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"I lost my father during the last killing" May 23, 2022 4:57:16 GMT

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Post by Yastreb on May 23, 2022 4:57:16 GMT

Two different scammers contacted Captain Mal using the same opening script, three years apart, but with the same basic flaw in the character they portrayed... or was that flaw in the Lads themselves? You be the judge!

The Scammer (both times)
Abu Hamza, an orphan aged 21 from Libya

Christopher Biggins, a United Nation Diplomat Agent, makes a guest appearance in part 2, courtesy of a different bait.

The Baiter
Malcolm Reynolds, retired US Marine living in Australia

I changed the scammers’ names; their emails are date-stamped. My comments are in bold.

Stage 1 (November 2014)

11 November
Sir
My name is Abu Hamza, 21yrs old from Republic of Libya , I escaped death few months ago in my country, and I lost my father during the last killing.Please, I just arrived from Republic of Libya few weeks ago to Accra Ghana , West Africa with consignment of ($9.8 Million US Dollar clean and ready to be spent cash.
Right now I am presently in a refugee camp (Bujumbura refugee camp) Kasoa, Ghana as a political refugee, please advise me on how to send the trunk box containing the money to you in your country, to enable you assist me invest the money wisely in available business in your country or any country of your choice. This money is presently at the cargo section of the Ghana international airport. I left the trunk box containing the u.s currency note because i do not have any reliable place to keep the fund since i am a foreigner in Ghana. I was given a deposit certificate by the customs exercise and preventives measure at the (Kotoka) airport on my arrival which i shall present on the day i came to claim the fund.
It is very risky to keep such huge amount of money at the (Kotoka) airport because it is not safe since I am a foreigner. I need your urgent call on REDACTED.
Kindly keep this matter confidential for my safety
Regards,
Abu Hamza

I sent a standard reply…

Mr Hamza
Who gave you my email address?
Malcolm Reynolds

… And the Lad sends the usual inadequate reply.

15 November
Dear Mr Malcolm
Sir,
Thanks for your positive email and the content therein is duly noted i got your email from internet .
Abu Hamza

Mr Hamza
Doesn't explain why you chose me for this.
What makes you think that I can be trusted?
Malcolm Reynolds

The Lad's reply this time is wrong on two key points.

16 November
Dear Mr Malcolm
After i got your contact i pray over it and i fill that you can not hot a fly and also a God firing person that is why i chose you to help me receive this found and invest it for me why i further my education under your care as my foster father.
Thanks
Hamza

Mr Hamza
I'm a retired US Marine who fought in both Gulf Wars and Somalia.
I am also an atheist.
Malcolm Reynolds

I doubt that he read my answer.

17 November
Dr Mr Malcolm
Good to her from you and i believe that with you am safe and my inheritance is also safe and you will invest the found wisely for me. please call me for voice talk.
Hamza

So I made the call as requested, and the scammer turned out to be a mournful bugger. He also made some assumptions and an admission that I was happy to smack him down for.

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Mr Hamza
So it doesn't matter that I'm neither harmless nor religious, even though your prayers said I was both?
Malcolm Reynolds

20 November
Dear Mr Malcolm
It doesn't matter what matter is your heart because what ever you do must touch your heart. I ASK FOR YOUR NUMBER SO THAT WE CAN ALSO TALK OR YOU CALL ME [REDACTED].
Hamza

Mr Hamza
Please explain what gives you the right to my help.
Malcolm Reynolds

I have to come to Ghana... O RLY?

21 November
Dear Malcolm,
Thanks for your email with your phone call on the subject matter.
I trust you because as a military man you can handle transaction of this magnitude and invest the money for me wisely.
As an orphan i trust you can help me realize my dream that is why i want your help.
Finally, i trust also that with your experience in life you can help me to claim the fund from the cargo section of the airport and i will need you to come to Ghana so i can present you to the customs office in Ghana for the claim of the consignment as my late father business associate. Kindly give to me your phone number for voice talk.
Thanks for your concern.
Abu Hamza.

Mr Hamza,
I'm not in a position to come to Ghana at short notice, or any notice really.
Neither am I able to make investments for you because I don't know anything about investment.
Malcolm Reynolds

23 November
Dear Malcolm,
Thanks for your brief email on the subject matter.
On your arrival to Ghana it can only take you two to three days to conclude this transaction while in Ghana and you can go back to your country with the fund in question while you will help me apply for entry visa into your country to enable me further my education in your care.
More so, if you do not have knowledge about investment you can use my money in buying of landed properties or alternatively you can do fallibility on the kind of investment you shall invest the money into when you claim the fund on your arrival here in Ghana.
You can look for an investor whom you can nominate to handle this transaction on you behalf and you can still get your percentage due for your assistance to make my dream come true by investing my inheritance fund.
Sir, i will be glad to have your phone number to enable me call you on my convenient time over this matter for our advantage.
Thanks for your understanding.
Yours truly
Abu Hamza

Mr Hamza
If I tried to take a box with millions of dollars back to Australia with me, I'd be stopped by the customs, and that would be just the start of my problems.
I also could not get you a visa for Australia because I'm still an American citizen and I don't have the right to sponsor you.
Malcolm Reynolds

23 November
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your latest email again and i wish to inform that will not carry the consignment by your self from Ghana to Australia but the United Nations diplomats will help you to carry the consignment while you can board the same fight with them them back to Australia with the consignment.
With this diplomat you can not have a problem at the airport because the diplomat have the immunity mandate that cover them to airlift consignments to any part of the world without them being subjected for searching.
The security company can issue you with an entry visa to Ghana and you will be stamp on your arrival to Ghana at the airport with this entry visa you do not need to go to Ghana high commission in Australia for a visa any longer.
Let me know when you can visit Ghana so i can arrange for your entry visa to Ghana. When you sponsor me you have your percentage for your involvement in this transaction. I will give you 30% of the total sum of the money in question while i will get 70% which you will still help me to invest in your country.
Any financial that you will nominate also will shall give him 5% from my share of the 70% provided you and the investor help me to invest this money wisely.
Thanks for your understanding.
Yours truly
Abu Hamza.

Mr Hamza
This is the busiest time of the year for me; tourist season. I have contracts that must be fulfilled. You should not have assumed my ability to travel to Ghana.
Malcolm Reynolds

Now some other demands!

25 November
Dear Melcolm,
I acknowledged the receipt of your email again on the way forward for the claiming of my consignment from the cargo section of the airport. Please sir it is very important that you send me your phone number to call you at my convenient time concerning this transaction. Can you send to me your copy of your passport or your national id card for my record.
Each time you call me it appears as private number on my handset. Sir i understand that this is busiest time of the year but note that your coming to Ghana will not take you more-than three days to conclude the transaction and you can fly back to your country with the diplomat along with my fund for further investment in your country of your choice.
Alternatively if you are finding it difficult to come as the case may be then the diplomat can deliver the consignment to you in your country then you can pay and claim it on its arrival.
Personally i would be glad if you can take few days to visit Ghana to conclude this business with me in Ghana as this will give me the opportunity to have face to face meeting over this transaction. Sir kindly send to me your phone number as requested above so i can call you at my will over this matter.
Thanks for your understanding.
Yours truly
Abu Hamza.

Time for some straight talking...

Mr Hamza
I get the impression that you come from a privileged and pampered background and that you're used to getting your way. That's no longer the case. You don't command instant obedience any more.
As I told you from the start, passport copies are illegal. Don't ask me again.
Americans don't have national IDs. Just remember that.
I also told you that my phone number is on a privacy setting and can only be released with the permission of my telco, and they won't do that to someone with No Fixed Address, like you. So don't ask me again.
What I did say to you before I rang off was that I'm not happy with receiving a consignment of cash, especially from a Libyan source, which would get all the wrong kind of attention.
Malcolm Reynolds

27 November
Dear Melcolm,
Thanks for your email and the contents noted. I can see that you are not willing to assist me over this transaction.
I will look for another investor from hence fourth since you are not willing to assist me handle this transaction.
Bye for now but if you are willing to work with me then contact me back or forget the transaction.
Thanks
Abu Hamza

Mr Hamza
I told you some home truths and your reaction is what I expected. If you want me to work with you, you get the whole package. I don't sugar the pill - I speak my mind.
As I said, you've gotten your way for all your life and that is going to change. If you're unhappy with that, then don't write back.
Malcolm Reynolds

The Lad did what he was told, which is surprising, to say the least.

But little did I know that he’d be back... sorta.

YOU ARE A INGE-AT AND A MAD MAN STOP CONTACT ME.

YOU ARE THE WORST FOOL I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MYLIFE IDIOT

OU ARE AN IDIOT A BIG FOOL YOU ARE YOU DON'T HAVE RESPECT FOR YOUR FATHER THAT IS WHY I DECIDED TO DO AWAY WITH YOU FUCKING BASTARD LIKE YOU

:safari:

x 4 (Lagos to Abuja, Nigeria to Ghana, Nigeria to Benin, Ghana to Benin)

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"I lost my father during the last killing" May 28, 2022 3:06:13 GMT

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Post by Yastreb on May 28, 2022 3:06:13 GMT

Stage 2 (August 2017)

7 August
Dear Greetings to you.
Sir,
My name is Abu Hamza,from Republic of Libya, I escaped death in my country, and I lost my father during the last killing. Please, I arrived from Republic of Libya to Accra Ghana, West Africa with consignment of (US$9.8 million)clean and ready to be spent money).
Right now I am presently in a refugee camp (Bujumbura refugee camp) Kasoa, Ghana, please advise me how to send the trunk box containing the currency notes to you in your country, to enable you assist me invest the money wisely in a viable business in your country or any other country of your choice. This money is presently at the cargo section of the Ghana International airport (Kotoka). I left the trunk box containing the US Dollars currency notes because I do not have any comfortable place to keep the fund since I am a foreigner in this country. I was given a deposit certificate by the Ghana customs which I shall present on the day I wish to claim the fund.
It is very risky to keep such huge amount of money unclaimed at the Ghana International airport because it is not safe considering the amount at involved sir. I need your urgent call or reply. Kindly keep this matter in a confidential manner for my safety and I will be waiting anxiously for your call to enable you handle this matter in a professional manner for me.
Yours sincerely,
Abu Hamza.

Mr Hamza
Who gave you my old email address?
Malcolm Reynolds

He sent the opening script again.
He needs my urgent call? Fine by me! But not, in end, fine by him.

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Mr Hamza
You want everything in writing? FINE!
First off, who gave you my email address?
Secondly, why did you tell that diplomat to ship the consignment before we'd actually made contact?
Now answer those questions.
Malcolm Reynolds

Meanwhile, another Lad’s diplomat chimes in. Just so you know, this one didn’t stick around. But I thought he'd make a useful distraction.

7 August
Attention:
Malcolm Reynolds
I am Diplomat Christopher Biggins; United Nation Diplomat Agent in charge for your delivery.Their two boxes bearing your name as beneficiary has being lying here in the office of the UN here at the Kotoko International Airport. I have been trying to reach you about an hour now just to inform you about this delivery with your two consignment boxes containing USD$ 14,500,000.00 (Fourteen million Five hundred thousand Dollars)
The Airport authority demanded for all the legal back up papers to prove to them that the fund is no way related with drug not fraud money, I have presented the papers I handed to them and they are very much pleased with the papers I presented but the only thing that is still keeping me here is the airport ts the delivery Tag which is not placed on the boxes,
one of the Airport Authority has advise that we should get the delivery tag so that I can depart from the airport immediately and make my delivery successful to you without any hindrance.
I try to reason with them and they stated the delivery tag will cost us just $1.500 Dollars only to get the two tag placed on the boxes as that tag will enable me get to your LOCATION successfully without any interference.
Please try and reach me on this roaming line REDACTED
I have the documents backing up your consignment as I can accompany you to your bank were you will deposit the fund successfully with these papers without any stress. I have more vital paper with me but I can only present you the hard copy when I reach your house as that it’s the diplomatic rules.
You can direct the tag fee to our Head Office as they will get it here. Please re-confirm your residential address to me to avoid mistake.
Your Full Name:………………………
Your Current address:……………………….
Direct telephone Number:……………………..
Home/office# Fax:…………………………………..
Country:…………………………..
State:…………………………….
Zip code:……………………
Closest Int. Airport:…………..
Upon confirmation of your details you will receive instruction on how to make the payment for the delivery tag that will be placed on the boxes. Once this is confirmed I will proceed with the delivery immediately.Looking forward to hearing from you and congratulations once again.
Diplomat Christopher Biggins
United Nation Diplomatic Agent
Accra, Ghana. Unit.

Mr Biggins
Before you do anything else, you have to get John Desire's paperwork, scan the lot and send it to me. Send the payment details too, and the official bill. That has to be settled first.
Malcolm Reynolds

I didn’t spook the Lad as much as I’d hoped.

8 August
Dear
Thanks for your positive email and the content therein is duly noted,
In fact i got your esteem information from a friend in the United Nations Refugees camp in Ghana were am staying now as i told you in my last mail to you.And i have no doubt that you can be trusted in a business of this magnitude.
Also have it in mind that i did not send the box out the box is still at the airport in ACCRA,
Sir my consignment is still at the airport in Accra i have not told any diplomat to contact you so please i will advise you to ignore such person is not from me because my consignment is still at the airport in ACCRA
And i and you have not conclude for me to send my consignment to you. please call me or send me your number so that i can also call you.
Thanks
Hamza

Mr Hamza
First off, you never mentioned that friend in the camp in your first email; not that it clears anything up, I don't know anyone in Africa.
Secondly, if you don't know the diplomat, how the blue hell did he know about the consignment, or my email address?
Thirdly, I did call you, and you told me to put everything in writing!
Malcolm Reynolds

9 August
Dear Malcolm
Yes i did not mentioned friend in my first mail to you it was when you respond to me i told you that me be you did not get my second mail b4 you call me.
So when you call me i have to go to my sent mail and pick the mail i sent you previously and re sent you the mail again and let me also till that In-fact my friend told me that he got your esteem information from your country trade inquiry and i have no doubt that you can be trusted in a business of this magnitude.
Yes you mite not been in Africa or know any body in Africa i just believe that you are GODLY MAN WHO CAN HELP ME OUT FROM THIS CONTINENT WERE THERE IS NO PEACE BECAUSE OF LACK OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY THAT IS WHY I NEED YOUR HELP TO INVEST THE FOUND IN YOUR COUNTRY AND ALSO TAKE ME TO YOUR COUNTRY WERE I CAN FURTHER MY EDUCATION WHY YOU TAKE ME AS YOUR SON.Sir yes i told you to put everything in writing because i cant here you clearly on phone that is why i ask you to send me mail. once again please ignore the impostor i did not me, please get back to me with your number.
THANKS
YOUR SON
HAMZA

Let’s clear up some assumptions... and use one of my favourite lines from Serenity.

Mr Hamza
Let's break things down here.
"he got your esteem information from your country trade inquiry and i have no doubt that you can be trusted in a business of this magnitude" - I don't know how that could happen; I'm a retired US Marine and now a survival instructor, not a businessman.
"i just believe that you are GODLY MAN" - I ain't a godly man; in fact I'm an atheist.
"I NEED YOUR HELP TO INVEST THE FOUND IN YOUR COUNTRY" - Like I said, I ain't a businessman, and I know sweet fox alpha about investment.
"YOU TAKE ME AS YOUR SON" - I look after me and mine, and that doesn't include you unless I conjure it does; you'd better make a good case.
Malcolm Reynolds

9 August
Mr Malcolm
Yes you are not into business as you said but that docent mean you cant help me out by receiving the fund for me and later look for an investor
who can take over the fund and help us invest the fund in any lucrative venture in your country.
That means as an atheist you don't know God? what i ask of you is (one) if the fund is in your position i cant remain here in the refuge camp i will be with you for the rest of my life in your country.
Thanks
Hamza

Mr Hamza
You're right; I don't "know God" - as far as I'm concerned, there is nothing to know.
But there's another issue that you seemed to have missed - that diplomat wanted to ship me your money (and that's something else to mull over); is it safe and secure where it is?
Malcolm Reynolds

11 August
Mr Malcolm
Thank you very much for your response to my email, Yes is safe and secure were it is and i will want you to come down to Accra so that we can meet face to face for you to know me and i to know you also then i can take you to see the consignment.
For me i haven't conclude on that for the diplomat to ship my consignment to you because i and you have not enter into (M O U) all i did in my first mail to you is proposal and you have not till me if yes you agree or not to help me.
Thanks
Hamza

Mr Hamza
There's something I haven't mentioned before, which is important, so please bear with me.
I am a retired United States Marine Corps officer. For a great deal of my eighteen years of service, Libya was a potential enemy. There were many exercises based on war scenarios involving Libya.
So answer me this; which side was your father on?
Malcolm Reynolds

12 August
Mr Malcolm
You see my father is just an ordinary citizing from Tripoli doing is own oil business b4 he was kill by -Qaddafi group with allegation that my father is sponsoring the opposition then which is not true. That is how they kill an innocent man. But b4 then my father as this found been keep out of Libya because Qaddafi every body know that is a tyrant.
Thank
Hamza

Mr Hamza
Speaking plainly, in my experience the only people who have millions of dollars in cashy money lying around ain't the honest ones; people like loan sharks, drug dealers, casino owners and the like. You're not being totally honest with me.
Malcolm Reynolds

12 August
Mr Malcolm
So what of people in oil deal without license he legal oil bunkers they don't have money? let me till you, you see in Libya every money you take to bank then you must be call for questioning, so you don't have to be like loan sharks, drug dealers, casino owners b4 you can have millions.
So am honest to you in my last mail to you i told you that my father is into oil business but how is been done is what i cant explain.
Thanks
Hamza

Mr Hamza
Something to clarify (leaving aside your father's money-making methods for now); how old are you? What happened to the rest of your family? And how did you escape to Ghana?
Malcolm Reynolds

13 August
Mr, Malcolm
I escape to Ghana through the help of the officials of Red cross society. Am 21yes old my mother is also late b4 the uprising in Libya i am the only son of my father.
Thanks
Hamza

Mr Hamza
So the Red Cross evac'd you and your money? That's not any SOP that I remember!
I'm sorry for your loss, I will say.
Malcolm Reynolds

14 August
Mr Malcolm
yes the red cross carry me with the consignment without them knowing the content is cash because my later father rap it very will with clots in shot am very lucky because the red cross official that help me did not allow any body to touch me because am always in tease when i remember my late parent that am now an orphan with the shork of the way i sore them kill my father from my hide out you will pity me.
Thanks
Hamza

I need to shake him up... time to get nasty!

You were crying? Holy shit on a shingle - you're a grown man, not a gorram kid!
And the thought of a grown man meekly hiding as his father is murdered makes me want to puke.

14 August
Mr Malcolm
You see that is why i said that i don't want to stay here in Africa any body that help me to receive the fund must also adopt me as a Son that is why i told you in one of my mail to you.
Thanks
Hamza

And nastier!

Mr Hamza
There is no fucking way I'd adopt a snivelling coward who let his father be killed, who watched as his father was killed and didn't raise a finger to help him, as my son. There's no way either that I'd adopt a spoiled and mollycoddled little girlie-man who wants to be cosseted and fussed over when he's already a grown man.
If I help you, then it's on the understanding that you make your own way, with no hand-holding or spoon-feeding. When all is said and done, you hit the road, Jack, and you never look back.
Malcolm Reynolds

15 August
Mr Malcolm
You mean that when the killas were in our house and my father told me to run for my dear life i should wait? will any way i know you are not going to help me but you calling me names is what a don't understand because i have not insulted you to warrant you call me all kind of names
any way thanks for the insult.
Hamza

Mr Hamza
What burned my gut more than anything was this: "any body that help me to receive the fund must also adopt me as a Son that is why i told you in one of my mail to you" - you refuse to take responsibility for your life; hell, at your age, I'd been three years in the Corps!
What do you want to do with your life? Apart from furthering your education, you've shown no signs of ambition or purpose - just a massive sense of privilege and entitlement.
Malcolm Reynolds

And that was enough for Abu Hamza, because he never wrote back.

Thanks for reading!

x 4 (Lagos to Abuja, Nigeria to Ghana, Nigeria to Benin, Ghana to Benin)

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