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Post by Yastreb on Mar 9, 2021 14:30:22 GMT
This is the story of a scammer who opened with a contract scam, got nowhere, and then tried changing it into a diplomatic delivery script, manifesting Dunning-Kruger effect along the way, as well as a significant identity crisis and possible gender identification issues.
Names have been changed. All comments are in bold. Any highlighting is in red. The scammer's emails are date-stamped.
Let's get started!
26 January 2021
Hello,
My Name is Engr M.Fabiola. I am one of the recent appointed Board Members of Hermitage Oil Company.
I would have contacted you via your phone but your phone number was not enlisted in the handbook where I found your email contact. It was not my interest to contact you via email address , so as not to think that this is another hoax internet Scam Letter.
My interest is to abreast you that I have a abandoned Project Contract value $15.5 which I will like to explain to you how to take over the contract as a Subcontractor. The truth is that the Project had been registered with the Original Contractor but he was disqualified from being paid because he lied confirming the invoice amount of the project. My assurance on this transaction is that I will originate your name as the new Contractor who commission the Project but have not been paid.
If you are honest and do not have a bad record in your Country, you are advise to respond by forwarding your Home Mailing address, Business name and phone line to enable me to obtain an affidavit to originate your name as the Next Beneficiary. Thereafter, the invoice and the affidavit will be submitted to the Authority for review and approval of fund on your name. Kindly keep this transaction very confidential knowing that I am still serving with the Industry.
Sincerely,
Engr M.Fish
I decided to let the different names pass me by.
Engr Fish
I don't understand about finding my name in a handbook. Could you explain that please?
Regards
Malcolm Reynolds
27 January
Dear Malcolm Reynolds
I mean I got your email address from an Investment Magazine in London and I decided to contact you for this deal. My aim was to call but your phone line was not enlisted.
Hope you are not disturb with this? If you are not interested, kindly mail me. But I am assuring you my words despite the bad surge of internet cheaters.
Regards and Good Morning
Michelle Fabiola
London UK
Mal has some issues with that explanation.
Engr Fabiola
Given my complete lack of any interest in investment, I'm surprised to hear that I'd been mentioned in an investment magazine; a military journal would have made more sense. But anyway... please explain further, such as what this contract involved. I'm not going to commit either way without details.
Regards
Malcolm Reynolds
28 January
Dear Malcolm Reynolds
Thank you for your mail. As per your request, I think my first letter is clear for a Wise man like you to understand.
With due respect, I am Michele Fabiola and I work as a Supervisor to the Hermitage Oil Company in London and during my tenure, I supervised a Contractor whose name is Gunstock Industrial Solution.
When it was time to pay his Contract fund, he was requested to forward his invoice. The man greedily padded the invoice from 15.5 to 23.3 Million US Currency. When this silly act was uncovered, he was sacked from London Court and advised to leave the Oil Sector Coast.
When I was elevated to my present position, I found that the fund was still floating in the system. What I did was to conduct a plan on how this fund can be wired out for my mutual benefits.
This is the area I decided to involve you secretly to assist me. I have a back up at the Ministry of Finance and she has planned how to carry out the transaction.
What I need from you is your company name or Home Mailing address, Phone lines and any of your identification to process an affidavit to change the former contractor information. The affidavit will be submitted along with new Invoice to the Authority and the fund will be approved on your name as the new Beneficiary.
Subsequently, the fund will be wired to your account or approved via Online Payment if you are scared to have the fund wired to your Business or Personal account.
I have obtained the affidavit FORM and I am attaching it to know that I have set the ball rolling.
I hope you are cleared? I will be expecting your details.
Thanks
Michele Fish
PHONE NUMBER REDACTED
Malcolm Reynolds
The scammer sent a low-quality "UK AFFIDAVIT FORM." Mal had more issues...
Engr Fish
You're asking me to provide a company name. That form is asking for an "Agent Company in England." I don't have a company; I'm a self-employed survival instructor with no experience or background in finance or business. If you'd needed an advisor on military matters, I'd be more than able, but that's not what you asked for.
Malcolm Reynolds
30 January
I have explained your question or worries yesterday, please forward your information as requested or if you are not interested anymore, do let me know. I cannot force you to reap from my Brain.
Bye
Michele
He seems averse to questions. Guess what...
Engr Fabiola
I know you hate questions. That's too bad. Because I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions, and I want them answered immediately.
Was Emmanuel Gunstock physically present in Benin for the contract?
If I am now receiving the payment that he claimed, am I therefore claiming to have done the work that he did?
If the answer is yes, how am I to explain my being paid for work that I could never have done, given my never having travelled to Benin?
If the answer if no, then what's the explanation for my receiving the payment?
Over to you.
Malcolm Reynolds
2 February
Dear Malcolm Reynolds
I do not hate question but I am in haste due to the nature of the Business.
Let me tell you the truth. Emmanuel Gunstock came but stayed 2 days because he was not comfortable with the environs.
When he left, he appointed and Agent which we endorsed and the Project was not completed because he did not Commission it.
Your role will states that the Project was commissioned by Malcolm Reynolds and it is one of our condition that who commissioned an abandoned Project automatically becomes the executor of the Project.
Your Last question is under my care and such have nothing to do with you. We are approving it and when it is signed the Bank will wire out the fund.
Let me tell you that we are offering you 40 Percent as a Partner if we receive your details today or tomorrow.
Regards
Michele Fabiola
Engr Fabiola
You wrote, "Your Last question is under my care and such have nothing to do with you. We are approving it and when it is signed the Bank will wire out the fund." - you are wrong. That has everything to do with me. The IRS will ask why I was paid that money, and I need an answer. Don't brush that question aside.
Malcolm Reynolds
3 February
Dear Malcolm Reynolds
I am sidelining any question. What I mean that I will get all relevant documents to make sure the fund is approved and same time, you will be free from any odd question from your IRS.
I cannot handle any deal that will bring sorrow now or in the future. If you are skeptical of receiving the cash in your account, I can apply for Online Payment through my secret agent operating from the Bank.
Regards
Michele
Malcolm Reynolds
Engr Fabiola
I'm wondering if you have any idea what questions the IRS might ask me.
Malcolm Reynolds
5 February
I do not know what question the IRS will ask you but mind you that before the fund is confirmed in your account I will be with you to defend the fund before any Authority.
Thank you
Michele
Engr Fabiola
You're not a tax lawyer. You're an oil company executive. Your arguments would be invalid.
Malcolm Reynolds
The scammer makes a rather rash claim.
8 February
Dear Sir
If you say so, when I get to the USA I will get an attorney to defend it. My role is to make sure I have genuine documents to back up the fund.
You are only wasting my time to forward your contact papers. I have brain and I know the connection I have for this deal. I have explained all this to you. I do not know why you are so diplomatic.
Thanks
Michele
Engr Fabiola
"I have brain" - YMMV on that one, dude. If you had a brain, you wouldn't have lied to me at the start.
Malcolm Reynolds
8 February
Dear Sir
How did I lied to you? Never worry yourself, I think your latest message show that I should contact another Person.
Thank you
Michele
That's three tells.
First up, you lied when you wrote, "I got your email address from an Investment Magazine in London" - that would never have happened.
Secondly, if you were serious, you wouldn't be going "Oh well, need another pasty."
Thirdly, you are too stupid to have the job you say you have.
Three strikes and you're out.
Malcolm Reynolds
More to follow!
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Post by Yastreb on Mar 10, 2021 0:12:55 GMT
About a month later, "Engr Fish" is back with... something...
6 March
Dear Sir
I am not happy that you have not written me for long on your approved fund. It is like you are thinking I am joking with this transaction. I am not joking Sir.
My Secret Lady with the attached Lawyer has team up packaging this fund in a consignment. I applied for this confidential payment when the Bank removed your payment file to the Registration Department. At this point, anyone can steal or divert the fund to any place. God forbid.
As I am mailing you, the fund has been coded and arranged in a 2 Metallic Boxes and coded as a Cocoa Seed. It is like you imported the Cocoa seed from London.
We have equally arranged with Heavyside Security Company that will move the consignment to your address. But it will interest your heart to know that we coded the cash in the Metallic Box as Cocoa seed and the Licensed Security company does not know the actual content. My secret Lady said they have been using the security company and this pattern to deliver cash Customers in this way for many years.
By tomorrow, I will send you the details of the Security company and the Video Clip of the cash neatly arranged in the Consignment. Please note that this coding is confidential and it is only me and you knows the actual content of the consignment.
Also confirmed if you have changed your contact address and Phone lines sent to me. Kindly confirmed new details if you have change your details.
We will also be negotiating with the Security Company on how they will charge for the delivering. There is no RISK since the Security company is licensed as Diplomatic Company. They are not checked nor scan their goods. Nothing like that.
Kindly respond quickly.
Regards
Michele Fish
Mr Fish
Are you having fun there? Because that email reads like some weird coded message!
"My Secret Lady," a fund packed in metallic boxes labelled as Cocoa Seeds from London, and a security company with the privileges of a sovereign nation... Oh, and something else; "confirmed if you have changed your contact address and Phone lines sent to me. Kindly confirmed new details if you have change your details" - I never gave you any of those details.
Malcolm Reynolds
"This is my advantage." Mal will beg to differ...
7 March 2021
You need to send me such details on this method of payment. The security company is a Diplomatic Security company and the advantage is that they are not scan or check in any Airport. This is my advantage.
I am not asking you for money for now
Thanks
Michele
Mr Fish
Security companies don't have the rights granted to sovereign nations. I know this. Don't try to throw dust in my eyes.
Malcolm Reynolds
"I cannot tell you what I do not know." Now there's a disconnect.
8 March
Dear Malcolm Reynolds
It is not a Security Company but a Diplomatic Services. As I explain to you he is presently with the Package in Paris France.
You need to contact him for more details about the package.
I cannot tell you what I do not know.
Michele
Mr Fish
Not only did you try to throw dust in my eyes, but now you're trying to deny your own words. Seven times you referred to the Security Company, and you even named it, and then tried to claim that it had Diplomatic privileges. Well, listen up, Bubba-Louie; one of my duties as a United States Marine included standing guard at US Embassies. Doing that meant that I met quite a few actual diplomats and their staff, and I learned the ins and outs of the Vienna Convention. So when you tell me that there's such an animal as a Diplomatic Company, I know that you're lying.
Malcolm Reynolds
The "Secret Lady" is secret no longer!
8 March
Dear Malcolm Reynolds
How can you tell me that I am lying when I have the contact of the Person I am sending you to meet in Paris? If the animal or stuff in not part of the Diplomat Package, how did he take up the fund to Paris?
Get settled and I will send you Ms Rose Budd email address to get the Diplomatic details and open communication with him. This will enable you to spend less time in Paris.
Note that the Diplomatic Officer is not staying in Paris forever. He is there to discharge other Beneficiaries Packages.
Regards
Michele
Mr Fish
Let's leave aside your lies for now. There are some other issues.
"How can you tell me that I am lying when I have the contact of the Person I am sending you to meet in Paris?" - You expect me to travel to Paris in the midst of a global pandemic? Seriously?
"If the animal or stuff in not part of the Diplomat Package, how did he take up the fund to Paris?" - Paris wasn't mentioned before now; so when and why did that enter the picture?.
"Get settled and I will send you Ms Rose Budd email address to get the Diplomatic details and open communication with him. This will enable you to spend less time in Paris" but also "We have equally arranged with Heavyside Security Company that will move the consignment to your address" - if this alleged security company/sovereign nation is going to deliver a consignment to me, why the fuck would I go to Paris?
I await your answers.
Malcolm Reynolds
We have a new Secret Lady apparently, and an assumption by Mr Fish that I'll happily point out.
9 March 2021
Dear Sir
There is Covid 19 Vaccine in every part of the World and there is no cause to fear anymore. Secondly, if there is any reason you cannot meet the Diplomatic Officer in Paris, I think the best way is to contact him and lay your reason before him.
I told you in my letter that Ms Jude Bude made a contact with the Heavyside Security/ Diplomatic Service on delivering the Package to the USA but she was told that they now operate in Europe for now. They have Stopover Offices in Paris France and Madrid in Spain ..
What I am talking about is that you will be given the contact details of the Diplomatic Officer for contact for guidelines that could help us out. Mind you that are speaking to a Person and not Ghost. If there is any reason you cannot make the trip to Paris or Madrid this time, you need to talk about it out with him. You need to speak with him. Be reminded that he is in Paris for now and this is where you are supposed to meet him.
Regards
Michele
Mr Fish
Let's leave aside your lies for now. There are issues remaining still.
"There is Covid 19 Vaccine in every part of the World and there is no cause to fear anymore" - so you think it's OK to travel from one of the least affected parts of the world into one of the COVID-19 hotspots?
"I told you in my letter that Ms Jude Bude made a contact with the Heavyside Security/ Diplomatic Service on delivering the Package to the USA" - I'm not in the US.
"Mind you that are speaking to a Person and not Ghost" - I've got no fucking idea why you'd say that.
"If there is any reason you cannot make the trip to Paris or Madrid this time, you need to talk about it out with him. You need to speak with him." - So I need to talk to him. I need to speak with him. I understand. I comprehend. However...
"Be reminded that he is in Paris for now and this is where you are supposed to meet him." - What's supposed to happen after I supposedly meet him?
Malcolm Reynolds
9 March
As soon as you meet him, you will produce the Package Certificate of Deposit and your Passport to him for recognition.
He will give you a document to sign and the Package will be released. I have in mind to send you one of my Partner who will assist you to coordinate the fund since it is coded and later, we have no choice than to set up an account with the Security company and deposit the fund. You and my Partner will be handling this process out of the knowledge of the Diplomatic Officer.
What you need to do is to send a copy of your IC or Passport/ Phone number which will be forwarded to him to recognized you at the Airport.
Do not forget that he is in Paris for now discharging other Beneficiaries Packages and after that, he will return back. Kindly make haste on your arrangement.
Thanks
Michele
Mr Fish
I'm leaving aside your lies for now. Moving on...
Your plan is for me to go to Paris and meet the Glorified Delivery Boy and sign some papers, after which one of your boyfriends will help me give back the money to the GDB's Glorified Delivery Company. And I have to hurry, because the GDB has some other parcels to deliver all over the world!
As the Eskimo told the ice box salesman, I ain't buying that.
Malcolm Reynolds
I wasn't expecting him to fold so easily.
9 March
That is Okay. Since you are not buying the idea I think we will plan to have another Person take over. I do appreciate.
Thank you
Michele.
Mr Fish
About fucking time! The stupid is strong with that one.
Malcolm Reynolds
Never mind, there'll be others.
Thanx for reading.
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Post by Yastreb on Jan 27, 2022 3:32:40 GMT
Ten months later, he's back!
27 January 2022 Dear Sir
Do not be surprise to read my letter after you have stopped contacting me on my gratitude to you regarding the compensation of the sum of 15.5 Million US Dollars which the IMF has approved on your name as a compensation as scam Victims.
I am sure someone deceived you from reaching me but I am contacting you with a good news that the check has been approved by ICBC Bank in USA. I have been monitoring this transaction because I have a Person in the Bank who is behind the successful of the transaction. He is my Person from High College and we belong to the same Old Boys Association.
My interest in reaching you is that since you did not comply to respond to our invitation to sign for the check at the ICBC Bank in New York, I have used an attorney to sign it and I want you to confirm your readiness this time by forwarding your ID before giving you more details and how the fund will reach you without using your Bank account.
I do not want to delay to inform you that we are sharing the fund 60/ 40 Percent because of my financial investment so far. Your role at the moment is to forward your ID or Passport to enable my Agent cash the check at our other Branch of the Bank.
I have completed all payment in this matter just as advised above and I am not asking for a Penny from you if such was the reason for abandoning me.
Quickly reach me as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully
Michele Faisola
Does he really believe that time heals old wounds?
Mr Faisola
Let's break this down.
"15.5 Million US Dollars which the IMF has approved on your name as a compensation as scam Victims" - I'm not a scam victim. Oh, and the IMF and the World Bank are the ruthless scumbags who force nations to comply with monetarist dogma. I would never accept money from them.
"I am sure someone deceived you from reaching me" - That was down to you. Don't flatter yourself.
"since you did not comply to respond to our invitation to sign for the check at the ICBC Bank in New York, I have used an attorney to sign it " - so the check ain't valid. Dumb move, Bubba-Louie.
"we are sharing the fund 60/ 40 Percent because of my financial investment so far" - what financial investment? And if this is compensation, what the fuck would give you the right to any of it?
"I am not asking for a Penny from you" - Not a Penny, no. You're demanding $6.2 million, remember?
"if such was the reason for abandoning me" - I cut you loose because you're a fucking idiot.
Malcolm Reynolds
Will the Lad stick around?
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x 4 (Lagos to Abuja, Nigeria to Ghana, Nigeria to Benin, Ghana to Benin)