Henry Peters Can't Pick A Scam

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:26 pm

This is one of the scammers I'm half tempted to feel sorry for. So bad at what he does, he can't even figure out which way to try to scam me. He also randomly changes his name a bit.

I get the usual sort of approach letter. Blah blah, blah-blah-blah.

Quote:

ATTN:SIR/MADAM,
I am Henry Peters Bank Manager of Union
Bank of NIGERIA. I have an urgent and confidential
business proposal for you. I got your information in my
search for a reliable partner who can assist me actualise
this arrangement.
PROPOSAL:
On June 6, 1999, an American oil
merchant/Contractor with the NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COPORATION, MR
KEN POWER, made a numbered time(Fixed) Deposit for twelve (12) calendar
Months,valued at US$28,000,000.00 (Twenty-Eight Million United states Dollars)
in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding
address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally
we discovered from his contract employers,THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM=
COPORATION that MR KEN POWER died from an automobile accident.
On further investigation, I found out that he died
without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his NEXT
OF KIN was friutless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that MR KEN POWER did not
declare any KIN OR RELATIONS IN ALL HIS OFFICIAL
DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING HIS BANK DEPOSIT PAPER WORK IN MY BANK.
This sum of US$28,000,000.00 is still sitting in my
Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the
principal sum at the end of each year. NO PERSON WILL
EVER COME FOWARD TO CLAIM IT. According to NIGERIAN LAW, at the expiratio=
n
of 6(SIX) YEARS, the money will revert to the ownership of the NIGERIAN
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IF NOBODY APPLIES TO CLAIM THE FUND. Consequently, my
proposal is that I WANT YOU TO STAND IN AS THE NEXT OF KIN/BENEFICIARY OF=
THIS FUND DEPOSIT SO THAT THE FUND CAN BE RELEASED TO YOU FOR OUR
MUTUAL BENEFIT. FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, YOU WILL BE ADEQUATELY COMPENSATED
WITH ( 40%) OF THE TOTAL SUM. (55%) WILL BE MY OWN SHARE WHILE (5%) WILL
BE SET ASIDE TO COVER ALL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES MADE BOTH AT HOME AND ABROA=
D
BEFORE CONCLUTION OF THIS DEAL. THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% RISK FREE as all=
the paper
works that will be required to effect this fund transfer
will be obtained from the Federal Ministry / High Court of
Justice by an Attorney hear in Nigeria, and my position
as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution
of this arrangement.
Moreso, ALL ASPECTS OF THIS TRANSACTION ( FROM HE FIRST TO THE LAST ), WI=
LL
BE CONDUCTED LEGALLY in such a manner that it will not constitute a breac=
h
of the law either in your country or in mine.
IF YOU ARE INTRESTED IN ASSISTING ME IN THIS
TRANSACTION, PLEASE REPLY IMMEDIATELY ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL: henrypeters200=
[email protected]
FOR MORE DETAILS. This has to do with fund transfer and consiquently req=
uires
speed. Upon your response, I SHALL PROVIDE YOU WITH DETAILS ON HOW WE CAN=
SUCCESSFULLY ACTUALISE THIS DEAL, I SHALL ALSO PROVIDE YOU WITH DOCUMENTS=
IN RELATION TO THIS
FUND DEPOSIT THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TRANSACTION BETTER.
Please realise that the confidentiality of this
arrangement must be maintained from now, and even after
the successful complition of this deal. I WILL MEET WITH
YOU IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR DISBURSMENT AFTER THE FUND HAVE BEEN RELEASED TO
YOU, AND ALSO DISCUSS INVESTMENT POTENTIALS AS I WILL LIKE TO INVEST IN
YOUR COUNTRY WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE.
Awaiting your urgent reply through the below stated email address: henryp=
[email protected]
Regards
HENRY PETERS

Private Email:[email protected]

Ken Power should soooo be a superhero's alter ego.

In fact, Henry is so sad, he sends me the same approach letter twice. I won't bother repeating it.

Henry seems to be a "living off the crumbs" scammer, as his email comes straight to my private baiting account. I don't seed guestbooks, so I guess some other lad either suckered him into buying it, he's part of an inept gang, or he cribbed it from some other lad's screen.

Either way, I feel sorry for him, and extend the baiter hand of friendship.

Quote:

Look, could you stop the crap with switching back and forth from all caps to
mixed case? Write the whole thing in mixed case! That's very rude, here it's
considered random shouting if you have all caps mixed in. And if you got my
information, why don't you know if I am a Sir or Madam?

Hannah

This *cough* brain surgeon also sends me the late Ken Power's ID card. As an attachment to a forward.

Wonder where he got that wonder-scanner that does both sides of the ID at once? And I love how the company just prints IDs on plain paper. None of that nancy cardstock or plastic for us!

Only... he forgot some of the attachments the first go around, so he sends the forward again, this time with added image fun.

Henry seems to be built like a screen door!

The back of the ID is included, but part of it seems to be missing. Maybe he tacked his floppy up with a magnet...

Come to Nigeria! Our passport photos look like they were taken underwater! Now, seriously, how could I not trust this man's honest, grainy little face?

I think the inkjet printer needs a refill. He's so proud of this, he sends it to me as two different attachments, the second named "My ID and International Passport.jpg". I'm confuzzled.

So I ask Henry to clarify. He seems a bright chap.

Quote:

>
>
> DEAR HANNAH,
> THANKS FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY,I WILL LIKE YOU TO SEND DOWN YOUR TELEPHONE
NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.THIS TRANSACTION IS REAL IT IS AN
OPPORTUNITY, THAT YOU NEED NOT TO MISS ,IT COMES BUT ONCE.

Hold your horses there, Henry. You've got some explaining to do, first.

>
> SECONDLY, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND TO ME, A FRESH ACCOUNT WHERE THIS
>MONEY WILL BE PAID INTO AND YOUR FULL NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS.

What do you need a "fresh" account for?

>I HERE BY FORWARD TO YOU MY INTERNATINONAL PASSPORT AND MY I.D. CARD FOR
>EASY RECCOMENDATION AND THAT OF THE LATE KEN POWER, I WILL NEED >YOURS,PLEASE
BEAR IN MIND THAT WE WILL NEED AN ATTORNEY THAT WILL ACT ON >YOUR BEHALF.IF
YOU CAN NOT BE ABLE TO COME OVER HERE.
>

Whoa up. You need to explain some things first. First, why were you forwarding
Ken Power's ID to yourself, then forwarding it to me? Second, why did you send
me the same completely useless page of your passport twice? Your "ID and
International Passport" scan is nothing but a message page, with no picture at
all. "Passport 2" is the same freaking useless page. "Passport 1" ... where
to begin? Is your passport picture actually that crappy or is your scanner
just complete crap? I can't even make out what you look like in the picture.
Funny, but the rest of the passport seems to have scanned clear. And why did
you not just scan both pages of the passport at once? You could have sent me
one, useful scan.

And how do I know that Union Bank ID is legit? You haven't given me a website
or any other way I can independently verify that you are an employee. I would
like to confirm you are on the bank's list of officers on their website, or be
able to email them and confirm you work for them. I'm not giving my personal
information to just anyone who claims to work for Union Bank. "Identification
Card 2" isn't even a full scan. You cut off the page. Why do you seem to have
the exact same completely crap photo on your employee ID as your passport?

Sorry, but this ID is unacceptable. I can't even identify you from the
photos. You're going to have to do better than that, somehow. Either you need
to find out how to scan them properly, or you're going to have to prove your
identity some other way. You're own mother couldn't even recognize you from
that photo. It's about as clear as a picture of a polar bear in a blizzard,
for heaven's sake.

> THANKS YOUR , I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY OR CALL ME 234 8035168559.
> BEST REGARDS
> HENRY PETERS

Sorry, Henry, but not until I get some decent identification.

Hannah

No hope of Henry answering all that, so he hopefully offers to send me even more attachments.

Quote:

DEAR HANNAH,
THANKS FOR YOUR MESSAGE, WELL NOTED, IF YOU ARE SERIOUS I WILL SEND YOU THE FUND DEPOSIT, WHAT ABOUT THAT? AND I NEED YOUR PHONE NUMBER TRY AND CALL ME.

HENRY PETERSS

But Hannah's not so open. Serious, but not open. I go for a good attempted lad-scaring.

Quote:

F*$& the fund deposit, or whatever you're talking about. That's worthless. I
told you, I want some proof that you are legitimate and you are who you say
you are. So far, you haven't proven squat. You've sent me two very dubious
pieces of "identification", which have horrible pictures. You're going to have
to do better than that to prove to me you are who you say you are.

Where's the contact information or the website of the bank where you work?
Where's another picture of you that I can compare to those crummy IDs? Where
is any decent proof whatsoever? You've done nothing to show that you are
legitimate. That crap could have been made in Photoshop or something. Give me
some real, verifiable proof.

Hannah

He goes about a week without saying a word. Shock, I suppose. Then he comes back.

Quote:

DEAR HANNAH,
THANKS FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY,I WILL LIKE YOU TO SEND DOWN YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBER FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.THIS TRANSACTION IS REAL IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY, THAT YOU NEED NOT TO MISS ,IT COMES BUT ONCE.

SECONDLY, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND TO ME, A FRESH ACCOUNT WHERE THIS MONEY WILL BE PAID INTO AND YOUR FULL NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS.I HERE BY FORWARD TO YOU MY INTERNATINONAL YOU CAN NOT BEABLE TO COME OVER HERE.THANKS YOUR ,I HERE BY FORWARD TO YOU ONCE AGAIN MY FAMILY PICTURES.
I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY

BEST REGARDS,

HENRY PETERS

Note: forwarded message attached.

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THIS IS MY FAMILY PICTURES

He attaches an old favorite of the scammers.

The attachment, in a move only a scammer could pull off, is actually named MY FAMILY!!!.jpg, if you can believe it.

Sure, what's real, verifiable proof? A family photo! I think I'll try this when I attempt to get a mortgage...

It earns him a sound walloping.

Quote:

You've GOT to be kidding me. Do you think I'm blind or stupid? I can see, even
with as rotten as the quality is on those "IDs" you sent, that those are not
the same two people. What did you do? Steal that family picture off of
someone's website.

If you're not serious about proving who you are, #(%& off. That "family
picture" is just as worthless as the "ID" for proving you're legit.

Hannah

But he's rubber-lad! He comes back. New address, new scam, same old Henry.

Quote:

Dear Hannah,

How are you today? I hope all is well if so thanks be to God Amen.Hannah I want you to do me a favour wish I will be very happy with you .

A customer wants to pay some money I want you to receive it for me,could you belive that when I got to my office today a customer, call me from holland that he wants to pay me my money with a cheque which I supplied he a crude oil. The amount of the money is $350,000,00 US dollar(Three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars only) which I told him, that I have a very good friend that can receive it for me her name is call Hannah, Meanwhile I will like you to send him, email so that he will know about you .

You are the one to receive it for me .please kindly send your full contact address , company address and your account Number to them, in holland This is the information below :

CONTACT PERSON:
VENDRICH ANDERSON
EMAIL: [email protected]
TEL: +31645876135,

N.B

Please contact he immeditely you receive this mail and get back to me and for information they will be 5% in the total amount of the money is for you.

thanks
hope to hear to from you asap.
Cheers
Henry Peters.
Union Bank Manager.

Oooh, fake check. I'm all over that.

Quote:

Okay, I've got no idea why on earth you've decided to pick me for this, but if
you want, you can send the payment to me at

ATTN: Hannah Lanham
*safe address removed*

But what am I supposed to do with it after I get it?

Hannah

I copied his check-sending buddy on this one.

Vendrich sounds an awful lot like Henry...

Quote:

Hannah,

Send me youe phone number and I will try and get back to you.

Vendrich

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:45 pm

Henry, being the doink that he is, fails to notice I copied his check scamming buddy.

Quote:

Dear Hannah Lanham,

Good day ,How are you today ,hope all is well. I your email and it was well understood ,Hannah if you should receive the check kindly deposit and make sure you let me know .Did you contact the information I give to you? please if NOT kindly do so right. And I will also want you to send your account Number .After all this kindly get back to me .Thanks

Cheers
Henry Peters.
Union Bank Manager.

How do these guys manage to breathe on their own, even?

I don't know why, but this bait brings out my contrary side.

Quote:

Why do you need my phone number? You've got my email address, I check it
frequently, you can obviously type, and I've already given you my mailing
address. Why would you need to phone?

Hannah

And to Henry...

Quote:

If you would look at the last email, you would see that I contacted the person
in Holland. And you don't need my account number in order for me to receive a
check on your behalf and get part of the money to you.

Hannah

Now, I think Henry doesn't even know what scam he's trying to run any more. He wants my account number, but also wants to send me a check and have me wire 95% of it on to him. Can't he make up his mind? Does he really think he needs my account number? Or is he just oxygen-deprived or so confused by my contrariness he doesn't know which way is up? We may never know.

Henry persists.

Quote:

Dear Hannah,

Good day . how are you today. I received your mail and it was well understood .Meanwhile Hannah you have to send your account Number because you can till received the check throught your bank .And also your full contact please do so and get back to me okey. Thanks

Cheers
Henry Peters.
Union Bank Manager.

Hope to hear from Asap.

Twice, even. Yeesh.

I dig in my heels that much harder.

Quote:

Your friend is mailing me a check. You do NOT need my account number. I'm not
going to be receiving it through my bank. He's going to be mailing it to me. I
have NEVER had to give my bank account number to someone sending me a check.

You already have all the contact information you need. Look, you said I was
your "good friend". You either trust me to receive the check and send your
share, or you don't. And if I don't fulfill my end of the bargain, your friend
can stop payment on the check. Either way, you certainly don't need my account
number.

Hannah

Henry somehow thinks that saying the same old thing, but putting it in italics changes things.

Quote:

Dear Hannah ,

Good day .I received your late mail and it was well understood ,but you have to understand that the is a transaction. A customer wants to pay me by check and before send the check you have to send he your contact ,telephone Number/fax,bank detail/bank account, before sending the check to you, for he to understand that you are the one to receive the check direct.Please kindly do that and get back to me. Thanks

Cheers
Henry Peters.
Union Bank Manager.

Hope to hear from you.

Doesn't change my mind.

Quote:

I already sent him all the contact information he needs, including where to
send the check. He doesn't want my account number, and he doesn't NEED my
account number. And neither do you. If he wants anything further from me,
he'll let me know and explain why he needs it. He hasn't asked for anything
further. I mean, what part of "I have already given your friend all the
information he needs" are you having a problem understanding?

Hannah

.

Hannah has a bit of a meltdown when she reads his second email.

Quote:

> Dear Hannah,
>
> Good day .My client told me that you refuse to send he your >full
detail .

I told him I would send him additional information only if he needed it, and
could EXPLAIN why he needed it. As he has not even contacted me since then, he
obviously doesn't need any further information. I told him I would give him a
phone number if he could explain why he needed it. He didn't. So he must not
need to phone. Look, I live in an apartment building and share a phone with
three other apartments. It's not very secure for him to call me, anyway. What
if one of my neighbors picks it up instead? That would be rich, wouldn't it,
if he wastes his time talking to one of my neighbors rather than me about this
transaction? It's a public freaking phone. I don't want him calling up and
discussing my private business on a public phone. Anyone could hear.

And like I said, he hasn't explained why he needs a phone number.
>
>So please kindly send it ti he ,This a transaction that you have know >will
don't any of to take our time in doing this deal .So you have to do >this .Am
not the one that needs all this from you .meanwhile my client >want all this
for he to know that you are the one to receive this >particular check .

Look, I don't know how it's done in your ass backwards little part of the
world, but here, I do NOT need to provide an account number to ANYONE in order
to receive and cash a check. I don't trust banks. I don't use them any more
than I have to. And I know my rights. I do NOT have to give ANYONE a fucking
account number in order to get or cash a check! I can walk into any bank in
the United States and cash any check I please, whether or not I have an
account there, or anywhere. They might charge me ten bucks if I'm not a
customer, but they can't REFUSE to cash it.

>And i was told by my client that you only send he your home contact with
>out your cell Numer,

Let me spell it out for you real clear. I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CELL PHONE!

>Bank detail/Bank account Number

DON'T HAVE ONE OF THOSE EITHER! I'VE NEVER NEEDED ONE! I TAKE CARE OF MY OWN
MONEY! I DON'T NEED A FUCKING BANK KEEPING MY MONEY! I'VE GOT A SECURITY VAULT
FOR HOME, AND THE INTEREST ISN'T EVEN WORTH HAVING AN ACCOUNT!

>
>and your fax.

AND I MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT HAVE A FUCKING FAX MACHINE! MOST PEOPLE DON'T!

>please if not kindly send all this to he NOW. Thanks

>
>
> Cheers
> Henry Peters.
> Union Bank Manager.
>

I CAN'T PROVIDE WHAT I FUCKING DON'T HAVE! Your damned client can either send
the check to me at the address provided, I'll take my cut and immediately send
the rest to you (I assume you want a wire transfer or something.), and we can
get this business done, or you can both go screw yourselves. Your call. You
can either have him mail it and get your money when I cash it, or you can go
on needing your money and having no way to get at it. I don't care either way.
His being able to call the apartment complex phone does not make me
trustworthy, or prove anything, or get him anything if I don't follow through
with my end of the bargain. If he thinks I'm trying to keep all the money, he
can stop payment on the check and get his damned money back. And he can do
that with or without that crap you keep asking for.

Hannah

Lord have mercy on my soul, I get this from Mr. Tunde Lemo. Complete with this at the top

and this at the bottom.

Quote:

Central Bank of Nigeria
Office of the Deputy Governor,Financial Sector Surveillance
Direct Mobile:234-80-3494-9803.
E-Mail: [email protected]

ATTENTION: Hannah,

Your contract file was submitted for verification by Mr Henry Peter. as regards to your name that was submitted after a successfully completed the ratification and revalidation exercise within the Federal Ministry of Finance and Exchange Approval Order for a contract payment on your behalf.I wish to inform you that an exchange approval for the release of $ 28 Million USD with a Contract Number : NNPC/ PED/2039/ 95 will be official approved for immediate transfer into your account tommorrow 20th April 2005

Inview of these,your kindly adviced to re-confirm your account information where you want the payment to transfered .be rest assured that the transfer of the said payment directly into your account is subject to the confirmation of the 2005 value added tax of $3,000 and a cost of transfer of $5,500 only being the fiscal payment of the APEX BANK OF NIGERIA

Kindly sent all detail information as requested,your bank data,contact address,your identity card or international passport via email attachement for verification and record purposes.

Call me upon the reciept of this information.

Truly yours,

Mr. Tunde Lemo

Deputy Governor, CBN

The boy can't even run a proper scam. I decide I'll slap the bejeezus out of him for proceeding before I granted permission.

I figure he'll either apologize profusely or cut and run. My money's on the latter. I'm hoping he decides he's a miserable failure as a scammer.

I forward the CBN letter.

Quote:

What precisely the flying fuck is this? Did you go ahead and submit my
information to these people after I told you I wasn't giving you any account
number until you had proven yourself? You lying, sneaky little shit. I stick
by what I said.

I have seen no evidence you, or this bank are legitimate. You haven't shown me
a decent ID, a website for the bank, given me any legitimate contact
information for you or the bank, and do you really expect me to believe that
the Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria conducts his official
business over a YAHOO address? Where is his real address? Why does he not give
his bank's website? Why is he not using their domain? Even the little
backwater bank that only has two damned tellers has a website.

This shit is just unbelievable. You send me some decent fucking ID, you prick!
I'm not setting up an account for this information until you do! I said it
before, I'll say it again. Your "proof" so far has been worthless. Stinking
and worthless. Don't try to give me that line again about that being good ID
and that being your family. Don't lie to me, you little prick. I'm very
disappointed in you. You ask me to trust you, and be your friend, and THIS is
the thanks I get. You lying and going behind my back and trying to pull this
sneaky shit on me. Prove yourself, and I'll let the bank know where they can
transfer my money. Assuming they can prove themselves legitimate. Which I'm
beginning to doubt. I'm beginning to think they're just as flimsy as you are.

Hannah

I also see if I can get a line of communication with Tunde.

Quote:

I'm not sending anything until you prove you're legitimate. Your
identification, the bank's website, so I can independently verify your
employment there, and an explanation as to why you are using a YAHOO account
to conduct business should be sufficient.

Hannah

Alas, neither of them have replied. Yet.

But it's been barely a week, and they may come crawling back from the swamp yet.

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Exellent bait. I especially enjoy your slaps. I look forward to more. Very Happy

Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:51 am

Thanks. I'm glad someone gets some enjoyment out of me smacking lads besides me. Does feel a bit odd to get a warm, fuzzy glow when you're told you're good at chewing people out, though. Only in baiterdom... Laughing

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