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16 years ago
Two days ago I received this email:
From: juliet4love77[at]gmail.com
Subject: Hi, I am Juliet
Hi, I am Juliet!
please how are you! hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health.I went through your profile at (www.furaffinity.net) and i read it and took intersest in it,please if you don't mind i will like you to write me on this ID (julietsamuel99@yahoo.com) hope to hear from you soon,and I will be waiting for your mail because i have something VERY important to tell you. Lots of love Mis Juliet Samuel!
Smart, indeed. A bot, crawling through furaffinity profiles. Nobody would ever suspect about such an email with such a precise reference to my profile.
I did reply, thinking she was a fur whom I could have chatted with, and look at what I received today
Hello, My dearest Love
How are you this moment ,I hope this my mail will reach you in good condition of health,l am really happy for your reply, I will really like to have a good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here and I am Miss.Juliet Samuel 24years old girl from Liberia, the only daughter of Late President DR Samuel Doe who was killed by Prince Johnson and his rebels groups after many innocent soul were killed ,My father was killed by government of Prince
Johnson, he accuse my father of coup attempt.
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I, am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father.
Meanwhile I wanted to escape to the Europe but she hide away my international passport and other valuable traveling documents. Luckily she did not discover where I kept my Father's File which contains important documents. So I decided to run to the refugee camp where I am presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugee here in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. I wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship and investment assistance in your country.
My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$4,123, 000.00 in Finance Firm with my name as the next of kin. However, I shall forward you with the necessary information of the deposit on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer and investment of the fund in your country. As you will help me in an investment, and I will like to complete my studies, as I was in my school, when the crisis started.
It is my intention to compensate you with 5% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my investment capital. This is the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.
As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will put things into action immediately. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely.
I am staying at the female hostel. Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Please do keep this only to your self please I beg you not to disclose it till I come over , once the fund has been transferred. I hope my explanation is very clear but if you need further clarification, then send in your questions.Atterch Here Is My picture For You To Sea My Pics.Thanks and i will be waiting to hear from you soonest.
Yours Truly! Juliet Samuel with kiss
Moral of the story: beware, beware, beware
From: juliet4love77[at]gmail.com
Subject: Hi, I am Juliet
Hi, I am Juliet!
please how are you! hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health.I went through your profile at (www.furaffinity.net) and i read it and took intersest in it,please if you don't mind i will like you to write me on this ID (julietsamuel99@yahoo.com) hope to hear from you soon,and I will be waiting for your mail because i have something VERY important to tell you. Lots of love Mis Juliet Samuel!
Smart, indeed. A bot, crawling through furaffinity profiles. Nobody would ever suspect about such an email with such a precise reference to my profile.
I did reply, thinking she was a fur whom I could have chatted with, and look at what I received today
Hello, My dearest Love
How are you this moment ,I hope this my mail will reach you in good condition of health,l am really happy for your reply, I will really like to have a good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here and I am Miss.Juliet Samuel 24years old girl from Liberia, the only daughter of Late President DR Samuel Doe who was killed by Prince Johnson and his rebels groups after many innocent soul were killed ,My father was killed by government of Prince
Johnson, he accuse my father of coup attempt.
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I, am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father's treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father.
Meanwhile I wanted to escape to the Europe but she hide away my international passport and other valuable traveling documents. Luckily she did not discover where I kept my Father's File which contains important documents. So I decided to run to the refugee camp where I am presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugee here in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. I wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship and investment assistance in your country.
My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$4,123, 000.00 in Finance Firm with my name as the next of kin. However, I shall forward you with the necessary information of the deposit on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer and investment of the fund in your country. As you will help me in an investment, and I will like to complete my studies, as I was in my school, when the crisis started.
It is my intention to compensate you with 5% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my investment capital. This is the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.
As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will put things into action immediately. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely.
I am staying at the female hostel. Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Please do keep this only to your self please I beg you not to disclose it till I come over , once the fund has been transferred. I hope my explanation is very clear but if you need further clarification, then send in your questions.Atterch Here Is My picture For You To Sea My Pics.Thanks and i will be waiting to hear from you soonest.
Yours Truly! Juliet Samuel with kiss
Moral of the story: beware, beware, beware
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I am looking forward to hear again from you, please send me all the details, I won't let someone be treated like you are treated now.
Being European, I will make anything possible to let you come here.
Looking forward for your reply,
Emperorpenguin
Bwahahaha the hunt has begun...
Hi,My Dearest One !
I have really been touched by your message, Since when I sent my life history message to you, I have been wondering highly, what your reaction will be, Because we have never meet or known each other before,Anyway my dear love ,i have read your mail and understand what you said ok,but i want you to know that iam very very honest with youand I have choose you to assist me not by own doing,rather it is through the power of God.
I just believe after prayers that I will meet some one like you, Now by my mere trust I have found you,I am sure that you will not let me down, I wish you could help me out from this disgusting environment ,i will greatly treasure your help to me ,it is not a thing of joy living with my experience ,Having a happy home today and tomorrow ,a sad home and becoming a refugee ,i know the sadness it send through my spine writing to you about any thing that recalls the memories of my parents..l will be very glad if you should consider to help me please ,there is no other hope i have for a survival apart from this ,my step mother has taken possession of all my parents earned access without considering me ,
l want you to understand more about my situation here in the camp, I am e-mailing you from the office of the Rev.Father who is pastoring at the church in the refugee camp, I have explained to him a little about my life though not everything, i told the Rev.Father about my communication with you and he permitted me to access my e-mail in his office computer twice a day, here in the refugee camp, meanwhile life is just not easy since I don't have any body here to take care of me.
I don't have access to further my education, no access to clean water, no access to good food here in the refugee camp, life has not been easy for me. I'm only surviving through the aid of the Rev. Father who is pastoring at the church in the refugee camp.
Moreover, I went into serious discussion with the holding bank where this money is deposited into, for them to advise me on what to do in order to have access to my late father's fund, the legal department of the bank told me that in a situations like mine, that the best solution is by soliciting for assistance of a reliable foreigner who can assist me claim, receive the fund and invest it on my behalf as I wish.
I then decided to contact you, hoping that with your advanced knowledge we can be able to work together, so that if all things works out for us, we can go into life partnership if you wish because i am not yet married. Though it took me time to make up my mind to contact you and offered you this proposal of mine of which my whole life depends on.
I will furnish you with all the vital documents covering the deposited fund under the holding bank, only if you can promise me that you are not going to betray me or sit on my inheritance after it might have got into your account, please tell me more about yourself again in your next mail.
Please understand that there is no illegality involvement in this transaction, you are going to deal with the holding bank directly.I will send to you the contact of this bank where the Funds is deposited, for you to establish immediate contact with them for the transfer.
Finally, i am suggesting that if we can go into life partnership as time goes on which means that the proceedings from the investment in your country shall be shared equally between the both of us because i do not know much about international business and i am putting my entire inheritance of my late father to your care because i want you to be in total control of my funds as soon as the fund arrives your country.
Please i will like you to send to me your full data such as .
(1) your Home adress
(2) your full name
(3) your fax number
(4) your age
(5)your picture
on reply of this email will i forward to you all the contact of the Bank where this Money is deposited by my late father for you to make contact with them and ask them the possibility of releasing the money to your account, i am looking forward to read from you.and After the transaction we will work for my coming to your country within 1 or 2 weeks time. I will be expecting your reply I am waiting for your response soonest Love with care
Many Love and kisses!
Yours Miss Juliet Samuel !
I have sent her the information she needs. Of course they're all false, the fax number is a free web service and the picture is the first one I could find on the internet.
She sent me this email
Good Day My Dearest One!
How are you doing i hope you are feeling very well my dear you are my best friend, and best relation, i will be for you and for you alone, dear please try your best and help me out from my current situation , even to feed my self is a very big problem here and i am, but all them i thanks God that you have come for my aide, here is the bank details as i want you to contact the bank on my behalf for the transfer of my late father's money to your account which i am the next of kin,name of the depositor,Dr Samuel Doe , amount deposited; (US$4,123, 000.00 Million dollars) united state dollars. i will also appreciate if you can help me and send me some money though western union money transfer with this information here...........
Name..................Juliet Samuel
Country...............Senegal Dakar africa
Code...................00221
so that i can feed my self with the money while they are processing the transfer of the fund to your account pending my arrival to meet you and start a new life
There With You!, and here is the bank details.
.
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.
Address; St Andrew Square
Edinburgh SCO EH2 2YB P.
GLASGOW-SCOTLAND
Tel: (+447031835561
Fax:(+447031832863
Email ; royalbankscotland[at]royalbankscotland.eu
Email ; transferdepartment[at]royalbankscotland.eu
Emails, info.royalbank[at]royalbankscotland.eu
Contact person: Foreign operations & International
Remittance Dept. His name is Mr. Tim Novol
Information about my late father & the deposit code are as follows:
Name of depositor: Mr.Dr Samuel Doe ,
Beneficiary : Miss. Juliet Dr Samuel Doe ,
Amount Deposited: (US$4,123, 000.00 Million dollars)
Country of Deposit : SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
account number.;RBS0088XX5STD98
please contact the bank as soon as you read this mail also you can call me with rev father pascal number 00221 766 892 301 just ask of Miss Juliet samuel in camp 2c in other for you to speak with me . Awaiting to hear from you soonest
Miss Juliet samuel with kiss
Which I replied with
I am willing to help you my dearest
You asked me
"if you can help me and send me some money though western union money transfer with this information here...........
[omissis]
so that i can feed my self with the money while they are processing the transfer of the fund to your account pending my arrival to meet you and start a new life"
If I only could I'd run out immediately and transfer your money, but over here money transfer agencies don't open until tomorrow afternoon. So I please ask you to resist for other 18 hours, and the money will be there.
I wonder though how are you going to transfer the money to my bank account without knowing my IBAN
Yours,
Antonio Russo
Corso Bagni 1, Acqui Terme
(name surname address purely fictional!)
The Royal Bank of Scotland's web site is rbs.co.uk, not royalbankscotland.eu. They also don't give out email addresses on their web site, just phone numbers.
Samuel Doe died in 1990, so it's weird that she'd be having these problems now. He was also apparently a pretty ruthless guy. He was a Master Sergeant and only had a high school education when he took over Liberia. So, it seems weird that she keeps calling him Mr. Dr. Doe, but I guess a lot of dictators have called themselves doctors.
It's weird that her last name is Samuel. According to this ( http://tinyurl.com/nomhcy ), which is probably also by a scammer, Samuel Doe's daughter's name is Sussan Doe. According to an obituary from the New York Times after Doe's death, he and his wife had four children.
The number she gave you to contact her in Senegal at least has a Senegalese country code.
I am going to call tomorrow that number from a phone cabin (not traceable) and see what they'll say (I am going to spend max 2 euros for that call, just to have some fun )
And now to the weird things
- She asked my name surname etc but no IBAN and she said that the money is already being transferred
- She said that in the UN refugee camp she has "no access to clean water". Improbable, at least in a UN camp
- She said that she has no access to good food and yet she asked me some money so that she could "feed on them". Apart the fact that written like that it seems like she eats banknotes, if she has no access to good food having money won't help her getting better one.
- She deposited $4,123,000 in a Scottish bank - wouldn't they be converted in pounds being stored on a British account?
- And, most important of all, 4 million dollars is not enough money to do all this work. Considering that the lottery jackpot over here is more than 120 million euros
I didn't even know what an IBAN was. It's not used in the US, though.