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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:57 pm

These really come in easy......

Dear Sir,
could you please explain what the next steps are?

Kind regards,
Louisa

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014 um 18:40 Uhr
Von: "UNITED NATIONS." <[email protected]>
An: louisa
Betreff: Re: Attention Beneficiary
Your E-mail is well received, listen to me you are intended to my
recipient of my mail.listen to me your atm card is ready to delved to
you.

So you are hereby advice to forward your information to this office
Director ATM SWIFT
CARD Department.

Therefore you should send him your full Name and Telephone number/your
correct mailing address where you want him to send the ATM to you.

Contact Mr. James Steven immediately for your ATM SWIFT CARD:
Person to Contact Mr. James Steven
Email: ([email protected])

Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Januar 2014 um 09:16 Uhr
Von: "Mr.James Steven" <[email protected]>
An: "Louisa
Betreff: RE: Attention Beneficiary

This is to confirm the receipt of your mail requesting for the release and delivery of your ATM card.Yes I am the ATM Card Swift director with the responsibility to ensure that you receive your overdue payment.However I wish to inform you that you have to reconfirm to me your detailed information such as your address,occupation,direct telephone number and a scan copy of your passport or driver's license to enable me crosscheck with the ones on my file so that I don't make a wrong delivery please.Importantly be informed that this delivery requires effective communication from you,by this I mean that you must always respond to your emails and always call me on my direct telephone line for updates,I am a very busy man so I demand you always be active in your communication to enable us conclude as quickest as possible.

Meanwhile as soon as I receive these above mentioned information from you today I shall let you know the next line of action.Here is my direct line +234-7031-2167-22
Thanks for your understanding.

Mr. James Steven.

Dear Mr Steven,

thank you for your note. Please note that I am very busy, too, and my availability is very limited due to my occupation as a Flight Attendant.
I don't have a land line, and it is prohibited to have my cell phone with me while I'm on duty. Besides, my cell phone package does allow oversea calls.
Here is my personal information:
Name: Louisa
Address: Ammarschbogen 69, 60547 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Occupation: Flight Attendant
ID-copy: attached
Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards
L.

Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Januar 2014 um 19:59 Uhr
Von: "Mr.James Steven" <[email protected]>
An: "Louisa
Betreff: GET BACK TO ME NOW.
Dear Louisa,

I'm just coming back from the courier office and I have made the necessary findings from the courier companies here for the dispatch of your atm card with above information you forwarded to me,but the courier service requested that the parcel must be registered in their office before they dispatched it to avoid problem .

Meanwhile here is the cost of sending and registration of your atm card through any of these below Express Courier Services and that is the cost from here to your country, You are required to pay the necessary courier charges to enable me send your atm card immediately. please these are the preferred channels of delivery I confirmed, make your choice and get back to me asap:

http://www.dhl.co.uk/home.html

Mailing;.............................EURO 250.00
Vat (20%)..............................EURO 200,00
(it will take over night delivery)
TOTAL.................................EURO 450.00

http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/index.jsx

Mailing:.............................. EURO 220.00
Vat20%:..................................... EURO 50.00 (it will take 3days to delivery)
TOTAL:.............................. EURO 270.00

http://fedex.com/gb/

Mailing...............................EURO 240.00
Vat (20%)..............................EURO 100,00 (it will take 2days to delivery)
TOTAL.................................EURO 340.00

It is pertinent to note that this payment is not negotiable so select any of your affordable courier fee and send it through western union money transfer with this name of my (SAT) stated below.

Receiver's MR Naji Henry.
ADDRESS:IMO STATE NIGERIA
TEST QUESTION:IN GOD
ANSWER:WE TRUST.
MTCN#

Immediately I receive the courier fee, I will send the atm card to you immediately and forward the tracking number to you. I wait for your urgent response with evidence of payment such as Mtcn Number, senders full name, as well as text question and answer to enable me dispatch it today..CALL ME WITH THIS NUMBER+234-7031-2167-22. AS SOON AS YOU SEND THE MONEY You can sms me the mtcn number with the above number

Thanks
Mr. James Steven.

Dear Mr Steven.
apologies for my late reply, but I had to work on 2 flights and just got home.
I have carefully read your mail, and I am afraid I have to let you know that we are facing a problem here.
As I have told you, I work as a flight attendant for LUFTHANSA.
My labour contract includes a strict prohibition of using any of these cash services, due to their alleged involvement in money laundering for the benefit of international terrorism.
I cannot use them, and if I tried, I would seriously risk my job. You might know that the sender of cash transactions does have to provide ID, and all LUFTHANSA employees are blacklisted at Western Union, Momeygram and such. Once they have my ID, they just read out the chip and run it versus the Blacklist software, and they immediately know that I'm not allowed to proceed any further.
Even worse is that the Blacklist system gives electronic feedback to my employer, and that just mustn't happen.
I think you will understand that this is a pretty messy Catch-22-situation for me.
Therefore I will have to make my payment through bank transfer.
PLease let me have your account details as soon as possible, so that I can email my bank and order them to proceed an express transfer.

Thank you very much for your understanding and support.

Kind regards
Louisa

How are you today?based on my previous message we have not yet concluded our arrangement with our Affiliate bank in Europe,to avoid wasting further time on this you are requested to effect the payment into the below bank account information.We await for the payment receipt.also i will like you to send 450 euro so that we can go through DHL. so that your ATM card will come to you faster.

NAME OF BANK: SUNTRUST
BANK ADDRESS: PO BOX 3513 ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32802-3513
ACCOUNT#: 100011XXXXXXX
ROUTING #: 061XXXXXXX
SWIFT CODE S N T R U S 3 A
ACCOUNT NAME : W. R. K. jr

Thanks For Your Understanding.
Mr.James Steven.

Thank you dearly, Sir.....and welcome Piggy No.13 Smile

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:47 pm

I have recently received something similar.

Quote:

Attn
We have finally arranged to transfer your $4,500,000.00 USD through UPS
company. We were able to accomplish this through the help of Mr. Gabriel Bello
of federal high court of justice and every necessary arrangement has been made
successfully with the UPS delivery company Hon. Raymond Hillary.Contact the
director with your delivery information, your phone number, address, city,and
your receiver's name. Contact the director on :+229 6802 4690, And you are to
send them their official keeping fee of $250 only.

Kind Regards
Lorena Marcantoni

Hello Hon. Raymond Hillary

I can take delivery of the $4,500,000 any time. My details are below:

Phone 0779286046
Address Unit 22, Love Lane
City Liverpool
Receiver's Name Miss Armanda Legg

Please reply soon

Armanda

UPS International BENIN
Lot No. 23 Patte D'Oie
03 BP 2147BENIN
Website:www.UPS.com
Tel +229 6802 4690

Attn Armanda Legg

Regards to your immediate response concerning the delivery of your ATM card, the fee will be sent to our office here in Benin Republic through Money Gram Money Transfer with the below information,

Send It through Money Gram Money Transfer via below information;
Receiver’s Name……Monlade Eriyomi Germain
Country………..Benin Republic
City………….Cotonou
Text Question……..How Long?
Answer……..Today
Amount……..$250 USD or £195

Endeavour to send or attach to us the payment slip for easy reference of the payment here in our office.

Money transfer control number (MTCN)?
Sender's Name?
Senders address?

Thanks while we wait for your urgent response.
Kind Regards
Hon Raymond Hillary
Director UPS Benin Republic
+229 6802 4690

I'll see if I can get something out of them like you have.

Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:34 pm

That should work; I have replied to 3 of those ATM-card scammers, and all three of them presented accounts Smile

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:18 pm

I've had this lad on board for about three weeks. Like Mountain Goat I told them I worked for an airline who forbid all activity with WU & MG.
However, I went along with the lad's suggestion of using a third party person (fictional) to transfer money via MG but she keeps going off to places as well as my character so we rarely cross paths. Therefore although the MG "transfer" has taken place my character is finding it difficult getting the payment slip from her friend.
This could go on for ages. Once my character gets the payments slip it is going to be damaged and unreadable anyway so then she will have to getstart chasing her friend again!
She keeps banging on to the lad about why he does not use normal bank transfer methods but she has not got an answer as yet.

Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 2:35 pm

Progress so far
Armanda keeps putting lad off with flights all over the world (she works for BA) and got a "friend" to do the Moneygram bit but of course they do not see each other very often, hence lots of hold-ups.
The lad gets impatient so has to be put in his place now and again.

Quote:

Hello Raymond
I understand about payment slips. However, what you do not understand is that with bank transfers the money is transferred from one bank to the other without the necessity to have payment slips. It is done automatically without any fuss.

Surely in your type of business you must have heard of it. You are 50 year behind the times. You will next be telling me you have just got
electricity! I repeat: Why do you refuse to use normal bank transfer like normal people instead of using outdated methods?

Will I get an answer?

* * * * * * *

Hello Raymond

Louisa phoned me this morning. I asked her about the payments slip and she said she would have a look for it. I told her that if she finds it to bring it to me. Is that acceptable?

You still have not answered my question about why you insist on using Money Gram instead of normal bank transfer. Do you understand the question? I cannot put it any simpler.

* * * * * * *

Hello Raymond

I am just back from Rio. What an exhausting flight. I need a rest.

I will contact Louisa today and arrange for us to meet. I can then get hold of the payment slip you are so intent on.

As I said before, if you and your fifth-rate company had used normal Bank Transfer like anyone else we would not be in this stupid situation. Get into the 21st century.

* * * * * * *

Attn Armanda,

Please, if you can not attach the payment slip of the acclaimed payment, quit writing to our mailbox.

* * * * * * *

Hello Raymond

You are in a grumpy mood aren't you. I have said this before - what's the rush? I am the one who has all this money coming to me aren't I? I am quite happy to wait for it or am I not the one who is going to benefit? It seems all you care about is getting your grubby hands on my fee payment?

If you had used Bank Transfer like everyone else you would have had my money ages ago so quit complaining to me. Are you not going to tell me why you use this outdated method?

For your information I have seen Louisa and she gave me the payment slip. Do you want me to post it to you? If so give me your address and I will post it today.

Armanda

So the story continues. Armanda will send a file that cannot be opened or a MG slip that is unreadable or mutilated.

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:11 pm

The saga of Armanda goes on.

Quote:

Hello Raymond

I have been to the library and scanned the payment slip. Why do you insist on using Moneygram when transferring money through normal Bank Transfer, like normal people, works with no fuss or bother or all this messing about with payment slips? Are you going to answer this simple question?

What happens now?

* * * * * * *

Hello Raymond

I am flying to Los Angeles tomorrow morning.

If you do not reply to me by the end of today you will have to wait until I come back from Los Angeles on Saturday to sort this out.

* * * * * * *

Hello Armanda,

If you like fly to Burundi, running from pillar to post is your cup of tea. I don't care, you can do your worst and leave me alone.

Kind Regards
Raymond Hillary

* * * * * * *

Hello Raymond

I have never known someone to be so rude as you. I am sure UPS would be interested to hear how you operate. What do you mean: "leave you alone"? It was you who first contacted me about an ATM card.

I fulfilled my obligation of paying you £195 through Moneygram which you insisted on using instead of a normal Bank Transfer. You also insisted on me getting the payments slip scanned which I have done for you. I am doing all the work here, not you. All you have to do is wait.

If all this is too much for you I shall recall the £195 from Moneygram. Then you can give me your bank details so I can do an instant transfer to you of the £195.

I am not "running from pillar to post". I told you I work for British Airways and it is part of my job to fly to different parts of the world.

Do you want the £195 or not?

Armanda is still fishing for a bank account but doesn't expect a reply.

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:33 pm

Sadly, this is not going very far. Trying to get a bank account out of this is like trying to get blood out of a stone.

Quote:

Attn Armanda,

I am no rude nor i try to be rude but you took me for a jibe, you sounds like a joker; if i may put it that way. But that does not mean that i'm rude nor try to yell on you.

If you are sincere, why can't you attach the payment slip since past week, you said Louisa has given it to you? Do you think i'm here alone for your service? You claimed to've sent the fee but no proof. So i think i will let you to do your worst and leave me alone. Thanks you.

* * * * * *

Hello Raymond

I am back from Los Angeles. It was very pleasant over there. Not like here. It is constantly raining.

With the help of Louisa I have managed to attach the payment slip you have been waiting for. I hope we can at last get this sorted as I am sure you will agree, using Moneygram is so inconvenient.

I contacted UPS over here and they told me they always use Bank Transfer to transfer money between people so I will ask you yet again: Why do you insist on using Moneygram when transferring money through normal Bank Transfer, like normal people, works with no fuss or bother or all this messing about with payment slips?

Is there something going on that you have not told me?

<< Really blurred Moneygram payment slip attached>>

* * * * * *

Attn Armanda,

We could not see anything clearly on the slip you attached, for that reason, kindly copy-out the below information and send to us,

Sender's full names?
Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN)?
Address?

Kindly do that because we are very much ready to ship your card as soon as you confirm the information to us.
Thanks as we wait for the information.

* * * * * *

Hello Raymond

I am not going to be messed about any more. I have done all you asked and still you are not happy. I have had enough of this.

You refuse to answer my questions so I am withdrwing the money I sent you via Money Gram.

If you want the money send me your bank details so I can carry out a normal Bank Transfer. Otherwise - forget it.

I cannot see anything coming from this but I've wasted some time!

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:20 pm

Surprised to get a reply so is there hope?

Quote:

Attn Armanda,

Sorry but i don't meant to suffer you. I ask you to kindly look for the reference (number) and send to us. That is the only thing i ask of you, i try to read out the letters on the slip but everything was very tiny and it cannot be viewed. So i sincerely apologize for the inconvenience it might caused you.

* * * * * *

Hello Raymond

It is too late now. I asked Louise to get the money returned which she has. I am not going through that again.

If you want your £195 it will have to be through normal Bank Transfer as I have told you many times.

If you are not prepared to do this then just forget the whole thing.

I'm not holding my breath!