Sarah Leonald says: "please pray for me to come back alive"

To: missyoung

Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006

Subject: FW: Thanks and God bless you

Dear Nick,

 

Thank you for your kind respond to my call for help.

It is good that I heard from you today. Due to my present condition of health is likely that I will be going for an intensive medical care in Mali as the doctors advice but before then, I will like to entrust the fund and everything concerning this transaction unto your care before I leave.

 

First, I want to seek your consent and to be sure that you will ernestly carry out this transaction .If all things being equal as I believed I will issue a power of attorney to the bank in your favour as the trustee / guardian. Once the power of attorney is issued to the bank, I will forward you the account details and the bank contact details so that you can procced on with the bank till the money arrives into your bank account.

 

In the meantime, I will like you to let me know your intension as soon as possible and also send me your personal details, like your full name, contact address, telephone and fax number which I will submit to the bank with the power of attorney before I leave. In my next email I will send you also some directives, details / terms in which you will share the money once it comes into your bank account. If this is agreed between us we shall put everything in a written agreement for future references between they parties involved.

 

Please send me the information as soon as you got this mail so that we can accelerate the transfer process.

 

Remain blessed in the Lord and have a wonderful day.

Mrs.Sarah

My Dear Nick,

 

I received your details, we are making arrangement to find some money which we will pay to a lawyer to prepare the power of attorney and the agrement. I will let you know once everything is in place probably by tomorrow.

Remainblessed.

 

Mrs.Sarah

Dear Mr.Nick,

 

How are you doing today? 

I have all confidence, trust and believe that you will never let me down or betray my trust, in this regards, I am entrusting the entire transaction unto your custody by issuing a POWER OF ATTORNEY in your favour as the trustee to the fund. 

 

As I informed you previously in my mails that I will be travelling to Mali for medical care/cancer operation, please pray for me to come back alive and I will be very happy to hear about the progress of this transaction while there.

 

Today been saturday we got the power of attorney late when the bank is already closed  so on Monday morning my son will go to the bank to submit the POWER OF ATTORNEY to the person incharge with an attached letter from me introducing / presentating you as his guardian as already stated on the power of attorney. When he will be through with the bank he will send to you the contact details of the bank and the account deposit information so that you can contact the bank directly and send them your bank account where you will recieve the fund and also discuss with them regarding the transfer proceedures.

 

Please let me know about your ideas towards this mail.

 

I await for your response.

 

Remain blessed in the Lord.

 

Mrs. Sarah Leonald

Good morning Mr.Nick.

I gave the new address to the lawyer who made the document and he corrected it on the document .i have taken the document to the bank this morning with a letter which my mummy gave me to give to the bank manager. you will get intouch with the bank today for the transfer.i will give the address below:

 

Account info.

Ac number:0451173290

depositor:James Leonald

amount: 12.000.000 usd

 

Bank info.

Banque Internationale De l'Afrique De l'Ouest(BIAO CI)

Av, 8-10 Joseph Anoma, Cocody.

Tel/Fax:00225 224 73882.

Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.
Contact person: Jaques Yao

email: biao.ab.civ@mail.com

 

my mother travel for operation in mali.please always let me know.

 

yours

 

David leonald

Dear brother Nick.

You know what you have discussed with my mummy concerning where you will put the fund. besides, you know the safe and better

place to invest the money. my mummy told me you are very experinced and mature to handle the money.i am only a secondary

school student and i don't know anything concerning this type of business.

please contact the bank on the address i sent you in the morning and give them the wiring instruction, the bank have already

known you as my guardian through the document and the letter i submitted in their office this morning.i send you again the

bank contact and my account information.

 

Account info.
Ac number:0451173290
depositor:James Leonald
amount: 12.000.000 usd
 
Bank info.
Banque Internationale De l'Afrique De l'Ouest(BIAO CI)
Av, 8-10 Joseph Anoma, Cocody.
Tel/Fax:00225 224 73882.
Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.
Contact person: Jaques Yao
email: biao.ab.civ@mail.com
 

contact the bank and tell me.

David

Dear Mr. Nick

I understand you want to fax me some document but I did not request you to send me any document or do you want me to relay some documents to your bank? Here is my fax number:+225 2249 1867.

I need a copy of your drivers licence or international passport (identification) to declare the judicial approval on your behalf at the ministry of Justice. 

Yours in sevice

Khalid Idris

Dear Mr. Nick

I recieved your mail which comprises 1,2,3 copies of power of attorney declaration, remittance form and 1 copy of your driver's license.

PLEASE NOTE:

The power of attorney otherwise known as AFFIDAVIT was declared by the family of Leonald issued to the BIAO BANK as an authorisation to transfer the fund from the depositor's account to your designated account as the new appointed beneficiary otherwise known as their TRUSTEE.

Here I advice you as being in this profession for 25 years now. As a financial associate / lawyer I prove to you here, that it is mandatory that we declare a JUDICIAL APPROVAL which must be endorsed by the MINISTRY OF JUSTICE COTE D'IVOIRE. This approval has nothing to do with the power of attorney which you sent here. The power of attorney is a legal approval from the Leonald's family as a legal agreement to the parties involved binding; the BIAO BANK, MR.Nick, MRS. SARAH MARIAM LEONALD and MR.DAVID LEONALD.

The JUDICIAL APPROVAL is an authority from the MINISTRY OF JUSTICE to the all concerned ministries comprising; the MINISTRY OF FINANCE, ECOWAS MONEY LAUDERING / MONITORING BUREAU & BIAO BANK to, transfer out the afforsaid fund to the UNITED STATES. (As) Certified proof that the fund is legal & genuine, that the government is aware of such transfer. Hence, the JUDICIAL APPROVAL DECLARATION is a mandatory for the successful remittance of the fund into your designated bank account / other transfer prevailings.

I therefore, put below the cost of all the necessary document/obligations:

Application/ Registeration fee:      $260
Judicial approval declaration fee: $3,250
Stamp duty fee: $115
T.V.A (0.01%):$1,200

Total fees in US Dollar Equivalent: US$4,825

Your transfer was earlier scheduled for Friday 19th May, but whereby I did not heard from you regarding these obligations, I quickly rushed to the bank to extend the transfer date otherwise you will be charges for the merginal differences. Try to send the money to me as soon as possible so that I can tidy up all the processes before the transferring date as was shifted to Wednesday next week. Due to the short space of time, I advice that you send the money to me through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, directly with my name:

Mr.Khalid Idris
01 BP 1232 Abidjan 01 Cote d'Ivoire
Tel/Fax:+225 2249 1867 

Cell: (00225) 08257430 

 

After you send it, you give the transfer control number on any of these email addresses for collection. khalididrisassociates@yahoo.fr   OR  cabinetavocatci@hotmail.fr.

I anticipate your earlier response.

Yours in service

Khalid Idris

Good day brother Nick,

 

I meet Rev. Jacques Yao at the bank this morning to beg him to send the 4800 to the lawyer, but the said that the bank can not do anything concerning the 4800, they will only remit the 12.000.000.00 to your bank account when they receive the authorization of judiciary approval from mistre de la justice cote d'ivoire. Now my mother is very sick in the hospital in Mali (another country in africa) and she can not do anything concerning this transaction now. please contact the lawyer again to beg him to support with part of the money and you will try also on your part to send him some part of it so that he will help us to get the document and the bank will transfer the money. Please you need to do this very fast so that the bank can transfer the money and you will send down some money here for my mother's treatment. Please treat this like your personal issue.We only depended on you and God.

 

God bless you

Your son David

Nick wrote:

They can withhold the funds with a demand for payment once the wire is received

Dear brother Nick,

Please on behalf of my sick mother and for her sake, i am pleading with you to contact the lawyer and reach a compromise with him, to make the paperwork so that the bank can transfer the money and we will save the life of my mother. I called him this afternoon and he told me that he is not the one that will make use the money rather, the 4800 will be used to make all the paperwork at the ministry of justice. Please for my mother's sake, I beg you to contact the lawyer now and tell him how much you can send to him at this moment then when the money is wired to your account, you will send his remaining balance. i hope this will work this way.

 

God help us

David

Dear Mr. Nick,

Thanks for your understanding.

For fast and easier collection, I will advice you to send the money through western union or moneygram. Send it in my name via the information below:

Dr.Khalid Idris
Bureau de Metre, 11 Rue Latrille Plateau
01 Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Phone: (+225) 08257430

Please forward the transfer information on the above email address.

Yours in service,

Dr.Khalid Idris

Dear Mr. Nick

This to highlight you on the position of the transaction today.

I have obtained all the legal approval / documents from the high court/ ministry of justice and all the appropriate authorities here in Cote dIvoire. I have also obtained the Drug / Money Laundering clearance from the Ecowas Monetary Inspection. I will submit these documents at the bank tomorrow morning but before then, I need to have a satisfactory result from the Ministry of Finance concerning the release / transfer order which I already applied for. This is not yet clarified because we need to pay 2% of the total fund before the Ministry of Finance will grant the transfer order as the country new policy stands. But I am still negociating with the officer in charge regarding this matter.

 

We have a meeting again this evening. I will call you after the meeting.

Find the attached, your reference copies of the documents.

 

Have a nice day.

 

Yours in service

 

Dr.Khalid Idris

Dear Mr.Nick,

 

In regards to our telephone conversation now, I can not give a definate answer or conclusion until I meet again with the person incharge at the Ministry of Finance tomorrow.

 

The fixed price for the release order is normally 0.2% of any amount. 

.02% of the fund in question (12Million) should be approximately $24,000.00 but I am trying to tender my PERFORMANCE BOND to the ministry tomorrow if they accept it then, there will be no hinderance to the transfer tomorrow, so when the transaction is completed I will have my money back.

 

Secondary my Insurance guranttee is only to the tune of $20,000.00 equivalent. If ever the man will accept the performance bond then I will let you know after our appointment in the morning so that you can send the difference of $4,000 but if they insisted on a phisical cash then I am afraid. Though the man used to be an old friend of mine, I will try to persuade him, I hope there will be a positive response from him. I will keep you posted tomorrow.

 

I want to make sure that the transfer is enhanced successfully, so count on me for an excellent service. Other approvals are in place.

 

Have a nice day

 

Yours in service

Dr.Khalid

Dear brother Nick,

Good day sir.

right now my mother condition is very bad, she had stroke before now she couldn't stand up again from the bed.The doctors said that we should find a way a carry her to a special hospital in pakistan.

idon't know why they send you this email from bank. please contact the lawyer and let him go and settle this with the bank.but you have to tell them at bank that you are my fathers business partner and you are my guardian.

2. I will go and search my father death certificate in the house at Abidjan tomorrow, if i get it i will send it to you and you will send to the bank. i don't know about the number 3 and number 4 )

5.if you can be able to travel down to cote d'ivoire to answer the call at the bank, i think it will be better that way. but if you cannot come, try to contact the lawyer let him go to the bank and know what this is all about.

May God bless you and your family. I hope to join you soon in america.

 

David

Dear brother Nick,

thank you so much and may God bless you for your effort to transfer the money to your account. i don't know what to say about this 4000$ they want, i can no longer consentrate because my mother is dying gradually now she cannot get up or even notice who is by her side, she is under respiratory tube. i cannot talk to her or ask her anything about this money. but from my own idea i will say, if this 4000$ is the only amount they will take to complete the transfer, please if you can afford it, i will beg you to give it to them for them to transfer the money so that you can help save the life of my mother by sending some money from the money the bank transfered, so that we can carry her to pakistan for the major operation before she dies here. and all the expenses you make in this transfer you will take them out from the money when the money comes in your bank account. as i am typing this mail, i am crying because of the pain that my mother is passing through. she had cancer and they operated it but i think they did not do it very well, now she is breading and dying in pain she could no longer cry again, it also affect half part of her body and the doctors said is stroke. i don't know why all this things is happening to her since my father died.

 

please if you can give them the 4000 to make them transfer the money and after the transfer i pray that she will be alive so that we can carry her to pakistan as the doctor said.i cannot concentrate to write,please try to understand my mail.

 

God bless you. i hope to join you soon.

David

Dear Sir,

 

Attached is a copy of your transfer comfirmation slip which I just received from the bank.  Good that all worked out well.

 

Yours in service,

 

Dr. Khalid Idris

Dear Sir,

 

Please be intouch with me when your money is confirmed today.

 

Yours in service

Khalid Idris

Nick wrote :

Dear Sir,

 

Call or email the Swiss Trust Canada right away and ask them to give you 1 or 2 days to come up with their requirement. This certificate they are talking about is never a common certificate that can just be obtained from the Ministry of Finance. This is a very sensitive issue, we have to pass through different offices in the Ministry of Finance before the certificate will be finally signed by the Minister of Finance and Economy it is not an easy process. Already I have find out the cost which is $26,300 USD, but I have to take my time to think on how to go about it so that further questions and investigations might not come up. I will call you this evening to give you a definate answer.

 

Thanks and have a nice day.

 

Dr.Khalid Idris

Dear Sir,

 

The Swiss trust Canada may not be aware that you have a representative here in Cote d'Ivoire so they are only coordinating with the BIAO bank to get the cost of the certificate here in Cote d'Ivoire and send them with the account information of the Ministry of Finance which they will relay to you for the payment. But all the same, as soon as you make the payment to them you let me know immediately so that I can follow the matter up at the same time in order to avoid any delay. Like I said, this is a very sensitive issue and it is not common so we still have to tip some offices so that further investigations, requirements or payment will not come up again. Normally, the certificate can be processed within 48hours so when they receive their payment it will take them about maximum of 3 days to have it done and issued to the Swiss Trust Canada. For your advise, please treat this matter very fast.

 

Yours in service.

 

Khalid Idris Esq.

To: Khalid Idris <KHALIDIDRISASSOCIATES@YAHOO.FR>

Sir,

 

The bank in Spain is the Ministry of Finance Offshore account. You have to negotiate the payment with the Swiss Trust to see what will be possible. But you don't have to send them what you just sent to me that you will not advance any funds. This is a wrong approach. I think I have done my very best to negociate the cost of the certificate and also give you the best of my advise.

 

Have a nice day.

 

Khalid 

From: Khalid Idris [mailto:khalididrisassociates@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006
To: Nick
Subject: RE : Re: RE : Re: RE : Certificate Issue

This is not a matter of you don't have the $26000 to send them. We are talking about your $12,000,000.00 USD beign held somewhere and your telling me you don't have the money, you must do something very fast. I would like you to go to Canada yourself though you still have to present the Certificate there. Anyway let me know how much you can afford and let me think about it.

 

Have a nice time

 

Khalid

Nick wrote  :

Dear Mr.Nick,

I was at the Ministry of Finance throughout today making some arrangement to see if they can issue the certificate and get double the amount, but they refused the offer and never want that mentioned. I tried also to talk with a mortgage company but they needed a collateral, I tendered my car but they disqualified it. I am at the end of the road now can't you talk to your bank to give you some loan? or you get somebody who can help with the money from there.

 

Let us hope that things work out this way.

 

Khalid

Dear sir,

I am doing my very best to get the certificate as soon as possible.
To expedite the process, I have to split the sum of $1,600 to the INNER CAUCUS MEMBERS of the appropriate Ministries to get the certificate without upfronting the $26,300. From all indications it seemed that the process will take some time. But I will put in my best effort to get this matter solved as soon as possible.

 

Let me know your previous communication with the people in Canada, I want to base on that to advise you on what to tell them so that we can have all our time to procure and present all their requirement otherwise let the bank call the money back to Africa when we are ready with every requirement they will get the fund wired to your bank account directly. Meanwhile, let me go through your mails with them first (Canadian) and I will write you what you should send to them.  I await your respond.

Yours in service

Dr.Khalid Idris

Dear Sir,

 

Here are my legal observations:

 

1.The Swiss Trust Toronto Canada are entitled to refuse to transfer the funds to your bank account in the United States if the appropriate documents are not forthcoming. 

 

2.What they cannot do is to confiscate and keep those funds as, it does not belong to them and they cannot keep it.

 

3.No criminal offence has been committed either or recorded in relation to those funds.

 

4.There is absolutely no basis whatsoever for any court to authorise the confiscation of the funds. As an attorney & financial consultant I knew this and you know it.

 

5. If the firm in Canada refused the transfer to USA then, the fund must return to Cote d'Ivoire, from whence it came.

 

I understand that, the Cote d'Ivoire authorities are completely satisfied that this is your client's legitimate inheritance.  Once it has been returned to your client's bank, you may instruct the bank to establish a domicilliary account from where it can be wired in installments to your designated bank account. This will avoid the requirement for further documents and by so doing you cannot lose the money.

 

Therefore, you must let them know that you will not send any funds to anybody for the document. Let me know what their response is.

 

Have a nice day

 

Yours in service

 

Dr.Khalid Idris

Nick wrote :

Sir,

 

This is very simple, you can instruct the Banque International De l'Afrique (BIAO) Cote d'Ivoire to set up a new Domicilliary / Non resident account for you from where the fund can be wired to your account by installmentally.

 

Thanks,

Khalid

Laura wrote  :

Dear Sir,

 

Like I said before, they can refuse the trasfer if we doesn't come up with the document / $26,300 but they doesn't have any right to keep the fund or confiscate it. Government also cannot come in hence no criminal record has been found / reported against the funds.

 

They should be allowed to cancel the transfer as we cannot come up with the $26,300 / the certificate at this time. After their deadline we can ask the BIAO bank in Cote d'Ivoire to establish a non resident account in your favour through which the fund can be wired installmentally to your bank account.

 

Meanwhile, I am still doing my best to procure the certificate without upfronting the $26,300 but I am not seing the possibility that this will work irrespective of the fact that I have shared $1,600 in order to get this done. Rather they are only giving me a little discount out of the $26,300.00 so our best option is to wait after their deadline.

 

Thanks

 

Khalid

Sir,

I just spoke with Jacques Yao, he explained that the $6.000 is 0.050% value of $12Million while the $120.00 is 2% TVA on the 6.000, making up the total ($6.120.00) He made it clear that this charges is going to the BCAO (BANQUE CENTRAL) account not for the BIAO Bank. He said that they will wait for further instruction from the BCAO before they will establish the non resident account for you.  Nothing more is needed, on the receipt of the 6,120 at the Central Bank they will give instruction to the bank, then the bank will carry on with other formalities as requested by you. There is nothing anyone can do about this. As for the $1,000 for the reactivation of the account, the bank can deduct that from your funds after setting up the account.

 

I will advise you to make arrange the $6,120 and send it to them. Tell Jacques Yao to send you the information where you can send them the money.

 

Furthermore, I will advise you to stop further communication with this people in canada.

 

Have a wonderful day.

 

Khalid

Dear Sir,

 

As per your request:

 

1. Hence the transfer has been cancelled the fund is definately held back here in Africa.

2. The only money you have to send here is the $6,120 there is no other additional expenses / payment.

3. Once the Ministry of Finance confirmed the receipt of the $6,120 they will signal the BIAO BANK to proceed with the formalities.

4. The bank will set up the account on thesame they they got the signal and you will have access or withdraw money from the account on the sameday.

5. Once you made the payment to the Ministry of Finance, you will made it known to the bank without any delay so that they will reconfirm from the Ministry of finance then, set up the account and give you all the account key/information so that you can access your account. 

6. Paying the Marginal difference is a usual/normal process hence the fund is still under the Cote d'Ivoire government minitoring and routine. You should also be grateful that the fund was recovered earlier.

 

You have to ask the bank for the information where you will send the money. On the contrary, you can send it to me so that I can relay the money to them, to insure that they get it instantly and I will therefore follow them up at thesame time so that all proceeds will will be completed on thesame time.

 

Count on me with trust and confidence.

 

Khalid

Nick wrote :

Dear Sir,

Tell the Police or whosoever that is contacting you in this regards that, you have traced the company in Canada and found out that they are listed in the lists of fake and scam companies. And ever since then, you have with-held whatsoever transaction you had with them. Presently, you are not receiving any funds or sending out any money to anybody in regards to the fund and the entire transaction.

 

Now listen very carefully to what I have to tell you here:

 

1. You are fully aware that the money in question ($12Million) is a very big amount so everybody might be interested in it.

 

2. Once the transaction is mentioned to this people that is contacting you they must raise their eyes brow therefore, you must seize every communication with the fake company in Canada or any other person that is contacting you or might contact you again, so that nobody will not threaten you with police or whatsoever.

 

2. These people will try all their best to threaten you so that you will neither share the funds with them, or the government when it gets to your account or you share it with the police or the monetary organisations.

 

3. In the above regards, you have to completely deny ever having any further interest on the transaction. This is what you will always tell whosoever that is contacting you from Canada, America or wheresoever they might be contacting you again from.

 

You should always deny the fact that you are no longer having any transaction in regards to the funds, in order to divert their attention from the fund and the entire transaction.

 

Finally, try to send the charges at the Ministry of Finance Cote d'Ivoire Immediately so that the bank can set up the Non resident account in your name here and the fund will conveniently moved into the account while, you give the bank instructions on how to send it to you in a bit by bit( installment)

 

Be strong and confident.

 

Yours in service

Khalid Idris

Dear Mr Nick,

 

I called again to let you know that after my discussion with the YAO and the Ministry of Finance, nothing has changed, their position still remains the same.

 

Though, I am beginning to notice that sometimes you creat an avenue of difficulty while sometimes you sounds very comprehensive and compromising, but I want you to bear in mind that success can only be acheive by our co-operative effort not only your effort or my effort. When an answer is given to a demand the best is to wait patiently for the result not to creat an impression of threat. For instance, when you said you cannot send the $6,120 what impression are you creating? suspicious? untrue transaction?? Or are you being skeptical or something ? because did not see any ugly development in this transaction but you allowed yourself to be drained by fear irrespective of the fact that we all have invested our money and lots of energy. It is a pity that we are in this position today and our immense involvement has effected my respective clients as I have delayed there case.

 

Well, I think I have done my possible best to creat an avenue of future services and cordial relationship, and I have done my best to save all situation but it seems you willfully do not want to compromise rather, you keep on and repeatedly sending me here and there while i have given you their definite position , of which, I have virtually made you to understand the reason why the money is needed.

 

Now this is a decision you have to sincerely make for the interest of we all because it will be absolutely impossible for the ministry of finance to authorise the release of the fund to you and it will not do us any good if we stand to lose this transaction at this point simply because of fears of sending $6,120. Though the banking rules or policy here might not be the same as yours, but what I am assuring you here is that this transaction is legit and safe.

 

If you want us to actualise and realise this aim, you will find a way to send the fund to the Ministry of finance as directed, so that all our effort, energy and resources will not be a waste.. and be aware that the rapid completion of this project depends largely on you. Meanwhile, If you need a kind of proof of my profession like; identity or my internatiuonal passport copy do let me know, I think this can build more confidence.

 

Have a nice day

Dr.Khalid

Here is a copy of the letter I recived from the bank. I am calling the bank to get the account information.

 

Khalid

Nick wrote  :

I need the bank to fax the letter to me

Here is the direct information of the Federal Ministry of Finanace account controller:

 

 

Please treat accordingly and as soon as the Ministry of Finance confirmed the receipt of the fund, there will be no delay in concluding the transaction.

 

Yours in service

 

Dr.Khalid Idris

Dear Mr.Nick,

 

Yao confirmed to me that they've sent you the fax right?

I am representing a client at Republique of Togo, but I want to know our stand before booking my flight.

 

Khalid