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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:05 pm

Okay, this has to be the strangest modality I've ran into... From the Mugu...

Dear Beloved,

Thank you for your eagerness to help me in my plea. I do not feel safe from my uncles as I think they are plotting to keelhaul me and then fire my sister out of a cannon. They are cruel, blood-thirsty scaliwags.

Please, tell me your full name, location, and star sign. Tell me, do you get sea sick? Do you know how to handle a sword? Have you recently had a run-in with the East India Trading Company?

Get back to me soon,
John Sparrow

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HUH? This should be interesting to say the least!

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:08 pm

Do a search here on "john sparrow".

419Eater is my life Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 435

This is my lad: http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=167474

Unless he has passed this to others. What is the address it came from?

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:08 pm

Sounds like either misinformation at its very best, or a baiter gone bad.

Master Baiter Joined: 27 Jun 2009 Posts: 172

Headers or it didnt happen.

Razz

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:48 am

It seems a bit fishy to me, English is much too good, yet here is how it went down...

His message to me:

Greetings,

My reason of contacting you is purely based on seeking your assistance. To tell you more about me, my name is John Sparrow. I am 22 years old I am the child of late Mr and Mrs Sparrow and I am living here in Abidjan, the capital city of Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa.

I am a student studying alchemy but after the sudden death of our father I forced myself to discontinue my studies because no one could sponsor my studies again. My mother died many years back from spontaneous combustion when I was just 8 years old and since then I and my younger sister have been with my father and he took me so special as the only son.
His death was so sudden and was caused by a large bullet in his skull as the doctor said in his death certificate but we are suspecting one of my uncle who always travel with him any time he is making overseas trip as the person who planned his death, well only Xenu knows the truth.

The issue now is that I and my younger sister want to move out of this country immediately to a more secure place where we will live for the rest of our life because since the death of our father, his brother and other family relatives have all taken over all my late father belongings including his house and massive porn collection and they dont even want to consider me and my younger sister.

In my own case, my father was a business man who always export unicorns to Europe and he made a lot of money from this business and own lot of properties and houses, his brothers have taken control of all these things and they can even kill me too if I should ask about them. For this reason, I dont want to be associated with them again.
However, my father confided a secret to me before his death in a hospital here. He told me that he buried something here in Abidjan Cote D Ivoire, a treasure chest containing the sum of ($14,300,000,000,000). No one knows about this, not even his swashbuckling crew.

He also handed over the treasure map and gave me the first clue. He told me that it was because of his wealth that he was poisoned and that I should seek a trustworthy person in a country of my choice who could assist me to claim and invest this money.

Dear Beloved One, this is the main reason I contacted you. I want you to help me find this chest here in Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire to your country and also help me and my younger sister to relocate to your country to continue our life over there.

This country is no longer safe for my continual stay because every day here I am living under the fear of those my late father relatives. We are no longer living in our family house because they might try to kill us since they want to inherit all my late father properties. I am now living in a guest house here and I want to move out of the country finally with this money and I need your help.

If you agree to help me, I will compensate you with 20% of the total sum and also you will manage these funds in any good investment while I will continue my studies and every income made will be shared between us. Thank you and I look forward to your positive response.

Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.
Thank you so much.
My Sincere regards,
John Sparrow

My Reply:

Mr. Sparrow,

Are you related to Jack? I've followed the movies and know your plight. I am also a swashbuckler and have relocated myself recently to avoid the wrath of my sworn enemy, Blackbeard. I am ready to help.

Johnson

And his reply was in my previous post... I've replied...

Har har, it appears that I've been had Mr. Sparrow... for your grasp on the English language is far to rare in the waters that I roam. So far as your Uncles and other next of kin, my swordsmanship is nothing short of perfection, you have little to worry about.

My full, yet not so legal name is Captian . I do get seasick on occasion (nothing a bit of the ol' grog can't handle), as for the EITC, I do believe they are now know as "Halliburton", same entity, different name.

What be your plans, and how may I assist?

Captian J

Headers from first msg...

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.115.107.8 with SMTP id j8cs168011wam;
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:59:18 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.102.247.4 with SMTP id u4mt342223muh.26.1246557118673; Thu, 02
Jul 2009 10:51:58 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:51:58 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: URGENT REPLY
From: John Sparrow <[email protected]>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

And from the second...

Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.115.107.8 with SMTP id j8cs29328wam;
Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:38:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.114.75.11 with SMTP id x11mr2351286waa.6.1246642729059;
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:38:49 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from n70.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (n70.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [98.136.44.38])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id 4si9117292pxi.168.2009.07.03.10.38.47;
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:38:47 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 98.136.44.38 as permitted sender) client-ip=98.136.44.38;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 98.136.44.38 as permitted sender) [email protected]; dkim=pass (test mode) [email protected]
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X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
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DKIM-Signature:
DomainKey-Signature: [snipped to prevent forum blowout -ghost]

Received: from [41.184.17.254] by web111909.mail.gq1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:38:47 PDT
X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/5.4.17 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.15
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:38:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Sparrow <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: URGENT REPLY
To: Johnson Leaksalot <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-425121608-1246642727=:78211"

419Eater is my life Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 435

Yup, that's my lad! The script is actually something that I'm writing for him to de-educate him. Read about it here and join in: http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=167474

And be sure to be a perfect little victim, so he thinks my format is gold Wink

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:46 pm

priceless

I can here Hannibal from the A-team saying

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:51 pm

Aha, after reading your thread this makes quite a bit more sense... I like the de-education idea... apparently it works as I wasn't on your victim list. I'll be happy to play along with the pirate goodness....

Elite Baiter Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 1006

I just love how this diseducation has taken on a life of its own.