,YES IT IS OF A GOOD THAT YOU CONTAC YOUR YOUR DAILY STAR BEFOR YOU PROCEED ON THIS PROGECT,I AM ALSO HAPPY THAT I GOT IN CONTACT WITH SOME ONE LIKE YOU WHO WILL ALSO HELP IN FUTURE AFTER THE DEAL HAS BEEN DONE.IF YOU NEED MORE ABOUT THIS DEAL YOU ARE FREE TO CALL ON MY PHONE LINE 234-1-7765046. REMAIN BLESS IN THE LORD. EKPONTU. lord kenneth mcgeeGreetings Mr. Ekpontu (if I may call you that).After consulting the spirits I'm a little confused. When I asked them if your offer was legitimate I saw a visions of goats. I clearly don't know what they are trying to tell me, so I ignored them and contacted my spiritual guide, "Grandfather Randi". He chided my skepticism and told me to hold out would be an insult to the great people of Nigeria. However, my astrologer told me that Venus is in my 5th house and the cow jumped over the moon, which means that all business dealings must wait a few days. I must say, money is not something unfamiliar to me. My success on the stock market (partial thanks to my astrologer and Grandfather Randi!) has left me rich, so while more money would be nice I would be affected little by it. But I will take you up on your offer eventually, for all the good people of Nigeria. Yours in waiting, Lord Kenneth McGee, Esquire bennard egoabia ekpontuDear Lord Kenneth,Thank you so much for your response to my proposal. Like was mentioned in my proposal, the modalities for a successful transaction have been taken care of. All that is required of you, is your maximum cooperation and confidentiality. Please do not entertain any fear whatsoever, since I am in a position as a practicing attorney to know my limitations within the law of my country. I cannot for any reason involve myself in any dealings that will jeopardize my reputation. The late Mark Miller and his wife do not have any known relative. This I have been able to verify and as such we do not have any problem as far as that is concerned. All that is required of you is your maximum cooperation and confidentiality in this matter. I will, however, ask that you give me your word of promise that you will not take undue advantage of the trust I am bestowing on you to run away with the fund. As a first step towards actualizing this transaction, you have to send to me by fax, your full details and identity to enable me start the processes involved. In the meantime you are to fill the following 'application of claims' and send to me by fax so that I can submit it to the appropriate department. From this point I will require your maximum cooperation because once I put in an application of claims on your behalf, you are automatically recognized as the true beneficiary. For your assistance, you will be getting 30%of the total sum, while the remaining 65% is for me while 5% is set aside for any incidental expense during the course of this transaction. I intend to invest at least 50% of my share in any business that is profitable in your country, with your kind and valuable advice. If there is anything which you do not understand ,please do not hesitate to ask me for more explanation. I look forward to your urgent reply so that we can proceed with this transaction immediately. In the meantime PLEASE keep this transaction STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL so as not to compromise the security of this funds. Thank you and best regards, Benard Kobaki Following is an 'Application of Claims' format that you are to fill and sign and send back to me by fax to enable me submit this on your behalf for us. "APPLICATION OF CLAIMS" The executive Director, Office of the Director, Legal/Documentary Credit Dept. UNION NIGERIA PLC, Headquarters Annex Victoria Island, Lagos Ð Nigeria Dear Sir, APPLICATION FOR CLAIM AS ÒNEXT-OF-KINÓ DRAWING FROM ACCOUNT OF LATE ENGR. MARK WITH YOU.AMOUNT: US$7.95,BILL NO. UBNCL/1/7289/98 First of all, I do hereby request to maintain that you know about me, who I am. I am the next of kin following my blood relationship with Late Engr. Mark. With this letter, you will certainly remember that some years ago, many daily newspapers in your country published the death of one of your numerous clients,Engr. Mark who had a permanent resident permit in Nigeria since 1978, and who died in a car.Following the deposit/lodgement holden in the domicilliary account of your late customer, Engr.Mark and Bill No. UBNCL/1/7289/98.I have realised the mentioned bill according to the deed of will being interpreted for and in my favour by his attorney and at the date of this letter, I have not received any payment from you yet. I trust you will understand that in these circumstances therefore, I will be pleased to receive as soon as possible this payment in accordance with the below referred account and bill duly established and I request you to transfer the above outstanding deposit into my account as follows: Bank Name ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ. Bank Address ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ. Bank Tel/Fax/Telex ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ Bank Code ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ.. Account No. ÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ I am prepared and ready to submit or surrender any Documentary evidence(s) on demand and also, I would be solely responsible for all obligations thereto. Kindly treat this application with urgency it requires. Thank you. j lord kenneth mcgeeDear Mr. Benard Kobaki:What happened to my good friend Ekpontu Adiebuonu? I was in correspondence with him over an issue relating to a "Mark Hansen", not this Mark Miller. I understand some mix-ups do happen, as law offices as prestige as yours often are. But, what about Ekpontu? Was he a victim of some rogue voodoo magic? I'll be pissed if he was turned into a zombie. If my good friend Ekpontu is ill, I know of many homeopathic cures which will fix him up in a jiffy. They don't have any of that icky chemical taste either-- they go down easily, just like drinking water! As you can see from this mixup, it always is good to check the stars for guidance in this area. -Lord Kenneth McGee, Esquire bennard egoabia ekpontuDEAR LORD KENNETH,THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEEN VIGELANT ENOUGH TO NOTICE THE GRAPHICAL ERROR BBY MY SECRETARY IS MITAKE ANY PERSON CAN DO BECAUSE NOBODY IS ABOVE SUCH HUMAN MISTAKES. I WILL MAIL YOU THE APLICATION OF CLAIM WHICH YOU WILL FILL AND RETURN. PLEASE CAN I HAVE YOUR PHON NUMBERS/FAX SO THAT I EXPLAIN ON PHONE TO YOU EKPONTU. lord kenneth mcgeeDear Mr. Ekpontu:I apologize for this minor inconvenience, but I don't own a telephone. You might find this strange or funny, but just bear with me and you'll agree with me that it is wise for me not to own one... You see, I fear demonic spirits are after me (hence why this ritual needs to go underway). I am afraid if I use the telephone demons will shoot out of the earpiece and into my brain, taking over my soul and giving the aliens another chance to abduct me. My astrologer disagrees, but not Grandfather Randi. It's hard who to believe, but I have to go with Grandfather Randi because the picture of himself he gave me is a picture of his face surrounded by an aura. My astrologer's picture doesn't have that effect. Yours in The Ritual, Lord Kenneth McGee, Esquire bennard egoabia ekpontuDEAR LORD KENNETH,I READ YOUR MAIL ALL CONTENT NOTED BUT SINCERLLY SPEAKING I CAN NOT DO WITHOUT PHONE SO I DONT HOW WE ARE GOING TO CONTENUE THIS TRANSACTION. EKPONTU. lord kenneth mcgeeDear Ekpontu:My dear friend, have you considered telepathy? -Lord Kenneth McGee, Esquire bennard egoabia ekpontuDear Lord Kenneth,idid not understand your last mail to me please explain more. Ekpontu lord kenneth mcgeeDear Ekpontu:Telepathy is the psychic ability to communicate by thought. Now that I think about it, communicating through telepathy isn't a good idea it requires two well-trained minds and I am not very experienced. The best I've been able to do is mentally communicate with my dog, trying to tell him why one does not defecate in the house. Dogs are silly creatures, all he wanted me to do was go out and by a nice juicy steak. Also, it might leave me open for the evil spirits to possess me, again, and I hate it when that happens. Yours in Thought, Lord Kenneth McGee, Esq. bennard egoabia ekpontuDEAR LORD KENNTHSO CAN WE PROCEED ON MAIL AS YOU SAID, I HAVE TO SEND YOU APPLICATION OF CLAIM WHICH YOU HAVE TO FILL AND RETURN IMMIDIATLY TO ME VIA EMAIL AS YOU SAID. EKPONTU lord kenneth mcgeeGreetings, Ekpontu:I see we are finally getting down to business-- the meat and bones of the deal. I pray by the Goddess that everything goes well, and no evil spirits interfere. I have been told by Grandfather Randi that evil spirits are well known for interfering in business deals stemming from Nigeria, and frankly, I'm not suprised. I require a reagent from you to make sure this business deal goes smoothly. Can you take a photograph of yourself holding a sign or piece of paper that says "Ekpontu" on it, and send it to me? I need this for the beforementioned ritual-- a ritual involving the photographs of both business partners to ensure no interference with dark energies or evil spirits. After the ritual we can get these business dealing underway safely and securely. Yours in The Ritual, Lord Kenneth McGee, Esq. lord kenneth mcgeeGreetings, Ekpontu. Did you get my last message? Are you going to do what I asked so the ritual will be underway and we can get down to business safely and securely?I pray by the Goddess you are well, and no evil spirits have harmed ye. -Lord Kenneth McGee, Esq. bennard egoabia ekpontudear lordkennth,how are you hope you are very fine with your family i got your mail with the whole content noted i am very sorry i can not do what you said because i dont belive in what you have said in your last mail to me.as ritualist you have to contact your gods to know weather what i was telling is the truth or not that the way to show that your gods are perfect god , so please my friend you should go back to the gods once small and enqure from them if i am telling you the truth or not. i know that the God i worship is liveing God and i am telling the simple truth so if you want to know more please dont fail to call on 234-8023156527 i am waiting for your call or you give me your phone numbers. ekpontu. lord kenneth mcgeeGreetings Good Friend Ekpontu:I am quite dismayed at your lack of dedication to this business deal, Ekpontu. I was told by the Goddess herself to from this ritual. If the ritual does not go underway then the business deal cannot go through, and certain doom may even befall you. I will try to seek out the advice of Grandfather Randi once again and see if he can find another way. In the meantime, I need the ingredients. Yours in The Goddess' Warmth, Lord Kenneth McGee, Esq. |