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TITLE: Book "Worm"
SCAMMER NAME: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor/Jani Adams
SCAMMER LOCATION: Abidjan, Cote D'ivoire
SCAMBAITER: Shiver Metimbers as Michael Palin & Thomas
Cook
PAGE FOUR
Right, lets get back to Chinweoke's battle with Thomas Cook.
Monday morning arrives, and Chinweoke is getting rather impatient
for his payment.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Thomas Cook
Subject: ARE MY EMAILS NOT INVALID TODAY?
DEAR MR. TOM,
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WANT ME TO CONTINUE FEELING BAD
AFTER WORKING FOR YOU.
I WONDER IF IT IS STILL NIGHT LONDON OR IF MY THREE EMAIL ADDRESS
ARE ALSO INVALID. PLEASE THINK ABOUT WHAT I AM INTO HERE, IF YOU
DONT WANT TO PAY ME MY MONEY, I WILL RESERVE MY WORDS.
THIS IS 10:AM IN LONDON AND YOU ARE STILL NOT PICKING YOUR PHONE
AND CANNOT EVEN SEND ME ANY EMAIL OR RATHER CALL ME. I AM NOT VERY
HAPPY MR. TOM. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I BORROWED MONEY AND ENTERED
INTO CREDIT BECAUSE OF THIS YOUR JOB.
I AM GETTING FED UP WITH YOU IF YOU WILL UNDERSTAND.
Chinweoke.
From: Thomas Cook
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr. Nwauzor,
I really would appreciate it if you could try to be a little more
patient. It may well be a surprise to you, but I have a large and
busy business to run, dealing with many many people on a daily basis.
Do you think perhaps that I am just sat at my desk all day just
waiting for your calls/emails?
For your information, on Mondays I do not even arrive into my office
until 11:30am UK time (I believe you are one hour behind London
time). Once I am in my office I will see to some usual work and
THEN I will arrange your Western Union payment.
Sincerely,
Tom Cook - CEO
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
Right. After this reply to Chinweoke I take to ignoring him for the
rest of the day.
Chinweoke sends about 20 emails in rapid succession, and as many telephone
calls, none of which receive a reply. He then takes matters into
his own hands and emails all the other "contacts" listed
on my fake Audio & Video Production website. Of course, I get
to see all the messages!
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: All contacts on the Pesky Pirate website!
Subject: INFORMATION
Dearest,
I am writing this email to you people to inform Mr. Tom Cook
of the Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd with the address
below:
Mailing address:
Apartment 84 - 87
Middlebrook Retail Park
Bolton
BL6 6JA
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 8708 74XXXXX
Fax: +44 8701 31XXXXX
To pay me my money for the work I have done for him and because
I am not happy at his behaviour to me and will take action if after
today, I did not hear from him.
I have called him for about a fifty million times and he never
wanted to pick up his phone. I am running out of patient and will
not have any jokes played on me.
Regards,
Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
The Managing Director of Pesky Pirate replies.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Sir.
I received your email below in my offices a few moments ago. A
number of my employees have also reported that you sent the email
to them also. My name is Charles Babbage and I am the director of
Pesky Pirate Video & Audio productions.
Please note, Mr. Thomas Cook no longer works at Pesky Pirate Video
Productions. He has not worked here for nearly 4 months. Mr. Cook
was removed from the board of directors for illegal activities which
I do not wish to discuss at this time. It is unfortunate that his
contact details are still showing on our website, I apologise for
that, and I shall have his details removed ASAP so as not to cause
further confusion.
My only advice to you would be to not communicate with anyone using
the name of Thomas Cook as it is most probably that this person
is not the real Thomas Cook, and may be acting on behalf of one
of our rival companies.
If you require further information, please contact me directly
rather than emailing all my employees.
Thank you for your email.
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
Chinweoke writes back. He is unimpressed, and is reporting me to the
appropriate authorities!
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
Dear Charles Babbage,
Thanks for your email, any way I must tell you that I am going
to have my action taking right away. Find the below email which
I have prepared to contact the appropriate authorities to get my
money from him.
I borrowed money from several people to record a 35 chapters
of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy which he sent to me. I have
also attached this agreement which bears the logo and letterhead.
You should pay me my money immediately if you dont wish me to go
further because I shall do every thing at my reach to get my money
and pay all the monies that I have borrowed to complete this work.
See the below:
Dear Sir,
I am writing this email to you to one inform Mr. Thomas Cook
of the Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd London
[It's BOLTON, you doofus] with the address below:
Mailing address:
Apartment 84 - 87
Middlebrook Retail Park
Bolton
BL6 6JA
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 8708 74XXXXX
Fax: +44 8701 31XXXXX
To pay me my money for the work I have done for him and because
I am not happy at his behaviour to me and will take action if after
today, I did not hear from him.
I read and recorded a book "THE HITCH HIKERS GUIDE TO THE
GALAXY" of 35 chapters with 109 pages which he was due to pay
me on Saturday and uptil now, I have not heard any thing from him.
Please can you use your office to assist me in relating my complaint
to the appropriate office to inform him to pay me my money for the
job which I have done for him.
I have attached to this email, the agreement document which
he sent to me that I have signed and sent back to him since Saturday,
the 28th July 2007.
I have called him for about a fifty million times and he never
wanted to pick up his phone. I am running out of patient and will
not have any jokes played on me.
Regards,
Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
CC:
Scotland Yard Metropolitan Police.
British Embassy Cote D'Ivoir/Ghana.
American Embassy Cote D'Ivoire
It's time to set Chinweoke straight on a few things.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Sir.
I can understand your frustration, however the paperwork which
you attached to me is not our official paperwork, and we are able
to prove it.
We cannot contact Mr. Thomas Cook simply because we have no idea
where he is. Again we have not had any contact with Mr. Cook for
over 4 months now, and he no longer has any associations with our
company.
Regarding the paperwork you attached; We do not have pictures of
pirates on our letterheads, and also the VAT number is completely
incorrect. Added to that there is no contact address, no contact
email address, no contact telephone number, no contact fax number,
and also the name of the board members are fake. Am the director
of this company. My name should appear on an official agreement
form, yet it does not appear on your copy. You sound like an intelligent
man, do you think that a real agreement form should be missing such
important information?
All the names of the board members are fake. They are actually
related to "pirate" names. Let me explain:
1. Mr. Jim Lad
"Jim Lad" is a character in the famous pirate book, "Treasure
Island". It is not a real name.
2. Mrs. C. Worthy
Obviously, this is a joke name, meant to sound like "Sea Worthy",
describing a ship that is safe to use in the Sea.
3. Mr Valk De Planc
Again, this is a joke name. It is supposed to sound like the pirate
phrase, "walk the plank".
4. Mr. Aye Patch
Once more, another joke name, made to sound like the "Eye Patch"
that pirates sometimes wear.
As you can see, all those names are related to pirates and the
sea.
I am sorry that you have obviously been the victim of a scam, however
my company cannot be held responsible for the fact that you have
not taken precautions or done your research. Please do feel free
to report the offence to your local law enforcement. I wish you
luck.
Thank you for your email.
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
Chinweoke goes uppercase - a sure sign of fury!
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
HOW CAN I BELIEVE ALL THIS TRASH YOU ARE TELLING ME?
YOU HAVE THE SAME COMPANY NAME, YOU MAKE USE OF THE
SAME WEBSITE TO SCAM PEOPLE, THE SAME COMPANY NAME,
AND UPTIL NOW HIS NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS EXIST IN YOUR
WEBSITE AND YOU TELL ME THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO
FIND HIM.
WELL THERE IS NO NEED FOR BRAGGING, I WILL GET TO YOU
AND I AM SURE THAT BY THEN, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT
YOU OUGHT TO DO IN ORDER TO SECURE YOUR GOOD NAME.
Just two minutes later after bawling me out, Chinweoke sends the following
plea:
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
IF YOU CAN BE SO KIND TO ASSIST ME IN SETTLING THE
DEBT THAT I HAVE RUN, I WILL FORGET THE SUFFERING AND
COMMIT ALL IN THE HANDS OF GOD.
Printing and binding of documents: GBP 50.00
Rent of hotel room for one week: GBP 270.00
Rent of a Laptop for one week: GBP 400.00
Procurement of Workman, Mp3 CDs: GBP 100.00
Payment for Convertion of Record to MP3: GBP 200.00
Transportation: GBP 200.00
Telephone calls: GBP 200.00
Hiring of Two D.Js for one week: GBP 1, 400.00
Total GBP 2, 820.00
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Sir.
Your previous email was very insulting. I quote:
"HOW CAN I BELIEVE ALL THIS TRASH YOU ARE TELLING ME?
YOU HAVE THE SAME COMPANY NAME, YOU MAKE USE OF THE
SAME WEBSITE TO SCAM PEOPLE, THE SAME COMPANY NAME,
AND UPTIL NOW HIS NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS EXIST IN YOUR
WEBSITE AND YOU TELL ME THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO
FIND HIM.
WELL THERE IS NO NEED FOR BRAGGING, I WILL GET TO YOU
AND I AM SURE THAT BY THEN, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT
YOU OUGHT TO DO IN ORDER TO SECURE YOUR GOOD NAME."
And NOW you have the cheek to ask me for help?! You really must
be crazy!
I tried to be polite and respectful to you, but for some reason
you took it upon yourself to be rude and disrespectful to me. Do
you really expect people to help you with an attitude like that?
Until about 30 minutes ago I knew nothing about you and your so-called
"deal" with Mr. Cook, yet you send me abusive emails and
then expect me to help you? I suggest you calm yourself down, apologise
and then think carefully before you email me again.
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
I AM SORRY FOR MY BAD WAYS OF SPEECH BUT YOU SHOULD
UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM INTO IT. IF YOU CAN BE OF
ASSISTANCE PLS KINDLY TRY TO HELP ME.
I AM VERY SORRY, I AM A STUDENT AND HAVE EVEN USED MY
SCHOOL FEES TO ENSURE THAT I COMPLETED HIS WORK, I
NEVER KNEW THAT HE WAS FAKE.
I AM OWING SO MUCH THAT I CANNOT GO TO THE CAMPUS BY
TOMORROW BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THE RECORDING
WILL BIT THE HELL OF MY HEAD.
I AM SORRY,
Chinweoke
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr Nwauzor.
Thank you for your apology.
I can completely understand your frustration and anger directed
at Mr. Cook. Believe me, Mr. Cook has caused this company a lot
of trouble over the past few months. Although I cannot go into too
much detail, it all started when Mr. Cook was approached by a rival
company and offered a huge lump-sum payment to go to work with them
and also take our customer database with him.
Since then he has been defrauding people using the name of our
company to convince people to produce audio books, pretending to
be representing this company. Obviously with our esteemed reputation,
many people were happy to work for him, knowing that we were very
well known for generous payment terms and our honest reputation.
It is very sad that Mr. Cook has turned over in such a way.
Regarding your request for help; I am afraid I cannot offer you
any money at all. UK limited companies are governed by very strict
trading laws and very diligent tax assessors. It is not within my
power to give you any kind of payment for nothing.
I know this will not rest well with you but there is one way with
which I can secure the full payment to you (though I cannot include
the expenses without receipts):
If you are willing to legitimately do some audio recording work
for us as you say you did for Mr. Cook then of course I can pay
you for that work. However please note that due to possible criminal
charges against Mr. Cook we cannot accept any kind of work that
you may have completed for him.
I am willing to send you payment of £8,000 if you are able
to complete a similar project for us. On top of that I can include
your expenses however they must not exceed £2,000 and receipts
for any expenses claimed must be provided to us.
I have no idea what explanation Mr. Cook gave you previously for
how to conduct the recording but I will assume he sent you our standard
instruction letter so I will presume you are well versed on the
procedure.
This is my offer to you Mr. Nwauzor. It is all I can offer you
because it is impossible for me to give you payment in any other
way.
I know that the prospect of repeating your previously unpaid job
will not be a good one, however at least this time you can rest
assured that your payment is guaranteed. I can offer you book work
probably 50% shorter in length than the 109 pages you say you have
previously completed.
Let me know your thoughts. If you decide to refuse my offer then
that is fine. I will wish you good luck in pursuing Mr. Cook for
your recompense.
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
Please confirm this picture for me to be Mr. Cook, also let
me know if you will accept the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
so that I will send it to you. I need money to replace my school
fees, if you can equipt me with material which I shall use to do
the work for you, I will start it immediately. I have a very big
problem here, my senior brother who I am staying told me earlier
before I started this that I should not do it. As I disobeyed him,
he moved me out of his house, now both the hotel where I stayed
to complete this work and the place I hired laptop, the D.J who
made the recording for me are all after me.
Please what do I do now? I am just confused, if there any way
you can equipt me pls, kindly do before I find myself into prison.
I am one leg to the prison as I am writing this email to you.
I do not know what to tell this people when i will be leaving
here or if I will kill myself and stop looking and hearing what
is going to happen to me.
God, in fact am finished. I do not know what to do, please help
me pls, I am pleading with you, if you can even set your eye on
the so called Thomas, tell him to help me out of this problem he
has putting me. Tell him to even send me a thousand pounds so that
I can settle some of the pressing debts, I do not have any hope
to be looking out to the sky till this weeChinweoked.
Please help me,
Chinweoke.
Chinweoke attached a picture of some guy I have never seen before.
I won't show it here as it's probably some innocent guy's picture
ripped from the 'net.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr Nwauzor.
The picture that you attached is not that of Thomas Cook. I have
attached Thomas Cook's picture to this email. I hope that helps
you.
Regarding the work, I am afraid I cannot accept any work commissioned
by Thomas Cook because it may be subject to a pending police enquiry.
You would have to submit brand new work to us, however again the
work will only consist of about half of the amount that you did
for Mr. Cook.
I shall pass your message on to the last known email contact address
of Mr. Thomas however of course I cannot offer any guarantee that
he will see it. I myself have sent him many messages and they have
all gone unanswered.
Sincerely,
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
I attach a photo of Thomas Cook:
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
Are you sending me the work immediately? Please help me with
some mobilization funds so that I can start your work and then settle
some people who I am owing before they kill me here.
Please kindly call me on 00225098XXXXX or 00225662XXXXX. I am
just losted in the see as I do not know what I can do. I have called
and called his telephone and he never picked and finally he put
it into answering machine.
Please reply fast.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr Nwauzor.
You say you have been calling Mr. Cook? Please can you inform me
what number you have been dialling. The telephone number that I
have for him has been dead since over a month ago, so if he has
a new number I would like to know what it is because we also need
to get in touch with him regarding money that he owes us also.
Getting back to your personal plight. As I told you, the only legitimate
way I can help you I am afraid is if you are able to do work for
us personally.
Unlike what Mr. Cook has told you, we do not force people to complete
entire books. We pay a flat fee of £60 per recorded page and
it is up to the person submitting the work how much they wish to
do. The only requirement we ask is that a minimum of 50 (fifty)
pages is submitted. After that you can decide to stop, or if you
wish go on to complete the entire book. The choice is totally yours
depending on how much you wish to earn. Please do note however that
we can only make ONE SINGLE payment. For instance you cannot record
50 pages then ask for payment, and then decide you want to do some
more pages. We can only authorise one single payment per person.
In case you are still interested, I have attached a PDF file containing
the book "The Time Machine". I assume that you have already
had instructions previously from Mr. Cook as to how to make the
recording. If not, please get back to me and I will send you our
standard instructions.
In this particular book there are a total of 148 pages. You only
need to do the minimum of 50 pages for which we will pay UK £60
per page. Of course, if you wish you can carry on to complete the
entire book, in which case the total payment due to you would be
UK £8,880 (148 x £60).
As explained previously, my company do pay expenses on top of the
standard payment, however you must be able to supply us with signed
receipts for any expenses incurred.
To send the work to us you may use one of three methods:
1. Ship to our offices by courier on CD/DVD
2. Send the chapters (there are 12 chapters plus 1 epilogue) by
email attachment
3. Upload the separate chapters to a service such as megauplod.com
or rapidshare.com
Once more I am assuming that Mr. Cook provided you with the explicit
details of how the book is to be recorded.
If you are in agreement to our terms, please let me know immediately
because our turnaround times are very quick and very swift. Any
delay may mean that your work is handed to another person.
We offer various methods of payment, however I think that probably
what would suit you best is a bank transfer as this way we can have
your payment made within a few minutes of receiving your final submission.
We do not put strict time limits on how long you must take to complete
the work however of course the sooner that you are able to complete
it then the sooner we will be able to offer you payment.
Kind regards,
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
THE TIME MACHINE .PDF ATTACHED
Chinweoke hasn't learned his lesson about asking for cash up front.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re: INFORMATION
87076XXXXX
If u want me to do any thing for you, send me advance of £1,000.00
then I will complete the recording before Friday and send it over
then you pay the balance.
Use my name and send the money vi Western Union or Moneygram:
Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
ABIDJAN COTE D' IVOIRE
Thanks you.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr Nwauzor.
No, Sorry. Advance payments are not company policy.
Thank you anyway for your reply. Good luck with finding Mr. Cook
however.
Sincerely,
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
It takes nearly two weeks for Chinweoke to respond, and also
from a new email address.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: WHY ARE U DOING THIS TO ME?
dear charles
please I beg of you to take pity on me at this time. I can get
you all you need but thomas cook dried my accounts and now I have
nothing to pay people to do this work for you. Why dont you answer
your phone?
Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr. Nwauzir,
I'm not quite sure if your are able to comprehend basic English,
or perhaps you are on some kind of mind numbing medication? I will
once again repeat that my company do not give out advance payments.
This may come as a great surprise to you, but did you know that
there are people on the Internet who like to scam people? Don't
you know that there are thieves out there who deserve nothing more
than to have their testicles removed and fed to them.
Now, if you cannot do the work requested then that is fine by me.
You are most welcome to seek recompense elsewhere, but please write
down all your expectations about getting an advance payment from
me, seal them in a large envelope, and post them to the following
address:
Mr. Ima Mugg
419 No Hope Street Gardens
Notta Chance Inhell St.
Go Skrewyourself
U.K.
Warmest regards,
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
Chinweoke isn't a happy bunny.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: ???
BASTARDS
U HV SUCCEEDED DIS TIME ARND, LEST C U GONNA GET THE
NEXT TIME
I suspect Chinweoke may have sussed that he was being played
around with! I'll keep playing my part though.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr. Nwauzor,
Thank you for your last communication. Call me stupid, but I get
the sense that you are unhappy about something? Have I perhaps upset
you in some way?
Instead of contemplating what you would like to do with various
parts of my body, may I suggest that your time could be better served
by completing the work for me? If you do that then not only would
you benefit from the possible satisfaction of a job well done, but
you could also earn yourself a little cash at the same time. What
do you say Chinny?
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
I think Chinweoke decided to do a little searching ion the Internet
and found my site!
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re:???
U did but just the work of a monkey, I gat many, boys, girls,
monkeys and other office rats like u who handle my office work,
I have heard so much abt u and even
the people dat u told to go naked and take a snap but u know, u
have just heard the voice of africa appealing to grow higher. In
case u need to hear abt the voice of one million people, just let
me know, I will do it free of charge and get to u.
Get back to me idiot.
Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
Dear Mr. Nwauzor,
I'm sorry? Could you possible repeat most of your previous email
in some kind of understandable English? At first I thought I had
received a letter typed by a blindfolded dog, however the appearance
of your name at the end of the message led me to the conclusion
that it is you Mr. Nwauzor.
This monkey you talk about that apparently did the work for you;
is he an impressionist? The reason I ask is because the 9 hours
of audio recordings the monkey (sorry, you didn't mention the monkey's
name) did for me sounded exactly like your voice on the phone. Now
THAT is talent. Let me tell you Chinweoke, with a talented monkey
like that, you should forget about talking to time wasters like
me and get yourself a showbiz agent. Have you any idea at all how
much money that monkey could be making for you right now? We could
be talking about millions of dollars, easy. Listen, how about we
go 50-50 on the monkey? You ship the the little furry primate to
me and I will make arrangements to have him interviewed by a few
agents I know. Before you know it we could both be swimming in cash,
or in the monkey's case, bananas. Actually, forget the last bit.
What the hell does a monkey know about showbiz and money? No need
to waste our profits on him, he won't know the difference. Is he
comfortable in front of TV cameras?
What about your office rats? Do they have any kind of showbiz talent?
If you have a talking monkey that can do impressions, I can only
imagine the wondrous things your rodents are capable of. Please
do not keep them to yourself. The world deserves your rats too.
I'm afraid I'll have to turn down your offer of one million people;
I just don't have the office space.
Sincerely,
Charles Babbage - Director
Pesky Pirate Audio & Video Productions Ltd.
Chinweoke is unimpressed by my showbiz ambitions it seems.
From: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
To: Charles Babbage
Subject: Re:???
Urh,
I think is okay my friend, pls just go ahead with yours while
I take on mine here. Let us stop wasting each of our time.
From: Charles Babbage
To: Chinweoke Trevor Nwauzor
So it's a no deal on the monkey thing?
That was the last I heard from Chinweoke as Charles Babbage
in this scambait, but of course, you will recall he's also trying
to scam Miss Christina Gilliam, so Lets get back to that story shall
we?
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