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Wilson Lewis says:
"I have reasoned very professionally" |
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Hello, I am Miss Young. I received this story from a friend. Let me call him Alex. |
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To: missyoung
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006
Subject: FW: Attn:
Hi Miss Young,
I love your site. Very funny
and very informative. I found your site after I googled part of a scam
letter I received today. I've attached it below this
letter.
I'm bored so I'm going to play with this scammer a bit
and maybe I'll have an interesting story to contribute to your website to
share with your readers.
I think I'm going to try to get them to forward my $11.25
million to my Paypal account. That way they already have all my
info the need. My email address.
Thanks again for putting
your site up. I'm sure it has help many people.
Best
Regards,
Mr. Alex |
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From: wilsonlewis31@hotmail.com
To:
wilsonlewis31@hotmail.com
Subject: Attn: Mr Adams
Date: Fri, 7
Jul 2006
FROM: ATTORNEY:WILSON LEWIS
TEL: +27-73-666-8850
SUITE 3 # 19 CARLTON TOWER
CARLTON CITY. JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
Attn: Mr Alex Adams
INHERITANCE.
It is my privilege to capture your names from the internet. My name is
ATTORNEY. WILSON LEWIS a legal practitioner and the personal Attorney to
late Mr.Adam Adams,a national of your country who died along with his wife
and his Two sons in a ghastly motor accident along Port louis-Reduit express
in August 13, 2001.All the occupants in the vehicle lost their lives.
I am convinced that it was the grace of God that made me to locate you.
My client was a successful and am accomplished family man, who made enough
fortune before his untimely death. Since then I had made several inquiries
through your Embassy to locate any of my clients extended relative but this
exercise has proved unsuccessful.
After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided totrace his relatives
through the Internet, to locate any member of hisfamily not much progress
was recorded. My late client was an influential wealthy businessman, an
Gold magnet here in South Africa and he left behind a deposit of Twenty Five
Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars($25,200,000.00usd) in
his domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank here in South Africa.
After the death of my client his bankers contacted me, as his Attorney to
provide his next of kin who should inherit his fortune. The board of
directors of his bank adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his
next of kin for the payment of this money within 28 working days or forfeit
the money to the bank as an abandoned property.
The bankers had planned to invoke the abandoned property decree of 1996 to
confiscate the funds after the expiration of the period given to me.
Despairing at the point of exhaustiveness,fortunately, I came across your
name , to my utmost amazement , you are nationals of the same country.
Convinced that you may be linked with my late client or that you might
provide clue to my search, I therefore,decided to contact you with these
facts before me because of the situation now .
By virtue of my closeness to the deceased and his immediate family, I am
very much aware of my client financial standing and the bank account he
operates.
I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it willbe legally proper to
present you as the next of kin of my deceased client,so that you can be paid
the funds left in his bank account, hence I contacted you. I seek your
consent to present you as the Next of Kin to the Deceased since you are at
an advantage as nationals from the same country, so that the proceeds of
this Bank Account valued at $25.2 Million Dollars can be paid to you.
We shall both share the funds. 50% to me and 45% toyou, while 5% should be
for Expenses or Tax as your Government may require, I shall assemble all the
necessary Legal Documents that will be used to back up our claim .All I
require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under alegitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of law.
Please get in touch with me by telephone or email to enable us discuss
further.
Best Regards
Attorney. WILSON LEWIS |
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To:
"wilson lewis" <wilsonlewis31@hotmail.com>
Subject:
RE: Attn: Alex
Dear Mr. Wilson,
I was
not aware that I had relatives in Africa. What a small world. I
would
be happy to assist you and claim my share of the
inheritance. You mentioned
that I would be entitled to 45% of
the $25 million dollar estate after taxes
which is equal to $11.25 million
cash. That sounds good to me. Tell me what
documents you need from me and we can begin.
Mr.
Alex |
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Note: He changes his email, of
course. |
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From: wilson lewis (wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com)
Subject:
Thanks for your mail( the need).
Date: 7/08/06
Dear Mr.
Alex Adams
I acknowledge the receipt of your mail and do hope that my
response will meet
you in good health and spirit.
I
appreciate your interest in this transaction and do assure
you that the
inheritance is real, legitimate, risk and hitch free.
I am asking for your permission to file your name with the bank
as the next of
kin of the late Mr Adams to enable the bank
contact you and subsquently
transfer the fund to your account as the
inheritor/next of kin.
In my quest to locate the next of kin of
the late Mr Adams, I came across
your name and seeing that you share
the same surname and Nationality with the
late Mr Adams , I decided to
contact you to facilitate the transfer of the fund
to your account as the
inheritor.
What the transaction requires is our
mutual trust and honesty coupled with
maintaining the confidentiality
which the transaction demands.
Upon the receipt of your mail and
the permission given, I will officially file
your name with the
bank.
In the course of this transaction, I will make available to
you the death
certificate of the late Mr Adams for the
records.
In your response to this mail, kindly include the
following information.
Your private telephone and fax
Numbers.
Your age and profession.
Thanks and may the
good Lord Bless us all.
Wilson Lewis
Esq. |
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Note: At this point, I didn't like the
fact that he had my real name and my
hotmail account so I created a new
email account and started to change up my
name to throw him off.
BTW, "no soy pendejo" means "I'm not an idiot" in
spanish. |
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From: Mr Alex <nosoypendejo @ email.com>
To: wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com
Date:
Jul 8, 2006
Subject: Re: Thanks for your mail( the need).
Dear
Mr. Lewis,
Please excuse the change of address. I decided
to switch this correspondence
to a more private email account that I use
only for personal matters.
Thank you for your prompt reply to my
letter. I appreciate your urgency
regarding this matter. I am
anxious to have this taken care of as soon as
possible.
I do not have a personal fax number at the moment.
Is there anyway you can
have the information sent to this email
address? If not, I will do my best to
obtain a fax
number.
Here is all the personal information you
requested:
Juanito De La Maranito Alex
Age:
39
Profession: Chief Engineer at P.T.M. Laboratories
Tele #: (310)
734-444
Look forward to hearing from you.
May the
Good Lord give you what you deserve!
Juanito De La Maranito
Alex |
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Note: I created the phone number at
privatephone.com
Everything else is made
up. |
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From: wilson lewis <wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul
10, 2006
Subject: Update.
Dear Mr. Alex
Good day, hope that this mail meets you in good
health and spirit.
I appreciate your mail and the informations
contained there in.
I am pleased to inform you that I
have today successfully filed your name
with the bank as the
next of kin of the late Mr Adams to enable the bank
contact
you and subsequently transfer the fund to your account as the
inheritor.
Hopefully within the week, I will make available to
you the death certificate
of the late Mr Adams for the
records.
I will appreciate it that you try and get a
functional fax number.
Thanks and may the good Lord Bless us
all.
Wilson Lewis
Esq. |
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From:
wilson lewis <wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul
12, 2006
Subject: Death certificate as attached.
Dear Mr.
Alex
Good day, hope that this mail meets you in
good health and spirit.
I called you and left messages in your
answering machine and I was expecting
that you would return my
calls.
Kindly find attached the death certificate of the
late Mr. Adam Adams as I
promised for the records.
Kindly
call me to confirm receipt of the document.
Thanks and may the
good Lord Bless us all.
Wilson Lewis
Esq. |
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To: wilson lewis <wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul 12, 2006
Subject:
Re: Death certificate as attached.
Senior Wilson,
I
successfully recieve the Death Certificate. It really brings a tear to
my
eye knowing that I had family in South Africa that I never knew.
At least I
have his money. Everytime I spend it I will think of
him.
I did recieve your phone call. I tried returning the
number but I kept getting
a busy signal.
What is the
next step in this process?
Sincerely,
Juan Diego
Santiago Santa De La Rosa
Alex |
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Note:
I never called him. Just more
lies. |
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From:
wilson lewis <wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul
13, 2006
Subject: Urgent.
Dear Mr. Diego Alex
Good day, hope that this mail meets you in good health and
spirit.
Thanks for your mail. When ever you call and get a
busy signal , try again you
will get through.
Today I filed
for next of kin certificate from the High Court here and
hopefully
tomorrow , the affidavit will be granted and certificate
issued.
I will send the certificate to you as soon as it is
insured, how ever I want
you to know that to get the certificate , I have
to spend money . I do doing my
best to get that
done.
Hopefully the bank will contact you this week, I urge you
to follow their
instructions and advice.
Thanks and may the good Lord
Bless us all. |
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Note:
The "Bank" contacts
me. |
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From: sastandardbank@aim.com
Date: Jul
13, 2006
Subject: NEXT OF KIN APPLICATION FORM. FILL AND
RETURN.
ATTN: MR. Diego Alex.
SENDING THIS
FORM TO YOU BY EMAIL BECAME NECESSARY BECAUSE OF LACK OF FAX
NUMBER IN THE
APPLICATION FILED ON YOUR BEHALF BY YOUR ATTORNEY.
DOWN LOAD THE
ATTACHED FILES, FILL THE FORM AND RETURN IT ACCORDINGLY TO ENABLE
US
PROCESS THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND TO YOUR NOMINATED
ACCOUNT.
FAITHFULLY YOURS,
Dama STADEEN(Accounts
Officer).
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Note:
Good 'ol Mr. Wilson checking up on
me. |
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From:
wilson lewis <wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul
14, 2006
Subject: Clarify.
Dear Mr Alex
Good day, hope that this mail meets you in good health and
spirit.
Today I spoke with the bank (Standard Bank South Africa)
and was by made to
understand by the accounts officer Dama
Stadeen, that they have contacted you
through email by have not heard from
you.
Please I urge you here to kindly co-operate with the
bank and follow their
instructions.
If there is any question
they ask that you do not understand , kindly call me
on telephone Number
+27-73 666 8850.
Thanks and may the good Lord Bless us
all.
Wilson Lewis
Esq. |
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Note: My Reply
to the bank. I figured I'd try to stall them and extract a photo id for
your
website. |
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To: "sastandardbank@aim.com"
Date:
Jul 16, 2006
Subject: Re: NEXT OF KIN APPLICATION FORM. FILL AND
RETURN.
Dear Madam STADEEN,
Thank you very much for the prompt
email. I have been in contact with La
Senorita Chiquita
Wilson. I am looking forward to having this transaction
completed as soon as possible.
I've spoken to my bank and
they are preparing the necessary paper work for me
to send to you.
However, the have requested that I send them a copy your bank
identification badge.
They say that it is common policy in
dealing with African banks and that a
simple photocopy will do. I
hope this request is not to burdensome.
As soon as I recieve your
identification I will foward it over to my bank so
that we can complete
this process.
Sincerely,
Juan Alberto Cheeky Cheeky
Poo Diego De La Soul Olivera
Executive Administrator of Funk to Yo Mama
Enterprises
Office: (310)
734-444 |
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Note:
Attempting to stall and extract a photo id so I can put a face to this
name. Hmmm, I wonder what he looks like?
I start calling
him "Senorita" just to mess with him. And my name is really getting out
of control. |
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To: wilson lewis <wilsonlewis006@yahoo.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2006
Subject:
Re: Clarify.
Senorita Lewis,
I'm sorry it has been
awhile. I spent the last few days at the bank and they
have been
giving me all kinds of grief. However, I managed to convince them
release the proper documents on the condition that I receive proper
identification from the necessary parties.
Per their
request, I'll need a copy of your attorney photo identification. As
soon as I receive it I can proceed with this transaction.
I
look forward to hearing from you.
Juan De Lo Santos Aguilera
Pancho Villa tu Madre Guacamole Angel del Sanchez
Umberto Flamenco
Jimenez
No Soy Pendejo Enterprises
Office: (310)
734-444 |
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We leave Alex here. I am sure he had fun playing with the scammers. The time they spent on him was not used on real victims. |
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