I received this “Nigerian scam” e-mail
from the Daimond (sic) Bank of African,
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
The following colour coding is used for
identification purposes:
Samull Bayo 419 scammer from Contonou, Benin, my “
Steve Trafalgar My baiting personna, an English businessman
Diamond Bank, Benin Various personnel at the Diamond Bank
Alfal Chambers and Assoc Soliciters and Advocates,
Notes Notes
bringing the reader up to date with developments
From: "SAMULL BAYO" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED.
FROM THE DESK OF: MR SAMULL BAYO.
DAIMOND BANK OF AFRICAN
ATTENTION:
I am Mr samull bayoForeign Remmitance
Director of DIAMOND of BANK
This is a very confidential proposition
for you. On November 21st 2002, a Brazilian Oil consultant/contractor with the
Benenoise Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr.Mauricio Jose De Matos made a numbered
time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$8,000,000.00
(Eight Million Dollars only) in my branch.
Upon maturity on
Further investigations,and all attempts to
trace his next of kin was fruitless. Again,I made further investigation and discovered
that Mr.Matos did not declare any kin or relations in all his official
documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$8,000,000.00 is still
sitting in my Bank No one will ever come forward to claim it. According
to the International Banking ethics,codes and Laws, at the expiration of 2(Two)
years, the money will revert to the ownership of the
Consequently, my proposal is that I will
like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr.Mauricio Jose De
Matos. This is simple, I will like you to respond immediately with your full
names and address so that we will prepare the necessary documents and
affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin. A bank account in any
part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of
this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into
your account for us to share in the ratio of 70% for me and some of my
colleagues who are aware of this transaction and 25% for you and 5% for
Expenses Incurred in the course of the transaction
There is no risk at all as all the
paperwork for this transaction will be done by my colleagues and with my
position as the Foreign Remmitance Director guarantees the successful execution
of this transaction.
Upon your response, I shall then provide
you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the
transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for
easy communication. You should observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest
assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I
shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.
Awaiting your urgent reply.
Thanks and regards.
Samull Bayo
Should I try to reverse scam someone who can’t
even spell ‘diamond’ and uses lower case letters for their name? You betcha!
I open a Yahoo
Subject: Re:
URGENT REPLY NEEDED
To: Mr
samull bayo [email protected]
Dear Mr Bayo,
I must apologise for not immediately
replying to your e-mail of the 26th May, copied below.
I have been in the
I hope the delay has not inconvenienced
you. As an enterprising businessman, I
would always be prepared to discuss ways of increasing wealth. However I am of what you would describe as
typical Anglo Saxon stock, and would probably have trouble passing as a
relative of the Brazilian Mr. Mauricio Jose De Matos. My family name has very little resemblance to
his, and it would be unlikely that I could make any claim as a relative of his.
I will be travelling to
Yours sincerely
Steve Trafalgar
Now, the scammer doesn’t notice that his original e-mail
went to a .co.nz address and that he got a reply from a yahoo.co.uk address. However I do notice that his reply to my
e-mail now comes from a yahoo.com address, we’ll do something about that later.
From: "SAMULL BAYO" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: URGENT REPLY NEEDED.
Dear Mr Steve Trafalgar.
Thanks you for the response,i have
actually been waiting for it for sometime now. It has really shown that you are
as eager as i and my colleagues,though your inquires about the Name issue of
the deceased is not problems in anyway at all as every modality to ensure the
smooth transfer of this funds into your accounts have been put in place.The
issue for now is that we are going to jointly work together to ensure the
smooth and urgent release of this funds and subsequent transfer of them into
your accounts.
All you need to do despite where you would
be is sacrifice ie check and respond to mails and sometimes place some phone
calls as the case may be,Distance is no barrier.
However,this transaction like i ealier
stated to you demands utmost confidentiality as all of us(i and my two
colleagues)are still very much in active service here in our office having put
in more than two decades each we would only resign our appointments immediately
this funds are transfered into your accounts and would be joining you overthere
for the percentage splits.
We would be sending to you the Banks
official Text Of Application and informations about the deceased tomorrow which
you would rewrite and send directly and officially to the Bank which would then
respond.All you need to do is just follow our instructions and i promise you
that within the next 14 Banking days the funds would be in your accounts.Also
you should send to us all response from the Bank here to you so we could dish
out advises.
Let me again remind you that this
transaction is completely risk-free in all ramifications which was the reason
we delve into it in the first place after going through all the modalities
towards it's successful transfer.
Hoping to recieve your response asap.
I expect you to see reason why we must
jointly effect this transfer urgently.
Regards,
Samull Bayo
I send back a response letting him know I’ve received his
e-mail and I’m hot to trot. I’ll try to
put in some spurious information. I
thought I’d be leaving from the non-existent
Subject: Re:
URGENT REPLY NEEDED
To: Mr
samull bayo [email protected]
Dear Mr Bayo,
Sorry for the rushed e-mail, but I thought
it best to acknowledge that I had received your e-mail.
I am dashing this e-mail off from the British
Airways first class lounge at
So, I will shortly be boarding my plane to
New
I am interested in the prospect of sharing
my distant relative's money with you (smile), especially as this would be tax
free and for my own personal use - not for my company. I will be in touch when I once more have my
feet on the ground and am able to connect with the internet.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
Back comes my Benin Bayo boyyo with the
information request from the bank.
From: "SAMULL BAYO" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: URGENT REPLY NEEDED.
Dear
Steve Trafalgar ,
How are
you today and your tours?
What
about the film production?
I and my
colleagues have finally been able to get our bank's standard text of
application(find below)so please just copy as underwritten fill in those
accounts details and send directely to the F.R. Department's Director through
the department's email; [email protected]
to urgently go through ,process and
approve.
The Bank
shall immediately send an Acknowledgement Letter to you as soon as your
application is recieved,Then inform us so we would get the next line of action
to take,please dear,just follow our instructions and this fund would be in the
account within the next 14 working days.
Remember
the Bank must not know we are aware of this as one of us would definitely be in
the FUND RELEASE PANEL that would approve your payments.
Regards
S.Bayo
NB;Please
send the application immediately.
The Application Form was attached as plain
text, albeit in bold font. It’s time to
have a little fun with my
Subject: Re:
URGENT REPLY NEEDED
To: Mr
samull bayo [email protected]
Dear Samull,
Thanks for your prompt attention to this
profitable enterprise. However I am
sitting here at
My briefcase has been stolen here at the
airport, along with it my passport, my airline ticket, my cash and travellers
cheques, and my cheque book. I'm unable
to send you the details you requested. I
cannot remember the telephone number at my bank let alone the number of my bank
account. Someone must have picked up my
briefcase from beside my seat and walked away with it as I waited for my
connecting flight to
I am having some not inconsiderable trouble
dealing with the immigration people here.
Without a ticket or passport they would not let me onto the plane for
There is a further problem. I am completely deaf so I am having trouble
understanding what they are saying. They
have let me use a phone connection so I can contact my secretary by e-mail and
obtain my airline ticket information.
Someone from the local British Embassy is coming out to the
airport, I will try to get them to
provide an emergency passport to allow me to continue travelling. I hope to be travelling again some time
tomorrow.
My deafness has never been a problem
before, but it sure is now. I am usually
able to read people's lips very well, but there is something about the way the
Thais are forming their words which is causing me trouble - a sort of lip reading
accent which I cannot understand. Or
maybe its the jetlag, I never sleep well on planes and always arrive after a
long trip feeling as if my brain started travelling with me but hasn't quite
caught up with me yet.
I have been totally deaf for over thirty
years now, and haven't encountered this problem before. I lost my hearing when serving with the
British SAS in
I hope you don't mind me sending you this
e-mail. Its just that I'm sitting here
in an office at Bangkok Airport with lots of time on my hands, and I thought
I'd let you know that I won't be able to get back to you your bank with the
information they need for several days.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
Received a nice note back from my
From: "Samull Bayo"
<[email protected]>
Subject: SO SORRY TO LEARN ABOUT THIS PROBLEM.
Dearest Steve,
Your mail which i just read through now
really was so shocking that i thought so much on how to say this to you but
truly I AM SO SORRY about the misfortune.
People could be so mischievious,why?
How could one pick up things not really
belonging to him?Well please i seriously pray you get all the required
assistance to forge your travel ahead as they would be expecting you there in
As soon as you are through all these i
would advice you take sometime off to relax a bit,i would probably be sending
you invitation to come over here to stay and rest for a while for maybe a week
or two with my family,we could be very hospitable you know
Please endeavour to send the Text of
Application as soon as you get back,ok.
My Sincere Regards and please be carefull.
Samull.
Now, what should we do about this scammer
using a Yahoo account? Then I’ll leave
him alone until the weekend. I think
I’ll have my passport and tickets found and then travel on to
Subject: Possible
419 fraudster using Yahoo.com
Dear Sirs,
I received one of those Nigerian type
e-mails at my business e-mail address some time ago, however the writer says he
comes from the
I have opened a Yahoo.co.uk e-mail account
using a non-existant name so that I can scambait the sender (i.e. take up the
scammer's time and effort, and to try to get his e-mail accounts closed down so
that it makes it more difficult for him to scam innocent people).
The original e-mail came from a zwallet.com
address. However this recent e-mail,
attached, seems to have come from a Yahoo.com account.
I hope you will close the e-mail account, [email protected].
Regards
Steve
Note: forwarded message attached.
I received a confirmation e-mail from
Yahoo that ‘appropriate action’ had been taken against this account. Now let’s see how our scammer gets on. Now I must send my scammer a nice catch up
note so he doesn’t worry unduly about me.
Think I’ll fill it with lots of mistakes to make it look as if I’m tired. Now, just in case Yahoo have closed his
e-mail address down, I’ll send it to his zwallet.com address, wonder if he’ll
notice. I have of course attached his
original e-mail and application form again, may as well fill up his storage if
we can and take as long as possible for him to download mail.
Subject: Re:
TRAFALGAR,PLEASE DO THIS ASAP AND GET BACK TO ME
Dear Samul,
Just a qiuck note, I got my pasport back in
Thouhgt I'd let you know that I will be in
touch probably Monday, i'm moving to another city where we are setting up
prodiction faciltities. Looks like I'll
be loving here in New Zealand for a year or more, so I'll open a New Zeeland
bank acount and transfer some money out from UK account. There'll probablly be a bit of a delays, a
day or so, while I get that done. But
it'd be easeir for me to handle the sudden inflix of funds from Benin if I have
a New Zealand bank account and I'm right on hand.
I'll tell you about my inforced stay in
Thaland when I'm awake again, must get some sleep. I'll be in tuoch.
regards
steve
Yahoo.com advise me that my message has
been returned, our scammer no longer has this yahoo e-mail account. Oh dear, how will I contact this charitable
gentleman who wishes to turn over so much wealth to me? Luckily I also sent the message to his
zwallet.com e-mail address, if only I could get that closed too, but I understand
zwallet.com aren’t too fussy about their clients.
From: [email protected]
Subject: failure
delivery
Message from yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the
following address(es).
64.156.215.20 failed after I sent the
message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd
This user doesn't have a
yahoo.com account ([email protected]) [-5] -
mta420.mail.scd.yahoo.com
Nothing comes back from my
From: "Samull Bayo"
<[email protected]>
Subject: HOW ARE YOU FAIRING?
Dear Steve,
How are you fairing today?
Thank God you got your Passport back.
I hope you would be able to open the
Please as soon as you get it opened,just
rewrite and submitt the Text of Application with your new account informations
directly to our Bank urging them to respond back quickly to you which they
would surely do through an Acknowledgment Letter,then you would get back to me
for advises.
Expecting your response.
Regards,
S.Bayo.
Now to get down to business, I wonder if I
can get a photographic trophy, and maybe my newly acquired title will be a good
subject for a sign. For you young 419
baiters, Neddy Seagoon and Major Bloodnok were characters in the BBC’s Goon
Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
I hope that my request for a photo isn’t too sudden, maybe I should not
have mentioned scam artists either. I
don’t think there’s a Diamond Bank of
Subject: RE:
HOW ARE YOU FAIRING?
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Samull,
How wonderful it is to have had several
good nights sleep! So many things have
made me feel wonderful.
Over the weekend I travelled to the city of
Mount Maunganui on the east coast of New Zealand, the film company has arranged
for me to live in a lovely seaside house, and it is fantastic to wake in the
morning and open the window and smell the fresh sea air.
I have been to the bank this morning to
open an account and arrange to have funds transferred from my UK bank. The bank people here have been fantastic and
I will probably have the bank account details by tomorrow.
I have also received advice from my lawyer
in
Now to the point of my e-mail. We must get this enterprise underway. But how do I really know who you are? I've heard rumours that there are scam
artists out there who will get the details of your bank account and before you
know it they've used your password and electronically emptied your bank account
of all your money.
So I'd like to ask you for some way of
identifying you Samull. Please get a
photograph taken of you at your bank desk, or in front of the bank holding a
large sign with "Lord Seagoon of Bloodnok" written on it, and e-mail
it to me. We are two of only a handful
of people who know I have inherited my uncle’s title, so a photo of you at work
at the bank would prove to me that you are who you say you are and can do what
you say you can do.
Please make the photo image as large as
possible, and the sign as large and as readable as possible.
I'm sorry to ask for this proof of
identity, but one must be sure and safe when handling large amounts of money.
Regards
Steve
I don’t hear from my
Subject: RE:
HOW ARE YOU FAIRING?
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Samull,
Everything is rolling along here, I've got
the bank account details and am all ready to send off the bank's application
form as soon as I receive your e-mail with your proof of identity photo.
Your offer couldn't have come at a better
time. While I am not rich like Bill
Gates, I am comfortably wealthy. However
my lawyer in
So I'd like to progress this opportunity as
fast as possible. I bet you and your
colleagues would like a swift conclusion to this matter as well, so that you
can travel out here and receive your share of the money.
I have been busy the last couple of
days. I've been working with the owner
of a local information technology company, Sam Horowhitu Information Technology
Ltd, setting up the programs which we will use for producing the computer
generated images for the film. Sam
Horowhitu's company downloaded the programs which my secretary posted on the
net from London, these programs are so large that it took several hours to complete
the downloading but we were lucky we only had to do it once - sometimes the
programs get corrupted and have to be downloaded again.
While I was working there, I was introduce
to a very nice man I thought the New
Zealanders were calling him "Peace", that's what it seemed like when
I read their lips. I spent a couple of
hours talking with him while we were waiting for computer programs to download,
and after he left I said that Peace was an unusual name. They had to write his name out for me. It was Pierce Brosnan the actor who plays
James Bond in the movies. He was
visiting the studio to discuss a part in the upcoming King Kong movie I'll be
working on. They took a photograph with
a digital camera of the two of us talking, have a look at the attached
jpg. It’s not a very good photo of me, I
think it makes my nose and my ears seem large, but maybe you've heard of James
Bond.
Regards
Steve
No reply, has my
Subject: I
have not heard from you
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Samull,
I have not heard from you since I sent you
my last letter on Tuesday 22nd June. I
did have that original message returned to me undelivered when I sent it to
another yahoo address, I think that it was [email protected].
Do you want to proceed with this proposal
or has something gone wrong there in
Come on Samull, you haven't got frightened
have you? Just think of the $6 million
dollars that is your share. I must admit
that I keep thinking of my $2 million share at the strangest moments.
Regards
Steve
But then I’m forgetting that he’s scamming
me too, so he’s probably just been applying a little delaying tactics to keep
me on the boil. Nice touch in his next
e-mail about the external auditor.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALL IS
OK
Dear
Steve,
All is
ok,only we have terribly been busy tidying up a lot in the office as we are
expecting external Auditors.
I
would be sending you a comprehensive mail tomorrow ok?
I
cannot go back on this transactiom.
Regards,
Samull.
I send back a nice e-mail again reminding him that I want a photo, I’ll
have to slap him soon if he doesn’t send it.
Though perhaps I’m applying my abilities here in the western world on
him, does he have to borrow a camera, does he have to bribe his way into a bank
to get the photo taken, has he been reading 419eater.com and knows that I’m
asking for a trophy?
Subject: RE:
ALL IS OK
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
I've been very busy, mainly setting up the
computer facilities so that we can start work on this movie deal. It is very late at night here in
I got your note dated Thursday 24th and
wrote a reply. But after several days of
long work hours and intense concentration downloading and installing our
computer programs and testing the systems, I don't know if I sent it or deleted
it. I cannot find it in my sent box so I
must have deleted it.
I'm looking forward to the comprehensive
mail you mentioned. I await your proof
of identity photograph and have all the bank information ready to send.
Regards
Steve
A week since Samull has e-mailed me, has
he got suspicious? I hope not. Maybe I’d better try some kill or cure.
Subject: What’s
happening?
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
What’s going on???
I’ve been away since Monday filming background
shots for this movie and I expected to get back and find an e-mail from you and
everything would be ready to roll.
What do I see, nothing! Come on, extract your digit and get this
underway. Ten days ago I asked you for
some proof of your identity, that was the 21st of June and now it’s the 1st of
July and I’m still waiting for a photograph of you at your bank desk or in
front of the bank holding a sign with "Lord Seagoon of Bloodnok"
written on it to be e-mailed to me. I
just want to know who you are, that’s all.
I’ve got a bank account set up. I am the only one with access to it. It’s completely under my control. You send me your photo and I’ll send you my
bank account details.
I’m beginning to think you’re worried about
my deafness. I get sick and tired of
people making judgments about me just because I cannot hear. I’m only deaf, not intellectually
impaired!!! I’m pretty busy with this
film deal, and I don’t really need to be coming in to my computer whenever I
can and logging on to see if you have sent me a message.
I just about feel like saying, “Get that
money out of your country some other way.”
It’d be nice to have a couple of million dollars, I could really use it
at the moment, but there’s just so much I will put up with. If you’re worried about my deafness, well
stuff it. I don’t have to put up with
your doubts.
Steve
I’d got the feeling that my lad had got
suspicious, and after a break of 11 days the following arrives. However it refers to an e-mail regarding his
colleagues view about my request.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: HAVE
BEEN WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE
Dear Steve,
Compliments of the day!!!
I have been expecting the response to the mail i sent
to you regarding my colleagues view about your request.
Well,they are of the opinion that you seem not to be
serious about this transaction with the way and manner you really have handled
it.They as well suggested that we,the one transfering such huge amount into
your accounts should demand for your photograph not the other way round.
It would amount to a lot if at the end of the day the
transaction is not successfully completed by you,we might be impersonated.
Send the application now directely to the Bank or we
seek someone else.
Regards,
Samull.
Now how to abuse them while still
maintaining the baiting, that is the question?
I throw in a hint about a nice large telegraphic transfer from my bank
in
Subject: RE:
HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
I’d thought you’d been arrested or
something, nearly two weeks and no word from you. I HAVEN’T RECEIVED ANY E-MAILS FROM YOU SINCE
YOUR E-MAIL OF THE 24TH JUNE!!!!!!! And
that one just said:
“Dear Steve,
All is ok, only we have terribly been busy tidying up a lot in the
office as we are expecting external Auditors.
I would be sending you a comprehensive mail tomorrow ok?
I cannot go back on this transactiom.
Regards,
Samull.”
I never got your comprehensive mail the
next day!!!! I have sent you two e-mails
since (on the 26th June and 1st July) and haven’t received an answer!!!!.
DON’T ACCUSE ME OF NOT BEING SERIOUS ABOUT
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, I do have some concerns. I’d like to know who I’m dealing with,
therefore my request for a photo. I’d
still like a photo of you, I’d still like to know who I’m dealing with.
I understand though that you’d like a photo
of me too, so I’m attaching the latest photo I’ve had taken. Someone took this photo of me the other night
leaving work after I’d spent a long day and half the evening staring at
computer monitors, it’s not very flattering, my eyes felt like they’d had sand
rubbed in them.
As I advised you nearly two weeks ago, I’ve
got a bank account set up. The New
Zealand bank were very pleased to have a nice large telegraphic transfer arrive
from my bank in
SO, SHOW ME WHO YOU ARE IN A PHOTO HOLDING
MY NAME AND I’LL SEND THE BANK APPLICATION OFF IMMEDIATELY BY RETURN. My calculations tell me that we’ve got until
November before the Government can claim this money so while we need to get
this application registered with the bank, I don’t want to hurry it and make a
mistake. I'd like to have my share of this money
sitting in my bank account just as much as you and your colleagues would
probably like to have your share.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar.
Well, back comes a very prompt reply from
my
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: DO IT
THIS WAY
Dear Steve,
Thanks very much for your response.
How on earth could you be thinking that i have been
arrested?
I just held a very brief discussion with my colleagues
here immediately i recieved and read through your mail.
They still believe there is no need for anyone of us
to send you a photo yet,not when you have not applied officially to the Bank
and this transaction commenced and gotten underway.
Again,they are of the opinion that you should have
held our Bank Name and take a picture of yourself rather than sending just any
picture.
However,i in particular still believes in your ability
to secure this funds transfer for us though they have been asking that i forget
you and we seek someone else.
I need you to show them some very serious commitment
by sending and processing your application urgently,if not i doubt the way they
are talking we might not forge ahead with you because they are of the opinion
that you seriously promised sending the Application directely to the Bank
here for processing as soon as you get hold of your
account datas,which incidentally is right with you now.
Regards,
Samull.
It looks like a bit of an impass. So best I lodge the bank application,
continue the scam, and put any thoughts of a trophy on hold. I’ve made him waste 20 days anyway. I think this lad might have been burned
before. I’m also eager to get to the
stage where I have to transfer some cash to my
Subject: Bank
Application being sent today
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Samull,
Right.
Bank Application being sent today.
I’ll copy you the bank’s reply when received for your advice.
Regards
Steve
Now to put together some information for
the Bank Application. The abbreviation
of the bank name, NZRFU, is that of the
Subject: Application
as next of kin to Holder of Account Number DBA/004/952/23/0/00/2002
ATTN; DR DZIRI, Tchatara (P.hD)
DIRECTOR - FORIEGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
DIAMOND BANK OF
E-MAIL ADDRESS [email protected]
FAX- 00229-33-80-80
TEL -00229-07-97-59
APPLICATION AS NEXT OF KIN TO HOLDER
OF ACCOUNT NUMBER. DBA/004/952/23/0/00/2002.
Dear Sir,
I, Stephen Nelson Trafalgar, humbly
apply to this Bank today,
I also wish my application will be given
urgent attention as I wish this balance be released and re-transferred into my
account as stated below:-
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Account Number: 069-914-0088459-00
Telephone and Fax of Bank: 64 7 575 9064
Accept my apology for the late
application; it was due to some family logistics, which have just been sorted
out. Thank you in anticipation of your co-operation.
Yours Sincerely,
Stephen Nelson Trafalgar
E-mail: [email protected]
I
receive this request from the bank, strange only requests for Certificate of Incorporation, Tax
Clearance Certificate and Mr Jose de Matos’s Death Certificate/Affidavit. Where is the request for a fee payment?
From: "Foreign Remmittance
Department Diamond Bank" <[email protected]>
Subject: ATTENTION;MR TRAFALGAR
Attention;Mr Stephen Nelson Trafalgar,
Attached is for your urgent attention.
Sincerly Yours,
Mrs J. Temul.
Secretary,
FRD,
Of course I reply immediately to my
Subject: Fwd:
ATTENTION; MR TRAFALGAR
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Samull,
I have just received the following e-mail from
the Foreign Remittance Department of the Diamond Bank,
As well, the letter requests that I have
the following documents:
Certificate of Incorporation
Tax Clearance Certificate
Mr Jose de Matos’s Death
Certificate/Affidavit
Should I agree to that date, will you have
all the documents required, will you provide the attorney to represent me.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
I receive instructions from my
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: OK,JUST
DO THIS NOW
Dear
Steve,
At last
we really have started.
Please
urgently respond to them urging the Bank to appoint an Attorney on your behalf.
As
soon as the Attorney is appointed by the Bank officially,you get in touch with
the law firm and asking them their requirements for such representations,that
they would also assist you in the procurements of those documents required by
the Bank.
Not
even the Attorney must know that we are aware of this transaction,please
remember we are still in active service at the Bank.
Here
is
Regards
and hoping to hear from you soonest.
Samull.
I reply to the bank, asking that they
appoint a reputable lawyer on my behalf.
Normally I would just have to comment on such an oxymoron as “reputable
lawyer”, but didn’t comment this time as I want this scam to progress as soon
as possible to the stage where I’m sending them
Subject: Re: ATTENTION; MR TRAFALGAR
To: "Foreign
Remmittance Department Diamond Bank" [email protected]
Attention:
Dr Dziri Tchatan, Manager, Foreign Remittance Department, FRD,
Dear Sirs,
Thank you for your prompt response to my e-mail
titled “Application as next of kin to Holder of Account Number
DBA/004/952/23/0/00/2002”.
I would like your bank to proceed with
appointing a reputable lawyer to appear on my behalf at the Funds Release Panel
meeting on
Yours sincerely
Steve Trafalgar
I have been remiss, letting my lad hang
for nearly a week. He sends me “keep in
touch” e-mails.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: good day
Dear steve,
good day? i hope all is well.
please i want to hear from you
thanks and god bless you.
s bayo
and
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: my Identity card mr samull bayo
Dear steve.
good day? how is your work. hope fine,
i sent my Identity card for you and please have you got any information
from the bank.
please i want know.
thanks and god bless you
Subject: Re: my Identity card mr samull bayo
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
I'm sorry that I haven't been in touch.
My e-mail account has been flooded with junk mail and reached the limit
of mail in my inbox. Over the weekend
I've been deleting all sorts of e-mails for fake degrees, viagra pills, penis
enlargement and such.
I have not heard from the bank. I
sent them an e-mail on Friday 9th July asking them to appoint a lawyer on my
behalf, and have had no response.
With the hassle of having my e-mail blocked I have overlooked that the
Funds Release Panel meeting was on Friday 16th July. I am sending another e-mail to the bank to
follow up the appointment of a lawyer.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
And the reminder to the bank.
Subject: “Application
as next of kin to Holder of Account Number DBA/004/952/23/0/00/2002”
Bcc: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Attention: Dr Dziri Tchatan,
Manager, Foreign Remittance Department, FRD,
Dear Sirs,
I have not received any reply to my e-mail below.
I note that the Funds Release Panel Meeting was scheduled for Friday
16th July.
I need you to appoint a reputable lawyer to appear on my behalf at the
next scheduled meeting of the Funds Release Panel.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
(E-mail of Friday 9th July attached)
Nothing happening, better show some
enthusiasm.
Subject: What's
happening?
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
What's happening? I've heard
nothing from the bank about appointing a lawyer and the last Funds Release
meeting was held on Friday 16th!
You'd better look into this, I've got better things to do than sit
around all day checking my e-mail.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
And follow up.
Subject: ATTENTION:
Mrs J. Temul
Bcc: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Mrs Temul,
I replied to this e-mail on Friday 9th July and asked your bank to
appoint a reputable lawyer who would represent me at your Funds release Panel
meeting on Friday 16th July,
I HAVE HAD NO RESPONSE FROM YOUR BANK REGARDING THIS MATTER.
Please advise what steps you are taking to release these funds.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT
REPLY REQUIRED
Dear
Mr Steve,
Thanks
for your message with all the content duly noted, first of all i am very sorry
for my late reply to your message the reason was i went for a meeting in our
sister country here LOME TOGO.
As per
your request concerning the lawyer that will represent you before the fund
release panel, i'm quite sure the bank to would urgently introduce you to one
of their reputable lawyer here that can represent you because i don't want the
bank to know that we are working togehter so contact the bank about this and
keep me informed.
Yours
sincerely.
Mr
Samull
Subject: Re:
URGENT REPLY REQUIRED
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Dear Samull,
If I were the suspicious type, then I would think that the bank were
deliberately delaying actioning this request.
It is in their interests to keep hold of this money for as long as
possible isn't it, just imagine the interest they're earning on $8
million. Even at 3% thats $4,500 per
week!
I think that we are both being scammed her. The bank will probably do anything to stop
paying over this money.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT
REPLY REQUIRED
Hello
steve.
please
if you dont want to go on with this transcation again you better tell me .
now
the bank sent me the information they sent to you. why are you doing like this to me.by teling
me that you have not receive any from the bank.
see
the information bellow.
Please
try to get in touch with them.
mr
samull
N.B
FROM:,
Foreign Remittance Department, FRD,
TO:MR
Steve Trafalgar,
Sir,
This
is to confirm the receipt of your message to this bank concerning the release
of your fund to your nominated account as the next of kin to Mr Jose de Matos’s
our late costumer.
As per
your request we advise you the contact our acredited lawyer and arrange with
him to represent you before the FUND RELEASE PANEL METTING, to enable us
approve your fund and process to the transfer to your nominated bank account.
The
contact of the lawyer are as follows.
ALFAL
CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES
TEL:+229
405017
Contact
person:Barrister Sanni Adebayo.
Contact
this lawyer immidiately on receipt of this message and arrange with him to
represent you before the Panel for your own good
Best
regards.
Dr
Dziri Tchatan,
I’d better reply to the bank’s message,
which I never did receive, seeing I’ve ignored my lad for 10 days or so.
Subject: Re:
URGENT REPLY REQUIRED
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
I have been out of town filming in the
However, I have NEVER received the e-mail from the bank that you copied
to me.
I will action their message immediately, and blind copy it to you.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
So I contact the recommended “reputable”
lawyers.
Subject: Diamond
Bank, Fund Release Panel Meeting
CC: <[email protected]>
BCC: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Alfal Chamber & Associates
Dear Sirs,
The Diamond Bank,
I would request that you contact Dr Dziri Tchatan of the Foreign
Remittance Department of the Diamond Bank there in
I am sorry that I have taken so long to contact you. I am involved in a movie project in
Thank you
Steve Trafalgar
Director
STR Graphics Co Ltd
So, finally someone asks me for money!
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
FROM:ALFAL CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
CARRE 36
TEL:+229 405017
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
THIS IS TO CONFIRM THE RECEIPT OF YOUR
MESSAGE TO THIS
CHAMBER REQUESTING US TO REPRESENT YOU
IN THE FUND
RELEASE PANEL MEETING OF DIAMOND BANK OF
REPUBLIC.
FIRST OF ALL WE WELL COME YOU TO OUR CHAMBER
AND
PROMISE TO RENDER THE BEST OF OUR
SERVICES TO YOU
CONCERNING THIS MATTER.
WE ARE READY TO HANGLE YOUR JOB
PERFECTLY BUT BEFORE WE
PROCEED KINDLY SEND ACROSS OUR
CONSULTATION FEE OF
USD500, AS SOON AS WE RECEIVE THE
CONSULTATION FEE WE
SHALL PROCEED IMMIDIATELY AND REPRESENT
YOU IN THE
PANEL MEETING.
YOU CAN SEND THE CONSULTATION FEE WITH
THE NAME OF MY
SECRETARY BELOW
GODWIN NWADIKE.
SEND THE CONTROL NUMBER TO THIS CHAMBER
FOR US TO
COLLECT IT ANS START YOUR JOB.
AWAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU.
BEST REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: MR STEVE DO THIS ASAP PLS
Dear Mr Steve Trafalgar,
How are you and your family? thanks for your message, infact i amnot
happy with the way your are handling this transaction, you know what both of us
will benefit once we clear this money why not pay attention to it before the
bank stops the transfer of the fund.
Please its important you finalise with the lawyer to represent in the
next meeting if not we will lose this fund, its very very important you
finalise with the lawyer before then and keep me informed.
I will be waiting to hear from you soonest.
mr samull
Subject: Re:
MR STEVE DO THIS ASAP PLS
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
Actioning the Solicitor's request immediately.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar.
Better get my
Subject:
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo.
Dear Sirs,
I have been to the
The agency will e-mail me the control number and details of the money
transfer as an electronic file for me to forward to you.
They have had new security measures put in place for money transfers to
western
I will forward the money transfer control number and other details as
soon as I receive them.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar.
And the WU money transfer gets sent.
Subject:
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo.
Dear Sirs,
I have been received the following e-mail from my local western union
agency.
Attached are the control number and details of the money transfer as an
electronic file.
Please credit this payment against the consultancy fee for your
solicitors to represent me at the Diamond Bank Fund Release Panel Meeting as
the next of kin of Mr Jose de Matos, their late customer.
We have completed a major portion of the filming work I have been
involved with recently, so I am taking my young nephew on a snow skiing holiday
at the mountains a couple of hours drive south of here. If you require any further documents or identification,
please send me an e-mail and I will respond when I return on Friday 20th
August.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar.
----- BAYFAIR POSTSHOP sent: -----
Mr Steve Trafalgar,
This is an automatic mail, do not respond to this e-mail address.
Attached as electronic file <WUXfer Godwin Nwadike.gif> are the
control number and details of the
Have the payee open this electronic file, all details required for
cashing this
BAYFAIR POSTSHOP
Shop 706 Bayfair Shopping Mall
Unfortunately it seems that the solicitors cannot open the attached
file. Also unfortunately, I have left
for my skiing trip with my nephew and won’t be back until Friday 20th August.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
FROM:ALFAL CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
CARRE 36
TEL:+229 405017
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
WE WISH TO NOTIFY YOU THAT THE RECEIPT
OF THE
WE SHALL THE BE WAITING FOR THE CONTROL
NUMBER AND OTHER INFORMATION OF THE PAYMENT AS WE CANNONT DOWNLOAD THE
ATTACHEMENT, TREAT AS URGENT TO ENABLE US SERVE YOU BETTER.
BEST REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT
INFORMATION
FROM:ALFAL CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
CARRE 36
TEL:+229 405017
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO
OPEN THE ATTACHEMENT TO COLLECT THE INFORMATION OF THE
KINDLY RESEND THE INFORMATION TO US BY
EMAIL TO ENABLE US COLLECT THE FEE AND REPRESENT YOU IN THE PANEL METTING,
TREAT AS URGENT TO ENABLE US SERVE YOU BETTER.
REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
And Samull tries to set a deadline so that I’ll reply. Oh well, if the deadline goes by then the
fake money will still be just so much fake money.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: MR STEVE DO THIS ASAP PLS
Dear Mr Steve,
I have not heard from you concerning the lawyer you in the panel
meeting, please the final date for the panel meeting will be on the 17th of
August 2004 and if you lawyer is not there present to represent you for the
release of the fund infact we will loset the money so please try all you can to
finalise the lawyer before this date to enable him represent you.
I will be waiting for your urgent response to this matter.
Yours Sincerely.
Mr Samull Bayo
Better get back to Samull and the solicitors that I’ve been delayed
getting back from skiing and why they haven’t been able to open the
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: MR STEVE DO THIS ASAP PLS
Dear
Steve ,
How are
you today. hope you are fine and yours family
I hope
you receive the mail i sent to you if so try to late me know on what to do ok.
Thanks and
best regard.
MR SAMULL
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: VERY
URGENT
Attn:Mr Steve Trafalgar,
We wish to let you know that the
consultion fee you sent to us has not been collected as we can not open the
attachement to collect the information.
Kindly contact your agent and send the
information to us by email to enable us collect the fee and represent you in
the panel meeting by monday.
Best regards.
Barrister Sanni Adebayo.
From:
<[email protected]>
Subject: DIAMOND BANK
FROM:THE INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPT
TEL:+229 088982 (MANAGER)
FAX:+229 323549
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
CONFIDENTIAL,
THIS BANK IS COMPLETELY INDOUBT WHY YOU REFUSED TO FINALISE WITH YOUR
ATTORNEY HERE TO REPRESENT YOU IN THE PANEL MEETING FOR THE IMMIDIATE RELEASE
OF YOUR FUND.
WE HEREBY MANDATE YOU TO PRESENT YOUR ATTORNEY TO THIS PANEL ON OR
BEFORE
TREAT AS URGENT TO ENABLE US SERVE YOU BETTER.
BEST REGARDS.
MS CINTIA RENOU
FOR THE MANAGER DIAMOND BANK
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: VERY
URGENT
Dear
Mr Steve,
How
are you and your family today? infact i don't like the way you are handling
this transaction, have you bein able to finalise with the lawyer to represent
in the panel meeting? no please try andfinalise with the lawyer before friday
if not the bank will stop the release of the money to you.
I
willbe waiting to hear from you.
Yours
sincerely.
Mr
Samull Bayo.
I reply to the solicitors and the bank, and blind copy Samull.
Subject: Delay
in communicating
BCC: [email protected]
TO:
Barrister Sanni Adebayo, Alfal Chambers and Associates
TO:
Dr Dziri Tchatan, Manager, Foreign Remittance Department, FRD,
Dear Sirs,
I must first apologise for the delay in
communicating with you both. I took the
opportunity of a break in my business commitments to take my nephew skiing on
the mountain just a few hour’s drive south of here. We had a number of wonderful days skiing, but
on Tuesday last week the worst storm for 40 years set in and we were snowed in
at the lodge we were staying in up the mountain.
The storm did not clear until Saturday
morning. We had to walk down the
mountain, and I slipped and injured my knee.
The medics who attended my injury had to wait for the road to be opened
by snow ploughs for an ambulance to take me to the hospital in the nearest town
where I stayed overnight.
The medics fear that I may have torn a
ligament in my knee, and have put my leg in a plaster cast. My sister and her husband had to drive down
to the mountain on Sunday to collect my car and bring my nephew and me home. I
finally got home late on Sunday night, but my sister was not very happy that
her son had been trapped up a mountain in a blizzard for five days, and that
she had to drive nearly 400 kilometres to collect us.
I see there have been a number of e-mails
in my absence. I had better deal with
these.
First, Dr Dziri Tchatan. I have contacted a firm of Solicitors there
in
Second, Barrister Sanni Adebayo. I have phoned the local
As you appear to be having problems opening
this file, the local
Thirdly, Dr Dziri Tchatan. Reinstate my application and co-ordinate with
Alfal Chamber and Associates a convenient time for them to appear on my behalf
before the funds release panel.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar.
The solicitors reply, they refer to my
nephew as my “brother”.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT
INFORMATION
FROM:ALFAL CHAMBERS
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
THIS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF
YOUR MESSAGE TO THIS CHAMBER CONCERNING THE CONSULTATION FEE.
FIRST OF ALL WE SYMPATHISE WITH YOU ON
THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPEND TO YOU AND YUR BROTHER.
REGARDING TO THE FEE YOU KNOW VERY WELL
THAT THIS IS AFRICA WE ARE STILL USING MANUAL SISTEM OF BANKING HERE, SO PLEASE
RESEND THE MONEY THROUGH NORMAL WEST UNION AND SEND THE INFORMATION TO THIS
CHAMBER FOR US TO START YOUR JOB.
REGARDS.
GODWIN NWADIKE
And a reply from the bank. Note how they too have referred to my nephew,
my sister’s son, as my “brother”.
From: "Foreign
Remmittance Department Diamond Bank" <[email protected]>
Subject: DIAMOND
BANK
FROM:THE INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPT
TEL:+229 088982 (MANAGER)
FAX:+229 323549
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
THIS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF YOUR MESSAGE TO THIS BANK
CONCERNING THE ISSUE OF THE ATTORNEY WHO WILL REPRESENT YOU IN THE PANEL
MEETING FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND.
FIRST OF ALL WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED TO YOU AND YOUR
BROTHER, WE HAVE TAKEN NOTE OF YOUR REQUEST AND ADVISE YOU TO FINALISE EVERY
THING WITH YOUR LAWYER TO RESPRESENT YOU IN THE PANEL MEETING THAT WILL BE HELD
ON THE
BEST REGARDS,
Ms CINIA RENOU
FOR THE MANAGER DIAMOND BANK
I’ll try to get the meeting postponed,
otherwise it might just be the time to send the money order to
Subject: DIAMOND
BANK
Dear Sirs,
My doctors have advised me that I can now walk for very short distances
with my leg in a plaster cast provided I use a cane. However, I need to be driven by somebody else
so will not be able to visit the
Is it possible to move the meeting back until the Friday, 3rd September?
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: MR
SAMULL
Dear
Steve Trafalgar,
How are
you today hope all is well to you.
first of all
am sorry for the incident that happened to you.and i hope that all will be ok
by this time so please try late us finsh this transcation i am waiting to hear
from you.
Thanks
and best Regard.
Mr samull
Oops, is it an insult to call someone from
the
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
Date:
ATTN:STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
THIS IS TO CONFIRM THE RECEIPT OF YOUR
MESSAGE TO THIS CHAMBER CONCERNING THE PANEL MEETING SCHEDULED ON FRIDAY THE
27TH OF AUGUST.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT NIGERIAN AS
YOU MENTION IN YOUR LETTER, WE ARE IN
THE MEETING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED ALREADY
TO BE HELD ON
REMEMBER THE MONEY WITH THE INFORMATION
BELOW.
GODWIN NWADIKE
BEST REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
So I send them advice of the
Subject:
Attention: Barrister Sanni Adebayo
Dear Sir,
I have just returned from the local Western union agency, and you will
be pleased to know I have today been able to send your fee by
Here are the details you will require to claim the payment:
Sender: Steve Trafalgar
Place of Deposit: Mt
Name of recipient: Godwin
Nwadike
Place of receipt:
Amount: $ US 500.00
Question: What have I injured?
Answer: My knee
I look forward to your company being able to represent me at the panel
meeting at the Diamond Bank tomorrow.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
It appears as if the solicitors haven’t
noticed the WU money transfer was made out for collection in
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
ATTN:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
THANKS FOR YOUR URGENT ATTETION TO THIS
MATTER, WE SHALL COLLECT THE MONEY AND REPRESENT YOU IN THE MEETING TOMORROW
FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND.
WE SHALL KEEP YOU POSTED AFTER THE
MEETING TOMORROW.
BEST REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
Oh, Barrister Sanni Adebayo seems a little
upset, his sectretary couldn’t collect the money from
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
ATTN:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
INFACT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING
OR ARE YOU PLAYING WITH THIS CHAMBER? MY SECRETARY WENT TO
I REPRESENTED YOU AT THE PANEL MEETING
YESTERDAY AND THE FINAL MEETING FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND WILL BE ON MONDAY
SO GO TO YOUR LOCAL AGENT WHERE YOU SENT THE MONEY AND ASK HIM WHERE HE SENT
THE MONEY TO?
I TOLD YOU EALIER TO YOU SHOULD SEND THE
MONEY TO COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC WEST AFRICA NOT BENIN NIGERIA, WE ARE NOT IN
NIGERIA COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC IS A COUNTRY OF ITS OWN, MAKE SURE YOU GO AND
RESEND THAT MONEY FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING IF NOT I AM NOT GOING TO REPRESENT
YOU BY MONDAY WHICH IS THE FINAL DAY.
TREAT AS URGENT.
BEST REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
The tone of this e-mail from Barrister
Sanni Abebayo deserves a bit of a slap.
Let’s see if they also notice that I’ve copied Samull.
Subject: Re:
ALFAL CHAMBERS
CC: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Abebayo
Dear Mr Abebayo,
I do not appreciate the tone of your last e-mail. Such an abusive attitude will never successfully
conclude the transfer of these funds.
I don't know how you conduct business in
If you wish to be insulting, then let me assure you that I am working
with a number of Australians who would be only to happy to tell me some of
their colourful phrases with which to describe your business practices and attitude.
I am a reasonably wealthy man, and I do not need to accept an abusive
e-mail such as you have sent to finalise the transfer of funds from some long
lost relative who died in
However, I have checked with the local
The local
Sender: Steve Trafalgar
Place of Deposit: Mt
Name of recipient: Godwin Nwadike
Place of receipt:
Amount: $ US 500.00
1419421233
Question: What have I injured?
Answer: My knee
I trust you will be dealing with the bank funds release panel in a more
businesslike manner. Please advise how
the release of the funds progresses, and if you have any other problems regarding
the money transfer.
Steve Trafalgar
YES!!!
A good slap usually works!
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
DEAR MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
FIRST OF ALL I HAVE TO START BY APOLOGIZING
FOR THE WAY I WROTE TO YOU THE LAST TIME, THANKS FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION TO
THIS MATTER, I DID REPRESENT YOU IN THE PANEL MEETING TODAY IN THE BANK AND THE
RELEASE OF YOUR FUND HAS BEEN APPROVED PANEL AND THE BANK WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
TO YOU BY TOMORROW AND PROCESS THE TRANSFER OF YOUR MONEY.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE PROMISE TO RENDER
THE BEST OF OUR SERVICES TO YOU REGARDING THIS MATTER UNTILL YOU CONFIRM YOU
FUND IN YOUR ACCOUNT.
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION SIR,
YOURS FAITHFULLY.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO.
Now to set the stage for the Western union
money transfer to go missing.
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re:
ALFAL CHAMBERS
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo
Dear Sir,
Thank you for advising how the Monday meeting at the bank went. I have not however heard from the bank, do I
need to contact them regarding the transfer of the funds?
I am pleased to be able to tell you that I have been down to the
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re:
Monday meeting
ATTN;MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
THANKS FOR YOUR MESSAGE TO THIS CHAMBER,
AS PER YOUR REQUEST I HAVE FINALISE ARRAGEMENT WITH THE PANEL FOR THE RELEASE
OF YOUR FUND AND THEY HAVE REQUESTED ME TO SIGN YOUR FUND RELEASE ORDER TO
ENABLE THEM PROCESS THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND WHICH I REFUSED BECAUSE MY
SECRETARY HAS GONE TO WESTERN UNION HERE TO COLLECT THE FEE YOU SENT TO THIS
CHAMBER ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THE FEE WAS NOT SENT.
THEREFORE IF YOU WANT THIS CHAMBER TO GO
AND SIGN THE FINAL RELEASE ORDER ON YOUR BEHALF KINDLY SEND THE MONEY WITH
CORRECT CONTROL NUMBER.
REGARDS.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
Subject: Re:
ALFAL CHAMBERS
CC: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo
Dear Sir,
I am pleased that the bank has agreed to finalise the release of my
funds. However I cannot understand your
refusal to sign the fund release order because you have not received the money
transfer.
As I told you in my last e-mail, I went down to the Western Union agency
and they told me that the money transfer was cashed at the Ecobank, Avenue St
Michel, Atlantique, Cotonou, Benin. They
say the money transfer with the control number 1419421233 was cashed at
I will check again with them regarding the status of the money transfer
and advise.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
And I confirm that the local
Subject: Money
order cashed, confirmed
BCC: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo
Dear Sir,
The local
Please trace what happened to this money order at your end.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
So the money wasn’t cashed by the solicitor’s office, but he’s going to
sign the release form anyway. Wow, a
FREEBIE!!!
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
Attn Mr Steve Trafalgar,
Sir,
Thanks for your information, please note
that the money was not cash through office but in any case i am going to do my
job to you concerning this matter with DIAMOND BANK here, i will go and sign
you fund release order by monday for the bank to release your fund.
We shall keep you posted.
Regards.
Barrister Sanni Adebayo
Better thank Barrister Adebayo for his help, and maybe offer him a
little something when I get my money. I
could offer him much more, seeing the money doesn’t exist.
Subject: Personal
for Barrister Sanni Adebayo
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail last Thursday.
I appreciate you handling this transaction, despite the money transfer
being cashed by someone unknown. I have
heard that many countries in western
I am also sorry I did not reply immediately I got your e-mail. I have been working on some special images
for the Directors cut DVD version of “The Lord of the Rings” movie, we’ve been
working day and night for several days getting the effects we wanted.
You are probably aware of the magnitude of the transaction you are
handling with the bank on my behalf. I
would like to propose a token of my appreciation for your decision to handle
this transaction. I would like to
promise you a personal payment of $10,000 once the funds of my late relative
have been cleared through to my account.
Thank you again
Steve Trafalgar
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
DEAR MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
THANKS FOR YOUR MESSAGE WITH ALL THE
CONTENT DULY NOTED, AS PER YOUR REQUEST TO THIS CHAMBER I WAS AT THEBANK TODAY
AND YOUR FUND RELEASE ORDER HAS BEEN SIGNED.
THE BANK WILL START THE PROCESS OF THE
TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND TO YOUR ACCOUNT BY TOMORROW SO PLEASE RECONFIRM YOUR BANK
INFORMATION TO AVOID ANY MISTAKE DURING TRNASFER AS I AM GOING TO MONITOR THE
TRANSFER.
MAKE SURE THE ACCOUNT GETS TO ME BY
TOMMORROW, THANKS FOR YOUR PROMISE TO THIS CHAMBER.
YOUR IN SERVICE.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
I’d better get my bank details off to my
Beninoise solicitor. The bank name
abbreviates to NZRFU (
Message to myself: Don’t hurry, waste the Lad’s time.
Subject: Bank
details for Steve Trafalgar
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your e-mail yesterday.
My banking details are:
Bank Name:
Bank Address:
Account Name: Steve Trafalgar
Account Number: 069-914-0088459-00
Telephone and Fax of Bank: 64 7 575 9064
Thank you for monitoring this transfer, I
look forward to hearing from you further.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
And the Barrister comes back with advice
that it is the bank’s turn now to try to get money out of me!
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
ATTN MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
DEAR SIR,
PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT I WAS AT THE
BANK TODAY AND
YOUR FUND HAS BEEN RELEASED, THE BANK
MANAGER PROMISE
TO CONTACT YOU TODAY, PLEASE FOLLOW
THEIR INSTRUCTION
FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND.
KEEP ME INFORMED ON THE LATEST
DEVELOPMENT.
YOURS IN SERVICE
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
And sure enough, the bank has agreed to
release these funds. The attached letter
from the bank states that I must pay 8,000 Euro for the provision of a Deed of
Assignment and a Deed of Conveyance.
From: "Foreign
Remmittance Department Diamond Bank"
<[email protected]>
Subject: DIAMOND
BANK
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE OF
DIAMOND BANK OF
TEL:+229 088982 (MANAGER)
FAX:+229 323474
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
CONFIDENTIAL
THIS IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT THE DIRECTORS OF THIS BANK HAS APPROVED THE
TRANSFER OF YOUR FUNDTO YOUR NOMINATED ACCOUNT AS THE BONAFIDE NEXT OF KIN TO
OUR LATE COSTUMER, ATTACHED TO THIS MESSAGE IS YOUR APPROVAL LETTER.
YOUR ARE HEREBY ADVISE TO GO THROUGH YOUR APPROVAL LETTER AND FOLLOW THE
INSTRCTION THERE FOR THE IMMIDIATE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUNDTO YOUR ACCOUNT WITHOUT
DELAY, ONCE WE CONFIRM THE RECEIPT OF THE DEED OF CONVEYANCE AND DEED OF
ASSIGNMENT FEE AS REQUEST BY THIS BANK TO CARRY OUT THE TRANSFER YOUR FUND WILL
BE REMITTED TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
TREAT AS URGENT TO ENABLE US SERVE YOU BETTER.
BEST REGARDS.
MS CINTIA RENOU
FOR THE MANAGER INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DEPT.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
ATTN MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
DEAR SIR,
PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT I WAS AT THE
BANK TODAY AND YOUR FUND HAS BEEN RELEASED, THE BANK MANAGER PROMISE TO CONTACT
YOU TODAY, PLEASE FOLLOW THEIR INSTRUCTION FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND.
KEEP ME INFORMED ON THE LATEST
DEVELOPMENT.
YOURS IN SERVICE
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
The solicitor really wants
to get his 8,000 Euros.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
Dear Mr Steve Trafalgar,
Sir,
What is going on? the bank told me that
thet will contact you yesterday for the process of the transfer of your fund,
please confirm to me if you have had from them let me follow up.
Yours in service
Barrister Sanni Adebayo
I’d better let Barrister Sanni Adebayo
know that the bank has said I should send 8,000 Euros to him to obtain these
documents. I think I’ll be a bit wary
about sending money by
Subject: Re:
ALFAL CHAMBERS
Attention: Barrister Sanni
Adebayo
Dear Sir,
Sorry for the delay, I have been out of
town for the last two days researching filming locations.
I did receive an e-mail from the Diamond
Bank on Tuesday advising that they require a Deed of Assignment and a Deed of
Conveyance in order to be able to release the funds. They have suggested that you, my Attorney, will
be able to produce these documents and that I should send 8,000 Euros to you
for this.
Because the $US 500 I sent to you by
Please advise the bank account name,
account number, the name and address of the bank that you would like this money
deposited into.
Regards
Steve Trafalgar
What????
My bank tells me this is a scam!!!!!!
How can that be, I have genuine documents from the bank and the
solicitor.
Subject: What’s
this all about?
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
What the hell is going on here!!!!!
I have just returned from my bank. I went to see how I could telegraphically
transfer the sum of 8,000 Euros to Alfal Chambers. Yeah, send more money down the same drainhole
that I’ve already sent $500.
At the bank, the counter staff took me in
to see the Bank Manager. He told me that
I was probably the victim of something called advanced fee fraud!!!! Bloody hell, have you been scamming me??????
He told me there was probably no deposit of
US$8 million at the Diamond Bank in
He said that if Diamond Bank was a genuine bank then they’d
be able to provide copies of their deed of incorporation and current
certificate of registration. He said
that I should check the bank’s website to see if it really existed.
He also gave me the website on which the
Just as well my bank has staff that are on
the ball, otherwise I’d have lost God alone knows how much money!!!! It’s already cost me $US 500!!!! Even though the money was stolen, it’s
already cost me that money.
Now, tell me this is not some elaborate
fraud and you’re not some bloody Nigerian fraudster!!!!
Steve Trafalgar
Now what sort of reaction will I get from
my e-mail to Samull Bayo? A flurry of
e-mails has come in from the Solicitor and the Diamond Bank. First, a request that I wait for THEM to give
me an account number, this might have been sent before I sent my e-mail to
Samull.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
DEAR MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
PLEASE
FOR THE SECURITY OF THE FUND WAIT FOR ME TO GIVE YOU AN ACCOUNT NUMBER
WHERE YOU WILL SEND THE MONEY.
YOURS IN SERVICE.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
Then a request from the Solicitor to hurry
up with the transfer of the money for the Deed of Assignment and the Deed of
Conveyance.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
Dear Mr Steve Trafalgar,
Thanks for your urgent response to this
matter,i was at the bank this morning to verify the reason why for the payment
and the manager of the bank explained to me that the payment is for the DEED OF
ASSIGNMENT AND DEED OF CONVEYANCE to transfer your fund.
Please note that this is the only thing
holding your fund here so try and send the money to this account below.
CITI BANK GENEVE.
16,QUAI GENERAL-GUISAN 1211-GENEVE
SWIFT CODE:CBSWCHZZ
A/C NO.:342000.
A/C NAME:SAFIMA
Tell your bank to transfer it by swift
to enable me cash it by monday, as soon as you send the money forward the
transfer slip to me by email for confirmation.
I will be waiting.
YOURS IN SERVICE.
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
Then a poorly spelled request for urgent
action from the Diamond Bank.
From: "Foreign
Remmittance Department Diamond Bank"
<[email protected]>
Subject: DIAMOND
BANK
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE OF
DIAMOND BANK OF
TEL:+229 088982 (MANAGER)
FAX:+229 323474
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
SIR,
CONFIDENTIAL
THIS IS BANK IS COMPLETELY INDOUBT WHY YOU HAVE NOT COME UP WITH OUR
REQUEST TO ENABLE US WIRE TRANSFER YOUR FUND WITHOUT FURTHER.
YOUR ARE HEREBY ADVISE TO CONTACT US IMMIDIATELY AND INFORM YOUR
ATTORNEY TO COME UP WITH OUR DEMAND FOR US TO SERVE YOU BETTER.
BEST REGARDS.
MS CINTIA RENOU
FOR THE MANAGER DIAMOND BANK OF
Well, I’ll just sit and wait and see who next
replies to me. After all I’m waiting for
someone to convince me that this is not a scam.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
FROM ALFAL CHAMBERS
Dear Mr Steve Trafalgar,
Sir,
Infact i am not happy that uptill now i
have not heard from you knowing how ugent this matter is, please make sure you
transfer the money to the account i gave to you today.
Once again i advice you to pay attention
to this transaction now that your fund is coming.
I will be waiting to hear from you.
Now Samull tries proving that the Bank
Manager is wrong. He includes a jpg of
the deceased Mr de Matios’s bank statement.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: ITS
NOT TRUTH
Dear Mr Steve Trafalgar,
Thanks for your information, infact i am not happy with this email that
you sent to me, in first place this transaction belongs to me and you so no
matter what your bank manager might have told you why not find out from me
before you conclude.
First of all i have start by telling you that we are not Nigerians this
is a defrent country in west africa, actually there is fraud every where even
in your own country that those not mean that there is no real business like
this again.
Mr Steve infact Mr Steve i have not been happy since i received you mail
because when we start i told you to keep this transaction confidential untill
we clear this money why blowing your trumphet now by telling people.
Please my dear i contacted as a Brother for us to do this transaction
together for our future benefit and there is no fraud involved in this
transaction so forget what your manager is saying let clear this money, you
have an attorney handling this matter on your behalf tell him to come to the
bank and find out if this money is not there.
Mr Steve to prove to you that what i am doing with you is real, i do go
to churche so do this as a sacrifies and alow me to supprise you no matter what
your manager told you, just send the money to your attorney to settle this DEED
OF CONVEYANCE AND DEED OF ASSIGNMENT and see if this money will not be transfer
to your account.
I will try my best to see if i can get the statement of account of this
money which i will send to you to tell you that the money is in this bank its
every big risk but i am going try to prove you and your manager wrong, please
my dear what i am doing with you is not fraud so please remove your manager
from this transaction let work together and clear this money, you know very
well that the bank has all you datas so i will not want them to suspect your
application if not we will be in trouble because it will look as if your are
trying to defraud the bank.
My last word to you is that i know you don't believe this but try and
resolve this matter and see what happens, please i don't want the bank to
suspect any thing write and inform them that you are making arrangement for the
DEED OF CONVEYANCE.
We work half day today if i succeed in getting the statement of account
i will send it to you today if not i will try by monday.
Yours sincerely
Mr Samull Bayo
Now in this e-mail, Samull tells me that “I AM A FRENCH MAN AND I DONT
KNOW WHERE
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT
ATTION NEEDED
Dear Mr Steve,
I have succeeded in getting the statement of account from our accounts
section, God knows the kind of risk i took to get this at least to prove to you
that the fund is there.
You promise to keep this transaction confidential untill we clear this
money why telling peolpe which means you want to expose every thing.
Please let me know if you want us to clear this money or not? and also
promise me that you will keep every confidential.
Now the most important thing is for you to get hold of your attorney and
the bank, finalise with your lawyer concerning the DEED OF CONVEYANCE AND DEED
OF ASSIGNMENT after this relax and see what will happen and by the end of the
day that your bank manager will be a liar but please keep him out of this
transaction if you don't want us to lose this money be in problem because the
will trace you and my self will be in problem, i will like us to discuss on
phone give me your number to call you.
NOTE GET HOLD OF YOUR LAWYER AND WRITE TO THE BANK BEFORE THE SUSPECT.
I AM A FRENCH MAN AND I DONT KNOW WHERE
I will be waiting for your reply soonest.
My regards to your family.
Mr Samull Bayo
Plus the lawyers ask what is going on.
They try to put on the pressure to pay the solicitors, get the
certificates, and let’s get the money.
From: "alfalchamer
alfa" <[email protected]>
Subject: ALFAL
CHAMBERS
FROM: ALFAL CHAMBERS
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
TO:MR STEVE TRAFALGAR,
WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON WITH YOUR
CLAIM WITH DIAMOND BANK? YOU CONTACTED THIS CHAMBER TO REPRESENT YOU IN ALL MATTERS CONCERNING THE
RELEASE OF YOUR FUND WITH THE BANK AND WE ARE SUPPRISED THAT UPTILL NOW YOU
REFUSED TO WRITE THIS CHAMBER.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE ALMOST
COMPLETED OUR JOB WITH THE BANK SO IF YOU DON'T NEED OUR SERVICES AGAIN SIMPLY
PAY US OUR SERVICE CHAMBER LETS QUIT.
YOURS IN SERVICE
BARRISTER SANNI ADEBAYO
So, I think this bait has now come to an end. Four months of stringing along my Lad, his
bank and his solicitors. However, all is
not lost. Samull has sent his original
e-mail to another e-mail account of mine, so I have started baiting him as
another character.
But no! Samull sends another
e-mail.
From: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT
REPLY NEEDED
Dear Mr Steve,
How are you and your family today? infact i am not happy that you
refused to reply my message no matter your bank might have told you even if you
don't want us to do the business.
I have tried and send the statement of acccount of this money to prove
to you that the money is with this bank,at least confirm the receipt of the
statement of the account i sent to you.
Infact to prove to you that i am sure of what i am saying can you come
down here with the money and see things your self? reply my message today.
My regards to your family.
Mr Samull Bayo
The question is, do I answer Samull?
Do I reply with an almighty burn and place my other bait with him in
jeopardy, do I just leave his e-mails unanswered, or do I try to drag him along
just a little bit more? I answer quite
dispassionately, but emphasise again and again that I did send him $500 . And I try to seed the idea that I could help
him write his pitch so that it would be better and catch him more victims.
Subject: Disappointed
with myself
To: "Samull
Bayo" <[email protected]>
Samull,
I have researched the subject, and I am now utterly convinced that you
are indeed an advance fee fraudster. I
have also thoroughly reviewed the whole scenario you set me, and I recognise
how my own greed contributed to me sending you $500.
I am quite calm about losing this money.
I now see it as the price I have paid for learning a valuable
lesson. I could have lost a lot more
money. In my research I found references
to victims of advanced fee fraud who had lost their entire life savings,
hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I consider myself lucky that I only sent
you $500.
In fact, reading back through your e-mails I have seen so many errors
which should have shown me that you were a fraudster and not just a dishonest
bank Director wanting to take a share of some money deposited in your own bank
by a long dead client.
I keep kicking myself when I read your e-mails again that I never
recognised the so obvious errors you made.
I am disgusted with myself that I even answered your first e-mail,
because on reflection I now see that it was so inaccurate and obviously false.
However, I did believe what you wrote, no matter how obviously false it
all now seems, and that cost me $500.
And I realise that it is lucky that your inability to put a story
together without errors and your poor English grammar and spelling will help
some of your potential victims see that you are a fraud.
In fact I am amused that, with my superior English language skills, I
could probably improve your original e-mail so much that you would fool every
one of the people you sent it out to.
Maybe if you gave me my $500 back I could offer to rewrite your story so
that it was impossible not to believe it completely.
Disappointed with myself,
Steve Trafalgar
Days have gone by now and no response from my