I know lads lie but...

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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:14 am

... my porn script writing lad has been firing off three or four emails as day as he tries to collect his non existent Moneygram transfer which just happened to have the office stamp over the last 2 digits of the control numbers: "It a 3 and a 6", "No? Must be a 6 and an 8 then"

The lad is trekking down to the Moneygram place every time he gets a new set of numbers and emailing me back. Eventually he sends me:

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I have gone to the Monegram and the numbers are not 3 and 6 Please tell Judy to go to the Moneygram where she sent the money from to get the correct numbers please she guess different numbers for me on friday and the bankers warned me not to come back there again with guessing number or they will call in the police to arrest me.

I reply along the lines "OK my secretary Judy has been to moneygrab and we have sorted it out and the numbers are most definitely 3 and 8"

Then all of a sudden he goes quiet for a 24 hours and then I get this...

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I have a sad news to tell you that from all indications Judy did not send any moneygram to me because I went to the Moneygram with the 3 and 8 last numbers as you said she gave to you and the result was I that the bank arrested me in the morning today for attempting to steal money from the Bank with More than 6 different reference numbers which did not go through since friday which means that even the last numbers you gave to me yesterday did not go through so I did not collect any money rather ened up in the police cell for 7 hours today.

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I am highly faustrated and I felt so bad getting myself into this problem but why Mr Tony how can you people do such a thing to me when I have not done anything wrong to you. I did all you requested from me and for your part of the promise to come to real I ended in Police net this is too bad even if you did not want to send me the money you would have allow me to be rather than making me believe you sent money and i went as far as collecting debt through working to send you mails and to do all you requested from me oooooh poor me now I cant pay my debt I ended up in Poilice Cell Anyway God knows why.

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Once again at least I still want to thank you for giving me chance to prove am a writter too, but do not see this mail as an insult to your person please I only want to tell you my mind and what happend to me today. I left the police station by 5.30Pm today.

I know lads lie and there's no way I can prove he did spend a day in the company of Nigeria's boys in blue so I'm not claiming a shield for the siggy but I do think he's probably telling the truth.

And it's so touching that despite being so "faustrated" he still believes in me.

Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:28 am

Awwww, doesn't it make you go all warm and fuzzy feeling, your poor lad all alone with those mean nasty policemen.

Well done Laughing

What have you got for him next? A visit to the Pru?

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:35 am

^^ Who wouldn't want to believe a horse with such a fashionable haircut? Wink

Well, yes, sometimes lads actually do tell the truth, and is possible that he really has spent some time with the cops.
But as you say, you'll never know for sure.

Once the pet Thomas-the-Tank and I were playing with got lost in Benin (well, he got lost more than once) and he said he had an unpleasant encounter with the police too.
We also tend to believe his story. While it may not be true, he definitely was lost for roughly a week and got lost again twice later on in the bait.
Yes, he wasn't a very bright light...

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:22 am

The lad is supposed to be fraudstrated. Time for a slap to the lad Smile

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:18 am

I'm inclined to believe him too. Lad lie habitually but it does sound plausible.

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:29 pm

That's wonderful, sunshine!! Laughing

Maybe Judy needs to get fired and replaced by a more (read: less) competent secretary. After all, I am sure you are horrified (read: happy) what happened to your poor lad! It is the least you could do. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:43 pm

^^^ I've told him that Moneygram think there may have been a problem on their side so if he can provide proof that he spent a day in the cells I will arrange for him to get 500 pounds compensation from Moneygrab.

But he'll need to give me a copy of his arrest report first.

I wonder if his greed will override his terror of going back to the local constabulary to beg for some documentation Twisted Evil

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:46 pm

sunshine wrote:

... my porn script writing lad has been firing off three or four emails as day as he tries to collect his non existent Moneygram transfer

So that's where he's been! Brilliant to ask him for documentation of his time in the pokey. Twisted Evil

Frankily (lol), I'm surprised they haven't popped him in the cafe over his 'storyboards.' Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 5:09 pm

Wonderful job Sunshine. Here's hoping you get something from the fool that proves you deserve that shield. I for one got a good belly laugh out of it.

Regards,

419Eater is my life Joined: 08 Aug 2008 Posts: 475

so this is not a dragon-porn alone, it's a slapstick-comedy too.
I'am imagine the lad runnin' with the paper in his hand back and forth to moneygram, and in one scene the corps waitin`already around the corner, lurking for his coming.

we love storys like this one.

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:10 pm

My thinking is that he was told off by the bank managers, but would he go back to those same managers when the numbers were 3 and 8? Or would he have gone to a different outlet?

I'm not sure I buy his police story, but it's fun reading anyway.

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:36 pm

^^^^

He's scamming out of a fairly small town in Nigeria (I know because he gave an address for one of our esteemed delivery companies to mess a delivery up to... his laptop ended up getting run over by a forklift Smile

) which has 5 moneygram locations, all in bank premises; that added to the fact that the lad has been quite happy to write unicorn porn makes me think that he did indeed keep going back to the same bank Rolling Eyes

Regrettably he's turned down the offer of free compensation for his incarceration and now keeps harping on about western onions. well we have a few security processes that need to be gone through... before your payment is ready for pick up in, oh, Ougadougou maybe. Twisted Evil

Trophy Videos · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:11 pm

Great news, sunshine! I love it. Seven hours in the pokey. Laughing

I tend to believe this lad's story. I'm not surprised that he didn't get the documentation from the police. I'm not sure they even keep records for detentions like that, and I don't think he would want to go back and ask them for it, as that would demand an explanation, too.
That's happened to me twice before, and I believed my lads were telling the truth, but I couldn't convince them to get me the papers to prove it. Nevertheless, it sure feels good knowing they had a fraustrated day! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:26 am

@sunshine, OK, that makes more sense.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:40 am

Look, it appears to me that a Moneygram investigator needs to call him to explore what went wrong and to see if this transaction can be worked out. Naturally, when the whole mess appears to be MG's fault, they offer the mugu compensation - an all-expense paid vacation at Simba's Safari Camp!

Bruin

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:08 am

If you'll permit me to play devil's advocate here, isn't it possible that the lad checked the M7CN on the MG website, intentionally waited every time to make it seem like he went to an MG office, and concocted the arrest story to play the guilt angle?

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:18 am

MG numbers can't be checked online.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:22 am

^^ What!? Well this is certainly news to me.

So, am I to understand that whenever I give a lad an MG control number, he actually has to go and check it out in person?

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:38 am

Correct. That is why they prefer WU, which they can check online.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:50 am

^^ I'll be damned.

Well, this certainly does greatly increase the probability that the lad really did get arrested.

Sorry, Sunshine. It seems this devil's advocate is getting disbarred.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:51 am

Some lads phone the MoneyGrab to check if the payment is available Wink

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:08 am

@Seven of Nine

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Some lads phone the MoneyGrab to check if the payment is available Wink

This should NOT be allowed. Lazy lads Rolling Eyes

It spoilt my fun the other day.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:52 am

Most of the time, lads do actually have to walk down to the MG office to check. MG does not give out information on payments over the phone, in most cases. The lads do sometimes have contacts in MG who will give up the information to them over the phone. One of my first lads who I had on the hook and delayed payment for over four months told me, "I know you are lying about the number. I have a friend who works there, and he told me the number is no good, and there is no record of such a payment to me there."

Another reason I believe he got detained...he's writing porn scripts for a baiter!!, and seems to be quite hooked, and stupid. Very Happy

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:26 pm

Oh, I'm glad that moneygrab doesn't have online checking Very Happy

I get a lot of scammers from Burkina Faso... after some checking, I have found an ideal moneygram location:

Zambia? They have an office.

Or, the mother of all places not to go: Sierra Leone.

My question is, if the lads give us an address in say, Burkina Faso, how are we going to justify sending money or a laptop or anything to another location? Are there online lists of African post stations or whatever they're called?

Edit:
I dunno if a non leonais (sp?) lad would go to SL for anything.