Mr. Peng Lee
says: "Please get your personal mobile phone as I would
not like anybody to know of this deal."
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Hello, I am Miss Young. In this short story the scammer
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From: PGLEE200 <PGLEE200@terra.es>
Sent: December 30, 2004
Subject: Compliment of the season.
HELLO,
PLEASE BEAR WITH ME FOR NOW AND DO NOT ASK MY NAME.
WHAT I HAVE MAY BE OF INTEREST TO YOU.IT IS A BUSINESS PROPOSAL THAT
WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO YOU AND I.
I LIVE IN SHANGHAI,CHINA. I AM 51 YEARS OLD AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING
IN A BANK IN CHINA FOR THE PAST 17 YEARS WHERE I AM PRESENTLY AN ACCOUNTS
MANAGER.I WILL GIVE YOU MY FULL DETAILS ON YOUR REPLY TO THIS LETTER.
MY AIM OF CONTACTING YOU IS TO SOLICIT
YOUR CO-OPERATION AND ASSISTANCE BASED ON ONE OF THE ACCOUNTS UNDER
MY MANAGEMENT CONTAINING $8 MILLION
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My curiosity forces me to see what is behind this, so I
tell him that I am interested. At the same time I want him stopped, therefore
I ask for his e-mail account to be closed. His answer comes 9 days later
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From: PG <pngle@myway.com>
Sent: January 11, 2005
Subject: Re: Compliment of the season.
Dear Miss Young,
How are you doing today?I have received your Datas and it will be recorded
in the Late Mrs. Jovita Jasmin Carerra document first thing when I got
to the office tomorrow morning as the legitimate beneficiary. I am very
impressed with your forthrightness and I believe your are a very honest
and sincere person who would not betray or cheat me out of my share
of the money. Though I am banker in the senior management cadre, we
do not earn much of salary here in China. I
honestly do not think this transaction would cost us much. Also bear
in mind that the fund is currently in an offshore account in Europe
and therefore would not in any way be affected by the inheritance laws
of China.Please get your personal mobile phone as I would not like anybody
to know of this deal. The walls have ears you know!
At this stage, you are going to contact Her lawyer.As I said in the
last email we are going to contact Her lawyer .Tell him that for security
reasons you will not give him more information but that he should contact
the bank and late Mrs. Jovita Jasmin Carerra accounts manager, for more
information. If the lawyer wants to know why you have not come up all
these years, tell him you have been abroad or that had no immediate
need for the money, tell him that you now want to embark on a humanitarian
project and will appreciate his urgent action on the matter.
Please give the lawyer the necessary contact info.As soon as you contact
the lawyer, Please inform me so we will prepare for the lawyer inspection.If
you prefer to open fresh account for this project the better.My Bank
will also contact the lawyer informing him that we have received info
on the beneficiary of the account.
The name of the lawyer is:
Mr.Hugh Jones
Pannone Partners & Solicitors
123 Deans Gate
Manchester
M3 2BU
U.K
Tel: 447919942584
Fax:448452800121
Email: hughjones@mail2lawyer.com
Contact Him by email for now untill all neccessary documentation as
being completed and you have being comferred as the beneficiary by him.
Please note the following:
1.You will get a commision of $3.6 million ( Three million six hundred
thousand dollars) being 30% of total funds.
2.I have all the necessary information the lawyer may ask, I have done
all the homework on this and I am very confident of it's success.Do
not reveal this to anybody, this is very important, my whole life and
career could be jeopardised.
I shall give you more technical details as time goes on if we move
fast, we can accomplish this as fast as possible. Please let me know
what your response is immediately.
ALSO LET ME TRUST YOU AND DO NOT CHEAT OR BETRAY ME AFTER TAKING OVER
THE FUNDS. REMEMBER, I HAVE THE SECRET DOCUMENT AND ALL I NEED DO IS
FILL IN YOUR INFORMATION IN THE SPACES SHE LEFT BLANK WHILE THE DOCUMENT
REMAINS ORIGINAL AND UNTAMPERED.
Expecting to hear from you soon,
Your's Sincerely,
Peng Lee
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Something must have gone wrong when he had to change e-mail.
He refers to previous conversations that we have not had, and
$3.6m is not 30% of $8m.
I check the lawyer on the Internet. It turns out that it is the
name and address of a real lawyer, but with the scammers telephone
number and e-mail address. The telephone number is a mobile phone.
His e-mail was not sent from china, but from an IP-address in
Israel. His english is also much better than what I am used to
see from my penpals in Nigeria.
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I write to the fake Hugh Jones as Peng instructed:
Att: Mr.Hugh Jones
Sir, I am contacting you regarding the late Mrs. Jovita Jasmin
Carerra.
I want to embark on a humanitarian project and for security reasons
I can not give you more information. Please contact the late Mrs. Jovita
Jasmin Carerra bank accounts manager, for more information. I have not
come up all these years, because I have been abroad and I had no immediate
need for the money. Sincery yours, ...
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I inform Peng:
Dear Peng,
Thank you for your email detailing our deal. I have contacted the
lawyer as you instructed. I will inform you as soon as I hear from him.
I have attached my picture, now we have become business partners.
Will you send me your picture?
It sounds as if you have full control of the situation, and I therefore
can trust you. I would like to see some kind of documentation of the
existance of Mrs. Jovita and her money. Can you help me with that? I
don't want to be part of a practical joke.
Hope to hear from you soon, ...
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I contact the real Hugh Jones:
Sir, I received the following e-mail with your name and address
in it. I assume it is part of a socalled 419-fraud. According to the
IP-address, the e-mail was sent from Israel.
Please confirm that this is fraud, and I will get the mentioned
e-mail accounts closed. Regards, ...
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The real Hugh Jones answers:
I recall a letter
coming in out of the blue about this which meant nothing to me. It now
makes sense. It will be an attempted fraud so pleawse block any further
e-mails. Thanks.
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An hour later the fake Hugh Jones answers (from another
IP-address in Israel): |
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From: hugh jones <hughjones@mail2Lawyer.com>
Sent: January 13, 2005
Subject: Estate Of Late Jasmin Jovita Carrerra
Attn: Miss Young
This office is in receipt of your e-mail dated 11th January, 2005.
This is to notify you that we shall take appropriate steps to look into
your request as per the estate of Late Mrs. Jasmin Jovita Carrerra.
Suffice it to say that the file of Mrs. Carrerra has been left in our
office archives for several years and we have to dig out certain information
to confirm your claims and request.
Please, note that this office will require your full contact details
including copies of your international passport and/or driver's license
for proper identification to enable us make necessary confirmation and
authentication as to your claims from the bank. Kindly bear with us
as we are sending a team lawyers to China to ascertain the genuineness
of your claim.
Please, send these requested information by fax to this office immediately
you receive this message.
Ipso facto, we anticipate your full co-operation on this to enable us
perfect this brief.
We shall get back to you in due course.
We are obliged to be of service to you.
Yours faithfully,
Hugh Jones Esq
This e-mail may contain privileged and confidential information and
is intended only for the use of the specific individual(s) to whom it
is addressed. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, you
are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination or copying
of this e-mail or the information contained in it or attached to it
is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
delete it and immediately notify the person named above by reply e-mail.
Thank you.
Hugh Jones
Tel:447788542474
Fax:449452800212
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Note that he has changed telephone and faxnumbers. Have the old ones
been closed?
I don't like this scammer using the identity of a real person, so I
ask for his e-mail account to be closed.
5 days later I receive an e-mail from "a group of concerned citizens"
informing me: "...We
have information from one of our informants that a criminal using the
alias Hugh Jones has targeted you for the theft of your money. ..."
Hopefully this stopped the scammer for now, but when will he try again
with a new identity?
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