Post by james on Feb 17, 2021 15:23:43 GMT
This scammer runs what is basically a recovery scam. The scammer poses as an agent, or in this case a company, in order to tell their victims that they've received reports that their money has not yet been delivered to them, even though they've paid many fees. You will see the first couple of exchanges with this guy listed below. Note that I've color-coded each character. Red for the scammer, green for me, and purple for my hacker character.
Scammer:
FROM HIGH COURT OF ECOWAS,BENIN REPUBLIC
OB/OP/1234 AKPAKPA, COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.
OUR REF.CODE:BSEL/783/AWN/021/09
Email: (email address removed)
Please my dear the entire Federal High Court Of Benin Republic are
here to make it clear to you that there was a case that we being
handling here since concerning your funds, because we got some reports
that you did not received your funds since after every stories you
have being hearing regarding the funds and all types of payments you
have been paid to receive the funds but none is received by you.
Then,we are here to know the truth because the person that is in
charge of the transaction said in this court here that you have
received and confirmed to him that you received your fund and we are
here to hear the truth from you.
However,here below is what we want you to answer to us to enable us to
handle this case normal.
(1)Do you receive any money from this Africa............ ?.
(2)If you do receive money from him, how much.................?
(3)From which bank or courier do you received the money from...............?
(4) Or is it via western union money transfer........................?
Finally,we advise you to go direct to this questions and answer us
because we want to get the truth and at this time if you don't receive
your funds, you will receive it according to the instruction of this
Federal High Court Of This Country Benin Republic because we have been
receiving messages from your Government that our Government officials
and personalities are scamming people of your Country and all that is
what we are going to handle at once and we need your reply so that we
can get the truth immediately.
Thanks.
Best Regard.
(name removed)
FROM HIGH COURT BENIN
Email: (email address removed)
Me:
No I've never received money from Africa
I suppose my response was a tad generic, but acting as if I'm clueless is the name of the game for me. Regardless of the somewhat cookie-cutter response, this petty crook took the bait. I emailed my response to the address the scammer put in his email. Right off the bat, I noticed the number "666," which is of course associated the Devil or other Satanic elements. This may have been intended as a way to ward off other scammers or computer hackers, or maybe even potential victims, from messing around with him, as many of the people in West Africa believe in juju and voodoo. Unfortunately for "(name removed), such things do not bother or scare me in the least. I happen to be fairly well educated on the occult as well, so this sparked some ideas, but for now, I just feigned interest in the plot.
Scammer:
FROM HIGH COURT OF ECOWAS,BENIN REPUBLIC
OB/OP/1234 PLOT AKPAKPA, COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.
OUR REF.CODE:BSEL/773/AWN/021/09
Email: (email address removed)
Attn: James
Thank you very much for your kind reply and I truly appreciate it
So,we need your urgent on sending us this your information's
below.they are spoiling the image of this entire country by robbing
people all over the world and we are very sorry for the inconvenience
they may caused to you.Now,we the entire Federal High Court of Ecowas
Benin Republic has taking charge of this your funds to make sure that
you will received this your funds immediately.
Then after the meeting we held here this Morning with the board of
Ministry of Finance with the Federal Government here we concluded to
installed this your total fund of us$10.5m united state dollars into
ATM MASTER CARD and ship it to you through the reputable courier
company that will delivered it to you under 72 hours eliminated,
Therefore,we are advising you to forward us your destination address
where you want this your ATM MASTER CARD to be delivered to you with
your Current private phone Number and copy of your passport or Driving
license because the ATM MASTER CARD is processing and installing this
your fund into it now which will be completed under three hours for us
to ship it to you today.
NAME....................
DESTINATION ADDRESS......
COUNTRY.....................
PHONE NUMBER..........
COPY OF YOUR ID............
Finally,we are looking forward for your urgent response now with your
information's.
Thanks.
Best Regard.
(name removed)
FROM HIGH COURT BENIN
Email: (email address removed)
Notice the odd monologuing about he country's image and criticism of the high number of advance-fee scammers. The scammer even apologises about such activity! This right here is a major red-flag that many of these guys raise to try an win over the trust of their prey. While people who may not know any better can and do fall for this ploy, it also serves as a warning sign to people that know what to look for.
Next let's take a look at the horrendous reward the victim would supposedly get after paying the advance-fee: an "ATM MASTER CARD" that's been loaded with 10.5 million dollars. While this may sound ludicrous to somebody who is aware of this type of scam, people do fall for these enough that these criminals keep doing it. I cannot stress this enough: no matter how insane or unbelievable the story with a scam may seem, people do fall victim to them.
And last but not least, the scammer of course wanted a copy of my identification. As we've discussed before, it is a very bad idea to send these people take ID, because they'll undoubtedly use it to fool future victims. No matter how ridiculous or even comical a fake ID may be, even if it's for someone like "Santa Clause," there's likely someone out there that'll be fooled. So how do I get around this question? I either tell them the ID is with the courthouse or some other government agency for some reason, or that my ID has been stolen. It doesn't always work, sometimes these scammers will straight up stop responding, but more often than not, their greed gets the better of them, and they continue with the scheme. Another thing I've been doing is sending them blank pages, and then playing it off like their device just won't open it. I like to think these scammers waste their time trying to fix an issue that isn't actually even present.
Moving on now, I responded to the scammer by giving him all of the requested information, minus the ID.
Me:
6941 Sphynktier Ave. Santa Monica California
James
United States
(Phone number removed)
I do not currently have my ID as I recently applied for my passport and the card is still at the Prothonotarys office. I hope this will not be any big issue
Scammer:
FROM HIGH COURT OF ECOWAS,BENIN REPUBLIC
OB/OP/1234 PLOT AKPAKPA, COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.
OUR REF.CODE:BSEL/773/AWN/021/09
Email: (email address removed)
Attn: James
This is to inform you that i have received your mail with your
destination address unbehalf of the entire Federal High Court of
Ecowas Benin Republic and we are hereby to notify you that the bank
have finished installed this your fund into the ATM master card and
schedule it to be withdrawing money in any ATM teller machine world
wide in the rate of US$10,000.00 per a day as you want. Therefore,all
the arrangement of installing this your fund into the ATM master card
has concluded and the pin code of this your ATM master card is in
package and try to keep it secret until this your ATM master card
delivered to you and you will change it immediately to any number of
your choice to avoid another person to be using it withdrawing this
your fund. Then,we have went to the reputable Courier Company here DHL
to ship this your ATM master card to you through them to make sure
that they will delivered it to you latest before tomorrow morning
and their manager told us that this your ATM master card will be
insured before it will dispatched out here and both insurance and
shipment fee of this your ATM master card will cost sum of $210 dollar
only and with the Airway bill is issued by air carrier of goods on
receipt of goods after is the process doing documentation and payment
of all costs and inspection for the package will cost you $200 dollar
only
They promised that it is the only money it will cost you to delivered
the ATM package to you which he also promised that it will delivered
to your doorstep over there under 72hours.
We have take the incharge because we are here to eliminated the cause
and artist of the impostors and scammers in this country and we want
you to trust us with one mind and forget what you pass through with
the impostors and scammers in this
country before, this is information's to send the fee $200 dollar
through moneygram only for urgent pick up,
Receiver First Name ......(Removed)
Receiver SurName: ,(Removed)
Receiver Country.... Benin Republic
Receiver City: Cotonou
Amount .................. $200 dollar
Ria Money refe number
Sender's Name
Senders address.
Best Regard.
(name removed)
FROM HIGH COURT BENIN
Email: (email address removed)
Once again, the grammatical errors were extensive, and the message actually became kind of tedious to read after the second or third time he mentioned the term "ATM master card." Nevertheless, I made it through. The scammer asked for two fees: one fee for the ATM card, which was $210, and another fee for shipping $200. Curiously, the scammer then only gave instructions for the shipment fee of $200. I always love it when scammers leave a fee with a zero on the end because I always act and reply as if I thought I saw an extra zero on the end. The thought of receiving ten times the amount of money that was originally requested is almost always enough to plunge the scammer into hyper excitement, and ultimately sets them up for white-hot rage when the transfer doesn't go according to plan.
Me:
Okay sir I can send the 2000 dollars now
Scammer:
Attn: James OK iam waiting for the information through
moneygram/ so send it moneyGram only,
Scammer:
forward the receipt iam waiting now
At this point I had wasted more time, and decided that the way to maximize the scammer's irritation was to simply stop responding to him. Sure enough, he messaged James approximately four hours later, but for now, it was time for my hacker character to make herself known. At about the same time as the scammer was desperately asking James to cancel the transaction and buy gift cards instead, Ravena sent her ultimatum.
Hacker:
Hello "judge,"
I have collected this mugu's payment of $2,000. This idiot thought you said 200 and not 2,000 apparently! Meet me at (removed) Steak House at 10:30 P.M. sharp. The one at (Removed) Street on Victoria Island. Don't be late. Food will be provided.
Play along, it would be a shame if your internet provider discovered your game and black listed you across all of Africa. I look forward to hearing from you.
Scammer:
which mugu
Scammer:
your type of guy can't get money
Hacker:
Oh really?? This Mr. Brawndo guy. I've been in his email for a while waiting for him to screw up and have a receipt forwarded to his email. But fear not broda, we can work together.
Hacker:
You go to the steak house and pick up a discreet money drop, so you remain anonymous my friend. I want you to be a part of the network. You work for me, and keep 85 percent of all profit on every transaction. Do we have a deal?
Scammer:
do you get car accident befor, just wait for my action on mirror today
i will get you
Here you can see how the scammer resorted to petty and superstitious threats involving what I can only describe as mirror juju, where he vaguely alludes that he would use his mirror to cause the hacker to be in a car accident.
Hacker:
My friend I'm offering you a job opportunity, just accept the terms and you can have your funds in less than 1 hour...
Scammer:
i will put you in spiritual and my secret court this night
Scammer:
every problem has a solution but this very one i want to give you no solution
Scammer:
kept it in mind as from today
At this point, the scammer stopped responding to the hacker. I tried using another hand-developed technique of mine that I refer to as “kill-deering,” where I attempt to make the scammer feel as if they have some sort of power over me in order to coax more drastic threats and reactions. In this case, I feigned getting into repeated car accidents. To my shock, he still didn’t reply.
Hacker:
Last chance broda, I don't need you. I'm simply offering you employment as your persuasive, but I cannot allow you to run the game on my turf without my 15 percent cut per transaction. What's it going to be? Tick tock my friend. You still have time to make the deadline. Cooperate or lose everything.
Hacker:
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just wrecked my car, and I think I broke my leg. Please, undo the juju my friend. Please I beg of you my friend, I just got in ANOTHER car accident and smashed my mouth! Please lift the curse, I don't want to die!
Hacker:
Would you remove the curse if I send your money to you
Well, that was that. The scammer pretty much cut all contact with all of my characters at this point, but I had already collected my trophy. This session of baiting perfectly illustrates that sometimes even a really short progression of misery can yield impressive levels of annoyance and anger. If you've enjoyed this, I would greatly appreciate a subscription on my Youtube Channel. Below I've linked my channel below for easy access.
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Scammer:
FROM HIGH COURT OF ECOWAS,BENIN REPUBLIC
OB/OP/1234 AKPAKPA, COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.
OUR REF.CODE:BSEL/783/AWN/021/09
Email: (email address removed)
Please my dear the entire Federal High Court Of Benin Republic are
here to make it clear to you that there was a case that we being
handling here since concerning your funds, because we got some reports
that you did not received your funds since after every stories you
have being hearing regarding the funds and all types of payments you
have been paid to receive the funds but none is received by you.
Then,we are here to know the truth because the person that is in
charge of the transaction said in this court here that you have
received and confirmed to him that you received your fund and we are
here to hear the truth from you.
However,here below is what we want you to answer to us to enable us to
handle this case normal.
(1)Do you receive any money from this Africa............ ?.
(2)If you do receive money from him, how much.................?
(3)From which bank or courier do you received the money from...............?
(4) Or is it via western union money transfer........................?
Finally,we advise you to go direct to this questions and answer us
because we want to get the truth and at this time if you don't receive
your funds, you will receive it according to the instruction of this
Federal High Court Of This Country Benin Republic because we have been
receiving messages from your Government that our Government officials
and personalities are scamming people of your Country and all that is
what we are going to handle at once and we need your reply so that we
can get the truth immediately.
Thanks.
Best Regard.
(name removed)
FROM HIGH COURT BENIN
Email: (email address removed)
Me:
No I've never received money from Africa
I suppose my response was a tad generic, but acting as if I'm clueless is the name of the game for me. Regardless of the somewhat cookie-cutter response, this petty crook took the bait. I emailed my response to the address the scammer put in his email. Right off the bat, I noticed the number "666," which is of course associated the Devil or other Satanic elements. This may have been intended as a way to ward off other scammers or computer hackers, or maybe even potential victims, from messing around with him, as many of the people in West Africa believe in juju and voodoo. Unfortunately for "(name removed), such things do not bother or scare me in the least. I happen to be fairly well educated on the occult as well, so this sparked some ideas, but for now, I just feigned interest in the plot.
Scammer:
FROM HIGH COURT OF ECOWAS,BENIN REPUBLIC
OB/OP/1234 PLOT AKPAKPA, COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.
OUR REF.CODE:BSEL/773/AWN/021/09
Email: (email address removed)
Attn: James
Thank you very much for your kind reply and I truly appreciate it
So,we need your urgent on sending us this your information's
below.they are spoiling the image of this entire country by robbing
people all over the world and we are very sorry for the inconvenience
they may caused to you.Now,we the entire Federal High Court of Ecowas
Benin Republic has taking charge of this your funds to make sure that
you will received this your funds immediately.
Then after the meeting we held here this Morning with the board of
Ministry of Finance with the Federal Government here we concluded to
installed this your total fund of us$10.5m united state dollars into
ATM MASTER CARD and ship it to you through the reputable courier
company that will delivered it to you under 72 hours eliminated,
Therefore,we are advising you to forward us your destination address
where you want this your ATM MASTER CARD to be delivered to you with
your Current private phone Number and copy of your passport or Driving
license because the ATM MASTER CARD is processing and installing this
your fund into it now which will be completed under three hours for us
to ship it to you today.
NAME....................
DESTINATION ADDRESS......
COUNTRY.....................
PHONE NUMBER..........
COPY OF YOUR ID............
Finally,we are looking forward for your urgent response now with your
information's.
Thanks.
Best Regard.
(name removed)
FROM HIGH COURT BENIN
Email: (email address removed)
Notice the odd monologuing about he country's image and criticism of the high number of advance-fee scammers. The scammer even apologises about such activity! This right here is a major red-flag that many of these guys raise to try an win over the trust of their prey. While people who may not know any better can and do fall for this ploy, it also serves as a warning sign to people that know what to look for.
Next let's take a look at the horrendous reward the victim would supposedly get after paying the advance-fee: an "ATM MASTER CARD" that's been loaded with 10.5 million dollars. While this may sound ludicrous to somebody who is aware of this type of scam, people do fall for these enough that these criminals keep doing it. I cannot stress this enough: no matter how insane or unbelievable the story with a scam may seem, people do fall victim to them.
And last but not least, the scammer of course wanted a copy of my identification. As we've discussed before, it is a very bad idea to send these people take ID, because they'll undoubtedly use it to fool future victims. No matter how ridiculous or even comical a fake ID may be, even if it's for someone like "Santa Clause," there's likely someone out there that'll be fooled. So how do I get around this question? I either tell them the ID is with the courthouse or some other government agency for some reason, or that my ID has been stolen. It doesn't always work, sometimes these scammers will straight up stop responding, but more often than not, their greed gets the better of them, and they continue with the scheme. Another thing I've been doing is sending them blank pages, and then playing it off like their device just won't open it. I like to think these scammers waste their time trying to fix an issue that isn't actually even present.
Moving on now, I responded to the scammer by giving him all of the requested information, minus the ID.
Me:
6941 Sphynktier Ave. Santa Monica California
James
United States
(Phone number removed)
I do not currently have my ID as I recently applied for my passport and the card is still at the Prothonotarys office. I hope this will not be any big issue
Scammer:
FROM HIGH COURT OF ECOWAS,BENIN REPUBLIC
OB/OP/1234 PLOT AKPAKPA, COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC.
OUR REF.CODE:BSEL/773/AWN/021/09
Email: (email address removed)
Attn: James
This is to inform you that i have received your mail with your
destination address unbehalf of the entire Federal High Court of
Ecowas Benin Republic and we are hereby to notify you that the bank
have finished installed this your fund into the ATM master card and
schedule it to be withdrawing money in any ATM teller machine world
wide in the rate of US$10,000.00 per a day as you want. Therefore,all
the arrangement of installing this your fund into the ATM master card
has concluded and the pin code of this your ATM master card is in
package and try to keep it secret until this your ATM master card
delivered to you and you will change it immediately to any number of
your choice to avoid another person to be using it withdrawing this
your fund. Then,we have went to the reputable Courier Company here DHL
to ship this your ATM master card to you through them to make sure
that they will delivered it to you latest before tomorrow morning
and their manager told us that this your ATM master card will be
insured before it will dispatched out here and both insurance and
shipment fee of this your ATM master card will cost sum of $210 dollar
only and with the Airway bill is issued by air carrier of goods on
receipt of goods after is the process doing documentation and payment
of all costs and inspection for the package will cost you $200 dollar
only
They promised that it is the only money it will cost you to delivered
the ATM package to you which he also promised that it will delivered
to your doorstep over there under 72hours.
We have take the incharge because we are here to eliminated the cause
and artist of the impostors and scammers in this country and we want
you to trust us with one mind and forget what you pass through with
the impostors and scammers in this
country before, this is information's to send the fee $200 dollar
through moneygram only for urgent pick up,
Receiver First Name ......(Removed)
Receiver SurName: ,(Removed)
Receiver Country.... Benin Republic
Receiver City: Cotonou
Amount .................. $200 dollar
Ria Money refe number
Sender's Name
Senders address.
Best Regard.
(name removed)
FROM HIGH COURT BENIN
Email: (email address removed)
Once again, the grammatical errors were extensive, and the message actually became kind of tedious to read after the second or third time he mentioned the term "ATM master card." Nevertheless, I made it through. The scammer asked for two fees: one fee for the ATM card, which was $210, and another fee for shipping $200. Curiously, the scammer then only gave instructions for the shipment fee of $200. I always love it when scammers leave a fee with a zero on the end because I always act and reply as if I thought I saw an extra zero on the end. The thought of receiving ten times the amount of money that was originally requested is almost always enough to plunge the scammer into hyper excitement, and ultimately sets them up for white-hot rage when the transfer doesn't go according to plan.
Me:
Okay sir I can send the 2000 dollars now
Scammer:
Attn: James OK iam waiting for the information through
moneygram/ so send it moneyGram only,
Scammer:
forward the receipt iam waiting now
At this point I had wasted more time, and decided that the way to maximize the scammer's irritation was to simply stop responding to him. Sure enough, he messaged James approximately four hours later, but for now, it was time for my hacker character to make herself known. At about the same time as the scammer was desperately asking James to cancel the transaction and buy gift cards instead, Ravena sent her ultimatum.
Hacker:
Hello "judge,"
I have collected this mugu's payment of $2,000. This idiot thought you said 200 and not 2,000 apparently! Meet me at (removed) Steak House at 10:30 P.M. sharp. The one at (Removed) Street on Victoria Island. Don't be late. Food will be provided.
Play along, it would be a shame if your internet provider discovered your game and black listed you across all of Africa. I look forward to hearing from you.
Scammer:
which mugu
Scammer:
your type of guy can't get money
Hacker:
Oh really?? This Mr. Brawndo guy. I've been in his email for a while waiting for him to screw up and have a receipt forwarded to his email. But fear not broda, we can work together.
Hacker:
You go to the steak house and pick up a discreet money drop, so you remain anonymous my friend. I want you to be a part of the network. You work for me, and keep 85 percent of all profit on every transaction. Do we have a deal?
Scammer:
do you get car accident befor, just wait for my action on mirror today
i will get you
Here you can see how the scammer resorted to petty and superstitious threats involving what I can only describe as mirror juju, where he vaguely alludes that he would use his mirror to cause the hacker to be in a car accident.
Hacker:
My friend I'm offering you a job opportunity, just accept the terms and you can have your funds in less than 1 hour...
Scammer:
i will put you in spiritual and my secret court this night
Scammer:
every problem has a solution but this very one i want to give you no solution
Scammer:
kept it in mind as from today
At this point, the scammer stopped responding to the hacker. I tried using another hand-developed technique of mine that I refer to as “kill-deering,” where I attempt to make the scammer feel as if they have some sort of power over me in order to coax more drastic threats and reactions. In this case, I feigned getting into repeated car accidents. To my shock, he still didn’t reply.
Hacker:
Last chance broda, I don't need you. I'm simply offering you employment as your persuasive, but I cannot allow you to run the game on my turf without my 15 percent cut per transaction. What's it going to be? Tick tock my friend. You still have time to make the deadline. Cooperate or lose everything.
Hacker:
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just wrecked my car, and I think I broke my leg. Please, undo the juju my friend. Please I beg of you my friend, I just got in ANOTHER car accident and smashed my mouth! Please lift the curse, I don't want to die!
Hacker:
Would you remove the curse if I send your money to you
Well, that was that. The scammer pretty much cut all contact with all of my characters at this point, but I had already collected my trophy. This session of baiting perfectly illustrates that sometimes even a really short progression of misery can yield impressive levels of annoyance and anger. If you've enjoyed this, I would greatly appreciate a subscription on my Youtube Channel. Below I've linked my channel below for easy access.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCYiwn2Rn6jdwtH3N2jG03Gg