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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