From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 12, 2004
Subject: HAVE YOU SEND THE $500.00 to the bank?

Dear Miss Young,

I got your mail and i thank you for your kind response.However i am the person that apears two times in the picture i send to you.The other people you saw in the picture are some of my family brothers.
Have you send the $500.00 to the bank?Please let me know immediately.

Waiting to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God bless.
JEFFERSON

Dear Jefferson,

I am waiting for an answer from the bank. I followed your advice and wrote to them and asked them to confirm that it was ok to split the payment in two instalments.

BTW. My finansial advisor, Louis, asked for some kind of documentation of mr Kogans account. Could you send a Statement of Account?

With love, ...

From: btci_banque banque <banque_remittance@financier.com>
Sent: October 12, 2004
Subject: FROM BANQUE INTERNATIONAL DU AFRIQUE

ATTN:MISS YOUNG,

WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF YOUR MAIL AND HEREBY WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT WE CAN NOT ACCEPT ANY AMOUNT LESS THAN $700.00 FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF YOUR TRANSFER,THIS IS DUE TO OUR BANKING RULES AND REGULATION.THEN AT THE COMPLETION OF THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND YOU WILL PAY THE REMAINING BALANCE.
YOU ARE REQUESTED SEND THE $700.00 IMMEDIATELY THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER BY THE NAME OF OUR ACCOUNTANT BELOW.

MR PRINCEWILL HEZEKIAH
COUNTRY:TOGO
CITY:LOME

REMEMBER TO SEND THE PAYMENT INFORMATIONS TO OUR EMAIL ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY YOU SEND THE MONEY.
THANKS
MANAGEMENT

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 13, 2004
Subject: COMPLY WITH THE BANK IMMEDIATELY.

Dear Miss Young,

I got your mail and i thank you for your kind response.However i will try to send you some documents relating to the fund.Meanwhile try to comply with the bank by sending the requested fees to bank.Remember to keep this transaction secret as i will not like anything to jeopadise this transaction .Let me know as soon as you send the fees to the bank.Waiting to hear from you soon.

JEFFERSON

My dear Jefferson,

Thank you for the email.

I have some bad news regarding the bank. They wont accept less than $700, and now I have only got $415 left. I plan to go to back to the States later this month, and I expect that I can raise the $700 when I am home.

However, I think that I can borrow the money here in Amsterdam. I have a trustworthy friend here, and I might be able to persuade him if I show him the documents regarding the fund, that you have promised to send.

I think we should try this solution.

Regards, ...

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 15, 2004
Subject: send the $415 to the bank today without any further delay

Dear Miss Young,

I got your mail and i thank you for your kind response.However i will advise you to send the $415 to the bank immediately so that they can start your transfer process to your account.You are delaying this transaction and i will not like to loose this great oppourtunity that God have given to us.Do not dislose this transaction to anybody,even your mother or your father untill this fund gets into your account.I am saying this because of the safety of this fund, i do not want anybody to raise eyebrow once this fund is been transfered into your account.Concerning the document which i promise to send to you i will try my best to send it to you for your reviewal.Do not show this document to anybody,keep this transaction confidential.
Send the $415 to the bank today and tell the bank that you will complete the rest $285 before they will transfer the fund into your account.Please my dear sister do this immediately without any further delay.
I will be expecting to hear from you as soon as you send this fee to the bank.
Waiting to hear from you soon.
Thanks and may God be with you.
JEFFERSON

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 15, 2004
Subject: CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT ATTACHED

Dear Miss Young,

I have attach the certificate of deposit document of the fund in this mail.Please i send it to you so that you can have a look of it.Do not dislcose this document to any other third party.It is strickly confidentail.

Send the $415 to the bank immediately.

Waiting to hear from you soon.

Thanks and God bless.

Jefferson

Let me check with the bank again:

Att: Mr John Care

Re: The account of my late cousin, Mr Mark Kogan
==================================================
I acknowledge your email from October 4th, and understand what I have to do.

I have a temporary finansial problem, that means that I cannot paid you the full amount now.

Will it be alright to send $415 now, and you will get the rest as soon as I get access to my cousins account?

Kind regards, ...

From: btci_banque banque <banque_remittance@financier.com>
Sent: October 16, 2004
Subject: VERY VERY URGENT

WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF YOUR MAIL.AND ALSO WE HAVE ACCEPTED TO COLLECT THE $415 FROM YOU, CONSIDERING YOUR PRESENT FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AS YOU EXPLAINED.
SEND THE $415 IMMEDIATELY BY WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER THROUGH THE NAME OF OUR BANK CASHIER BELOW.
NAME:PRINCEWILL HEZEKIAH
COUNTRY;TOGO
CITY;LOME

YOU ARE EXPECTED TO SEND THIS FEE BEFORE MONDAY TO ENABLE US PROGRAM THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND IMMEDIATELY INTO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT.

THANKS
MANAGEMENT

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 16, 2004
Subject: send the $415 to the bank immediately

Dear Miss Young,

Have you send the four hundred and fifteen dollars($415) to the bank?Please try to send it immediately to the bank.So that by next week you will receive the fund in your account. Waiting to hear from you.
JEFFERSON

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 18, 2004
Subject: HAVE YOU SEND THE MONEY TO THE BANK?

Dear Miss Young,

Please have you send the money to the bank?Let me know as soon as possible.

Waiting
JEFFERSON

Now it is time to change the focus away from the money, and show him an e-mail I found on the internet:

Hello Jeff,

How are you today? I am back after a nice week-end.

I ran into an old friend of mine, and he had some disturbing news. He has received the attached email from mr Yoko, and he showed it to me. I must admit that I was very confused, since it is identical to the email you sent to me. Do you know Mr Yoko? Will you please tell me what is going on?

Hope to hear from you soon, ...

**********************************************************************

FROM THE DESK OF
DIRECROR AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS SECTION
B T C I BANK
LOME REP DU TOGO
MR.MARTIN YOKO
TEL. 00228 912 5923.
EMAIL:m_yoko12003@yahoo.co.uk
STUDY CAREFULLY AND REPLY URGENTLY
******************************************************
HELLO DEAR
HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,HOPE EVERYBODY IS FINE BOTH YOUR BUSINESS,I AM MARTIN YOKO THE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION OF THE ABOVE BANK IN LOME TOGO.
I AM CONTACTING YOU BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION I GOT ABOUT YOU WHICH SHOWS THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE AND DEPENDABLE,AND THE SUCCESS OF THIS TRANSACTION CAN ONLY COME WITH A HELP OF A FORIEGN PARTNER LIKE YOU SINCE WE CAN NOT OPERATE FORIEGN ACCOUNTS.THE MAJOR REASON OF CONTACTING YOU IS DURING OUR INVESTIGATION AND AUDITING IN THIS BANK, MY DEPARTMENT CAME ACROSS A VERY HUGE SUM OF MONEY BELONGING TO A DECEASED PERSON (NAME WITHDRAWN) WHO DIED ON NOVEMBER 1999 IN A PLANE CRASH AND THE FUND HAS BEEN DORMANT IN HIS ACCOUNT AND AFTER SOME TIME THE BANK MAY CONVERT TO THE SECURITY FUNDS OF THE BANK AS IT IS WITH THE ALLIED MATTERS OF THE BANK. NOW WE ARE NEEDING YOU AS TO SUPPLY ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION THAT WILL QUALIFY YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN FROM OUR OFFICIAL FILE HERE OF WHICH WE WILL GUIDE YOU AND SUPPLY WITH ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT YOU WILL PRESENT TO THE BANK THAT WILL QUALIFY YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED PERSON THEN THIS MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERED TO ANY BANK ACCOUNT THAT YOU WILL PRESENT THEN WE WILL GO INTO AGREEMENT WITH US AFTER WHICH TWO PEOPLE UPON COFIRMATION OF THIS MONEY IN YOUR ACCOUNT WOULD BE WITH YOU FOR ONWARD SHARING ACCORDING TO PERCENTAGE THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED.
WE ARE STILL WORKING IN THIS BANK THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO LOOK FOR A FORIEGN PATNER AND WITH OUR ASSISTANCE EVERYTHING WILL GO SMOOTH. THE SAID AMOUNT IS (U.S$27.5 MILLION) UNITED STATES DOLLARS.NOTE THAT THIS MONEY WE CAN TRANSFER IT IN THREE BADGE AS TO AVOID OVER TAXATION. WE WILL BE MONITORING THE WHOLE SITUATION HERE IN THIS BANK UNTIL YOU CONFIRM THE MONEY IN YOUR ACCOUNT.BE INFORM THAT THIS DOES NOT POSE ANY RISK ON YOU BECAUSE YOU WILL ONLY INSTRUCT THE BANK THE WAY WE WILL GUIDE YOU.
PLEASE, YOU HAVE BEEN ADVICED TO KEEP "TOP SECRET" AS WE ARE STILL IN SERVICE AND INTEND TO RETIRE FROM SERVICE AFTER WE CONCLUDE THIS DEAL WITH YOU. WE SUGGEST YOU GET BACK TO US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE STATING YOUR WISH IN THIS DEAL. THERE IS OPEN ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION ON PERCENTAGE BEFORE COMMENCEMENT ON THIS PLEASE.AND YOU ARE ADVISE TO FURNISH US WITH YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.

GIVE ME A BRIEF CALL AT THE RECIEPT OF THIS MAIL ON MY TELEPHONE NUMBER/.00 228 912 59 23.

SINCERELY.
MR.MARTIN YOKO

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 18, 2004
Subject: Send the money immediately without any further delay!

Dear Miss Young,

I Got your mail and i thank you for your kind response.However do not respond to email which you receive from MR MARTIN YOKO that is one of the officails of the bank investigation department who want to know really if you are the true next of kin to the deased.PLease i will like you to listen to my advice ignore the massage.DO not respond to the email because once the bank discover that you are not the next of kin to the deased we are going to loose this great oppourtunity.
Send the money to the bank immediately.
Waiting
JEFFERSON

And now we present him with the correct address of the bank:

Dearest Jefferson,

This afternoon I was going to call you, but I could not find your telephone number. I asked Louis to find it for me, and he just handed me this:

Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique au Togo (BIA TOGO)
Adresse : 13, Rue du Commerce
Boîte postale : BP: 346 Lomé
Téléphone : (228) 21 32 86
Télécopie : (228) 21 10 19

Please confirm that this is the Bank where you work.

Yours truly, ...

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 20, 2004
Subject: Re: Send

I got your mail and i thank you for your kind response.However i am not happy with you on how you are handling this transaction.Concerning your question,that is the bank where i work, but you should remember that this is deal between me and you and body knows about this transaction in the bank accept you.You should not call any of these banks numbers because of the secrecy of this transaction.You can only contact me whenever you want to call me on my private secure number 00228-927-20-88.I went to the remittance department today to see your file but i found out that you have not send the $415 to the bank as requested from you.Why are you delaying this transaction?send the money to bank immediately.
Get back to me as soon as possible.
Waiting
JEFFERSON

And finally, the false passport:

Dear Jefferson,

I am loosing faith with you.

I can understand that nobody but you in the bank know about our business, but I assume that the bank knows the names of the Directors employed by the bank. I had Louis call your bank, and they did not know any Director by your name.

What are you hiding from me?? Somebody also told me that the picture on your passport is taken from a magazine, and the birthday has been altered.

Please come up with a good explanation, or our deal is off.

Good night, ...

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 22, 2004
Subject: Send the money to the bank

I got your mail.However i do not know that you will disapoint me at this last point.I also thank you for the insult given to me and all the false aligation you layed agaist me,only the almighty God know that all i have been telling you concerning this transaction is truth.Please indicate your interest or i find someone ealse to assist me in getting this fund out of africa.

Waiting
JEFFERSON

Dear Jefferson,

I agree that only the almigthy God knows the truth. But I need your help in this down-to-earth business deal. I have attached an enlargement of your passport, that show that your year of birth and your name has been altered. I do not know how the authorities work in your country, so this might me because of a simple error make by some clerk in the passport-office. Please inform me if this could be the case, or else I will have to believe that you or one of your friends have fiddled with somebody elses passport.

Kind regards, ...

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: October 26, 2004
Subject: very very urgent

I am surprise and shocked to hear all these words from you.However i will like you to send a letter to the bank and inform them that you are not the rightful person to claim the fund which was deposited by thier late customer Mr MARK KOGAN.Please send the letter immediately to the bank,to enable to me find the rightful person to claim this fund.

Waiting

JEFFERSON

5 days goes by, so I think he has given up. Now I need him to help me in phoning another scammer, but by mistake I send the e-mail to the bank instead:

Dearest Jefferson,

I am so sorry for the alligations I wrote to you. I have thought much about it, and must admit that I have been too hard in my judgement. The funny things in your passport could be because of the scanner, of some other reason that is out of your control.

If possible, I would like start our business again.

On monday I will be together with Mr. Rudy Walters from FFO in Amsterdam. The telephone number is +31-645-816-396. Please call me.

With love, ...

From: btci_banque banque <banque_remittance@financier.com>
Sent: November 1, 2004
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY

WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF YOUR MAIL TO THIS BANK.ARE YOU ADDRESSING YOUR MAIL TO ONE OF OUR STAFF IN THIS BANK MR JEFFERSON?WHAT RELATIONSHIP DO YOU HAVE WITH HIM?PLEASE CLEARIFY US IN THIS ISSUE,OTHERWISE MR JEFFERSON WILL BE SACK FROM THIS BANK AND ALSO HE WILL GO TO JAIL BECAUSE OF THIS MATTER.YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS HIGHLY NEEDED.
MANAGEMENT

From: jefferson anikomi <anikomi7@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: November 2, 2004
Subject: I am very sad

Dear Miss Young,

Why do you expose me to the bank?I told you to withdraw from this transaction instead of making me to loose my job.I was called by the bank executives and the board of directors of the bank today,they gave me a tamination letter that i am no longer working in the bank and also i am going to face judgement because according to the mail you send to the bank you made them to understand that i am the person feeding you with all the necessary informations concerning the fund which you are claiming.Now i am being fustrated,how can i make my leaving after saving the bank for many years,now i am going without any benefit all because of you.

All you have to do now, is to send the fee reqiure by the bank to enable them transfer the fund immediately so that i can come over to your country with my family to make my leaving that is my only hope in life as of now.Do not delay again send them the money immediately.

Waiting,

Jefferson

On February 3, 2006 I received this from F.D. Maybe Jefferson moved his dirty business to Nigeria? Maybe a Nigerian scammer with a mobile phone just used the same name?