From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: September 27, 2004
Subject: Our trip for Brussels this transfer.

My Dearest Miss Young.

Thanks for your mail reply regards our meeting for discussion for the progress of this transfer as well as securing the money which is my inheritance into your hands for the safety of the money and for investment.

Please as you may understand my present condition right now is not ok,so can you be able to arrange for my travelling expences so that i can start to process for my trip as well as to get my Visa as urgent as and be waiting as soon as you confirm your own Visa then i will fly direct to meet with you at the hotel you have sugested.

I some help to get my traveling Documents and Vsia so it depends on you if you can help me come up with this please all my hope is on you to help me out of this our present condition and secure the money for us into your hands.

Thanks as i wait for your urgent reply regards to this matter.

God Bless you as you help me.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Rose,
For the Family.

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: September 28, 2004
Subject: URGENT FOR OUR TRIP TO MEET FACE TO FACE FOR THIS TRANSFER.

My Dearest Miss Young.

Following you reply to me about where we shall meet face to face to discuss for the transfer of this money into your hands.

I have been wanting for you to help arrange for my trip because you know that i don't have money at hand now to cover up all my traveling expences to meet you face to face at Hilton Hotel in Brussels.

Due to i have no access or withdrawing power over the money deposited with the bank ,please is only you whom i have introduce as the real foreign partner beneficiary of the money will have access and withdrawing power over the money once the money is transferred into your account and you receive it.

So try to help us get this money which is our inheritance wealth secure into your hands for investment with you.

You are just delaying this transfer and we hope on the money for our future investment and i want you to try to understand our present situation and the political problem in this country.

With this money once you help us transfer it to your account we shall come over to your country for investment to safe our life and secure the money for us and do not let or allow anything that may lead us into loosing this money please for the sake of God help us.I need you to come up with your full mind and help us get this money transfer into your account for it to be secure under your care.

Thanks and God bless you as you help us in this transfer.

Hope to hear from you.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Rose,
For the Family.

N.B.Please i really thought by now that the money would have been transfer and you receive it into your account and inform us so that i can have rest of mind,Just reason whith me in this transfer issue.

Now we ask Rose for some proof:

Dear Mrs. Rose,

Thank you for your mail. I am very glad to you want to meet, this proves to me that you are sincere and that your most sad story about your late husband is true. However, I have not been able to convince my friend Louis yet. He won't let me help you with your travelexpenses before he sees some more facts.

So, please, could you in some way help me with that. I think that a Death Certificate or a Certificate of Deposit or something similar would do.

I finally got my VISA for Russia, and I will leave for Sct. Petersburg tomorrow. My flight schedule is as follows:

30SEP UNITED AIRLINES 916 0805AM DEP. SEA SEATTLE
0710AM+ ARR. FRA FRANKFURT
01OCT LUFTHANSA 3216 0905AM DEP. FRA FRANKFURT
0145PM ARR. LED ST PETERSBURG

I hope to hear from you soon, ...

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: September 30, 2004
Subject: URGENT MAIL FROM RSOE.

Dear Miss Young.

Thank you for your mail reply.As you see from the first place i explain to you that this money is my inherited wealth and i want to trust into your hands for you to secure it and help me invest it with you in your country.

I see no reason to lie to you because i want your help or what,is "unfair" This is my family history which i have share with you just in other to seek for your help and assistance.I have no bad mind what i need is your help unless if you are planing anything bad to me.

I am a very sincere woman as my picture will shows you and i matain my word because my word is my bond.

For this reason now i want you to be yourself and not your friend and come up with your full mind to help me gets this money which is my inheritance transfer and secure into your hands for our future.

This death Certificate of my late husband which you are demanding from me,I can ask you what concerns a death body with business of the living one,since we know that the death can not see.Please this your mail really touches me alots and the feelings you remind me the sudden death of my lovely husband and i have been trying not to put it in my mind because of what i am passing through in this our present situation now. Well Only God knows everything but for your information i did not come with the Certificate of death of my husband because it has nothing to do with this transfer,and my husband can not be alife and i lie to you that he is death and had it been that my husband is still alife,he would have handle the transfer of this money by himself. This is what you have to understand.

I really wants you to go ahead to help me transfer this money into your hands and secure it for me and help to invest it with you in your country that is all i need from you and nothing more.Just reason with me in this matter.

I really wants to come and meet with you face to face if you can take care for my travelling expences.

But for the Deposit Certificate of this money deposited with the bank,this Certificate is what i have use to confirm about the depsoit at the bank and is at the bank after my confirmation of the money and for the transfer of the money to you when i went to submit and introduce you to the bank as the real foreign partner beneficiary of the money.

Before the bank progress torwards transferring of the money to your account.Please how far have you gon with the bank regards to the transfer because i don't want anything that will leads me to loose this money and this is what i am afraid of.

If you need the Certificate of deposit of the money, i will get it from the bank and send it to you, because i use it to confirm about the deposited money at the bank and leave it at the bank after my confirmation of the money. I thought that is the bank will send it to you as the documents to cover up the transfer of the money into your account once the money is transfer and you receive it into your account.

I hope and count on you for the transfer of this money.

Thanks and safe jouney on your trip to Sct. Petersburg i was hoping that we shall meet at the hotel you promised to meet me but all the same i am still hoping to meet you face to face soon,either after the money is transfer to your account and you receive it or any other place of your choice.

Thanks and May God bless you as you help me and lead you to your jouney as well.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Rose Williams,
For the Family.

4 days later I answer, and tells her about my ordeal in Sct.Petersburg:

Dear Mrs. Rose,

Sorry for the late answer, but I have just been through the worst week-end in my life. As you know, I was going to Sct. Petersburg, and everything went according to plan until I landed there. I had been chatting with a nice fellow on the plane, and had promised to carry one of his bags through the customs because he was handicappet and we were going to the same hotel. That was a BIG mistake, because I was stopped in the customs, and it turned out that his bag contained drugs. And the man, whose name I didn't have, was nowhere to find. To make a long story short, I was arrested, and was first released when I managed to get in touch with the American Embassy this morning.

Regarding the Certificate of Deposit, I would like you to send me a copy, as Louis insists on this, and wont let me pay the BIAO-bank their fee before he has seen the Certificate.

Please help me on this one, so that we can get our business back on the tracks again.

God bless you, ...

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 4, 2004
Subject: URGENT MAIL FROM RSOE.

My Dearest Miss Young.

Thank you for your mail reply to me,I am happy that you jonoured to your distnation successfully, no matter what you came across. Thank God for delivering you from the problem you fail into.

Regards to this transfer of the money to your account and about the deposit you demanded,You know i use the deposit to confirm the money at the bank and hand it over to the Baord of Director of teh bank before they agree for the transfer of the money to your account,and now you said you want the Certificate and i have apply for the certificate and Director said that it will be release to me today,I have called his office this morning and he said i should come for it,Meanwhile after sending you this mail,I will hurry to the bank now for the Certificate and once it is release to me i will forward it to you today so that we can proceed on the transfer to see if the bank will make it possible to transfer the money to your account this week so that you will receive the money into your account and inform me for me to have rest of mind.

And i even still need to meet you face to face because of the delay we have ecounter in this transfer.

Please make it possible to come down here to Africa so that We can meet in GHANA it will only take us 2-3 days for us to complete this transfer and go back with you.

It will be less expense for us to meet in Ghana than in Europe so that you can arrange for my trip and i will travel there to make a hotel reservation for you and for this transaction.in a couple of three days we shall have this transfer settle.

For the money to be in your account.

I will try to send the Certificate which my late husband use to deposit the money at the bank here today as soon as it is release to me.

Thanks and God Bless you.

Please are you back to US or are you still in Sct. Petersburg kindly explain to me because you really matters a lot in my life and because of this transfer.

And i don't want anything to will cause me to loose this money after i had lost my lovely husband.Please bear with me and help me transfer this money to your account, so that we can face out future with the investment we shall invest the money on.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Rose Williams,
For the Family.

Later on the same day:

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 4, 2004
Subject: Here is the Deposit Certificate of the money.

Dear Miss Young.

As i contacted the bank and the director inform me to come for the collection of the Deposit Certificate of the money.

It has been release to me and i have attach it bellow this mail/Letter for you you to view it and then contact the bank for the transfer and please you should try to understand our present condition down here now as we are not living comfortabely and i need your urgen thelp to transfer this money to your account for me to have rest of mind.

As soon as you receive the deposit C.of this money do contact the bank and inform me for the transfer.

Thanks.

God Bless you.

I will be going to sleep now because i waited too long at the bank in other to collect this certificate as i was assured to release to me today.

Please kindly take care to make sure this money is transfer to you,because i don't want to loose this money after i have lost my lovely husband.

Thanks and God Bless you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Rose Williams.
For the Family.

Now it is time to confront Rose with the fact that Bapou does not work in the real BIAO bank:

Dear Mrs. Rose,

thank you so much for the copy of the "Certificate of deposit". It helped me a lot in convincing Louis in continuing with our little business. If I were you, I would hold on to this Certificate, as it is your only proof of your claim on the $18m.

I havent heard from Mr Bapou for some time now, so I had Louis phone the BIAO bank. The person he talked to didnt know mr Bapou. Is he still working in the bank?

Will you contact the bank to let them make the remaining paperwork, or should I call them?

God bless you, ...

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 6, 2004
Subject: Please call the bank for the transfer.

Dear Miss Young.

Please i have contacted DR.J.C.BAPOU in his Office this morning and he said that nobody called him for the transfer of the money.

So please for your information he said you should call his office line at:+22507953393 for any information about this transfer please so that there will be no mis transferring of the money into a wrong hand.

He also told me that the bank sent you an instruction for the transfer, which the bank has been waiting for you to comply with the required fee to do the paper work and transfer the money to you.

So he made it clear to me that this is the reason why the money is not yet transfer and i told him that you travel so please do not delay this transfer any more try to finalize with the bank for the bank to transfer the money to your account.

Moreover please you don't know what i pass through before i get into DR.J.C BAPOU'S Office please try to make this transfer easy for the bank to transfer this money so that i will stop transporting myself going to the bank always.

DR.J.C BAPOU'S said you should call him in his office and send the fee to enable them work for the paper of the transfer of the money to you.

His has been bussy with other work in his office and is you whom i introduced to the bank and they now knows you as the foreign partner beneficiary of the money should should be in contact always disturbing the bank for the transfer so that our transfer will not be delay again.

Try to understand my point and reason with me.Because i count on you for this transfer.

Try everything possible to call the bank today because DR.J.C BAPOU'S will be waiting for your call.DR.J.C BAPOU'S is the Officer incharge for handling this transfer for us and is incharge for english section department of the bank,everything regards to the transfer of our money is in his hand,so try to get intouch with him for any discussion please to avoid mis transfer of this money because the mony is my inheritance and as well my future hope.

And moreover you have the bank email address and fax number too.

I hope for your reply after you have called the bank for the transfer.

God Bless you as you help in this transfer.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Rose Williams,
For the Family.

Let us tell Rose that we have called the real bank:

Dear Mrs. Rose,

I followed your advice and called the bank, tel 225-20200720, and I was rather confused. They did not know mr Bapou. Are we talking about the same bank, or what is the problem ??

Yors truly, ...

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 6, 2004
Subject: Please contact the rightful person for the international transfer of the money to your account.

Dear Miss Young.

Thank you for your mail reply.

Please stop been confusing about this transfer,I gave you the number of the Director international Transfer department of the same bank engish section for you to call his direct office line and you where calling wrong person.

Don't you know that there are many branches of the bank in Abidjan This man is the rightful person who is incharge for the transfer of this money to your account and he has all our transfer file under his table waiting for your call and you where calling FRENCH DEPARTMENT.

You just keep this transfer waiting,And the French Department does not know about this money for the transfer so if you are insisting on calling the number they don't have the information about the money for the transfer and the french department can not help for this international transfer, since it is only the English department is handling this transfer for us.

Which person did you get from the FRENCH DEPARTMENT YOU CALLED?Please for your information i don't want this money which is my inheritance to be mis-transfer to wrong hand please!be informed of this.Please there is nothing like any problem in this transfer only that you are calling wrong department.

Thanks.

Mrs Rose Williams.

Let us have a final round of "why is bluffing who":

Dear Mrs. Williams,

I dont know why you get so upset because I call the Bank on the main telephonenumber. You havent been very coorperative, you wouldnt send me the death certificate, and it took a long time before you could find the Certificate of Deposit. Mr Bapou hasnt been very cooperative either. He seems only interested in getting me to send more money. Therefore I had Louis try to verify your story.

I dont understand much of what is going on, but Louis says that the nice people in the bank call it 419-fraud. I dont know what that means, but they tell that there is no english section operating with a mobile phone from a mail.com-email address.

Anyway, I told Louis that I trusted you and Mr Bapou, and there had to be some explanation. So we have given the bank all the information they required: The names of Mr Bapou, Mr Ubugu, Mr Edward, addresses, account numbers, telephone numbers, email addresses. They also got the IP addresses so that the emails could be traced. (I havent told anything about you!) They were very happy for this information, and they would tell me when they had found out what is going on.

I will inform you as soon as they return to me.

Bye for now, ...

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 7, 2004
Subject: Please

Dear Miss Young.
Thank you for your mail.

Well i have read your mail and will be waiting for more information from you base on any news you get from the bank regards to this transfer. I myself don't want anything that may lead me to loose this money after i had lost my husband. Mr.Bapou realy want to help us transfer this money,but only with the instruction that is giving for the transfer.

So if you are not capable to handle this transfer kindly inform me so that i can lok for a trust worthy person who can help me in this transfer and for this reason you will send me a power of Atorney which i will use to have the right to contact another person.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Rose,

And 4 days later:

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 11, 2004
Subject: Very Urgently reply needed for this issue please!

Dear Miss Young.

How are you today?Hope you are fine over there in your country.

I felt so disappointed on you, when you fail to follow my word of advise in other to have this money transfer out from the bank directly to your account as provided.

Any way mean while i have find out now that you are too small to handle this kind of deal for me because of your age but due to your travel expose i trusted you but you do later betrayed the trust i have on you.

To be hoest with you you did not understand the deal of this transfer because the ORDER of the transfer of this money was from above the Directors which you felt you called even not every office in the bank knows about the transfer of this money and that is why I ask you to contact directly the Director insharge for the transfer of this money to your account but you fail it so for that reason i have made up my mind not to conclude this deal with you,So please kindly send me POWER OF ATTORNEY which i will use to find another trusth worthy person who can help me with this and if there is anything after i must have do everything to see that this my inherited money is transfer,I will compasate you you very well.

Even don't you know in every deal not everybody will be involve even in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HOUSE OF ASSEBLY or IN WHITE HOUSE not every worker there knows what is going on but few.

So do not wait for the time to get back to you before you send me the Authorization Letter which i will use to have the power to contact another person who can help me do the paper work on his name for the transfer of this money to his account so that i and my son will have rest of mind.

But for your information the bank can never trace anything in this transfer as long as the money is concerned and all the Documents for the transfer of this money to your account is secure with DR.J.C BAPOU and he can not go contrary to the laws abiding this transfer.

Moreover whom did you spoke with at the bank,

Is it DR.PHILIP.
DR.EOOSTREECH.
DR.KOFFI.
OR DR.DEMANDE.Which person did you contacted and try to make me loose this my inheritance.

Don't you know that i can affored to loose the you as the foreign partner beneficiary of the money that to loose the entire money.

Please do not waste my to wait until the bank get back to you because they will not find anything to feed you back and also mind that time waits for nobody i will only advise and instruct you to try to settle this with the rightful person DR.J.C BAPOU direct on his Registered line for this transfer.

Thanks and hope for your very urgently reply regards to this issue for me to take my action.Because i feel that you don't trust me with DR.BAPOU for this transfer.

Rose.

This was the last mail from Rose. She was very inventive, but not convincing.

Mr. Bapou is a very active scammer. Here are some sites, where he is mentioned:
http://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+bapou

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: February 21, 2005
Subject: Urgent from Rose for investment with you base on the transfer of the money to your account.

Dear Jacques Jeune,

Thanks for your mail.

Please my concern is for you to help me transfer the total amount of $18,000.000.00USD to your account where it will be secure for the joint investment with you before moving to Florida because i will like to be together with you over there in Florida for the investment.

After the transfer of the money into your account we shall move to Florida.

I am intersted to do business investment with you if you can only help me transfer the money over to your private account.

Thanks and hope to hear from you very urgently.

Yours Best Regards,
Mrs Rose Williams.

We have to put an end to this, but first let me put her to work:

Could you tell me some more about the $18m you want to transfer? ...

Now I ask Yahoo to close her email account.

From: Rose Williams <rose_w01@yahoo.com>
Sent: February 21, 2005
Subject: Urgent Mail from Rose for the transfer of the money over to your account in your Country.

Dear Jacques Jeune,

Thanks for your mail reply. Please this $18.to be transfer was acrued by my late husband "MR. WILLIAMS JOHNSON" in my country and deposited over to FIXED SUSPENCE account with BIAO BANK Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire.

He inform me that the money was for investment abroad after war in my country,But unfortinately he was killed by an unknow rebel group in my country,Now i have come with my only son to claim the money at the bank right now.

The bank Director told me that i have know withdrawing power over the money due to the nature of the amount deposited under the custody of the bank for it's safety.

That is why i have contacted you to seek for your kind assistance and help to transfer out the total amount over to your account in your country,so that We shall come over to invest the money with you into any good and profitable investment which will benefit both of us both now and in future.

So the bank Director told me that the money has security on it which was sign and agreed for the safety of the money until the onward transfer of the money over to the Foreign beneficiary,which i have contacted you to stand on my behalf to enable the bank transfer the money to your account and for you to receive the money without any difficulties on the transfer.

Now the bank requested the personal information of the foreign beneficiary to enable them effect the transfer to the beneficiary.

Now you are to send the following information for the transfer.:

banking details such as:
Your bank name,
Address of your bank,
Account name,
Your bank account N
where this money will be transfered to, along with your direct Telephone and Fax number so that I will go to the bank to submit it with a transfer written application on your name as the foreign beneficiary of the deposited money.

The the bank will contact you for the transfer and After the transfer of the money to your account by the bank here, I and my son David will take our leave to join you over to your country to re-settle and for Joint investment on the money in a profitable business.You would please help me to locate a very good profitable business that I will venture with this money upon our arrival to your country.

May God bless you and preserve our friendship in good faith.

Remain blessed and hope to hear from you soon.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Rose Williams.

From: Yahoo! Mail <mail-abuse@yahoo-inc.com>
Sent: February 22, 2005
Subject: Re: 419 fraud: rose_w01@yahoo.com (KMM17840340V49898L0KM)

Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail. In this particular case, we have taken appropriate action against the Yahoo! account in question that was reported for fraudulent activities, as per our Terms of Service (TOS) ...

On March 18, 2006, I receive a letter from another(?) Rose Williams.:

Stories about Zimbabwean farmers are quite common. See the Rose Jones story and the Jerry Martins story.