Lad wants to pay me upfront (MTCN included)

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Master Baiter Joined: 20 Mar 2008 Posts: 107

Today I received the usual bunch of emails promising the usual share of sum x despite "our deal" didn't work out as planned. I usually mostly delete them but this one caught my eyes:

Quote:

Delivered-To: ****@gmail.com
Received: by 10.210.10.5 with SMTP id 5cs86933ebj;
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.67.99.6 with SMTP id b6mr2780692ugm.83.1222017472272;
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from web23006.mail.ird.yahoo.com (web23006.mail.ird.yahoo.com [217.146.189.31])
by mx.google.com with SMTP id 23si1586284ugf.24.2008.09.21.10.17.51;
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 217.146.189.31 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of [email protected]) client-ip=217.146.189.31;
DomainKey-Status: good (test mode)
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 217.146.189.31 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of [email protected]) [email protected]; domainkeys=pass (test mode) [email protected]
Received: (qmail 12140 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Sep 2008 17:17:50 -0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=yahoo.fr;
HTTP; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:17:50 CEST
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:17:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: eric kokoh <[email protected]>
Subject: MTCN :1790925* My Dear Friend,
To: [email protected]

My Dear Friend,

Truelly, I want to let you know that I did not forget all this day's no matter that I contacted you for the transfer of $3.000,000:00 but you thought that I was joking by that time.
I am sieze this great opportunity to inform you that all about the transfer oversea's went so perfectly without any delay but for having contacted you by that time, I have decided to deposited the sum of $300,000 ( THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND )which is 10% of the total transferred, have to be send to you through western union money transfer instamentally as you have refused to bring your bank information's.

What is the prove?.
Kindly go to the www.westernunion.com and be witness to my saying's before it is too late .I am serious indeed.DO NOT FAIL TO TRACK THE FIRST MONEY PAYMENT OF $10,000 THROUGH THE www.westernunion.com AND BEFORE GOING TO YOUR BANK FOR THE COLLECTION.

Below are the INFORMATION/S TO CLAIM IT BY YOURSELF:
SENDER FIRST NAME: kingsley
SENDER SECOND NAME: okafor
MTCN :1790925*

Goodluck!.

Mr.Eric KOKOH
Tel: 00229 9394 2190

I've checked online, the MTCN seems to be valid.

Has anyone else come across this? Did I just miss something and this has been discussed before?

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:14 pm

He is using a payment of another victim to assure you he is legit.
I thought WU stopped at $3.000 ? but that could just be wrong.
Not new, just not often that a lad is doing so well that he can leave it there for a few days.
Tricky, but doable I think, you have the number so phone WU and ask who the sender is, that might be a real victim! I'll warn a mod, just to be sure I'm not going over the line here.
EDIT : Hold that thought , moderators might want to do that for you Exclamation

Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

We are seeing quite a lot of these at the moment, the lads might send a minimal amount like $1, but of course, the victim can't see how much has been sent, if they tried to collect the money, they will see there is a hold on it, which of course, will require you to pay the lad a fee to progress blah blah blah, also used as a sweetener to get a victim to think about sending banking information, whereby the lad can flash the victims account or transfer deposit funds from a phished bank account to victims account, and the victim sends it to the lad via Western Union blah blah blah.

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just a note, as with fake passports and ID's, if you receive an MTCN from a lad, don't send it to other lads, they will simply re-use it on their victims as well. If you receive a MTCN, feel free to send the details to a mod and they will pass the details to an interested party, whereby the MTCN will usually be cancelled within a couple of days.