Madam Mary Bakuma. It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture

Madam Mary Bakumar says: "do not tell the company officials that the box contains money"
	Hello, I am Miss Young. I received this story from a friend. Let me call him Johann. Here are the letters he received:	Go to the homepage to see more stories.
	From: marybakuma@aklan.com <mailto:marybakuma@aklan.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 Subject: Antwort auf Ihr Inserat From;Madam Mary Bakuma Tel;225 0800 6902. My Dear, PLEASE DO REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE MAIL: marybakuma@aklan.com It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son Musa intend to establish in your country.Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life. I can confide on you for the brighter future of my children since you are a human being like me. There is this huge amount of Fifteen Million five hundred thousand united states dollars. ($15.500.000.00) which my late Husband kept for us with a Security Company here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire before he was assasinated by unknown persons.Now I and my son Musa decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons. We want you to help us claim and retrieve these fund from the Security company and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investmen
	From: mary bakuma <mailto:marybakuma03@yahoo.fr> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 Subject: More Details from Mary Bakuma Dear Mr.Johann, I'm glad to hear from you and will use this opportunity thanking you once more on behalf of my family and I for your consideration to attend to our proposal and we are ready in all manner to seal the transaction with you, hoping this will mark the beginning of a long lasting business and family relationship between us. We wish to use this opportunity to reassure you that this transaction is 100% risk free and genuine and will be executed in a transparent way. Considering the fact that we have not met and this fund are in cash, safely deposited in the vault of a private Security Company, ready to be lodged in an account, which shall be opened by you here in Abidjan. May we inform you that it will be appreciated if you could come down here to assist in (opening / floating of an account) where the fund will be lodged for subsequent transfer to your account and to workout modalities for proper investment prior to The transfer of the fund to an account which shall be nominated by you any where in the world. This is very imperative, as we are not allowed to open an account due to our refugee's status. Ways to Help: 1. Your full name, 2) Your personal address, your private telephone, mobile phone and fax numbers. 3) Date of birth Meanwhile, we have agreed to offer you 10% of the total sum, 5% to cover all the expenses that you might in cure in the transaction while the remaining 85% will be for me and my family which will be used for investment in your country according to your advice. You can contact my son Musa and I through this telephone number +22508006902 Looking forward to hearing from you Best regards, Mrs. Mary Bakuma and Son
	From: mary bakuma <mailto:marybakuma03@yahoo.fr> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 Subject: RE: AW: Why me ? In trust Dear Mr.Johann, I am very happy to receive your letter and will use this opportunity to thank you again and reassure you our trust and confidence on you that you will help to bring this transaction to success. Sir, my reason for contacting you is because I found myself in a situation that I cannot help than to look for a Foreigner who will help me claim the money my late Husband deposited in the Private Security Company due the Agreement he had with the Security Company when he deposited the box containing the money. He deposited the box containing the money to the Beneficiary of his Foreign Partner with an arrangement with the Security Company that the box containing money can only be transferred or delivered to his Foreign Partners address which he was to submit to them later because he wanted to invest the money abroad but as fate had it, he died without supplying the Particulars of his then Foreign Partner to the Security Company for the transfer of the box containing money. Based on this, I am obliged to look for a Foreigner whom I will use his particulars and information and register with the company as the Foreign Partner of my late Husband and after this has been done, I inform him to contact the Security company and request them to release the box containing the money to him. I want you to help me to realise the operation because I am just a woman and a widow for that matter and because of my status here as a political refugee, we are not allowed to operate banking activities by the government of the country. But I want to reassure you that all the process to bring this transaction to success will be transparent and legal. Like I have earlier told you in my previous mail that my husband deposited the box with the security company and the company officials do not know that the real content of the box in their custody is money because my husband declared to the company officials that the content of the box is our family valuable and this he did because of security reason, so you have know that the security company do not know the real content of the box as money and this will remain our secret until the box containing the money is released to you. Please do not tell the company officials that the box contains money rather inform them that the box contains family valuable because my late husband declared the content as family valuable and you can see that in the certificate of deposit. It was because of this reason that I wanted you to come to Abidjan so that both of us will go to the Security company for the release of the box and then once the box is released to us , you will now go to one of the prime banks in this country to open an account where the money will be deposited for a fast transfer to your account in your country, this is because of our status here as refugees and we want this money out from this country because of the political instability in the country so that is why we need your help so urgent. But if you can not be able to come here for this operation, we can seek the help of an attorney here who will help us in the transfer of the money to your account by providing all the necessary documents on your name and then giving you power of attorney to receive the box containing the money in your country. He can also make the contract agreement between us so that you will be assured that any amount you spend in this transaction will be given back you once the money arrived in your account. These expenses will be deducted from the 5% of the total amount which I have earlier stated that it will cover all the expenses. Then another 10% of the total amount will be given to you as compensation for your help, all these will be stated clearly in the contract agreement to reassure you our sincerity. Please do respond to me quickly so that we can make progress because the political condition of this country is bad and we want to leave here before we fall to danger of civil war. Thanks and please do keep all these documents confidential so that another person will not see it because it contains vital information to identify the box containing the money. Hoping to hear from you soon. Your sister, Mary Bakuma.
	Fron: mary bakuma [mailto:marybakuma03@yahoo.fr] Sent: 19. Februar 2006 Subject: RE: AW: Dokuments from mary bakuma Dear Mr.& Mrs. Johann, We are very grateful once more receiving your strong word to assist us in the realization of this transaction. You have really showed me in your mail that you worthy to trust in achieving success in this transaction and we believe that with the help of Almighty God we will achieve our aim with you in no distance time. Since you can not be able to come here, I have met with a reputable English speaking Attorney here to help us obtain an affidavit of oath from supreme court of justice here stating you as our foreign partner/ family friend and obtain authorization letter from ministry of justice here empowering you with all the right to retrieve the box containing the money on our behalf. Below are the full contact details of the Attorney: BAMBASSOCIES ET FILS ABIDJAN - COTE IVOIRE. CONTACT PERSON: ME. ABDOUL KARIM BAMBA. PRINCIPAL ATTORNEY, TEL: 0022507685855. EMAIL: bambassocies@yahoo.ca Please kindly contact the Attorney as soon as you receive this mail and discuss with him about the requirements to secure the above documents and get back to us with the out come of your discussion with him. He will also tell you more details on how the money will be transferred to your account safely without having problem with the Government authority of your country. Like I have earlier told you about my situation here, I do not have the finance to execute this transaction so you will help me financially, and that was why I told you that all the money you will spend during the execution of this transaction will be deducted from the 5% of the total amount which I have earlier stated that it will cover all the expenses. Then another 10% of the total amount will be given to you as compensation for your help. The attorney will make the contract agreement between us so that you will be assured that any amount you spend in this transaction will be given back you once the money arrived in your account. The percentages will be stated clearly in the contract agreement to reassure you our sincerity. Attached documents are for your perusal, it is the deposit certificate which the security company gave my late husband when he deposited the box containing the money, you will notice that he declared that the content of the box is family valuable and please do keep it secret because we do not want the security company to know that it is money inside the box. Another document is his death certificate, my refugee identity card so that you will know me very and to show you that I am honest to you in this our business collaboration, you also find in the attached document, the written WILL of my late husband where he stated the amount inside the box and it is a prove of the existence of this box in the security company. I hope you read French so that you can read the WILL. Please do keep all these documents confidential so that another person will not see it because it contains vital information to identify the box containing the money. We are thanking you immensely for bringing out your heart to help us in the actualization this transaction. Looking forward to hearing from you. You can call my son Musa for further explanations.Extend my warm greetings to your family. Best regards, Mrs. Mary Bakuma.
	From: mary bakuma [mailto:marybakuma03@yahoo.fr] Sent: Montag, 20. Februar 2006 Subject: RE: AW: AW: picture from mary bakuma Dear Mr. & Mrs. Johann, We are very grateful once more receiving your strong word to assist us in the realization of this transaction. I have confidence that with you all is well and very soon we will meet and become one great family. You have a wonderful family and I can see from your picture that you have a happy home and this is what every body wants in life. Well, to find a German speaking attorney here will be very difficult because the only two languages here is English and French, but I think the attorney is well educated enough to understand your little English because I told him clearly that your English is not good and he said that is no problem. I think we will make progress with the little English you write and speak. The most important thing is to make sure that we follow his instruction so that we will not make mistake in this transaction. I do not know how high the cost of the attorney but he told me that the cost of the documents will not be too much for us. He said that he will go and find out the total cost of the documents and then he will let us know. But I will want you to contact him directly so that he will give you more information on this operation. Contacting him directly will give him the assurance that we are ready to do this transaction now. You will see his contact information in my last email to you. Please do contact him and find out more information from him, after you will write me or call my son Musa to inform him your discussion with the attorney today. Thank you very much and I pray that God will continue to protect your family. Extend my warm greetings to your wife and children. Attached is my picture and the corpse of my late husband when he was about to be buried. Best regards, Mary Bakuma and son Musa.
	From: Abdou Karim Bamba et fils <mailto:bambassocies@yahoo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 Subject: RE : Information about the Box of Madam Mary Bakuma at the security company Attention Mr. *Johann, Sir,* I received your letter and the required information clearly today.I know you can not speak and write good english but I promise to do my best to make sure that you understand my english for the success of this transaction. After a careful investigation on this matter and my conversation with the Security Company here in Abidjan Ivory Coast, I was informed by the director of this company that there are certain legal documents which will be presented to their office before they will accept to release the consignment to you as the business partner of her late husband and the new beneficiary of the box in their custody. I went to the Government Authority this morning to obtain more information's and the requirement to get all the legal documents on your name as I told your partner wife Mrs. Mary Bakuma. I will guarantee you that this transaction is 100% legal and without risk because Mrs Mary Bakuma submitted all the legal papers from her late husband to my office. These documents prove that this money was accumulated legally by her late husband Dr. David Bakuma. Because of the 9/11 attack in USA, we have to be very careful and make sure that all the process in this transaction will be legal and transparent to all. This means that all the process legal must be implemented and the entire legal document must be acquired effectively. These documents will also help to convince the Government of your country that this money is legal. Be assured that all the process to bring this transaction to a successful completion will be legal and transparent to all. As a legal practitioner, I am assuring you that there will be no problem with the Government of your Country as regards to the transfer of the money to your account; we can take care of the issue from here. These documents will give you the authority to act and contact the Security Company where the Fund is deposited as the beneficiary and partner to Late Dr. David Bakuma and family. Immediately these documents are presented to the Security Company here, they will without delay inform you the requirement for the release of the box containing the Fund. The documents are: * AFFIDAVIT *OF OAT.* * *AUTHORISATION LETTER ON YOUR NAME.* These documents will cost you the sum of 2,250 Euro* which is the legalisation fee to be paid in the Court of Justice Abidjan Cote D'ivoire.* Attached document is the requirement form from the Court of Justice Abidjan. You see the amount in our local currency and when you convert it to Euro, It will give you the following figures: *Total* *Amount* *1,476,000* *CFA* *= 2,250.00 Euro.* This amount will be paid to the Government Authority who will legalise and sign an authorisation to you and once the documents are ready, I will send you a copy for your perusal and will take the other copies to the Security Company for recognition. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND THE MONEY THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WHICH IS FAST TO SEND AND RECEIVE MONEY. YOU WILL SEND THE MONEY WITH MY NAME AND OUR ADDRESS: *NAME: Me. ABDOUL K. BAMBA* *ADDRESS: 01 BP 846 ABIDJAN 01,* *CITY: ABIDJAN,* *COUNTRY: COTE D'IVOIRE.* *TEL: 00225 0768 5855.* Inform me when you will send the money and make sure you follow my instruction strictly. NB: Kindly send to me the following information: *- A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY CARD OR FIRST TWO PAGES OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT FOR IDENTIFICATION. (SENT BY EMAIL ATTACHMENT.) Anticipating hearing from you.* Sincerely In Service, *ME. ABDOUL KARIM BAMBA.* *PRINCIPAL ATTORNEY,* *BAMBASSOCIES,* *ABIDJAN* *CI.* *TEL: 0022 50768 5855.* *EMAIL: bambassocies@yahoo.ca*
	At this point Johann had realised that it was a scam, and he stopped further contact with the scammers. The documents are fake. The buriel picture has been used in several other scams, see the Mand Johnson and the Cynthia Sankoh stories. You can see almost identical fake death certificates here. End of story.