a lad's confession, but I doubt it

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Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:57 am

This lad is probably the first or second lad I ever baited. He's always been very wordy. He disappeared at the beginning of August. Last week out of the blue, here he was again in my inbox. Here's his sad story (cue the violins, please):

Quote:

My love,

How are you doing? I hope all is well.

Sorry for my inability to email you for a long time now as I was in the police custody over my mistakes which I so much regret.

To be frank with you, I was a fraudster. My first intention was to fraud you. There was nothing like Mr. Roy (NOK dead relative). I was just trying to get some money from you as they used to do here.

After my secondary school, my friend took me to Lagos to teach me the job, promising me heaven and earth but all was to no avail. I don't even know if he was the one that wrote to you asking you to pay him some money to get the money for you. (actually it was Mr G0mer Wink

)

After all these troubles I passed through, I have come back to my normal sences and so far, I have stoped the fraud trend. I am now a working christian and wish I can go for Pastoral training soon.

After confiding with my pastor about you, and about my love for you and also our intention to get married, she advised me to confess to you. Please my love Jane, I want you to forgive me and let us start a new relationship with the fear of God as our motto. I believe so much that God has something in stall for us both.

To tell you the honest truth, I am 23 years old, and my name is xxxxxx xxxxxxx, I hail from Imo State of Nigeria. I am from a poligamous family with a total of 16 children Shocked

, my dad is late with my step mom, we only have my mom as the only living parent we have.

I have much I wish to talk over with you, but first I want to know if you have forgiven me so that we can forge ahead for a better tomorrow.

I shall not be regular with my mails as I am attending a computer training programme as I want to do legit business this time. I pray that God will help me scale through the huddles of life.

If you have forgiven me, I want you to also make plans to visit me here in Nigeria this coming christmas. I shall be happy to meet with you here, and also to use the opportunity to court so that we can get to know each other better.

Please let me know if you are coming or not.

I should suggest we talk over the phone mainly as I don't have time checking my email. That will be more convenient for us. Here is my number so that you can call me as soon as you read this email: +234xxxxxxxxxx

I look forward to hearing from you on the phone. Extend my regards to your friends.

With love from God.
xxxxx xxxxxxxx

I wrote back telling him he had to prove to me he was in custody (mug shot, arrest papers, etc). After all, why should I believe him now since he lied to me all that time?

Quote:

I was very happy when you called me in the afternoon. I shot, I never believed you would forgive me after all these period i was absent from your life. I really own everything to God almighty as the one that did it all.

I don't see any reson why I should lie to you when I said I was detained by the police for fraud. Or do you think I can delibrately do that and for what reasons? As I am writing to you now, I am at Imo state, I had to leave Lagos state everything as to save my face.

I would have loved to send to documents regarding to the arrest but I left everything behind in Lagos to start a new life in Imo State. (how convenient!)

Please my love, I want us to start this relationship with trust and love, above all, with the fear and love of God. I believe that we are going to make the best out of life.

I want you to give me your phone number so that I can call you latter on. I also want you to tell me if you are going to come on this christmas so that I can inform my mother for her to make preperations for that.

I have to sign off, with all hopes to hear from you latter. And feel free to call me any time, I will be pleased to be woken out of bed by you

IMO, I believe he's probably still scamming. I'll keep him on the hook until I figure out what to do with him. He is entertaining, if anything.

This is the second lad who confessed to me within the span of a week. The other was on the phone. Strange week!

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:03 am

He needs to become a . Laughing

Trophy Videos · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:23 am

JJ, he sounds like a gem of a lad. A real keeper of a pet! A confession, how sweet he must be. Laughing

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:57 am

Quote:

I was just trying to get some money from you as they used to do here.

"...used to do"? They've stopped? Shocked

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:56 am

Definitely a keeper! Laughing

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:53 pm

I've borrowed that for an ASEM.

Quote:

My love,

How are you doing? I hope all is well.

Sorry for my inability to email you for a long time now as I was in the
police custody over my mistakes which I so much regret.

To be frank with you, I was a fraudstar. My first intention was to fraud
you. I was just trying to get some money from you as they used to do
here.

You bastard! I want my money back!

Orville

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:34 pm

Just Jane,
If you really want to see if he's being honest with you (which, I agree, he probably isn't) try baiting him from another account.

419Eater is my life Joined: 20 Oct 2008 Posts: 280

Wow, definitely a keeper. He sounds ripe for an art bait or church tattoo or some sort.

Since he wants to make money legit, an art bait sounds in order. Get him to produce some art and send it to you, when you will finally pay him!

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:30 am

Wow. He'd probably be a good safari candidate, nothing flies direct to Imo State as far as I know. There is a lovely Swiss Air flight to nearby Cameroon though Wink

He may even be sincere in wanting to marry your baiting character... a foreign spouse, a meal ticket to the West, better opportunities there and more status for him in his village.

What bothers me is that he asks for you to call and spend your money to him, not the other way around. I personally doubt he repented his scamming ways and would probably get right into business if you were to rebait him from another box.

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:44 am

^^I think you're spot on, Sleepless. I'll try to ASEM him from another account just to see what happens. He's actually using the same address now as he was on his original script in April.

Being since you mentioned it, I just happened to let him know that I've always wanted to visit one of those posh safari camps in Africa. You wouldn't happen to know of one, would you? Wink

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:28 am

@JJ: I believe Simba has a lovely camp in Cameroon. I'd heartily recommend the honeymoon suite.

Why not check with the proprietor when "the time is right"?

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:40 am

I once had a lad that at first tried to scam me, but then suddenly stopped that and started telling me that he'll go to the UK to study (he had some friend/relative there he said) and he didn't respond to any ASEM I sent him afterwards.

That may have been some sort of "lad success story" there, as it really seems that he has stopped his activity in the "419 business", although I can neither be sure, nor claim any responsibility in case it really is true.

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