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TITLE: Comic Creations
SCAMMER NAME: Okorie Decency
SCAMMER LOCATION: Lagos, Nigeria
SCAMBAITER: Shiver Metimbers
Time for a break from carvings. I feel like reading a good comic.
How about you guys?
A scammer with the rather inappropriate name of Okorie "Decency"
tried the usual 419 scam routine on me using another name (Thomas
Martins). Yet again I replied with the standard, "I'm not interested,
but maybe you can help my business" routine. He didn't reply
to me as Thomas, but changed his name to Okorie and replied to me
expressing interest in my business which isn't advertised anywhere
except in my replies to scam emails!
By the way, Okorie likes to drag his feet, so be patient!
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: February 2, 2006
Subject: I have talents that can benefit you
Dear Keith,
I am Mr. Okorie Decency, from Nigeria---west Africa.
I got to know about you and your business interests through a friend
of mine that stays in Paris,France. I therefore write and promote
the writing and publication of fictions, comics, plays and scripts
( epic especially) for the Nigerian Film Industry.
I have got talents that will be very useful to you. In this
vein, I propose to explore my talents in your company, and I also
ask that my work be promoted, and or sponsored by you. More so,
if there is any other way I can help your company down here I will
readily oblige it.
Thanks for a good consideration.
Okorie,Decency.
I explain the procedure to Okorie, though I already know that
he knows what the procedure is because in his previous guise as
a 419 scammer I explained it to him!
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: February 2, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Thank you for your email and you interest in applying for our artist
donation/scholarship scheme.
A brief explanation of our scheme follows, but you have probably
read about it previously; We seek out new or up and coming artists
all over the world who may not otherwise be financially able to
promote or sell their work and then we help them to realise their
full potential. We aid them by presenting them with a scholarship
payment ranging from $25,000 to $150,000 which again is entirely
dependent on their potential, but the minimum payment we award any
artist willing to supply work for us is $25,000.
Successful applicants are rewarded so highly because we are always
seeking new artists to produce work for us and we would expect your
future work to be made available to us exclusively and of course
you would be rewarded accordingly for working with us.
Currently we are only seeking people with comic artist skills, so
if you have some experience in this field then we would welcome
your application.
HOW OUR DONATION/SCHOLARSHIP PROCEDURE WORKS:
1. Before we could make any kind of monetary payment to any artist
we would of course require proof of their abilities. We do not ask
artists to send in prepared samples of their work because of course
there is no way for our foundation to know if the artwork is indeed
the artists own work, therefore we would require artists to provide
a brand new sample for us to evaluate their abilities.
2. My company will submit to you (by email attachment) a selection
of sample pages scanned from a comic book. The artist would then
be required to duplicate BY HAND of course, the pages of this comic
to the best of their abilities. Once you have completed the work
it is to be sent to us for evaluation and then a donation amount
would be awarded according to your skill or potential. Our donation
payments range from between a minimum of $25,000 up to $150,000.
3. On receipt of a satisfactory piece of artwork my four board members
will then gauge the quality and therefore the size of the donation/scholarship
amount to send to you. The payment is sent by whatever means suits
you best and is made within 24 hours of receiving your work.
IMPORTANT: Please note that no payments whatsoever can be
given in advance of receiving the artwork. It is very important
that you understand this completely. You will be responsible for
shipping the sample to us. Your shipping expenses WILL be refunded
but only AFTER we receive the sample.
NOTE: It is not important that your work is EXACTLY the same
as the samples we provide. Your artistic talents are more important
than an exact duplication. Perhaps your drawing technique is slightly
different from the original artists and you may want to show it.
That is fine, so long as the main layout is the same as the sample
we provide to you.
I hope that is clear to you, and if you are in agreement to the
terms above please let me know as soon as possible and I will arrange
for the sample image to be sent to you by email attachment.
Kind regards,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: February 4, 2006
Subject: I want to partner with you
Dear Keith,
I got your reply and incidentally I don`t have such talent in
paitings and drawing. However, I believe, and rightly too, that
we can still work together and probably be
of help to each other.
I want to hunt for such talents with a bias on comic paintings:
young college students, school leavers, undergraduates,and young
graduates alike. I can get them and then link them to you, as many
as you want. I also promise to get you the best among them who can
serve the purpose you want.
I have all it takes to scout for them, identify them(being guided
by your directives), and then link them to you. I know it is a very
ardous task but I can perform it with all commitment, required strictness
and dedication. I know that this opportunity, if you give it to
me, will enable me explore my own talents to the full. Above all
I can meet up with any standard you may set for it.
Finally, I want to tell you that I will accept any good terms that
will help shore me up to the fulfilment of my dreams in the world
of creative writing.
Kind regards.
Okorie, Decency R.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: February 9, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Thank you for your email.
We are always happy to work with agents who can help us seek out
potential comic magazine artists and our usual agent's fee for finding
talent is $4,750. This is paid on receipt of sample art pages from
artists represented by the agents.
If you are able to find any artists willing to submit test work
via email attachment then please do get in touch with me and once
we have received their sample work then we will be happy to pay
you the standard agent's fee. Please note that we can only pay the
fee on receipt of the sample artwork and also that we supply the
work for them to copy via email attachment.
Thank you again for your email and I wish you good luck.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: February 16, 2006
Subject: I want to partner with you
Dear Keith,
I got your reply and since then I have got down to work.
Currently, I have got two young talents: Simon Bruce and Marthins
OKey, all male. The former is a 3rd year student of Fine & Applied
Arts in The Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu Nigeria.The
latter is a fresh graduate of The University of Nigeria, Nsukka-Nigeria.
This mail,therefore, is coming on the heels of their request
to be given any test that will be deemed appropriate by your organisation,pursuant
to the goals and business perspective of Blam! Comics.
This is also to inform you that I hereby accept the terms of
service offered by you. I promise to work committedly as a human
representative or agent of Blam! Comics here in Nigeria or even
beyond.
It is their request that the samples be sent to them throgh
this address. They give themselves to be bound by the terms of your
offer; it is accepted. Right here with me, as I`m sending, they
are in my company guiding what reply I should give you.
We are therfore anticipating the samples.
Kinds regards.
Okorie, Decency R.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: February 23, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Apologies for the minor delay in my reply. I have been busy on an
important art project.
Thank you once again for your email The images you must arrange
to have copied by hand are attached to this email..
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK:
1. Attached are 18 (eighteen) selected pages taken from various
comics. You are to reproduce a copy of the pages to the best of
your abilities.
2. Put your drawing on ONE SIDE of the paper only. Do not use both
side of the paper.
3. The submissions MUST be in colour however the colours do NOT
have to be identical.
4. You must try to reproduce as much detail as you are able to.
The more detail that you are able to reproduce then the more easily
we can gauge the quality of your work and therefore the higher your
final payment will be.
5. Once you have completed the sample pages you must then arrange
to have the samples scammer AT VERY HIGH QUALITY and sent to us
by email attachment.
6. Once we have received your work it will then be evaluated by
our four board members and your payment amount will be awarded WITHIN
24 HOURS.
7. On receipt of a satisfactory piece of artwork my four board members
will then gauge the quality and therefore the size of the donation/scholarship
amount to send to you. The payment is sent by whatever means suits
you best and is made within 24 hours of receiving your work.
You may use whatever size of paper that you feel comfortable with.
Using large sheets of paper will be easier for you to capture all
the detail, just ensure you are able to scan it correctly when you
have completed the work. Generally in our offices our artist work
on A3 sized paper.
Please advise me when you expect to have the artwork completed.
Kind regards,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: February 28, 2006
Subject: Re: I want to partner with you
Dear Keith,
I got your mail and incidentally the samples I requested for.
The information you gave was not well understood.
Does it mean the 18 sample pictures have to be reproduced singly?
Will it be done on separate papers? While waiting for these answers,
I believe the work may be ready slightly after mid march;that is
before 20th.march 2006.
More so, I would like to know if another person can work on these
samples. I mean whether it is possible to bring another young comic
painter to reproduce the samples in his own artistic style,as a
separate participant.Or must there be a new set of samples for new
people? This question is necessitated by the discovery
of a new comic painter which I have made.
I hope you will accept my time projection towards the completion
of this work. I need express answers to the questions forwarded.
Thank you!
Kind regards.
Okorie, Decency R.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: March 3, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Thank you for your email.
Yes, each of the 18 pages must be produced to the highest quality
possible on SEPARATE papers. You may if you wish ask more than one
artist to help with the work.
Please note that I will be leaving for Singapore for three weeks
in March 12th, so if the samples are not ready by this date then
I will be unable to help you until I return in April.
Kind regards,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: March 5, 2006
Subject: Re: I want to partner with you
Dear Keith,
Thanks for the clarification. I will have two artists work on
the samples, though separately. I mean you should be expecting two
sets of the reproduced work from two individuals; representing themselves.
I will hasten them anyway to try to beat time. I will try to have
the work ready before you travel. however if I am unable to finish
before then, I will still communicate
you.
Thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.
Two weeks later, Okorie decides to contact me. This guy certainly
doesn't work fast!
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: March 20, 2006
Subject: Please notify me when you are in town
Dear Keith,
I would like you to notify me as soon as you are back in town.
The works were supposed to be ready as I projected but I encountered
some
hitches. However, they will be ready on or before the first week
of April.
I believed the time is still acceptable by you. I PROMISE to
do a good job.
Thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: March 20, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Thank you for your email. I am always available via email no matter
where I am. I always have my wireless laptop with me.
Kind regards,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
Nine days later and teh lazy ass still hasn't replied to me.
Time to fire off a warning shot.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: March 29, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
I am sorry to inform you that your submission date runs out this
coming Friday 31st March. We will no longer be in a position to
help you after this date as this is the closing date for all applications.
I am sure though that this will have no effect on you as your lack
of contact over the last week convinces me that you have no further
interest in working with us.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
Okorie comes up with a great excuse!
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: March 29, 2006
Subject: Re: We will be closing your application
Dear Keith,
I got your mails and I`m not at home with the condition.
Actually I told you that I would have got THE WORK ready at a short
time but I encountered some hitches. The point was that the samples
were actually reproduced
but were destroyed by rain alongside many other items of mine.
The unfortunate incident happened on the 19th of march when a terrible
storm blew off our roof. Many valuables were lost, my kid cousin
died in the rubble ;I was somewhat disorganised. This incidentally
has doubled the already exorbitant cost of reproducing the samples
for me. However, I just need about one week extension in order to
deliver it; it`s a hearty appeal. I would be so glad if u can give
me this grace.
I promise to get things ready before the 7th of April. Please do
me this last favour!
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.
How could I refuse after such an unfortunate death?!
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: March 29, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
I am very sorry to hear of the accident which befell your cousin.
Please pass on my condolences to his family.
I shall give you an extra week's extension due to the circumstances,
but please do not delay any further than that as my company really
do need to get people organised as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: March 30, 2006
Subject: Re: We will be closing your application
Dear Keith,
Thank you so much for your concern. I do really appreciate the
grace. I have actually gotten over it anyway; your heartfelt condolence
message has been duly given to his parents.
As a matter of fact, I shall deliver the work on or before the 7th
of April. I have gone back to the real thing .
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.
I don't bother to reply.
April 7th arrives.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: April 7, 2006
Subject: Good day
Dear Keith,
The reproduced samples will be sent to you in subsequent emails.
Thank you so much for your patience and understanding.
All the samples are not ready due to both time and financial constraints.
The accident I HAD really slurred my effort. I implore you therefore
to find it possible to judge me based on these ones that are churned
out. If not it may take me additional one week and three days to
get the others ready.
I will be glad to get this relief from you. I must tell you that
it is hell surviving in Nigeria as a starter. I am in dire straits
and unless I do some menial jobs I may not be able to get the money
to continue.
I look forward to securing your help; it will be a cherished succour
and I am always willing and ready to work for you. Yeah,
but VERY slowly.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: April 7, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Thank you for your email.
I am not 100% sure exactly what you are trying to say in your email
below but I am presuming that you now have the samples ready to
email to me? If that is the case, please do send the samples to
this email address.
Please note that we can only judge your work when ALL the samples
have been received. If you are unable to deliver the samples within
the extra time limit we gave you then I am sorry but we can no longer
accept your work. We are now over one week behind and we simply
cannot afford any further delay. If you are unable to complete the
entire work then I am sorry but we will have to take on work from
a different source. Every day that goes by we are losing money.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
Okorie sends the samples, but he is 12 short.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: April 7, 2006
Subject: Re: Good day
Dear Keith,
The images are attached. I still crave your kindness to please
help me. Any amount of help can always help no matter how little.
The mishap I had really told on me; destroying about 17 reproduced
images and many other valuables. The accident could disorganise
even the most perfect of men. I count on this opportunoty from you
to shore myself up. Please do it for me. I promise to churn out
future works promptly if apppropriately energised financially.
I am in very dire straits and I had to do odd jobs to even buy materials.
Nigerian environment is too unfriendly especially for beginners
like me.
I am not trying to whip up sentiments but I am explaining the reality
of events here in NIGERIA. It may affect your due process but it
is possible only if you want to
save a soul. Any little financial favour from you will surely establish
my footing.
Thank you for your kind consideration.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.D.
Okorie attaches the samples he has done so far. The hand drawn
samples are on top with the original (but smaller versions) images
I sent underneath:
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UK reader will of course remember the kids comics The Dandy
& The Beano. A pity so many pages have been left out.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: April 8, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
You delay has cost my company approximately $5,200. The reason for
this is that my fellow board members wanted to hire two potential
artists but I had to deny that request as I was promised by you
that the work would be done.
The two other artists who were ready to sign up and work for us
have now found work elsewhere and I have had to hire a temporary
person to take charge of some artwork whilst waiting to see what
you could come up with. All this has cost me a great deal of money
and now you are asking for more money for an unfinished project?!
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: April 10, 2006
Subject: Re: Good day
Dear Keith,
I am really sorry for the inconveniences the delay caused you
and your company. I deeply regret the loss you incurred. However,
it was only incidental and not deliberate at all. The accident was
a natural disaster and no human ingenuity could have prevented it.
Chances are the accident would have resulted in my own death and
there wouldn`t have been me to explain things. May be a long silence
would have informed you. But thank God I slept with my friend in
the studio on the night of the mishap.
Sir, I am still fervently working on the remnants of the sample
which must be ready this week. I therefore just want you to feel
for me with some objectivity. I still crave your kindness and mercy
to extend some financial help to me.
I still heartily express my readiness to work for you and to churn
out future works very promptly. I bet you must have cause to compliment
me on promptness if energised financially. It is a promise that
must be fulfilled if nudged with money no matter how little. I would
also like to inform you that I have formed a club for young comic
painters and the number of members has grown from four to seven.
Thank you so much for the uncommon patience you exhibited all this
while.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Decency R.D.
I'll give Okorie one more chance.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: April 10, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
If as you say the rest of the samples will be ready this week then
that is fine and your payment will also be made this week.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
Over a week goes by and still no word from Okorie.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: April 18, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
This email is confirmation that your case is now being closed on
Sunday April 30th.
Sincerley,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: April 20, 2006
Subject: Re: Good day
Dear Keith,
I will forward the samples before the date runs out. I don`t
have personal computer equipment so I do everything in the business
centre. I was grappling with the money to finish up.These cyber
cafe services are both few and costly here in Nigeria.
You may not understand exactly what I am saying but I bet I
shall have delivered everything before 30th April.
Sorry for all this excuses and inconveniences,they are not deliberate.
Thank you so much for your continued concern and patience.
Kind regards.
Okorie, Decency R.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: April 20, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
I am afraid I am no longer in the comfortable position of being
able to accept all your multiple excuses. Each day that goes by
costs me money, and you cannot even do me the simple courtesy of
just letting me know that there is a problem. Instead you make me
wait 10 days or a week and it is I that has to contact you. I am
not going to put up with this any longer.
Now, I require your cast-iron promise that you will have the work
delivered to be on or before April 30th. I want your 100% guarantee
that this will happen because I now have 6 prospective employees
ready to start work for me immediately and if I do not receive the
work from you by April 30th then I will immediately throw out your
case and employ the other persons. If this has to be done then you
will not receive one single dollar in payment for all the work you
have done so far. The choice is now left entirely in your hands.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: April 23, 2006
Subject: Re: Important no time remains
Dear Keith,
Be rest assured that I will deliver before the date. Arrangements
are at a concluding point.
Thanks so far for your patience.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Okwudiri R. D.
On the eve of the deadline, Okorie starts to send the remaining
scans.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: April 30, 2006
Subject: Re: Important no time remains
Dear Keith,
The samples will be emailed to you in subsequent e-mails this
night.
I am only having a little delay in the scanning process. But
I am within 70% through.
Thanks for your persevering virtue.
Kind regards!
Okorie, Okwudiri R. D.
Not all the scans arrive. Keith Laird is not at all happy.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: May 2, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Not only have you sent your samples nearly 24 hours later than
you promised, but 9 (nine) samples are missing from the original
18 samples I sent to you to reproduce. I now understand that in
fact your intention all this time was just to joke with me and waste
my valuable time.
Please forget our agreement, I shall now give the jobs to other
more reliable people.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
THREE WEEKS later, Okorie decides to get back in touch with
a miserable excuse!
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: May 23, 2006
Subject: can i have your words?
I DON`T KNOW WHAT INFORMED THIS LONG SILENCE WHETHER YOU DIDN`T
RECEIVE IT OR MY WORK IS IN VAIN. Or would you like me to send the
fresh samples via courier.
Please call me on +234 802 621 9226 to know what next. Also I would
like you to send me your PHONE NUMBER so I can call you. I can`t
imagine that work to be in vain after all the rigours and turbulences
I went through to churn them out.
Let me have your express and friendly words, Sir!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO SAVE A SOUL? That is going out of your
way to get things done for a needy one. Do it for me; for the sake
of GOD ALMIGHTY. It will be more than a relief.
Kind regards.
Okorie, Okwudiri R. D.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: May 23, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
You have not completed any job I have sent you, and now more than
a month after completely failing to provide the final samples that
you promised me you are asking me to continue with you.
It is not your work that was in vain Mr. Okwudiri it was MY work
that was in vain. I completely and utterly wasted nearly 3 months
of my time waiting for you to complete a simple job. In the beginning
I sent you 18 sample images to work on and send back to me, and
so fake THREE MONTHS later I have only received 9. Then after that
I asked you about the circuit diagram samples and you promised me
you could do this also, and you promised me the completed work by
April 30. Of course, as expected you broke that promise also, and
nearly a month after the promised date you decide to contact me???!!!!
I have not received ANY satisfactory versions of that work from
you. All I have received is empty promises and wasted money. Tell
me, why should I believe anything you tell me know. Why should I
offer important and prestigious jobs to somebody so unreliable?
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: May 24, 2006
Subject: Re: can i have your words?
Dear Keith,
I really feel your point; and the strings that come with it.
I don`t actually know what is happening around me each time
I set a target I would be foiled by financial distress. No other
person may really understand exactly what I`m going through. Besides,
the bad economic state of Nigeria does not even allow one to get
financial help from without. It is millions of miles away from the
stable economy in your country. So I wont expect you to draw a collorary.
The last of the sample has been sent to you tonight.
I don`t know what else to plead but to continue to solicit your
kind help. All in all, I want you to know that poverty and lack
can bring this type of issues in anyone`s life. The truth is the
word UNRELIABLE as you used in your mail is still stinging my heart
like a rampaging scorpion.
A PROVERB in my place says that when a man has both the yam
and the knife whosoever he gives to will eat.
Kind regards.
Okwudiri, Okorie.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: May 25, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
The scans are totally unacceptable. They are far too small. Please
re-scan them and send them again.
I am afraid that the positions advertised have now been filled
so the previous comic art work jobs can no longer be offered. I
am sorry to have to report this to you however the main reason for
this was the constant delay from your site.
We do have two positions available for artwork duplicators however
I do not know if you have artist capable of such high quality work.
I can offer these two positions to your artists if they are up to
the standard required. Note that these jobs are not to be advertised
for another two weeks so that will give you some advanced time to
prepare before the jobs are officially advertised. Once the jobs
become officially advertised the jobs will be given on a first come
first served basis.
Please note that this work requires artists with great skill, and
a higher quality of work than standard comic artists. As an example
to you I have attached a sample image of a picture. This would be
the type of thing that we would require to be recopied by hand.
If you think that any of your people may be able to reproduce such
an image by hand to a HIGH QUALITY then please do get back to me
and we can make arrangements to have larger samples sent to you
to work from.
Again there are only TWO positions available, and I can only promise
you these positions will be available for the next two weeks
Kind regards,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: May 26, 2006
Subject: Re: can i have your words?
Dear Keith,
The content of your mail was well received and the samples are
rescanned and sent to you.
However, I must let you know one of the major causes of the delay
that occurred from my end. You can remember the term on which we
agreed to work on initially.
In the beginning, expressly told you that I am not a paint but a
writer; hence I offered to get comic painters for you from Nigeria
and you agreed to pay me a stipulated agency fee.
On that note, I set out in search of people with such talent
which took me to a lot of places. At a time I found some of them
and communicated it to you where we agreed you would send samples
to me, by email attachment, to be copied by hand by the painters.
The work was quickly concluded, but I had a mishap which destroyed
them before they could get to you and I duly told you. In that regard
I had to go back to the painter so he could reproduce another sample
to be sent to you and he demanded I must pay him to the last penny.
I tried to explain to him but he wouldn`t listen. He even erroneously
thought that I had collected some money from you. I took him to
my house to show him what the storm did but he felt I had sent them
to you before it happened. In fact, he failed to see the truth.
And this was where all those PROBLEM began. He forced me into paying
him, and I did when he involved the police. He refused to read your
mails in my box so I could establish the truth.
I took the work to his colleague who I discovered together with
him in the first place.
He went down to him and poisoned his mind to the point that
he did not do the work even when I mobilized him with some money.That
one too demanded I should pay him. This made me fail the target
you set for me. I was thus compelled to form an arts club and sponsor
it with my scarce resources.
I ran around my friends and got money and was forced to give the
work to a new person I just scripted into my club, who did the work
I sent to you; a girl for that matter.
Therefore, I hereby give my words that I have capable hands that
can handle the job you offered to me, and promptly too. In short
some of them are members of my art club.
But, sincerely speaking, I can only do this job perfectly in
line with the target if you mobilize me with some money.
Meanwhile, I solicit that you send me some money with which to buy
materials and encourage the guys who will work since they, I have
seen, do not believe the words that they will get something after
the job. My explanations to them, without money to back it up, has
fallen flat.
My promise is that if you give me some money to encourage them we
will definitely beat any target you would set for us. I am totally
sapped financially now and I need such a prop to get them working.
Thank you for your understanding!
Okorie, Okwudiri R. D.
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About bloody time too!
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Not the best work in the world, though on a good day I would have
accepted it, however Okorie just isn't efficient enough!
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: May 26, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
Thank you for your reply and for your explanation, however regardless
of what may have caused the delay, our work was not completed in
the time frame required.
I am afraid that your problems are not our concern. We asked you
to produce a job and even gave you an extended time frame in which
to do it, however you have been unable to do so, and even as I write
this email to you now, you still have not completed the job I requested
of you nearly four months ago. Can you imagine how much money we
would lose from customers if we told them that a simple job would
take four months? I would be of business very very quickly.
I am sorry for the troubles you may have had Mr. Okorie, but again,
your private affairs are of no concern to us. We asked for a job
to be done and it was not done. It is that simple.
Now you come to me, after many weeks of delays, after many disappointments,
and even though I an STILL waiting for the initial work to be completed
to our satisfaction and you are asking me to pay you some money?
No, this will not happen.
I am sorry Mr. Okorie, but it seems we are both wasting our time
here. I would respectfully request that you do not contact me again
because I am no longer able to afford the constant delays.
Kind regards,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
From: Okorie Decency
To: Keith Laird
Date: May 27, 2006
Subject: Re: can i have your words?
Dearv Keith,
Your reply sounds logical but hollow in the face of the initial
impresion you gave me that you promote young talents who may not
have the resources to shore up their work.
I am aware you encountered some delays from my end but what with
the acclaimed mission of hunting for talents and helping them to
grow to freedom.
You know it takes money to propagate art works: from retrieving
it from email attachment; reproducing the samples to scanning them
to you in a bad economy like m y country.
Since I took up this work,no relief came I rather got more financial
distress. You can still find it worthy to help me claim the position
you offered to me by helping out financially.
I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!! So please do it for me.
I do hereby request for your phone number so I can speak with you.
Kind regards!
Okorie, O. R. D.
From: Keith Laird
To: Okorie Decency
Date: May 27, 2006
Dear Mr. Okorie,
There is absolutely no point in my speaking with you on the telephone
because we have nothing to say to each other. You have cost me money
and time, and in fact it is I that should be seeking payment from
you, not the other way around.
Now, you know we only have two positions available. Either you know
someone who can fill those position or we have no further business
together.
Sincerely,
Keith Laird
Director
Blam! Comics Inc.
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