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Title: JUST GET ON WITH IT!
Scammer Name: STEV EBE
Submitted By: SHIVER METIMBERS

 

PAGE THREE

 

 

[Steve has taken an alarmingly long time to reply. Did I scare him off? Time to send out another email]

 

From: Miss Nancy Spungen
To: Steve Ebe

** THIS EMAIL IS BEING SENT TO ALL CUSTOMERS/PARTNERS OF MR. PLUNDER MYKNUTS **

Dear Sir or Madam,

My name is Nancy Spungen and I am the private secretary to Mr. Plunder Myknuts.

It is vitally important that if you have outstanding business with Mr. Myknuts that you contact me with the details ASAP.

I shall explain in more detail once I receive your reply.

Thank you,

Miss Nancy Spungen
PA. Techpointsystems

 

 

[Many hours go by, and no reply. Getting very worried now!]

From: Miss Nancy Spungen
To: Steve Ebe

Dear Mr. Ebe,

Please can you confirm if you received my email which I sent to you yesterday (Friday) morning?

I have some news which will be very beneficial to you.

Miss Nancy Spungen
PA. Techpointsystems

 

 

[At last, Steve replies]

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: i heard it and i was in shock.
Date: Saturday, February 28, 2004 9:50 PM

Dear Nancy,

I have heard the news and i have been in shock from the day i heard it i couldnt even write back. I just got relief from the shock so i came to write you.

Well such is life and am sorry about what happened and i sympathize. Well u have nothing to say as everything is gone and there is nothing to do anymore everything is over. I am still in shock but i will try and write more later. Takecare and God bless.

Best of regards,
Steve.

 

 

From: Miss Nancy Spungen
To: Steve Ebe

Dear Mr. Ebe,

I am pleased to inform you that the police have now returned the $2000 payment to me and have informed me that I am free to forward the payment to you.

Unfortunately, I do not have any of your payment information. I know Plunder was going to send this payment via Western Union, but I was not given the full payment/address details.

Please can you forward me the full details on how you would like the payment to be made and I will have the money sent to you within the next 24 hours.

Kind regards,

Nancy Spungen.

 

 

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: Thanks God bless
Date: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:59 PM

Hello Nancy,

How are you doing and how is everything over there hope its in a good condition. How is business hope fine. I have been in the mood of shock and i am now trying to rest and have my strength because of Plunders death. Well you can forward the payment to western union. Name Steve Ebe, Benin city Nigeria. How have you gone about the funeral hope its getting ok. I was so confused when i heard the news and i have the shock. Plunder was a nice man although i haven't seen him but from a good look inside the mind he is a nice man. I will be very grateful to hear from you Nancy. God bless you and takecare.

Best regards
Steve.

 

 

From: Miss Nancy Spungen
To: Steve Ebe

Dear Steve,

How are you sir. I hope that you are feeling better now?

Plunder's funeral is being held tomorrow. If possible I will try to forward some photographs of the proceedings.

With regards to your payment, although I do not know for what reason Plunder was sending you this money, I know that he would have wanted me to make sure that you got everything you deserve, so after the funeral in the morning I will send one of our employees to make the payment to you. I shall then get a scan of the payment receipt and forward it on to you.

Warm regards,

Miss Nancy Spungen.

 

 

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: Take heart
Date: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:50 PM

Dear Nancy,

Thank you for the letter again amd am very grateful to hear from you again. Regarding to Plunder's funeral am quite shocked as the funeral will be tomorrow but i have to take heart because plunder is a nice man i will say it again although i havent seen him but he is a nice man. I will really want to see the photograph. please do take heart.

Do Plunder has family? Hope they take heart too. Thank you once again and may God bless you. Hope to hear from you soonest.


Best regards

Steve.

 

 

From: Miss Nancy Spungen
To: Steve Ebe

Dear Mr. Ebe,

I am happy to tell you that I have now made the Western Union Money Transfer to you this morning. Plunder's funeral has been delayed until later this afternoon so I was able to get to the W.U. office a short time ago.

Please find attached my payment receipt.

I was asked by the lady at the W.U. office to provide a security password and answer. If you are asked a password then the answer is "four months".

Please let me know immediately that you receive the payment.

God bless,

Miss Nancy Spungen.

[The reason for the 'burnt offering' address will become clear shortly. The security answer 'Four Months' is of course the number of months I have been stringing Steve along in this bait ]

 

 

[Damn! Steve has checked the control number at the W.U. online site.]

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: thanks
Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:30 PM

Dear Nancy,

Thanks i have seen it and i went to the western union web site and track the number but is say W0131 We do not have an order with the provided information. Please verify your information and click Check Status. as i did it with this info u gave me. CONTROL NUMBER 7325963612, SENDDERS NAME NANCY SPUNGEN and it gave me that verifaction. well track it yourself its www.westernunion.com you click order satus.

Try and verify the infomation again. I will be very grateful to hear from you soonest.

Best regards
Steve.

 

 

[Time to make up some excuses]

From: Miss Nancy Spungen
To: Steve Ebe

Dear Steve,

According to the W.U. office, all control numbers from the UK (London) office are not processed on the American W.U. site (www.westernunion.com) until up to 18 hours after UK processing.

I was told that if you present it at your local office it will be paid immediately.

Regards,

Miss Nancy Spungen.

 

 

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: thanks
Date: Thursday, March 04, 2004 12:43 AM

DEAR SPUNGEN,

THANKS FOR YOUR REPONSE AND AM GLAD TO KNOW THAT IT WENT WELL AS I SYMPATHIZE. I WILL BE CHECKING FOR THE MONEY NEXT TOMORROW AND THEN I WILL LET YOU KNOW IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. HOW IS YOUR FAMILY HOPE FINE. HOPE TO HEAR FROM ME SOONEST AS I GET THE MONEY.

BEST REGARDS
STEVE.

[I don't bother to reply. Later today the shit will hit the fan as Steve realises the W.U. payment I sent to him does not exist. We're fast approaching the end of the bait. I could probably string him along for a few days more, but I doubt I'll get much more fun out of Steve]

 

 

[D-DAY arrives, and Steve isn't 100% happy I feel]

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: WU info not correct.
Date: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:33 PM

Dear Nancy,

How are you doing and how is everything with you hope fine. Nancy the information you gave me came back saying there is not info like on the western union order. Well since the company will be closing its ok. God knowns i have been honest and faithful to Plunder and you.

Nnacy i told you i even checked it on the internet on western union site but it didnt go as i went there ands comfirmed and still the same thing. The info is not correct. Well i have been honest and faithful to Plunder and even you, if that is how the dweal ends well it all left for God. Takecare and God bless you. Hope to hear from you soonest. They say TAKE A LITTLE RISK AND BECOME SOMETHING IN LIFE . thats what i have done as i did all and have been honest. Well thanks and God bless.

Best regards
Steve

 

 

[I was thinking of continuing with this bait by getting Nancy to enter into a sly deal with Steve to offload some of Plunder's fortune and split it between them, but to be honest I've grown tired of Steve, so time to shut down this mugu and put him out of (or into?!) his misery....]

 

From: Mr. Plunder Myknuts (Managing Director)
To: A 419 scammer

Dear Steve,

How are you?

Of course, you will be surprised to receive an email from Mr. Plunder Myknuts, especially as I was murdered a few days ago!

By now you should have realised that my name is not Plunder Myknuts. There is no such person. Nancy Spungen is of course another name I made up to fool you.

The Western Union receipt was fake too. Pretty good wasn't it?!

You see Steve, for the past FOUR MONTHS I have been wasting your time, and I have been making you like like a complete fool in the process. All the letters and the images you have sent me have been on display on my anti-scammer website for many weeks. Many thousands of people have been reading your letters, and even better, laughing at the pictures you sent to me.

From your very first email I knew that you were a 419 scammer. I knew you were a thief. I knew your were a liar. There is no millions of Dollars to be transferred. You are just a common criminal trying to steal money from people. Being poor is no excuse for trying to steal from others.

Do you know what "arse" means Steve? You would do well to buy yourself an English dictionary. How about if I told you it mean the same as the America word "ass"; or perhaps you know the word better as "bottom". You took a picture of yourself holding up a large sign with the words "I TAKE IT UP THE ASS"! I think you now probably know what the real meaning of that sign was. If you don't, then look up the meaning of the words "anal sex".

But of course, I am not the first person you have tried to scam. You did the same with a good friend of mine. Do you recognise these two pictures:

[My thanks to fellow baiter Isaskar who allowed me to use the two pictures above from his own bait with Steve Ebe. I imagine Steve is going to be really pissed that he has been made a fool of twice!]

 

Of course you recognise the two pictures, after all you were the one that sent them. Unfortunately, yet again you were being fooled by another person pretending to be one of your potential victims.

The pics above look a lot like the picture below that you sent me don't they Steve:

Sadly your many weeks worth of work has been wasted on me. I am afraid I do not send money to common criminals like yourself.

But what am I saying?! You were very generous with me however. You were kind enough to send me TWENTY DOLLARS. And to send me that $20 it also cost you another TWENTY DOLLARS to post it to me! In fact, the total amount of money you spent to please me was FORTY ONE DOLLARS FIFTY CENTS! Now THAT'S what I call being a mugu!

Your money is useless to me however, and it would make me physically sick to keep your dirty cash, so I have decided to burn it. I hope you enjoy the following pictures:

[Of course, I didn't burn the real Dollar bill as it has already been given away to a local charity (but don't tell Steve!). I worked my way through 10 fake Dollar bills to get the pictures above. Who said scambaiting was easy?!]

So Steve, I thank you for all the time and effort that you have put into your little scam, and many thanks for giving me some of your cash to burn, I really enjoyed it.

By the way, the address I gave you to send the cash to was that of a post office in a town about 50 miles away from where I live. I telephoned them to say that a letter had been mistakenly sent to them with the name Nancy Spungen, and told them I would be picking it up. Even they have no idea what was in your letter!

PLEASE do not bother to waste your time to try to convince me your offer was real. I am an expert in 419 scams and that is exactly what you were trying to pull. Sadly I see many thousands of emails like yours every year. So far this year I have made a fool out of over 40 other thieves like you, in just the same manner. Yes, they were dumb enough to send in stupid pictures as well!

Anyway, thanks again for giving me so much fun with your money! Hey, maybe you want to try to get it back from me?!

Bye.

 

 

[Well, I didn't expect Steve to reply after that, but a few days later he did. Sadly it is a bit of a disappointing reply (for me anyway), but it's still a reply]

 

From: Stev Ebe
Subject: hello friend
Date: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:56 PM

Thanks for your email and am quite grateful for all the movies and dreamer we have gone through but it was just real but if you dont understand it to be real well we can be frieends.

You are sure an intelligent man and been doing good business with intellient people. We can be friend now and with due course we can get to know each other and share things that is happening in the world today. Well thanks and God bless for all the effort we have made. Thanks always wrote me back. The main situation here is the country economic and sufdering from the masses. Well takecare and God bless.

Steve your friend.

 

[Perhaps I should give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest he send me another $20 to restart proceedings? Nope, I don't think so!]


 

 

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

Tempted to try baiting scammers out of cash yourself? Please don't.

IT CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS!

I would advise anyone considering "cash baiting" to think again. Not only is it extremely dangerous for inexperienced scambaiters to try, but legally you are also skating on very thin ice. Whilst morally you may think you are giving the scammers exactly what they deserve, technically you are still obtaining money by false pretences, and whilst you may just get a slap on the wrist from law enforcement officials, the greater danger is from the scammers themselves.

It is stressed on this site a lot, but again, PLEASE remember that these people have been known to beat, torture, and in some cases even murder their victims. Although most of the scammers you may read about here seem to be bumbling fools, you certainly would not want to meet up with them in person. You may feel you are safe baiting a scammer many thousands of miles away from you in another country, but remember, even though they themselves may not be prepared to go to the time and expense of flying across continents to come and deal with you, they may well have relatives or contacts living much closer to home!

I implore newcomers to scambaiting to never lose sight of the main goal; to waste the scammer's time as much as possible, to mess with their minds, to make them jump through hoops. Of all my most favourite scambaits, not a single one of them involved extracting cash - or even a trophy picture - from the scammer. It is much more satisfying to drive a scammer mentally insane over a period of weeks or months than it is to spend a week or so convincing them to send you a bit of cash. None of my own cash only baits are remotely near any of my favourite baits in terms of overall satisfaction.

Please do not send requests to me asking how to receive money from scammers. I no longer attempt any kind of cash baiting myself. I tested the waters to see if it could be achieved, now I'm looking for bigger and better ways to get these guys.

Any emails requesting information on cash baiting will NOT receive a reply.

Of course I cannot force you not to try cash baiting yourselves, but for the sake of your own security PLEASE don't do it!

 

 

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