Sid and Boniface, Chapter 5

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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:59 am

Chapter 5, In which Boniface make at least three trips to the Western Union office
Sid is a bad man�

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:30:07 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: This is what we should do

Dear Sid,

Thank you for your response and we are sorry for all
you have gone through in helping us. We would not want
anything to make you feel bad. [fat chance of that!]

I have been making enquiry on what it would cost me to
get my traveling documents ready and fly down to
London to finish up this transaction.

The man i met to help me with the processing of the
documents (International passport) said it will cost
about us$2500 for the passport due to the fact that i
am not a citizen of the country where the passport
will come from. [Boniface took the bait!]
As soon as the passport is ready i will then give you
the name to purchase the tickets with. [What�s wrong with Boniface Kabila?]
I will be getting the passport from a nieghbouring
country and from what the man said it will be out in 5
days. You can therefore contact Ms Laura and send here
the fee for the claims of the consignment. You will
therefore further inform her that you have norminated
me to come for the collection of the consignment.

You can send the money for the passport processing
through western union money transfer with the name of
MR LAWRENCE ASHIBOUGWU, [I�m pretty sure that Boniface�s real name is Larry] the destination should be
LAGOS - NIGERIA [heck I don�t think Boniface lives in Togo either!] as here we would not be able to collect it except in Nigeria as this is where theperson that will help us with all arrangement for my
travel is. It is just 15 mins to the boarders of
Nigeria so that is no problem. [To get from Togo to Lagos, one must cross Benin. Looking at my atlas, this should be a minimum of 100 miles or ~150 km. Boniface must own a very fast car!]
However, you meantion that your lawyer was going to
meet his friends in Amsterdam has he gone there now?

I have the crude contact and have also passed it to
the contact man here so he will commence communication
with Dr. Bollockov. [These lads have never contacted Dr. Bollockov. I suspect that Boniface�s gang were on to us well before Boniface was�]
Please lets get start right away. Please send me the
fee as stated so that we can start by tusday.

Also you willhave to reconfirm your bank account
information where the money is to be sent after i
finish with the security company.

I wait to hear from you.

Best wishes,
Boniface

[ I believe that mugus perform best when they�re anxious, so Sid waits two days to respond. ]
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:58:55 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: please help us i beg you

Boniface:

What a mess! I was able to wire the $2500 today. The local Western Union offices in my city were hit hard by the "Novarg" virus yesterday and couldn't process new transactions. Today they could process new transactions manually. I had to go down to the office and wait for the clerk to manually type up the transfer, take my money and then call it in to their New York processing center.

OK. Please tell Mr. Lawrence Ashibougwu he can pick up his money at the Lagos Western Union office. The Money Transfer Control Number is 3752637540. The clerk said that since more than $1000 was being transmitted, that Mr. Ashibougwu must show a photo ID when picking up the money.

Sorry to be a day late, but I assure you that we're back on track!

-------------------
Sid

[Okay, at this point Boniface was supposed to arrange for his gang to collect �9,500.00-GBP. Remember Laura Hamilton at the London security company? Apparently, Boniface�s loyalties have swayed, and he�ll take the $2500 while the getting is good! Sid now re-establishes his link with Ms. Laura.]

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:46:05 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Release of Consignment

Ms. Hamilton,

I really need some clarification on the instructions that you sent earlier (see below). Do you need me to send the demurrage fee to the below coordinates by:

a) Western Union
b) International Letter of Credit, or
c) Bank-to-bank transfer?

Please note that I prefer International Letter of Credit, as I already have this kind of account established with my bank.

Sincerely,

--------------------
Sid Greenstreet

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:01:16 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: Vey important i beg you in the name of God

Dear Sid,

Thank you for your mail.

However, Mr. Lawrence Ashibougwu just contacts me
that he has been to the Western Union offices in Lagos
and he did not see any money.

Could you please give me the correct number and
senders name immediately to enable him get the money
as soon as possible.

Please all our hope is in God and you help us I beg
you beg you.

Thank you for all your help.

Boniface

For the Family

[There�s Boniface�s first visit to WU ]

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:13:55 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: please the number you give is in Increate

Dear Sid,
please get back to us all our hope on you,give the
Create to enable me forward it to him again.

Thank you,

Boniface

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:11:49 -0500
From: Laura Hamilton [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: Release of Consignment

Attn: Sidney
Please, be informed that the only acceptable mode of payment is bank to bank transfer which Barclays Bank Account we have already given. Note that time is of the essence and you have to act with dispatch. [Naturally, time is of the essence. Ms. Laura may close this account and run at any minute�] Please, adhere strictly to this directive.

Thank you for your understanding as we look forward to doing business with you.
Yours faithfully,

Ms Laura Hamilton.

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 06:21:47 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: still expecting your reply

Dear Sid,

We are still expecting your reply to enable us move
forword in this transaction.

Please get back to us as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Boniface

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:30:29 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: still expecting your reply

Boniface,

I've gotten your urgent messages. I've confirmed the number I sent you with the Western Union receipt. And they check out.

I'm talking today with the Western Union Director and there seems to be some irregularities related to the manual processing of the transfer. He's investigating the situation and assures me that the transaction will be complete today.

So hold on! We're almost there!

------------------
Sid

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:18:43 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: The Western Union Transfer

Boniface,

I just got off the phone with the local director of the Western Union offices. He admits that he clerk botched the job. The director said that the clerk would be sacked.

I provided the director a copy of my receipt. Using that information, it was possible to trace the transaction to New York. However, the director advised that Mr. Ashibougwu should not try to pick up the transferred money before 3 p.m. (Lagos time) on Thursday, January 29. Unfortunately, these manual transfers take longer than their automated network transfers.

I've attached a copy of my Western Union transfer receipt. This should have all the information that Mr. Ashibougwu needs to pick up the transfer.

Please send my regards to your family,

------------------
Sid

[I�m amazed that I could pull this off using MS Paint. I�m too tight to buy Photoshop!]

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:40:32 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: no money there

Dear Sid,

i don't understand what is going on?Mr ASHIBOUGWU to
me that you did not send any money to western union
office that he just coming back from there you can
check it by your self no money there.

Could you please tell us what is happening because we
trusted you a lot why all this?

Please i beg you in the name of God tell me if you
send money or not because the man is not happy with
me. [some questions are best left unanswered� ]
Thank you for all your help.

Boniface
[ There�s Boniface�s second visit to WU ]

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:57:08 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: please get back to me

Dear Sid,

Please tell me the truth do you send any money because
it will not take more than a day it will get here.

get back to me as soon as possible.

Boniface

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:35:44 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: please get back to me

I am PISSED now! I went and spent the afternoon with the Western Union director. He says that his office wasn't supposed to take my money because no single transfer should be for more than $999.99 USD. Then he showed me this URL to prove it to me:

http://www.westernunion.com/info/faqMT.asp#faq9

It says:
>>10. How much money can I send from westernunion.com ?

>>Initially, the maximum amount of money you can send online with a revolving 30-day period is $999.99. Once you have used the Western Union Money transfer service on the web, at least once over the course of 120 days, you may send up to a maximum of $2,000 within a revolving 30-day period. If Arizona is your state of residence, you may only send up to a maximum of $950 per transaction.

Apparently, the transaction was stopped in New York, as it was "irregular". The director sends his sincere apologies. He has recalled the transfer and re-issued it as three new transfers. They are:
Transfer Control Number Amount

37526346853 $900.00 USD
37526346866 $900.00 USD
37526346894 $700.00 USD

These transfers were wired immediately through the Western Union network, so they should be available as soon as you get this message.

Sorry for the trouble. I'm going to have a cosmopolitan and try to wind down.

------------------
Sid

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:47:53 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: RE: please get back to me

Dear Sid,

We have checked again and there is no such
transactions. The numbers are even more than ten
digits

Check it yourself.

Thanks,
Boniface

[There�s Boniface�s third visit to WU! Shit! I sent three 11-digit transfer numbers! ]

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 23:48:26 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: NO MONEY THERE YOU CAN CHECK IT BY YOUR SELF

My Friend,

there is no money you can check it by your self.

I don't know what to do now because i am pissed up
with the transaction the Transfer Control Number must
be exactly 10 characters in but your is 11 why?.

To be candid with you no money in there you can check
it now by your self because i never see a thing like
this before if you pay the western union in your
country they must transafer the to us that day but
this has take more than three days now i don,t know
what to say.

Please Sid,My mother told me to ask you if you want to
help us or not?that she need an answers from you to
enable us move forward. [ For cryin� out loud Boniface, this has never been about your mother! ]

If you pay as you said,You what is your text question
and Answers?Please want to know what you have in mind
in this transaction because we are pissed up now.

I hope you will understand us.

Thank you for your help.

Boniface

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:33:39 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: NO MONEY THERE YOU CAN CHECK IT BY YOUR SELF

I JUST CHECKED AND THERE IS MONEY THERE!

I hope you're not lying, because if you are, you should know that I'm not sending any more money.

The man at Western Union recommends that you check on the money yourself using EasyTransfer. He gave me the attached EasyTransfer file. You should download this file and execute it. You can then answer a few simple questions, and EasyTransfer will connect with the Western Union network, confirm that the money is there and report to you the transfer number.

I had this application up in running in five minutes. But if you have problems, be sure to read the readme.txt file for help.

I am sure that your man should have the money tomorrow. Be sure to relay my regrets to him for all his inconvenience. Has he been able to complete the work on your passport yet? When he gets it, please forward a copy to me as I am curious about his workmanship.

-------------------
Sid

[EasyTransfer is a devious little time-waster developed by Lord Vader. Thanks!]

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:29 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: RE: NO MONEY THERE YOU CAN CHECK IT BY YOUR SELF

Dear Sid,

Please go to www.westernunion.com and check it out for
yourself.

Nobody has recieved any more niether are those numbers
you gave are in their system. In the first place it is
stated clearly on the web page that the number should
be exactly 10 digits. Do take a look at the number you
sent. Count them and see if they are ten or eleven.

There will be no passport if i dont pay for it.

Thanks,
Boniface

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 08:21:31 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: Please get back to us

Dear Sid,

How are you today?Could you please get back to us so
that we can proceed on how to get the money out.

Have you check it by your self?There is no money there
please tell us the truth for you pay or not.

Thank you,

Boniface
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:33:08 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Please get back to us

Boniface,

I am so weary. The effort to get these funds to you are really wearing me out.

I've looked at my Western Union transfer receipts and believe that the right numbers are:
Transfer Control Number Amount

3752636853 $900.00 USD
3752636866 $900.00 USD
3752636894 $700.00 USD

Please try again.

Thanks,

---------------
Sid

Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 12:50:03 -0500
From: Sid Greenstreet
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Let's Talk

Boniface,

I really don't like the way things have been going lately. Let's talk.
Please contact me as soon as possible at:

+31-645568772

If this number is busy, please try

+31-645586742

Regards,

------
Sid Greenstreet

[February 2 was 419 Flash Mob day. To celebrate, Sid sent Boniface he above numbers, which are attributed to a gang of Amsterdam 419�ers. Isn�t it neat that people from all over the world can get together on this special day!]

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:37:38 -0800 (PST)
From: mrsdeborah kabila [email protected]
To: Sid Greenstreet
Subject: NEVER YOU IN LIFE TRY TO CONTACT ME

Dear Sid,

Thank you for your mail.

However,the truth is that we can,t did business with
you any longer becaues you are a bad man.

Thank you for all your help

BYE BYE AND NEVER YOU CONTACT ME AGAIN

[So perhaps Boniface has finally figured me out. Not sure if it was the EasyTransfer or the phone numbers that clarified the situation for him. Of course, he may have made a fourth trip WU]

Y'all may have guessed that this was my first bait. I had fun and I hope you did too. I got a bunch of great ideas from Samir, Kosomol, Lord Vader, Ivor Bullockov. Look more a new bait in a few weeks. Does anyone know Sarah Rowlan?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:19 am

thats great Sid....

im a little dissapointed that Boniface didn't get more angry with the last email...

after reading this one, i was expecting at least a curse or even a thin threat at your life...

he also didn't say OK, THANKS at the end!

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:42 am

oz_baiter wrote:

im a little dissapointed that Boniface didn't get more angry with the last email...

after reading this one, i was expecting at least a curse or even a thin threat at your life...

he also didn't say OK, THANKS at the end!

Yeah, it seems like Boniface just didn't get it. I think that his English skills may be a little marginal. But some times his English was pretty good, as if the mugu at the next terminal was helping him out!

I sent Boniface a few more messsages after these to try to antagonize him into a better response, but he just wouldn't play.

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