TITLE: Caveat Deceptor!......He's Back!......And He's Not Happy!
[Scammer Beware!.......Professor Rupert J. Felcher rises
again!]
Characters:
[Black Text]: Ms Veronica Karim (the principal Scammer, located in
[Blue
Text]: Professor Rupert J Felcher III (Icelandic
explorer with a grudge against 419 scammers)
[Green Text]:
Major Muff Diver (President of Arctic Skunk Exploration Enterprises Ltd)
[Orange
Text]: Commander Jethro Tull
(Forensic Services, Scotland Yard)
[Special guest appearances from the following:]
The Rolling Stones
[Self-proclaimed greatest rock & roll band in the world]
Maggie Thatcher
[British ex-PM]
Mr Henry Karim [Brother of Veronica & also a scammer]
Led Zeppelin [see
the Rolling Stones]
Mr Norbert Agyeman [a.k.a. A-Guy-Man, & yet another scammer]
Charles Bukowski [American poet and author]
Sean Connery [James
Bond]
Ian Anderson [Jethro Tull]
A scurrilous assortment
of other would-be scammers & scammer associates
[Red Text]: Additional commentary
INTRODUCTION:
Professor
Rupert J Felcher III has entered the building. His
office in downtown Reykjavik, that is. Today marks his return to the workplace
Date: 05 / 03 / 06
Dear
Friend
you may
be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally,
[Actually...no...that's
what a catcher account is for...I am fully expecting to get letters from scammers
like you] I got your contact when i was
searching for a reliable person who can assist us stand as our foreign beneficiary
to help us receive our belongings which was deposited by my late father in
a security company here in ghana before he died.
My name
is Veronica Karim iam
a citizen of Liberia the daughter of the late personal assistance to the former
Minister of Mines and Energy Dr. Camara
Karim. he was also a Gold
and Diamond Merchant,before the death of my father
he normally export gold and diamond to India and dubia,
and most of the time when his customers will demand for a large quantity of
Gold he will have to come to Ghana to get some and mostly deposit them in
a security company here in ghana.
My Father
died during the war in my country
I lost
my family during the war left with me and my brother so I and my brother were
able to move out from Liberia through the UNITED NATION cargo ship, that Coven
refugee from Moronvia to Accra Ghana, as refugees because we lost all we had
during the war including my mother and my sisters during the war.My
late father left behind physical cash of $26.4 Million USD which he safely
lodged in a security and diplomatic company here in Accra Ghana for safe keeping
during the war and registered it with my name as next of kin no one know about this fund, they are in two
boxes .$26.4 million u.s.d cash deposited as family
belongings
When
we got to ghana
we went to the company with the documents and after the company cross check
it they told us that every documents we have is genuine, but we have to come
with our late fathers foreign partner, when we ask them why, they showed us
an agreement that was made between the company and my late father, that on
no account should the company release the consignment[the two boxes] to me with out his foreign partner.So
all this while, we have been looking for somebody, who is God Fearing that
will assist us claim this boxes, but know
that we have found you we believe you can assist us stand as my foriegn partner and make the claim of the boxes from the company
and they will deliver the boxes to you in your country because they have a
diplomatic means of making delivery of goods around the world.
I am
hereby soliciting your assistance to be my foreign partner and assist me and
my brother make the claim of my boxes of fund from the security company here
in Ghana and it will be transfered
down to your country where it will be invested hence my late father has registered
it with my name as next of kin,and after the company
has delivered the boxes of fund to you in your country then you will now help
me and my brother travel down to your country for the investment because I
do not know much about investment and we need you to assist me for investment
of this fund in your country because iam just 21yrs
old.
You will
be entitled to 15% of the total sum,10% for your
assistance and 5% for any expences for the boxes
to be delivered to your door step, Your compensation for the assistance is
negotiable.After the success of this transaction you are going
to make arrangement for me and my brother to meet you over in your country
but all we need from you is full trust because as you can see now we have
no choice.
Your
urgent reply will be highly appreciated. All the necessary documents of deposit
from the Security Company are with me please get
back with your telephone
and fax number for more details.
looking forward to hear
from you soon.
Thanks and God
bless.
Veronica Karim
Date: 08/ 03 / 06
Professor Rupert J Felcher
III
Arctic Skunk Exploration Enterprises
Calvary Greetings My Dear
Ms Karim!
An interesting proposition I must say. I may
be able to assist you, however, before proceeding I will be needing assurance
that everything is strictly kosher. I'm sure you will agree that the internet
is used to perpetrate all manner of fraudulent modalities, and being a small
businessman I need to be careful. I have to admit your proposal is tempting,
I'm always interested in meeting new friends and particularly in alternative
sources of income to help finance my exploration activities. Please contact
me and we can discuss this some more.
Kindest regards,
Prof. R.J. Felcher
III
From: veronicakarim@yahoo.com
Date: 10 / 03 / 06
I am writing you because we do not intend to invest here in Africa, we are
also to claim the consignments with a partner due to the agreement made during
deposit. I want you to send to me your phone number so that i can call you.
Am hoping to hear from you at your earliest convinience.
Veronica karim
[I
left her hanging for a few days here because, well, she's not the only scammer
in the world and I was dealing with what I believed to be a few more advanced
exchanges at the time.]
From: veronicakarim@yahoo.com
Date: 12 / 03 / 06
I want you to be my beneficiary since i am the next of kin, my brother Henry
is here with me in Ghana and wewilll reward you in any assistance you render
to us, i want you to send your phone number so that i can call you and talk
to you about this.
God bless.
veronica karim
[The professor lets her sweat it out a few more days, while he deals with more urgent business matters.]
From: veronicakarim@yahoo.com
Date: 14 / 03 / 06
Sir,
i am still waiting
for you.
thank you
Veronica
From: rjfelcher@fastmail.fm
Date: 15 / 03 / 06
Professor Rupert J Felcher III
Arctic Skunk Exploration
Enterprises Ltd
Dear Veronica,
Please note that I only use e-mail
for all business communications. This is because as an explorer I travel extensively
in remote areas and rely totally on my wireless laptop computer to stay in
touch. Before we can proceed to the next step
I must verify your identity. As so much business is conducted on the
internet these days I have developed my own method of verifying the identity
of potential business partners.
It works like this: I would like you to send me a picture of
yourself holding a sign. The sign must have written on it a password that
I give you. In this way I know for sure that the person in the picture is
you because no-one else would know the password.
We can proceed to the next stage of our business immediately
I receive the password encoded picture. Please feel free to send me any other
photographs of yourself as well - I would be interested to see them. As a
show of good faith on my part I am sending you a picture of myself.
Regards
Prof. R.J. Felcher III
Date: 17 / 03 / 06
DEAR Mr.Rupert J Felcher ,
HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY INCLUDING BUSINESS,
MAY GOD LAY IS HAND ON WHAT EVER YOU TOUCH AND BLESS
WHICH I LIKE TO INFORM YOU THAT I REALLY HAPPY
TO SEE YOUR PICTURE BEEN LOOKING AT YOU SHOW YOU AS A RESPONSIBLE MAN, [Now there’s a scammer
with an eye for responsible people. Keith Richards responsible?]
ABOUT YOUR REQUEST IT WILL TAKE BY NEXT WEEK BEFORE
I CAN SNAP THE PICTURE AS YOU SAID THAT I HAVE TO CARRY THE PASSWORD FOR YOU
TO KNOW THE PERSON YOU ARE DEALING WITH,
SO I LIKE TO ATTACH THESE PICTURE OF MY AS FIRST
IDENTIFICATION BEFORE I SNAP THE ONE YOU REQUST FOR WITH SIGN PASSWORD AS
YOU STATED. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU. WHICH I WILL LIKE YOU
SEND ME YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER.
THANKS
VERONICA
[And here’s her first picture. Sweet
Jesus........what have I got myself into here! She’s butt ugly, even for a
scammer. Don’t think much of her accommodation either. Worst of all though,
she hasn’t sent me the picture I asked for; there’s no password. You’ll have
to do better than that, Scammer! And try to wear something half-decent and
make an effort with your personal appearance too!]
From: rjfelcher@fastmail.fm
Date: 20 / 03 / 06
Professor Rupert J. Felcher III
Arctic Skunk Exploration
Enterprises Ltd
Dear Veronica,
As soon as I receive the password-encoded picture we will be
ready to proceed. Remember my business philosophy encompasses the following
modalities:
1) Secrecy - Do not release any information I give you to anyone else.
2) Speed - So we can all achieve the results we want in the least amount of time.
3) Security - Anyone I do business with must have their identity verified.
Please feel free to send me any other pictures of yourself in the meantime.
Regards
Rupert J. Felcher III
From: veronicakarim@yahoo.com
Date: 23 / 03 / 06
Dear sir,
thank you for corresponding
with me, i have not taken the type of picture that
you required because i have to fill a form and pass
other process before i will be allowed to leave
the refugee camp where i live with my brother.
By this week end, i
will collect the picture and send it to you so that we can proceed, i will like you to send your phone number so that i can also call you.
yours,
veronica karim
From: veronicakarim@yahoo.com
Date: 25 / 03 / 06
How
are you sir? this is a free day for me in the refugee camp and i used this oppotunity to collect
the picture you told me to take and i
have attached it to this email.
I
will like you to send your telephone number to me so that i
and my brother can talk to you, we want to know how
soon it will be for you to come down for the claim of
the boxes from the security company here in
The
reason why we need you is that we have to pay for the storage charges of the deposited
boxes before the death of my father, i can send the information
of the security company so that you contact them.
I hope you write me back soon.
Thank
you and God bless you.
Veronica Karim
Date: 26 / 03 / 06
Prof. Rupert J Felcher III
Arctic Skunk Exploration Enterprises Ltd
Dear Veronica,
Received your picture. I am suitably impressed. It seems we are progressing well.
Let me remind you once again that I only use e-mail for all business communications.
There are 2 reasons for this:
1) As an explorer I travel a lot in remote areas and rely totally on my wireless
laptop computer & email to stay in touch.
2) Telephones and faxes are to risky from a security point of view. My own
telephone was being tapped by the Canadian Mounted Police who were still trying
to fabricate evidence of my wartime activities in the Balkans. (They weren’t
at all pleased when I escaped to
And speaking of security, how many people know about this money?
You mentioned a brother. The more people know about the money the more risk
involved. Just to be on the safe side I'd better have a picture of this brother
too so I can see who I'm dealing with. As a further display of my own sincerety and committment to security
I am sending you another picture of myself. It shows me in my
Please get back to me as soon as possible so we can proceed
rapidly to the next phase of the operation.
Regards
R.J. Felcher III
From: veronicakarim@yahoo.com
Date: 27 / 03 / 06
Dear
Rupert J Felcher III
Thank
you for getting back to me and i recieved
your picture, it is nice.Please i
want to ask you some few questions, in your full name after Felcher,
111 is added, what dose 111 satnd for?, again why
do you work in remote areas? what is exactly your profession?
you also
demanded that i send my elder brothers picture to you so that you wil know all
the people you are delaing with, i
have attached my brothers picture in this email because he is also with me
in the refugee camp. we do not have father or mother.
No body
knows about this buisness only me, my brother and
you, even the security company where my late father
deposited the boxes dose not know the content of the boxes, it was deposited
as family precious items and i am the next of kin,
what we want you to do is to come down and pay the dumorage
bill and claim the boxes for us.
I want
you to make the arrangments about how this money
will be invested in your country, company or if you have a better plan for
the investment. I and my brother and my father parked this money together
before he deposited it in Accra Ghana before he was killed and i
am sure that the total amount of the money is ($50.4m) Fifty million four
hundred U.S dollars in cash $100bill domination matchine
parked.
You said
that when i send the picture you requested, then
we will go to the nextlevel of the buisness, now remember that we areoffering
you 20% of the total money and also 5% for the expensis
you make for the claims. We are surfering in the
camp, our condition of living is very poor and bad, because the way we use
to live when my father was alive, i mean good life
and luxry life, now we find things difficult and bad, we eat once
a day and we never knew that we will surffer this
way in our life.
Please
sir, will you come with your friend Sir Paul Mccartney
to
I am waiting for your next mail and take care of your self.
God bless.
veronica
karim
[So many questions. So
few answers. She wants to know what the III after my name stands for.
What exactly is my profession? Why do I work in remote areas? Does Paul McCartney
know about the business? Why do birds suddenly appear? Somehow I think I might
have a problem convincing Paul McCartney to come to
[Here’s the photo of her alleged brother. Henry the scammer.
The pic is mondo crapola but he sure as hell looks like a scammer.]
Date: 28 / 03 / 06
Professor Rupert J Felcher III
Arctic Skunk Exploration
Enterprises Ltd
Dear Veronica,
I see you have a few questions, which I will now try to answer. Note: the numeral III after my name stands for 'the Third'. My father and grandfather had the same name as it is traditional for fathers to give their first son the same name as themself. Thus, my grandfather was Rupert J Felcher I, my father was Rupert J Felcher II, and I am Rupert J Felcher III (the Third). Get it? Anyway, in future, just call me Felch; all my friends do so.
I work in remote areas because
I am an explorer. That is the nature of exploring. Remote areas need to be
explored and explorers need to explore so it's the ideal occupation. That's
why my business name is Arctic Skunk EXPLORATION Enterprises. Our business
line is exploration. Of course, one cannot afford to explore simply for the
sake of exploring, so when I venture into the field I collect gold, platinum,
diamonds, uranium and any other valuable commodities I happen to find lying
around. These items can be exchanged for cash, so this is one of the ways
in which the business makes money.
Another way we make money
is through investments and donations from wealthy international
corporations and individuals. Sir Paul McCartney is a good example of this.
He is a personal friend of mine who regularly contributes to our projects.
He does not know anything about my arrangement with you; the cheque I received
from him was related to an entirely different matter. The newspapers here
in
Perhaps if you could send
me some pictures of the terrible conditions in the refugee camp I could convince
the board of directors of my company, and perhaps others such as Sir Paul
McCartney, to make a cash donation to the refugee camp. This might help to
make life easier for yourself and all those other people suffering in the
camp. Let me know if this is a good idea and we can get started on it.
Regards
Felch
Date: 29 / 03 / 06
Dear Felch,
Thank you for your email, i have take few pictures
of the refugees in our camp so that you can convience
your friends and board members to help us in our terrible conditions, i will scan them and send to you tomorrow. [Can’t wait.]
I and my brother was in the security company where the
boxes were deposited and presented the deposit documents to the operation
manager and he told me all we have to do is to pay for the dumorage
charges which will attract the sum of fifteen thousand euros (15,000.00 euros)
so that we can claim the boxes from the company.
Now i wish to ask you when
you will be coming to
I want you to send your travel plans to me so that i and my brother can wait for you at the airport. We wish
to live in the guest house before you arrive but we dont
have any money, we buy our food from town and we go to internet cafe in town
to send you all this messages and we pay the photographer for the pictures.
Felch, i sold the necklace my mother
gave to me before she died just for us to buy food to eat and medecines. I want you to have compancion
on us and help us relate this massage to your board of directors and Sir Paul
McCartney so that they can help us have a better life.
God bless.
Veronica karim
Date: 30 / 03 / 06
Professor Rupert J Felcher III
Arctic Skunk Exploration Enterprises Ltd
Dear Veronica,
Please note that I have discussed making a donation to the
refugee camp with my board of directors. They are showing considerable interest
in the idea because donations in excess of a certain amount attract significant
tax benefits here in
Regards,
Felch
Date: 31 / 03 / 06
Dear
Felch,
Thank you for the your last email, i have attached
to this mail the few photographs of the refugee in my camp.The
name of our camp director is John Adeyi.
I
am glad about your concern and your wish to help us and the refugees, and
also i want you to tell me when you might come and meet with the
security company for the collection of the boxes.
Am waiting for your responce asap.
God bless you.
Veronica Karim
[Here’s some of the scammer’s
photos of the “camp”……….]
Date: 01 / 04 / 06
Professor Rupert J Felcher III
Arctic Skunk Exploration Enterprises Ltd
Dear Veronica,
Exciting news! After viewing the pictures you sent showing
the horrors of camp life, the directors of my company appear to be very enthusiastic
about making a substantial donation. I've attached a photo of our latest meeting
where the issue was discussed. Hope it looks all right, we've got a slight
problem here with rats at the moment; they ate part of our network cable so
some of the data may be a little distorted.
Thanks for supplying the name of the camp director. When the
directors have finally decided on the size of the donation we will send the
money to him via MoneyGram. Do you know if there
is a MoneyGram office close to where you are? I
may need some more details. Please send more pics;
it all helps the cause.
Regards,
Felch
Ladies and gentlemen….Arctic Skunk Enterprises and MoneyGram International are proud to present THE ROLLING STONES,
with a special guest appearance from British ex-PM Maggie Thatcher!
[And here’s what I actually sent. I didn't feel like
spending 2 hours on a perfect photochop just for
the benefit of a scammer so I cover up any obvious faults by running a moderately
heavy film grain filter over the image and introducing a major jpeg artefact.]
Date: 02 / 04 / 06
Dear Felch,
I saw the picture you sent to me, i showed it to my brother as