Linda Faith: Looking for Darren Harvey

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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:14 pm

I received a suspicious-looking email that addressed directly to my baiting character, which is strange since his name is not out on any catcher accounts so it could only have come from someone he'd been involved with previously.

I kept the email and decided to play along with it.

Lad wrote:

Attention: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

YOUR REF:CLAIMS/ATM/2013

This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your fund transfer through the Bank to Bank Transfer and Via Western Union network, we have credited your payment total sum of USD$1.8Million Dollars Only valid fund into an (ATM Debit Card Number 5 0 6 1 9 1 0 2 2 2 7 4 4 5 1 6) and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you and air airport Clearance I paid it because the ATM Card worth of US$1.8MillionDollars Only, which I have registered with EMS Express Courier Company Service since 13th of July, 2013 for delivery has less than Three to Four Month to expire in the custody of the EMS Express Courier Company Service and when it expires, the ATM DEBIT CARD money will go into Federal Government of Nigeria Treasury account as unclaimed funds package.

Therefore With that we decided to help you pay off the delivery charges money so that the ATM Debit Card will not expire, because I trust that when you receive your package ATM Card definitely you must pay me back my money and even compensate me for helping you Now I want you to contact EMS Express Courier Company at: ([email protected] ) With your physical address you desire the delivery to be made to you so that they can deliver your ATM Debit Card to your designated address without any delay and that will be 4daysfrom now.

Like I stated earlier, the crediting re-activation, delivery charges and the company registration charges has been paid by me, but we did not pay their Official Security Keeping Fees since they refused, they refused and the reason is that they do not know when you are going to contact them and the Demurrage might have increased by then, They told me that their Official Security Keeping Fees is usd$35.00 per day only, and I deposited it on 13th of July, 2013

Below is the Contact Information of the EMS Express Courier Company Customer Service

CONTACT PERSON: MR.JERRY BROWN
POSITION: DIRECTOR EMS DELIVERY OFFICER
E-MAIL" ADDRESS ONLINE: [email protected]

Therefore Kindly contact them today and also send them the Official Security Keeping Charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM Debit card, Important Notice, your ATM DEBIT CARD package was registered as a gift so that the delivery agent will not know the content of your package okay and remember will have already paid the Delivery and other airport clearance charges such as insurance and permit fee.

Below is the Registration Information's of your ATM DEBIT CARD SHIPMENT DETAILS,

SHIPMENT CODE AWB 37XcS
REGISTERED TAG FCSCB77018.
SECURITY CODE SCAT/2012fedex/396/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CYST/101/86048/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCAT/BUN/lxiv/-08/03

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

A standard recovery scam. Yawn.

Since I suspected this was actually a lad I have hooked in another story, I decided to see if I could quickly get him off-script...

I wrote:

Dear Linda Faith,

What is the meaning of this email? I have no idea what it is about. Why send it to me?
Please explain.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Plain and simple, no reference to the actual instructions in the email.

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx

Dear Sir

Good morning I am in receipt of your mail date 19th of July,2013, and the source of the Fund is a compensation payment from Federal Government of Nigeria as a result of impossibility of your fund transfer through the Bank to Bank Transfer and Via Western Union network and luckily I was seceded because the Federal Government of Nigeria want to renew the image of this country for better and you don't have to be afraid because the CERTIFICATE PROOF OF OWNERSHIP, is well secure and is presently here and for the Phone number you mention that is the telephone contact of Mr. Jerry Brown the DIRECTOR EMS DELIVERY OFFICER which directed you to contact them for your package to be deliver to you.
Secondly this are your shipping Registration Information's of your ATM DEBIT CARD SHIPMENT DETAILS which you must indicate to the EMS Express Courier Office,

SHIPMENT CODE AWB 37XcS
REGISTERED TAG FCSCB77018.
SECURITY CODE SCAT/2012fedex/396/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CYST/101/86048/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCAT/BUN/lxiv/-08/03

Below is the Contact Information of the EMS Express Courier Company Customer Service

CONTACT PERSON: MR.JERRY BROWN
POSITION: DIRECTOR EMS DELIVERY OFFICER
E-MAIL" ADDRESS: [email protected]

Therefore Kindly contact them today and also send them their Official Security Keeping Charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM Debit card, very Important Notice, your ATM DEBIT CARD package was registered as a gift so that the delivery agent will not know the content of your package okay and remember l have paid the Delivery charges such as insurance and permit fee and the Only money you have to pay to them today is their official security keeping fee which is reading $35.00 per day and the package was deposited on 16th of July, 2013 so you must not delay to contact the EMS Express Courier Company with your physical Home address and your Telephone and A scan Copy of your Int'l passport or Driver's License so that they can identify you upon delivery your ATM Debit Card to your designated address without any delay.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I only skimmed through the reply (and still, even now, haven't read it properly!). Basically, it's just a repeat of the first one. Double yawn.

I wrote:

Dear Linda Faith,

Thank you for your email. It was all very interesting and everything, but I still don't understand why you sent it to me. You mention the impossibility of a fund transfer from the Nigerian Federal Government? I have never had any dealings with any Nigerians at all! Are you sure this email was not meant for someone else? Perhaps my daughter? She spends a lot of time online so perhaps she has contacted a Nigerian? But then, she is only 12 so perhaps she's too old to get involved in such heavyweight business affairs.
This is all very confusing. Please help enlighten me.
thanks,
Rxxxxxx

More ignoring the instructions but to show I at least read it (come on, I did skim through it!) I question the mention of being involved with Nigerians.

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Sir

Thank you very much for your mail, However you don't have to confuse because this is a 100% compensation business transaction and I want you to understand that even those you and your daughter didn't do any business in Nigeria is still help because your email address was found among the people United Nations told us that you have be dupe by one man call Mr Darren Harvey and we have be instructed to make sure that you recover what you have lose so that is why we have Issue an Atm Card in your (Name: Rxxxxx xxxxxxxxx) we have credit your payment total sum of USD$1.8Million Dollars Only valid fund into an (ATM Debit Card Number 5 0 6 1 9 1 0 2 2 2 7 4 4 5 1 6) and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you, we have registered with EMS Express Courier Service since 13th of July,2013.

Therefore you need to contact the EMS Express Courier Service by Email Secondly below is the Contact Information of the EMS Express Courier Customer Service

CONTACT PERSON: MR.JERRY BROWN
POSITION: DIRECTOR EMS DELIVERY OFFICER
E-MAIL" ADDRESS: [email protected]

Therefore Kindly contact them today and also send them their Official Security Keeping Charge to avoid increase of their fees and let me know once you receive your ATM Debit card, very Important Notice, your ATM DEBIT CARD package was registered as a gift so that the delivery agent will not know the content of your package okay and remember l have paid the Delivery charges such as insurance and permit fee and the Only money you have to pay to them today is their official security keeping fee which is reading $35.00 per day and the package was deposited on 13th of July, 2013 so you must not delay to contact the EMS Express Courier Company with your physical Home address and your Telephone and A scan Copy of your Int'l passport or Driver's License so that they can identify you upon delivery your ATM Debit Card to your designated address without any delay.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Another version of the first email? Oh, triple ya... wait a minute! Look at this bit:

Lad wrote:

that you have be dupe by one man call Mr Darren Harvey and we have be instructed to make sure that you recover what you have lose

Now there's something I can latch on to and identify where this came from. I mentioned Darren Harvey in one bait that's just in the early stages at the moment. I checked the headers from this Linda Faith and the one that I mentioned Darren Harvey to, and they match, both coming from an IP located in central Lagos.

Now I know what is what, let's see if I can get some off-script action going...

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Thank you for your explaining email. I think I understand what is happening now.
Yes, I know for 100% certain, doubty free, that Mr Darren Harvey is an online hoodlum who steals people's money. He is very talented and played lots of characters to fool me into thinking I was involved in a big transaction. But when I realized he was duping me (only after I'd paid him lots of money, unfortunately), you should have seen him change and show his real face. He cursed and swore at me, and abused my daughter's name, and made fun of everything I hold dear in my life. He is an evil man.
The money, though, is not important, I have to admit. I am not desperate for it and I hope it brings Darren Harvey nothing but trouble (for example, he buys drugs and gets addicted and dies). What really hurt me was the insults he threw at me and my daughter. I am in tears when I think about the things he insinuated about her.
Please, Linda, I hope I am writing this to the appropriate person, so please please please tell me that you and the UN are doing everything they can to catch men like this. I want this Darren Harvey caught and humiliated. That's the very least I want. What I really want I dare not put into words.
I don't care about how much it costs, I want this man caught and punished for what he said. I can't sleep at night thinking that people with such evil thoughts are out there in the world and are allowed to continue being free. CATCH THIS MAN. I WILL DO ANYTHING IT TAKES TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx (and Dxxx)

I'm hoping that if he thinks I have more money than sense he'll drop the money-based recovery script and think up something else that will, of course, cost money but will be of more interest to my character.
I can hope, anyway.

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you, Well I can not catch him because is not anywhere to be founds at this moment so I am talking about another Business with you so follow my advice and send across to me the require information to get the Atm Card package delivered to you.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Superb! A completely off-script reply, but Linda still wants me to get back to the recovery idea. I'd regard this as almost there but not quite yet.

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

I don't care about the money. I have more money that I could ever know what to do with, that's not an issue for me. What IS an issue is that this man insulted me and my daughter. That is more precious than money.
You are the first person who has taken this man's actions seriously so I am turning to you for help. Will you please please please help me, Linda? As I said in my last email, I lose sleep thinking that this man is still out there, possibly spreading such malicious lies about me and Dxxxxxxx. She can't grow up in a world that has such a man in it, with such lies being circulated about such a pure and innocent girl. It will affect the rest of her life and all the money in the world will not wash her reputation clean. HELP ME, LINDA, I BEG YOU.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Let's see if this works. I'm hoping he will realize he's wasting his time waving money in front of my character but waving Darren Harvey's arrest (that will, of course, require payments of various kinds) is not a waste of time.

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:15 pm

" I have more money that I could ever know what to do with, that's not an issue for me"

That should be fun...

Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:02 pm

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you I am sorry for the delay, but to trace the Guy down I will ensure that is catch but is still going to cost you money to get some monitoring Unit Agent patrol to look after him and also want you to send me his picture or passport that wikll be easier for me to use it for tracking him down to the Police.
I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Success!

Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 1:34 pm

You've still got it, Otterfan!

Wannabe Baiter Joined: 15 Jul 2013 Posts: 94

I do find it interesting that "I don't want your money" produces far more entertaining results. What kind of strange lad logic is at work here?

And surely he has more information on Unit Agent patrol? He's not gonna leave us hanging on this I hope...I need a Unit Agent patrol around here!

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:06 pm

beesags wrote:

What kind of strange lad logic is at work here?

Well, when you use that modality, it's best to use a combination of two things:
- First, telling them that the money that they are offering is of no concern to you. This gets away from their (usually boring and predictable) script.
- Second, implying your character is loaded with money and he/she is willing to throw a lot of it in the lad's direction, but only if it's as a result of what you're asking.

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Thank you for reconsidering your position and looking into the details of how to help me find and prosecute/punish this Darren Harvey.
I must warn you, though, that "Darren Harvey" might not be his real name. He used many names for different characters, and they were all false. I'm only referring to this evil man as "Darren Harvey" because that's the first name he used to contact me so that's the one I associate with him. The chances are, however, that he is called something completely different. However, if he is a prolific online hoodlum then his alias, Darren Harvey, will at least be a possible lead-in to locating the real man.

As for a photo, once again I have to say that the chances are good that the IDs he sent me are fake. However, give me a short while to look on my computers and see if I still have any of the scans he sent me. It was from a year ago and the computer I was using to contact him is now being used by my daughter. She might have deleted all of that stuff, or maybe she didn't. I will have to check.

Once again, thanks for taking me seriously and listening to my situation and agreeing to help.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Sir

I need any of his passport id to enable use for tracing of him or else I lose because there is know Full Proof Evidence of your message an d beside I am not a Police officer or CIA, I believe if you can provide me this information then I will ensure is catch, but we need some Funds to get other Item that will be use for the verification of him.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

I understand what you are saying completely. I will ask my daughter to leave her computer alone tomorrow morning so that I can search it for the saved scans that I hope are still there.

thank you very much,
Rxxxxxx

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:04 pm

The next day, I grab a passport from my baiting directory (yes, I still have a lot of the rubbish that lads have sent me right from the time I first started doing this in 2007), changed the details so that it appeared to be Mr Darren Harvey's passport (of course, there's no need to do even an adequate photoshop job), messed it up with various filters, saved it as an 18Mb .bmp, and attached it to an email.

I wrote:

Dear friend Linda,

How are you today? I hope all is well with you, your office, and your family.
I have attached a scan I found on my daughter's computer (it was mine last year) that Darren Harvey claimed was his passport. Now that I look at it, I can see that I should not have been fooled. But I was and I am enough of an honest and straight-forward man to admit that I was.
As I said before, however, there's a big chance that this is not what the online hoodlum, Darren Harvey, looks like. Or that this is even his real name.
I hope this is of some use to you in your investigations.

my deepest thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Sir

Thank you for the passport and I think this will be okay to get the work done but we still need some money from you to support the agency and that is your responsibility by sending the funds to enable go to our neighboring town to verify his real name and I believe with some settlement everything we be okay and I will ensure it catch so just send the money and I will do the rest.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

That is good news that the passport scan will be useful to you. I couldn't imagine it would be but I am not very knowledgeable about law enforcement and investigation techniques. This is why I need the help of experts since I couldn't do this alone.
You mentioned about hiring (I think it's hiring, but you don't use this word specifically) an investigation agency. Can you send me the details of this, please? If they are a private agency (and why else would we need to pay them for their services?) then I would like to examine the company profile, just to check that I am getting the best for my money. I might not know much about police and investigation matters but I am a good businessman and know about companies and such.
So, please send me details about who you intend to hire, and give me their credentials or bona fides or something so that I feel secure sending money to them. I would hate for them to do a poor job.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:51 pm

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Be inform that you don't have to know the agency email I can only provide you their phone number so both can talk things over and beside this will cost you huge amount of dollars Shocked

because is a matter of life and death because it a Private Security Company that I trust very well they can monitor this situation.

So if you agree with me then I need to have yours own Passport Id or Driver's license for verification of who you are before they will take action.

2) I will like to know what actually happen between you and Mr. Darren Harvey, and your Proof evidence all this are require from you.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Your email was received and very much appreciated and read.

Can you tell me how much money you think this agency will cost? I would like to know so that I can work out if I can afford it or have to borrow money or maybe use my credit card to get some available cash. Anyway, if you can tell me how much it costs, I would be really grateful.

The Darren Harvey incident happened at the start of last year (2012) and I have no evidence remaining. To be honest, I would never want to keep anything to remind me of that horrible time. I do have the memories, though, since they won't go away no matter what I try.
First, he told me that he had an ATM card ready to send to me. All I needed was to arrange shipping with a courier company. Which I did. I had to pay $195 for shipping, which is highly expensive for a small card made of plastic but I couldn't lower the price. Then the package was supposed to have been stopped at the customs office because it didn't have the proper paperwork for leaving the country. Thinking about it, this now sounds ridiculous but I believed it at the time. I'm wiser now, thanks to this. To get the package out of the customs office, I had to pay two (2) payments. One to a barrister who could draft and sign the correct paperwork ($750 for that), and the second to a corrupt customs official who knew (somehow) how much the card was worth to me so he kept it hostage until I paid him $5000. Compared to how much the card was worth, this was very small, so I paid it. The package was released and arrived in my country but again there was problems with the paperwork. This time, I had to pay import tax to an official from the UK HMRC, and that was based on how much I declared the card was worth. That came to $4500. At this point I was truly sick of having to pay and all of the delays, so I did some private investigating and found that the HMRC official was not an employee of the government at all. In fact, it turned out he didn't exist and all the time I had been communicating with the same person who had sent me the original email. Can you believe someone would do that? What kind of evil person does this?
So, that's my story.

I will scan and attach my UK National Identity Card tomorrow and send it to you. It is late here and I don't want to use the scanner because the noise might wake up my daughter.

I hope you can help, I really do.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 12:42 pm

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you I am now understand your plan of view and the bamboozle dump you, but this will not cost you much to get the Agency paid off for the duty to be perform because the reason why is that is matter of life and death and I really want this Darren Harvey to be put to book and burn in jail for life imprisonment
But this will only cost you a total Sum of US$1,850.00 dollars only and conditions follow is that if the man mr. Darren Harvey, try anything funny by trying to shot, it will be hot to death by the Agency they are Higher assassin and Darren Harvey, we be hot down if he try anything funny and they it will be handover to the police State Command for life imprisonment and everything cost only US$1,850.00, Dollars Only to do that for you and everything he took from you will be recover.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Note that this lad sends each email twice, and if I don't reply within about 6 hours, he sends the same email again.
Twice.

Every six hours.

So annoying.

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

The price of $1850 sounds very reasonable indeed if it means Darren Harvey is brought to justice (by whatever means necessary, if you understand my meaning here).
May I ask how much faith and trust you put in the agency you intend to hire for this job? I don't want my hopes to raised and then have them dropped to the ground when the agency fails to deliver. I'm not saying they are incompetent but I know how sometimes things can happen without any warning that ruin all of our plans. What I'm asking is: Are these people reliable and will they pursue this job until it is completed to my satisfaction?

Also, can you send me the contact details for them, please? I would like to contact the people themselves, but I will respect your decision to act as a middleman between me and them if there's some special reason for this. If you allow me to contact them directly, I promise I will keep you updated on all progress.

thank you kindly,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Be inform that the Agency are Private Company and you can only spoke with them on phone not by email moreover your Full Name and A Scan copy of your passport Id Card or Driver's License is also require and your Phone number which them can call you for further clarification are require now and the charges demand which you have to send part once the Job is done then you pay the balance and you dont have to be worried this Guy are 100% sure of pursue this job until it is completed to your satisfaction?

Finally is less for you to just go ahead and send the part fee and expect a Good delivered for Darren Harvey to be brought to justice.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Yes, private companies aren't allowed to have email addresses only phones.

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Your email was received and warmed my heart and restored my faith in humanity. Thank you.

I seem to be having trouble with my scanner at the moment. I have attached the best scan of my passport that I have been able to manage. I might have to buy a new scanner or use a heavyweight readjustment tool on this one. My apologies.

My telephone number is +447099999999. This is my private number, so please don't give it out to just anyone. ONLY give it to your investigation agency friends, okay? I am trusting you to do this for me.
I am surprised I can't email those people, though. Why not? Doesn't even one person from the team have an email I can contact him/her on? Email is sometimes better because instructions and details can be written out clearly and can be looked at again and again, but telephone calls are sometimes noisy and are gone as soon as they finish. Do you see what I am saying? Please try to persuade one of your team to release an email address to me. I would feel more secure that way.

Finally, to whom do I write my cheque for $1850? I don't know the name of the agency/private company (you haven't told me yet) so please pass this along to me so I can get their payment prepared and put in the mail when I am given their contact details.

thank you for your work so far,
Rxxxxxx

I attach a badly illuminated scan of a passport that shows barely anything but is still recognizable as an attempt at scanning a UK passport.

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:31 am

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you very much for your mail, Well I believe the Agency will soon write you mail their self from their private email and don't forget they don't accept cheque, You can only pay in cash because check in UK can not be allowed to be cash in our Local Bank in Nigeria so anything you have to do is by sending the money in CASH either VIA Money-Gram or Western Union Money Transfer or RIA or any-other means you think is more secure and that will be better BUT NOT FOREIGN CHEQUE is allowed in Nigeria
I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

What? You don't accept cheques? That's a surprise.

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

How are you and your team today? I hope they are doing well and upholding the law and dispensing justice.
I have noted that you cannot receive a UK cheque. This is unfortunate. I do all of my transactions by cash or cheque. Call me old-fashioned if you want but that's how I am.
What are those things you mention? Money-Gram? Western Union Money Transfer? RIA? What are these? I have not heard of any of those and I don't think many people in the UK would know what they are, they sound foreign or American or something. Please explain to me what they are. This is very confusing.

I will wait for your response and also an email from the Agency. When they write to me I will let you know.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you but you claim that you have send many fee to Mr Darren Harvey in the past how did you send it, I want to know moreover in which way did you send Mr. Darren Harvey the us$195.00 and us$4,500, plus the 5,000 pounds you claim you have send to him is the same way you have to send it.

Beside $100.00 is require from you today to pick up a form in your name as a reporter and you must understand this Mr. Darren Harvey, will be hot down within couple of day once the form is pick then the US$1,850.00 can be receive as soon as the job is done.and your Home address is also require now for security reasons

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

At least he/she is taking notice of what I've already written. There is one payment modality that hasn't been mentioned, however, so perhaps that's how I sent my fees to Mr Darren Harvey...

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Thank you for your email with several questions for me which I will answer for you.

Firstly, I sent Mr Darren Harvey the payments through bank-to-bank transfer. He never mentioned this Western Moneygram or Union Transfer or whatever else you told me to use. It was simply bank-to-bank transfer, which was really easy to do. He gave me his bank account details and I asked the person at my own bank to transfer the required moneys to that account each time. Do you not know how to do this?

Second, my address is as follows:
{made up address in the UK}

Thirdly, once again I have to point out that I don't know what Money Transfergram or Union RIA Western or anything is, and you aren't letting me use a cheque and you don't know how to do bank-to-bank transfers so how can I send you the $100 TODAY? I am worried that your lack of knowledge in this area is going to cost me dearly because it sounds like the $100 is urgent and if I don't pay it then I might lose Darren Harvey forever. If this happened, I would be highly disappointed and upset.

Please advise me with some payment method that we both understand. Or, even better, learn what bank-to-bank transfer is all about. It's easy and simple and quick.

Thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:36 am

Linda has such a beautiful voice it's a shame she has called only once and only very briefly (hung up on me in the middle of a phrase and never tried again). They apparently for once found a real female to do the call instead of having a lad imitate a woman (the horror, the horror!).

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:35 pm

For the past week, Linda and I have been doing the WU Shuffle (a dance best performed slowly and over a long time).

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank for your mail and your address was well receive and the Private agency are working on the issue right away, But remember I have many work schedule in my hand and the US$100.00 require by the Agency for Registration Form is needed urgent today and your Bank have every source of sending money through Western Union Money transfer and Money-gram are all over England United Kingdom. and you can ask from your anybody in your bank on how you can send the Western Union or Money gram that is the only method solution for the payment to be receive here in Nigeria.

Finally below are the information of receiver's as follow just copy the name and take it to bank premisses and you can also ask the banker on how to send western Union to Nigeria then will show you.

Receiver's Name as Follow pick it.

First Name: ADE
Last Name: GEORGE
City: NO,100 college Road Ikeja--Lagos
Country: Nigeria

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Okay, I took the infors you gave me and went to my bank as you instructed.
What a disaster! The people there wanted me to fill out something like a hundred forms just because I was sending money to a country they have labelled "a country well-known for scammers". What the hell is this? I told them that this money was urgently needed but they refused every time until I filled in the forms and everything was processed. I was in the bank for four hours. FOUR HOURS. I had to leave at 3.30 so I could go pick up my daughter from her dance class and I took the uncompleted forms home with me to fill out and return later.
If I have missed the deadline for sending the $100 to you then I am so annoyed. Please tell me this is not so and that I will be given some more time to get all this silly nonsense sorted out.
Why do you insist on using this payment method? What's wrong with bank-to-bank transfer like Mr Darren Harvey did for me? That didn't require any extra forms and it was instant.

By the way, I have not heard from the agency yet. It would be nice to get to know the people I will be working with while I am wasting my time completing this paperwork.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn:Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you for your update, Well I believe due to many dubious Government Official in Nigeria, I believe what you said, But understand you must find other mean alternative to send the US$100.00 today either Via Money--Gram or Western Union, But understand is better you go to Western Union or Money-Gram Shopping Mall, and send the money since your Bank is asking you question moreover every bank would like to protect their customer against scam but this is not so, just go to Shopping Mall store and send the money today because is urgently needed before 5pm Nigeria time and you can also as well reach the Agency or Call them via Telephone +234-809xxxxxxx, you can speak to MR. AMADI GOODWILL is one of the Senior Monitoring Unit Agency Officer and and I believe them must have call you yesterday because all your information have already pass across to them and the US$100 is needed urgently to process the investigation Form asap today.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Mr Amadi Goodwill's number is not going through. I want to explain to him my situation and everything about the payment I made but I can't and you haven't given me an email address to contact him (see how important email is?).

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Well They didn't deal by email the only way to receive the payment is via Money Gram or western Union that is the answer to your messages of today.

Further more the phone of MR. AMADI GOODWILL is working perfectly so is better you go to Western Union store house not Bank or Money-Gram Shopping Mall, and send the money or else this assignment will not be accomplish

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

I found two places where I can send money to your agency.
The first is a Western Union counter in my local supermarket. The trouble is that they are unwilling to process the transaction because they say it fits all the details of a scam. I tried to convince them that they are wrong but they still refused.
I also found a Moneygram office further down the street, but you said don't send the money through Moneygram.

What should I do? Please advise.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Sorry for the trouble You misunderstand my message, However I said either Western Union or MONEY-GRAM And I believe money-gram should be more better and secure that is the only way solutions for the assignment to be accomplish by Monday 19th of August, 2013.

Finally below are the information of receiver's as follow just copy the name and take it to the MONEY-GRAM OFFICE and send the US$100.00 require by the Agency for Registration Form you have to do that very urgent.

Receiver's Name as Follow pick it.

First Name: ADE
Last Name: GEORGE
City: NO,100 college Road Ikeja--Lagos
Country: Nigeria

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Thank you for clarification.
I had read your message saying that I should never use Moneygram and only Western Union. That is why I was nonplussed about what to do.
Okay, I will take the info to the Moneygram office I found and make the payment tomorrow (Monday).

With regard to another email you sent previously, I am sure you said that the agency would be emailing me sometime in the near future. This hasn't happened yet. I feel slightly uncomfortable sending these payments and not knowing whom I am dealing with. How about some Id or something to show who they are?

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:27 pm

A lad working on Sunday evening? Yup!

Lad wrote:

SUBJECT: Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx (Happy Sunday)

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you very much for your understanding however my personal working Id card are attach here and I also want you to understand that there was a misunderstanding because the Agency do not deal by email if you can remember I told you that sometime earlier after verify from them. so that is why then require for your mobile phone number and I believe upon receiving the Registration Form fee of US$100.tomorrow morning they will call you and explain on their assignment to you.

Sir, don't think negative yet until the Job is well done I wait urgently for your reply with the Money-gram Reference number ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

She attaches her ID card. (I was actually asking for the Agency leader's ID card, but never mind.)

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 2:18 pm

Moneygram is tricky, so much more complicated than a bank-to-bank transfer!

Lad wrote:

Dear Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Good day remember you told me that you will send the money yesterday what delay you, moreover I am presently in the office right now and I need to hear from you this moment as soon as possible. and remember I also explain to you sometime earlier after verify from them that the Agency do not deal by email.
Finally below are the information of receiver's as follow just copy the name and take it to the MONEY-GRAM OFFICE and send the US$100.00 require by the Agency for Registration Form you have to do that very urgent.

Receiver's Name as Follow pick it.

First Name: ADE
Last Name: GEORGE
City: NO,100 college Road Ikeja--Lagos
Country: Nigeria

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

I sent the money yesterday afternon. ADE GEORGE should now have it so check with him to confirm it has been paid.
May I ask what exactly this is money was for?

hope to hear from you or Dr Amadi soon,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn:Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

I have confirm from Mr. Ade George my secretary he said he didn't get any money from you, where did you send it, and I didn't receive any message from you either can you provide it again please I need to hear from you now.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Be inform that I didn't receive any message from you yesterday and I want you to scan me the Money-Gram receipt for the payment of US$100.00 because yesterday Monday I didn't receive any single message from you till this morning.

So I doubt where you must have send the information to and my Secretary ADE GEORGE was with me throughout yesterday in the office so email the details of the payment you made to me right away.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

"I wrote:

Dear Linda,

I was a little upset with the tone of your last message. I felt like I was being told off like a naughty schoolboy for something I had done wrong.
This is why I didn't want to use your Moneygram or Westernized Union transfer because I don't know they work. I assumed that Mr ADE GEORGE's account would show up with my $100 if he checks his account. Ask him to do so and it will be there. Isn't that how Moneygram works? I have NEVER used it before so please don't chastise me like I'm a child for not being able to do this first time. I just wish we'd kept with something simple, like a bank-to-bank transfer.
Anyway, ask Mr ADE GEORGE to check his account and he will see $100 was deposited yesterday afternoon by me.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

You don't have to upset because you told me on your message of this morning that you have send the US$100, and in which account number that Money-gram deposited the us$100 can you provide me the reference account number of the money-gram on the form you fill at Money-grams Please..

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Good day, Please sorry for the disturb, But I want you to SCAN me the MONEY-GRAM RECEIPT FORM that you fill at Money-gram office and you will find the Reference 8 digit Number and you should indicate it to me via Email asap.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Dear Linda,

Thank you for understanding my innocence when it comes to Moneygram.
I didn't keep the receipt that the Moneygram clerk gave me. I threw it in the wastebin when I threw away my receipt from my grocery shopping. I did notice there was a long number on it as well as all the infors I gave the clerk (she was very pretty, by the way). I didn't know that was an important number. If I go back to the Moneygram office do you think they will be able to give me the number again? If this is possible then that's what I will do as soon as I read your reply telling me that I should do this.
I'm sorry but I never knew you needed that; you didn't say I had to keep it.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Dear Sir

Thank you very much for your understand, Yes you should kindly go back there and demand for your receipt it the reference 8 digit number is what I need and your sending name, Please do that now and get back to me I am waiting urgent

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Linda,

I will do that right now.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

As you might be able to guess, it's not going to be quite as simple as getting a copy of the form and returning home straight away.

EDIT TO ADD:

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you is the Reference Number 8 digit number of the money-gram and the Sending name we need

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:02 pm

Otter, tell your lad to learn speaking English. I have no bloody clue what he is ranting about half of the time. Seems he's pretty pissed off and demands answers from me, I told him, word to word, that "if there is a problem, we shall solve it by email". And kept repeating it until he finally got the idea into that thick skull of his. I swear, this boy is possibly one of the most annoying lads I have ever talked with. I have a constant urge to punch his teeth in simply for having to endure his annoying voice.

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:18 pm

hoohoo

Quote:

I am now understand your plan of view and the bamboozle dump you

Good siggy material Smile

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:30 pm

Duckling: What a shame that smooth-voiced Linda is no longer contacting you. (PM sent, too, about what you asked for.)

wowwow: It is, but I don't know what it means!

I wrote:

Linda,

What an ordeal!
I had trouble getting the people at the Moneygram to believe that I was a genuine person who had sent that payment and not someone trying to steal the money, especially since it was going to what they called "a suspicious country". Don't ask me what they meant by that, it's what they said.
I even tried flirting with the pretty clerk but she was not being moved to my side at all.
Anyway, they said I could have the number and the details of the payment if my receiver verified the infors at their end. That means MR ADE GEORGE.
They said he should visit this site: http://www.xthexsptsx.ru/ which is some kind of security site that Moneygram and Westernized Union use for verifying payments when problems like this occur.
Tell MR ADE GEORGE to go to that site < http://www.xthexsptsx.ru/ > and login with these details:
Username: lindaxxx
Password: xxxxxxxxx
Sender's email address (for security): [email protected]

The people at the Moneygram office said it asks a few short questions to check the information that I gave, and it will give you the MTCN once it's checked. Please let me know you received it, okay?
This has been a stressful afternoon.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Let's see what fun the SPTS site brings.

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:45 pm

Otterfan wrote:

Duckling: What a shame that smooth-voiced Linda is no longer contacting you. (PM sent, too, about what you asked for.)

Indeed, I feel so cheated now. Sad

Thanks for the gift. I gave him codename Early Morning Pizza Lad just to remind myself of what I owe him. As per your request, here is the recording too:

http://rapidshare.com/files/1064837535/rec_%2B348074413202_20_Aug_2013_19_57_29.mp3

Not my best work, I admit freely. I completely lost my usual phone voice and you can hear that I almost exploded myself near the end. All the time I simply wanted to yell back at him, tell him to shut the fuck up and go wank to his goat mother's picture. Might have something to do with the fact that he has already called once earlier today (so I had to endure that freaking voice for the second time!) and tends to be extremely stubborn if I'm not picking up.

The lad could apparently hear me fairly well (or at least pretended so), but my mic didn't register enough to record my answers properly. Not that it's a huge loss for anyone.

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:38 am

He's starting to annoy me and I don't even have to listen to his voice! (You're doing a grand job, Duckling, putting up with his calls.)

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Thank you, But you told me is money- gram you send how come you now giving me MTCN login code, You can fool me okay if you cannot provide us the Moneygram reference number, then forget about the whole deal.

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Linda,

I know it might be early morning but are you really so stupid all the time?
The people at the Moneygram place are not going to give me the MTCN number to any random person who walks in and asks for it.
Do you understand that?
Instead, to prove who I am really the person who sent the payment and MR ADE GEORGE is really the person who is the receiver, they require the receiver to answer a few security questions.
To keep this secure, a login is required. I gave the details of this secure login in my last message.
Please, if you say getting this $100 is urgent then don't waste any more time arguing about how Moneygram handles this sort of thing and tell MR ADE GEORGE he must perform the security check, and at the end (if he passes; which he should if he's genuine) then he will be given the missing number.
Do you understand?
I hope you do because I can't explain it any more simply unless you want me to draw cartoons.

thanks,
Rxxxxxx

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 1:05 pm

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Sorry we can not do that you have to go back there yourself and provide them your data you use to send the money such as your driver's license and your home address the information I gave you them we give you the reference number of the money-gram or you can also verify the site by yourself but not me.

Secondly if you cannot do that then you can ask Money-Gram Clark to refunds your money back to you is sound simple

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

Sir

Sorry to say, you can ask Money-Gram Clark lady to refunds your money back to you is sound simple because we can not verify anything on my system ok

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

It's time to pull the reins in on this lad a bit...

I wrote:

Linda,

I'm starting to think you are not being serious with me. Are you an online joker, only after my money? That's who you are sounding to me now.
This is why I think what I do: You said that I MUST pay the $100 really quickly, urgently, without delay. You told me that only Westernized Union or Moneygram would work. I found out from the Moneygram people that this is a preferred method for online jokers because the payments are untraceable. There's no record of where it goes, and it becomes instant cash at the receiver's end so he can run away and spend the money straightaway without worrying that he'll be caught. Now, when I try to get the MG number for you (because you NEVER asked me to keep the receipt), you are making delays. WHICH IS THE TRUTH? IS MY PAYMENT URGENT OR CAN IT WAIT LIKE YOU ARE MAKING IT WAIT? Do you see? Do you see why you are sounding very strange to me now? I went through hell with Mr Darren Harvey making me a fool, stealing my money and insulting my daughter, I will not tolerate someone else doing the same thing.
Now come on, Linda. Act serious and stop sounding like a joker to me. I am getting annoyed and impatient.
Tell MR ADE GEORGE to verify himself at the MG site I linked to and he will get his $100 and we can put this mess behind us.

I will await an email telling me that he has been successful. Anything else will be deleted instantly until I do receive such an email with news of his success.

Rxxxxxx

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 2:33 pm

Otterfan wrote:

wowwow: It is, but I don't know what it means!

I think he means he's sorry the fraudster deceived you.

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:28 pm

*sigh*
"Linda" hasn't even tried to log in to the SPTS site.

I wrote:

Linda,

Your silence condemns you. You ARE an online joker, I have decided.
I will find someone else to find Darren Harvey for me. Someone who understands me and isn't so stubborn and stupid as you and your crew are.

Rxxxxxx

Lad wrote:

Attn: Rxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

sir

Do you think I am a fool, what link did you give me I should click the like and you must be a scammer, because how come Money-Gram Link show my name as login.... site < http://www.xthexsptsx.ru/ > and login with these details:
Username: xxxxxxxx
Password: xxxxxxxxx
Sender's email address (for security): [email protected],

I wait urgently for your reply ASAP

Your faithfully
Mrs. Linda Faith
Acting Manager of Finbank Int'l Plc

I wrote:

Linda,

Stop accusing me of being a scammer. It was ME who was preyed upon by Darren Harvey last year. Yes, I know how scammers operate but only because I was the victim of one.
As for the login details: I was asked to supply login details for that site when the Moneygrams clerk asked me. I wanted the username and password to be something that wasn't totally random numbers and letters but instead was something that is easy for us to remember. Why is your name there? BECAUSE I CHOSE THOSE DETAILS FOR YOU. Are you really this stupid all the time? Seriously, get someone sensible to read my emails for you and then to explain their contents to you because you certainly are not capable of doing that for yourself.

Again, I wait for news that MR ADE GEORGE has successfully picked up his $100.

Rxxxxxx

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:37 pm

Does that mean I get to slap him when he calls next time?

(Pretty please?)

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:42 pm

^^^ Definitely. I've lost patience with him so let him have it as strongly as you want!

Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 4:48 pm

HOORAY!!!! jump_4_joy

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