
It’s been a while since I post an entry on scam awareness. Basically, what I’m trying to do is to highlight some of the popular scam which is going on. It’s sad but even with the on-going education of scam awareness, people still fall for it. Hopefully my little contribution here will tip the scale a bit.
I received this email recently. To save some space, I’m attaching the whole email at the comment section.
Generally, The person’s name is Larry and he is a director of a bank in Ghana. One of his client apparently died leaving $4.5 million with no heir to claim them.
Now, he’s asking whether I can present as the next kin to collect the money. If I agree I will be awarded with 30% of the wholel amount. That’s very gracious don’t you think?
/end email
Why it is confirmed a scam? (Please refer to the email in the comment section)
- There’s no explanation as to where he got my email. Even so, if you are about to do an illegal transaction involving millions of dollars, will you believe a complete stranger?
- There is one flaw. The client was said to die on the 21st of April 2001. That’s 7 years difference.
- The usage of a yahoo email is very suspicious looking.
- I’ve received about 2 or 3 emails very similar to this. A clear sign
How it scams?
It starts very convincingly that you bear no risk at all. But in time, I can guarantee you that the scammer will start asking you to deposit some money with the reason that his account is being monitored.
The amount may not be that much. Maybe a few hundred dollars. And you will be tempted since comparing that amount to the millions you will be receiving, that is nothing.
The scammer will then ask for more money to be used for other administration fee. This time it will be in thousands of dollars. He will even guarantee you your money back anytime you want.
Of course your money is already lost.
– I wonder –
Have you ever received emails alike?
Disclaimer – I am not by any chance associating Ghana with scam. It just so happen that the email I received stated the name.
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I am from Serbia and I got the same message.
My Dear Friend Banari.
Greetings and please pardon me for not knowing your mindset before contacting you and it is very confidential and please kindly call me on +228 98605445 after reading this message. I am Mr.Momo Paul,The branch manager International Bank Of Africa,Kara Branch,Lome-Republic of Togo.
We had a foreign client; (Mrs. Stella Banari), a national of your country,and a member of your family since she bears the same family name with you. On the 25TH FEB 2003, my client and her only son were involved in a car accident along Kaneshi express Road here in Republic of Togo. Unfortunately they lost their lives in the car crash. Since then the Bank had made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of our clients extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful.
This our client, has an account with this Branch of our Bank, totalling US$6.5million, which she inherited from her late husband who was an industrialist before he died.And, since that year after her death, the bank has not had anyone that Comes for the claim of this fund as either her relation or as a friend.A situation I have monitored closely with my position here as the Manager of this branch of our Bank and l have finally removed her file to my private vault.
Now this is what l actually want you to do; Since you bear the same family name with her and of the same nationality,l have reasoned very professionally and l feel it will be legally proper to present you as her next of kin so as to claim out this fund,before it is transferred to the Bank’s treasury at the end of this financial year where other people may as well claim it directly without going to this length.
I am quite aware of the procedures this will take and I will advice you appropriately on the way forward and guide you on how to apply to our Bank to make the claim for the fund and its bank-to-bank transfer to your designated bank account,where you consider safe for it.Thank you in anticipation of your urgent response and I will furnish you with the full details and please also include your direct phone numbers.
l intend to give you 45% while l take 45% and 10% will go for the motherless home, l hope you will be a very honest and reliable person. Do contact me to my private email address mr.mpaul1951@gmail.com
Yours Faithfully.
Mr. Momo Paul,
+228 98605445
I am Barrister Osueke Nwaji, personal attorney to Mr.C.Sevilla, who used to work as a contractor in Republic of Togo. in my country, On 27th December 2007, my client and his wife and the only son were involved in a ghastly motor accident that claim their lives since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client’s extended relatives but this proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts,I decided to search through with his last name which motivated me to contact you as some body bearing the same last name.
Presently, the bank where the deceased (my client) made the deposit valued at $4.6 Million Dollars issued me a notice to provide the next-of-kin to my client to receive its benefit or have the account confiscated, or declared unserviceable by the bank.
To this effect, I now seek your consent to present you to the bank as the next of kin of the deceased (my late client) So that you and I can share the $4.6 Million; 40% to me and 40% to you, while 20% should be given to any Orphanage Home.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Kindly send the below informations to me to enable us proceed.
Telephone/Fax Number,……….
Private email address………
Please contact me for more details if you are really interested.
Yours sincerely,
Barrister Osueke Nwaji.
+228-99944776
from totte mogo
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Today at 7:03 AM
My Dear Good Friend Jabbar, I am Mr. Totte Moga, the branch manager of one of the banks here in lome, Lome Branch, and Republic of Togo.We had a foreign client (Mr. Muhammad Jabbar) who bears the same family name with you and both of you are from the same country, and on the 26th of December, 2003, our client, his wife and their son were involved in a Benin Republic Airways flight air-crash with registration number (141-UTA) which departed from a village called Adjarra near Porto Novou, Republic of Benin to destination Beirut and our client and all his family died as a result of the mishap on 26th of December, 2003.He was the owner and the Executive Director of STT PETROCHEMICAL SERVICING COMPANY LTD LOME-TOGO. This our foreign client has an account with this Branch of our Bank totaling US $11Million (Eleven Million United States Dollars). Since after his untimely death, no one has come forward for the claim of this fund as either his relative or as a next of kin. This is a situation I have monitored closely with my position here as the Manager of this branch of our Bank and l have finally removed his file to my private vault.I decided to search through the Chamber of Commerce with his name and that is where I got your contact. Now this is what l actually want you to do; Since you bear the same family name with the late depositor and both of you bear the same nationality (the same country), i have reasoned very professionally and l feel that it will be legally proper to present you as his next of kin to our bank so as to claim this fund before it is confiscated and transferred into our bank’s treasury as an abandoned fund and by so doing, other people may as well claim it directly without going to this length.Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, Percentage terms will be discussed with you before we can proceed.Best Regards,Mr. Totte Moga.Direct line +22899034002
my answer….
To Mr. Totte Moga
Today at 1:59 PM
for sure I am not his relatives, and we are not from the same country or same nationality. so thanks for your suggestion.
then he insists…
Mr. Totte Moga
To Danyar Jabar
Today at 7:40 PM
Dear Good Friend Danyar Jabar,
Best greetings of the day! I hope everything is in perfect shape with you. I have received your mail and the content was well noted. In regards to your message to me, I want you to understand that my contacting you is not by mistake rather the issue is that since after the untimely death of the late depositor of the fund, no one had come forward to our bank to claim the fund as the fund’s beneficiary because the late depositor of the fund died without naming the beneficiary of his fund and since then our Bank had made several inquiries through your embassy here to locate any of our client’s extended relatives and all our efforts proved unsuccessful.
My dear, i want you to bear this in mind that as soon as the deposited fund completes it’s deposit duration with our bank by the end of next month, our bank will confiscate the fund and move it into their treasury as an abandoned fund and by so doing, the board of directors of our bank will share this fund secretly between themselves without any body’s notice.
Would you allow the fruit of labour of your fellow country man to just go in vain because of his untimely death??????
You should understand that this is deal between you and i only and no other person should know about it. I want you to understand that you stand 100% chance of claiming the fund as the fund’s beneficiary due to the fact that you bear the same family name with the late depositor of the fund and both of you are from the same country. I hope you still remember that i am the the branch manager of this bank where this fund is deposited and i want you to understand that i have every information about this deposited fund. I will be here to guide and direct you properly throughout the fund claim process until the fund is transferred to you by our bank.
As I have implied earlier, you need therefore to take all precautions and spare no expense to keep this matter entirely confidential. We will share the proceeds 60/40. You will take 40% of the total fund and i will take 60% of the total fund as soon as the fund is transferred to you in your country. Having said thus, you should know that trust is the engine that drives this kind of business and in the absence of it, things might go awry afterwards. I also expect that you have accepted the sharing formula as it must not pose any problem to us after the deal.
I believe you will both understand and appreciate that my requests for the above information certainly seem fair given the control and role that you have as the receiver of the funds. I would advise you to come down to my dear country, Republic of Togo, so that i will direct you on how you will come to our bank and arrange for the fund claim once and for all but if coming down to my dear country will be a difficult task to you now due to your tight schedule,i would advise you to send to me the below listed information of yours to enable me draft a fund claim application letter that will be submitted to the bank to enable them proceed with the fund claim process.The required information includes,
trust and dependency for accurate informatio
Your Full Names…………………..
Your Address……………………….
Your Age……………………………………..
Your Occupation………………………………..
Your Direct Phone line……………………………………….
The mutual n is a two way street and the engine that drives this kind business. The basis for the establishment of mutual trust is not exhaustive though. Therefore don’t hesitate to send to me any other information you deem fit as a further proof of your loyalty. Happy to see a good business relationship with you hoping that this business would afford us to know ourselves and bring us together as family friends in time to come.
Regards,
Mr. Totte Moga.
Direct line +22899034002
then i get angry….hahahahah
first you change the picture on the passport it is so clear. so stop your stupidity and please try harder next time. thanks
by the way he send me his passport but he change the picture for sure…
N:B. please reply to this email address : rodwell.tgme@gmail.com
Dear Fxxxxx ,
I am Geoffrey Rodwell , a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mrs Dorothy Fxxxxx ,a nationality Of your country,my client and her only daughter were involved in a car accident along Kara express Road and lost their lives. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at US$7.5 Million left behind by my client before it gets confiscated by the Security Finance Firm where this huge amount were deposited.
I am waiting for your response for more clarifications and contact me on this email : rodwell.tgme@gmail.com
Regards,
Geoffrey Rodwell.
Beware of the following names Michael Klousseh director ecobank Togo rev.father EUGENIO PETROGALLI doctor Kumar pavej and victor onwe all of which I believe to be the same person claiming to be all of these people. The above names are all real including their job descriptions emails phone numbers and addresses but if you look them up on the internet and contact them they have no idea of what your talking about and all that I spoke to told me to ask these people or person for a bank account number to deposit money into if a bank account is given call the police and they can trace that number to an account holder and then they can be caught. Be clever be wise and good luck. Let’s catch these assholes
so, i got this….
My Dear Friend Tedy Brasoveanu.
I thank you very much for your response to my message, Brasoveanu I do
not contact you by mistake, rather l have contacted you based on the
fact that you are bearing the same family name with our late client
and I don’t really know exactly if you are related to this our
late client or not, But the name of our late client is (late Mrs.
Stella Brasoveanu), I have contacted you to assist me because you are
bearing the same family name with our late client Brasoveanu.
I have all the information of this late client and the deposit,
Considering my position in our bank, I can not start any thing that I
can not be able to finish, Before I contacted you.
I only know them as a foreigner that settled in our country here for a
long time and I do not know much about their family history, I do not
think that this our late client has a family member that knows about
the deposit and their whereabouts because they are all buried here in
our country after their death,
Our bank board of Directors are planning to share this 6.5 million
dollars which she inherited from her late husband in our bank if no
one applies for the claim of her fund from now till the end of of this
Year 2015. Why because since we had about her death, No one has come
forward for this claim as the next of kin to the fund which she
inherited from her late husband in our bank.
The law of our bank stipulates that any inherited fund that is not
claimed after 11 years will be confiscated, last year ending will be
the last year and hence no one applies for it from now till the end of
this Year 2015 the board of directors will share it among themselves,
I am the manager in the branch of our bank where this huge amount of
money is deposited and I have contacted you so that we can team up as
partners and claim out the fund for our benefit. So are you willing to
assist me in claiming out this fund from our bank?
Since the death of this our late client no one has come to apply for
her fund in our bank and I have contacted you now because our bank
board of directors has concluded that if no one applies for the fund
claim till the end of this year banking report that they will share
the fund among themselves, I have contacted you since you are bearing
the same name with her so that I can present you as her next of kin in
our bank so that you will file in an application letter of claim as
the next of kin to the Brasoveanu’s family who contacted our bank from
your country,
I will be here in our bank to give you every support as the manager in
the branch of our bank where this fund is deposited so that the fund
will be processed and approved to you as the next of kin to the
Brasoveanu’s family and then you will instruct our bank to transfer it
to any account of your choice after which I will arrange and fly down
to your country for us to share the money as I stated in my first
message to you,here is the website of our bank http://www.biat.tg everything
you need to know about our bank are there.
All I need from you is your co-operation so that we can use this
opportunity and re-arrange our both families, lf you are ready to
work with me in claiming out this fund from our bank kindly send along
the following information below to me to enable me draft on your
behalf application letter of claim and send it back to you for you to
use it and contact our bank from your country for the claiming of the
$6.5m.
Your Full Names,………..
Residential Address, ………
Private Email Address………
Telephone Number,….
Age,…….
Occupation ….
And Your Bank Account Details….
Awaiting your Immediate Response.
I recieved a same email from mr momo paul.don’t trust him
The Lawrence Law Firm PLC.
B3/73, Safdarjung Enclave, LGF New Delhi, India
Telephone Number: (+91) 8375023607
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Barrister Lawrence Kumar (ESQ), I am Mrs. Anabel Goswamin’s attorney. She has instructed me to assist you with the relevant document to have access to the account with a total balance of 5.2 Million United States Dollars. She said she has prayed about all of this and it was revealed that you are the trusted one to utilize this funds to better the less opportune in your society, and that you have been destined to do this to bring people closer to the almighty God. You are to provide the below information which will enable me process the relevant document which will enable you take charge of the account as directed by Mrs. Anabel Goswamin. The required details will also enable the high court validate the WILL of Mrs. Anabel Goswamin.
Required Details;
1. Full names:.
2. Residential address:.
3. Nationality:.
4. Phone number:.
5. Fax number:.
6. Sex:.
7. Age:.
8. Occupation:.
I have just been informed earlier today by the doctor that Mrs. Anabel Goswamin is in coma. She had earlier told me about you that if situation gets worse I should contact you in order to process all documents in your favor regarding the status of her account to your name. You are being reminded of the task ahead to use a reasonable part of the funds to build a temple of worship and also help the less privileged in your society and also remember that 30% of the fund should be for your personal use. I want you to include her in your prayers.
You may as well view the attached pictures of Mrs. Anabel Goswamin before she went into coma, my International Bar Association Member ID card and also my Working ID card at the Lawrence Law Firm India.
NOTE: You are advised to be on desk to reply as early as possible. All information regarding this contract should be kept strictly confidential until the account must have been changed to your name and the project started!, for this was the last word Anabel told me before i heard she was in coma. So i will appreciate it if you honor that.
I await your response.
The Lord with you always.
Barr. Lawrence Kumar (ESQ)
Thank you all for posting this!! It helps me a lot because I unfortunatelly receive this same e-mail and I almost falls into that, but fortunatelly I found this site! This is so ridiculous and sad, I’m thinking how many people fall in this “joke” and have their money stolen by these crooks!!
Friend i also got such a mail from a lady
it said as follows :
Dear Ahmad, I read your message and was very
glad. Before we proceed please go through my message very well and get
back to me.it is very confidential. I am Mrs.Porishar Nathaniel, I
work in a Branch of,Banque Togolaise du Commerce et de l’Industrie,
Kara Branch,Lome-Republic of Togo.We had a foreign client [Late Mrs.
Elena ] a national of your country.On the 25TH FEB 2004, my client and
her only son were involved in a car accident along Kaneshi express
Road here in Republic of Togo.Unfortunately they lost their lives in
the car crash.
Since then the Bank had made several enquiries to your embassy here to
locate any of our clients extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful. This client has an account with this Branch of our
Bank,totaling US$6.5 million, which she inherited from her late
husband who was an industrialist before he died. And, since that year
after her death, the bank has not had anyone that Comes for the claim
of this fund as either her relation or as a friend.
A situation I have monitored closely with my position here as insider
of this branch of our Bank and l have finally removed her file to my
private vault.
Since you bear the same family name with her and of the same
nationality have reasoned very professionally and l feel it will be
legally proper to present you as her next of kin so as to claim out
this fund, before it is transferred to the Bank’s treasury at the end
of this financial year where other people may as well claim it
directly without going to this length am quite aware of the procedures
this will take and I will advise you appropriately on the way forward
and guide you on how to apply to our Bank to make the claim for the
fund and its bank-to-bank transfer to your designated bank
account,where you consider safe for it.
Thank you in anticipation of your urgent response and I will furnish
you with the full details and please also include your direct phone
numbers. l intend to give you 50% while l take 50% and l hope you will
be a very honest and reliable person, forward to me this information
below I will use it to arrange the application form on your behalf
which you will use to contact our bank for the transfer.
Your full name….
Age………..
Occupation…..
Nationality…
Telephone number…….
Block address…….
Yours faithfully
Mrs.Porishar Nathaniel
thanks you do have a lovely day
Hello Friend Albahadly, I am Mr. Totte Moga, the branch manager of one of the banks here Lome, Republic of Togo. We had a foreign client (Mr. Muhammad Albahadly) who bears the same family name with you and both of you are from the same country, and on the 26th of December, 2003, our client, his wife and their son were involved in a Benin Republic Airways flight air-crash with registration number (141-UTA) which departed from a village called Adjarra near Porto Novou, Republic of Benin to destination Beirut and our client and all his family died as a result of the mishap on 26th of December, 2003.Since then our Bank had made several inquiries through your embassy here to locate any of our client’s extended relatives and all our efforts proved unsuccessful. This our foreign client has an account with this Branch of our Bank totaling US $11Million (Eleven Million United States Dollars). Since after his untimely death, no one has come forward for the claim of this fund as either his relative or as a next of kin.This is a situation I have monitored closely with my position here as the Manager of this branch of our Bank and l have finally removed his file to my private vault.I decided to search through the Chamber of Commerce with his name and that is where I got your contact. Now this is what l actually want you to do; Since you bear the same family name with the late depositor and both of you bear the same nationality (the same country), i have reasoned very professionally and l feel that it will be legally proper to present you as his next of kin to our bank so as to claim this fund before it is confiscated and transferred into our bank’s treasury as an abandoned fund and by so doing, other people may as well claim it directly without going to this length.Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, Percentage terms will be discussed with you before we can proceed.
………………………..
….
I still don’t understand what they are after. assume you give them your details and bank account and what then?
ar Friend Mortazavi.
Greetings and please pardon me for not knowing your mindset before contacting you and it is very confidential and please kindly call me on +228 99119088 after reading this message. I am Mr. Momo Paul, The Branch Manager, Banque International De L’Afrique,KaraBranch,Lome-Republic of Togo.
We had a foreign client [Late Mrs. Stella Mortazavi] a national of your country. On the 25TH FEB 2003, my client and her only son were involved in a car accident along Kaneshi express Road here in Republic of Togo. Unfortunately they lost their lives in the car crash.
Since then the Bank had made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of our clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. This our client, has an account with this Branch of our Bank, totaling US$6.5 million, which she inherited from her late husband who was an industrialist before he died. And, since that year after her death, the bank has not had anyone that Comes for the claim of this fund as either her relation or as a friend.
A situation I have monitored closely with my position here as the Manager of this branch of our Bank and l have finally removed her file to my private vault.
Now this is what l actually wants you to do;
Since you bear the same family name with her and of the same nationality have reasoned very professionally and l feel it will be legally proper to present you as her next of kin so as to claim out this fund, before it is transferred to the Bank’s treasury at the end of this financial year where other people may as well claim it directly without going to this length.
I am quite aware of the procedures this will take and I will advice you appropriately on the way forward and guide you on how to apply to our Bank to make the claim for the fund and its bank-to-bank transfer to your designated bank account, where you consider safe for it.
Thank you in anticipation of your urgent response and I will furnish you with the full details and please also include your direct phone numbers. l intend to give you 50% while l take 50% and l hope you will be a very honest and reliable person. Do contact me to my private email address mr.mpaull0@gmail.com
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Momo Paul.
+228 99119088 or 00228 99119088
I also received an e-mail from Mr. Momo Paul today.
Dear Friend ****
Greetings and please pardon me for not knowing your mindset before contacting you and it is very confidential and please kindly call me on +228 98196550 after reading this message. I am Mr. Momo Paul, The Branch Manager, Banque International De L’Afrique,Kara Branch,Lome-Republic of Togo.
We had a foreign client [Late Mrs. Stella Begic] a national of your country. On the 25TH FEB 2003, my client and her only son were involved in a car accident along Kaneshi express Road here in Republic of Togo. Unfortunately they lost their lives in the car crash.
Since then the Bank had made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of our clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. This our client, has an account with this Branch of our Bank, totaling US$6.5million, which she inherited from her late husband who was an industrialist before he died. And, since that year after her death, the bank has not had anyone that Comes for the claim of this fund as either her relation or as a friend.
Since then the Bank had made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of our clients extended relatives,this has also proved unsuccessful.
This our client, has an account with this Branch of our Bank, totalling US$6.5million, which she inherited from her late husband who was an industrialist before he died.And, since that year after her death, the bank has not had anyone that Comes for the claim of this fund as either her relation or as a friend.A situation I have monitored closely with my position here as the Manager of this branch of our Bank and l have finally removed her file to my private vault.
Now this is what l actually want you to do; Since you bear the same family name with her and of the same nationality,l have reasoned very professionally and l feel it will be legally proper to present you as her next of kin so as to claim out this fund,before it is transferred to the Bank’s treasury at the end of this financial year where other people may as well claim it directly without going to this length.
I am quite aware of the procedures this will take and I will advice you appropriately on the way forward and guide you on how to apply to our Bank to make the claim for the fund and its bank-to-bank transfer to your designated bank account,where you consider safe for it.
Thank you in anticipation of your urgent response and I will furnish you with the full details and please also include your direct phone numbers.
l intend to give you 50% while l take 50% and l hope you will be a very honest and reliable person. Do contact me to my private email address mr.mpaul1951@gmail.com
Yours Faithfully.
Mr. Momo Paul,
+228 99119088 or 00228 99119088
My Dear Friend Tricolici.
I thank you very much for your response to my message, Tricolici I do
not contact you by mistake, rather l have contacted you based on the
fact that you are bearing the same family name with our late client
and I don’t really know exactly if you are related to this our
late client or not, But the name of our late client is (late Mrs.
Stella Tricolici), I have contacted you to assist me because you are
bearing the same family name with our late client Tricolici.
I have all the information of this late client and the deposit,
Considering my position in our bank, I can not start any thing that I
can not be able to finish, Before I contacted you.
I only know them as a foreigner that settled in our country here for a
long time and I do not know much about their family history, I do not
think that this our late client has a family member that knows about
the deposit and their whereabouts because they are all buried here in
our country after their death,
Our bank board of Directors are planning to share this 6.5 million
dollars which she inherited from her late husband in our bank if no
one applies for the claim of her fund from now till the end of of this
Year 2016. Why because since we had about her death, No one has come
forward for this claim as the next of kin to the fund which she
inherited from her late husband in our bank.
The law of our bank stipulates that any inherited fund that is not
claimed after 12 years will be confiscated, last year ending will be
the last year and hence no one applies for it from now till the end of
this Year 2016 the board of directors will share it among themselves,
I am the manager in the branch of our bank where this huge amount of
money is deposited and I have contacted you so that we can team up as
partners and claim out the fund for our benefit. So are you willing to
assist me in claiming out this fund from our bank?
Since the death of this our late client no one has come to apply for
her fund in our bank and I have contacted you now because our bank
board of directors has concluded that if no one applies for the fund
claim till the end of this year banking report that they will share
the fund among themselves, I have contacted you since you are bearing
the same name with her so that I can present you as her next of kin in
our bank so that you will file in an application letter of claim as
the next of kin to the Tricolici’s family who contacted our bank from
your
country,
I will be here in our bank to give you every support as the manager in
the branch of our bank where this fund is deposited so that the fund
will be processed and approved to you as the next of kin to the
Tricolici’s family and then you will instruct our bank to transfer it
to any
account of your choice after which I will arrange and fly down to your
country for us to share the money as I stated in my first message to
you,here is the website of our bank http://www.biat.tg everything you need to
know about our bank are there.
All I need from you is your co-operation so that we can use this
opportunity and re-arrange our both families, lf you are ready to
work with me in claiming out this fund from our bank kindly send along
the following information below to me to enable me draft on your
behalf application letter of claim and send it back to you for you to
use it and contact our bank from your country for the claiming of the
$6.5m.
Your Full Names,………..
Residential Address, ………
Private Email Address………
Telephone Number,….
Age,…….
Occupation ….
And Your Bank Account Details….
Awaiting your Immediate Response.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Momo.+228 99119088
I’m from latvia. I received a similar e-mail that vary receive 5.5 mil. dollar as heir poster Chriss Williams. Asked to sends me documents proving his sincerity. I sent me a copy of the passport and License that is a lawyer.
What to do?
Hello guys, I’m Brazilian and also received something similar, but came from abroad by a scammer, where it meets a supposedly “Shell Petroleum company in Togo Lomé”, by an unknown sender without photo that is called the “Williams Martyrs”, in which he sent me first asking me if I received a message, I curious and suspicious said no, shortly thereafter he sent me another following message in English But with a bad pronunciation of grammar of the english language.
The first message of the scammer:
2017-05-19 7:55 GMT-03:00 Williams Martyrs :
Hello,
Did you receive my email? If not write me so that I will resend it to you.
Thanks
Martyrs Williams
My English message for the scammer:
Hello Mr. Williams, Good afternoon
I didn ‘t get anything from you in my email and I don’t even know what it’s about.
Sincerely
Paul Tamizari
The 2nd Scammer’s message:
Dear Paul
Thanks for your kind responds to my mail, I am barrister Williams martyrs an legal attorney to late deceased, who works with Shell Petroleum Company as chief engineer and contractor here in Lomé Togo West African.
Fortunate the man died Inteste with his wife and only daughter. Since after his death, I have made severl inquires to your embassy here to locate any of his extended relatives, this has also proven unsuccessful.
After all these severe unsuccessful tempt, L decided to contact you for the fact that you have same last name with the deceased, hence I contacted you, be informed that a next-of-kin can be anyone with same last name. I have contacted you to assist in repatriation the fund valued of ($ 13.5 million U.S.) Thirteen million five hundred thousand United States dollars left behind by my late client before it gets seized or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited. The said bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next one month official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessfully in locating any of his relativities for severe years now, I seek the present you as the next of kin to the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, l offering you sharing ratio of 50-50. I have some necessary information needed to back you up for the claim.
All I require from you is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimize arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, as soon as you give me your hands of co-operation, in your next mail I will want you to present to me with these details below so that a draft of the reconciliation form or application form will be sent to you by me which you will tender to the finance firm ,
The details are as follows;
1. Your full names…………………………
2. Date of birth……………………..
3. Full contact address………. (Home & Office)
4. Private telephone numbers…………………….
5. Fax numbers……………..
6. Marital situation…………………..
7. Occupation………………….
8. Country……………………
9. Your private email address……………………
Looking forward to hear from you and will send you all the releading documents covering the said transaction for your turkeys.
Best regards
Barrister Williams Martyrs
Well, then…
If you who have arrived to copy these messages between me and the scammer on some translator, realize that it really has something odd, and in addition to the most curious this nursery rhyme of fraudsters came in a fortuitous way, being that I do not know how they discovered my email, never had relative Engelheiro or entrepreneur who worked in some refinery there and that mainly were in Lome in Togo And that of nothing a alleged individual who passes by counsel wishes to pass an inherited inheritance, and I did research variables but I did not find that they would lead to believing in this “Williams martyrs” if that is his real name and that there is also no oil development company in that region, and for all this, soon it starts very convincingly that you have no risk at the beginning But however, I can assure you that the scammer will start asking you to deposit some money with the reason your account is being monitored by the state Government, why in fact has the exchange rate, and I can say that this is more than a coup is practised by felony fraud, extortion, racketeering, i.e. a fairly sophisticated coup aimed at alleged companies working with foreign suppliers and companies that regularly carry out payments Electronic transfer which seeks to say:
After all these various unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you for the fact that you have even surname with the deceased who died by natural causes of car accident or airplane along with Wife and daughter and blah blah blah. . and scam that is fraudster is conducted by committing legitimate business email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques to perform unauthorized transfers of funds… so be careful not to be next, they send all over the continent… But I hope at least the intelligence service can investigate it better.
I just received a message thru Facebook by Barrister Makami Wadani. Here it is below:
Forgive my means of contacting you however since the internet is one of the fastest way of been in communication I decided to contact you on here.I do foresee the surprise this letter will bring to you as it comes from a stranger, but be assured that it comes with the best of intentions. This is in regards the death of my deceased client Mr. C.A GALLAGHER who carry the same name(GALLAGHER) as you, I know you are not related to him by blood, nationality or family, therefore I ask that you please consider the contents in my email and keep it strictly to yourself. Kindly understand that if you are unable to accept all in my message, you should discard of it.
My message is regards a deposited fund of Seventeen Million Four Hundred thousand United States Dollars(us$17.4 million dollars) my late client left behind here in this country (Togo). With the SECURITY COMPANY giving me a deadline to the end of their organization’s financial year ending before they claim the deposit, I now desperately seek your consent to present you as the sole next of kin of the deceased. Kindly contact me with your Full names, Private email address, Country of residence and Telephone number only with my private email below to enable me furnish you with adequate information in regards my late client and the said fund.
You can call me anytime with my private telephone number below if you need any clarification regards my message, I anticipate reading from you only through my private email below with your full acceptance in handling this claim with me.
Thanks,
Barrister Malkami Wadani.
Private email: wmalkami@yahoo.com
Direct telephone: +22890697025
Good Day,
Calvary greetings in the name of the Lord.
In reference to the message and instruction passed to me from Martin Desmond, who should be presently now in Paraguay on investment arrangement. In view of his instructions that I release the total sum of US$600.000 ( Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars ) Only to you in your name and as compensation for your assistance to him on a business transaction.
I was at the Bank to make the necessary arrangement ahead of remitting the funds to you through your bank account as directed and for onward withdrawal.
However, I was told at the Bank that they would not be able to effect a Bank Wire Transfer from here either for the main time and as such would only be able to issue you with a ATM CARD covering the total sum as stated above .
On this development, you will have to submit your address and your full name to me to submit to the bank for them to complete all necessary arrangements to the release of the ATM CARD to you which will be sent through a secured Courier delivery to the address which you will provide according to the bank. The bank notified me that the delivery will be on a 3 to 4 days maximum for the ATM CARD to arrive to you.
You should provide your full names,office or Home address including your telephone number where the ATM CARD will be delivered through to you.
The peace of the Lord be with you.
Yours Faithfully,
Reverend Father Eugenio Petrogalli.
39 Avenue de Sylvanus Olympio,
Lome-Togo.