A Well Written Scam

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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:43 am

A couple weeks ago I threw out a one sentence response to a "Risky Free" email. The spam was sent to my 'real' email. I replied in my bait address, but I forgot the original scam story. Then, tonight, I got this novel in my inbox. Probably the most well written I've seen in a scam.

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Thank you for your prompt response to my proposal, I appreciate your interest in this transaction. Your interest to assist me was specific but, I am still skeptical also in believing that you could be of assistance to me, however I would like to be sure of your willingness, trustworthiness and commitment to execute this transaction with me, I cannot afford to Compromise these virtues.Considering the money involved, it is necessary for me to be sure of the person to whom I will be entrusting this transaction; my trust is not given out lightly.

Please, let me have a brief biography of your person. What I expect from you is trust and commitment, I want this large sum of money transferred with your assistance. I want to inform you here that in pursuing a God fearing partner who can assist me in this project, I did contact you from my local area chambers of commerce and industry's directory here in China. Note that I have not contacted you as a matter of choice but of necessity knowing fully well the monetary policy of your country and that of others. This indeed prompted me to informing you of this matter.

Furthermore, with regards to the legality of this transaction, I must let you know that this transaction is real and risk free, I want to know if you are willing to follow up this business seriously before I can give you more details about this transaction, I have exhaustively considered your response today and I am satisfied that you have an understanding of the need for absolute secrecy in this pending project, hence my firm belief that I can count on your total support and confidentiality. I would proceed without any reservation to bring you into the complete picture of this transaction. Before doing this, I would again like to reiterate the importance of confidentiality, as i am still in active service in my banking career and would not like my names to be brought to odium or my long tenure in office jeopardized.

In searching for a God fearing and reliable partner for the purpose of this transaction, I have contacted you personally not as a matter of choice but of necessity knowing fully well, the monetary policies as regards funds transfer especially after the event of September 11th in America.

I will be fully conscious in the pursuit of this project to make sure that we do not go against any local or international laws of funds transfer. You must understand that I am a family man and presently still serving here in the Bank of China. What I intend doing is to have your details that is your full name as documented, your telephone and fax numbers to contact you on as regards the transfer, your physical contact address, your age and also any possible identification.

With these, I should be able to place together all documentation in your name to prove to the authority that you are truly the next of kin/beneficiary to the estate and I will also have the probate letter signed at the Court of China. As soon as all these are done and ratification exercise takes place which we must surely scale through as I will make a lot of under the table arrangement here, I will place an application of claim in your name for the release of the funds. As soon as we have concluded with this arrangement using an international clearing agent, you will then have to open up a separate bank account in your name and you alone have to be the signatory. This bank wills serve as an intermediary between your bank and the BOC.

The aim of the intermediary bank is to receive the funds from the BOC and from there you can have the entire funds transferred bit by bit into any of your chosen bank account in your country. With this arrangement, even if there has to be a loop hole in what we have done so far the funds cannot be traced. These special banks which I will introduce to you are specialized in this aspect. They assist business men alike who do not want the heavy load of tax to eat into their fund, they also assist government official in taking our funds out of our country without due attention from any authority.

You will get to know more about this once we have both accepted to be partners in this venture. This will be your responsibility and I will have to perfect the rest of the arrangement here. The account you have are account from regular banks they cannot serve the purpose here. You will begin to understand and appreciate this idea once we have commenced process on this transaction. It is all going to be a bank to bank affair you do not need to worry in as much as you follow my words as religiously as possible.

I will also like to know more about your biography to further increase my level of trust and confidence in you as I am afraid that anyone can make away with my entire funds once it gets to his/her possession. I want you to please make me believe in you that you will not let me down. I am a gentleman of honor who has this opportunity and will not let it go having worked in this sector for several years. This is my only opportunity and I will not toy with it. I will also assure you that I know what I am doing and to the best of my knowledge, the entire project is legitimate and very risk free in as much as we observe high level of confidentiality and treat this matter accordingly with the two of us sharing ideas and not missing words.

If you have further knowledge on how we can go about this matter let us then open the room for discussion and let us deal with this matter totally. Upon your response and also stating your ability to handle the project I will inform you on what you need do to have an account established in an offshore tax haven like Grenada, Barbados, British Virgin Inslands, Cayman Islands, Dominica.

I will await further response from you.

Thankfully, I think I have a few connections to help a lad out!

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:23 am

Just realized, there was a surplus letter posted coming from the same address. Going to presume it was the same story Wink

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 05 Jan 2017 Posts: 790

I'm willing to bet his next email will have all the usual ladishisms and you will receive many blessings both positive and negative.

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:05 am

So much the better.

They asked for a scan of an id, so I gave them a little black box with the entirety of War and Peace written in the text data Razz

I also suggested they work with my company's charity division to transfer those funds of theirs, so long as they have the proper account info to corroborate.

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 12:33 pm

This may give you some idea of his next scripts.

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 3:48 pm

Got to love the word walls! Most likely that will come to a screeching halt after one or two exchanges.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 05 Jan 2017 Posts: 790

@bware ,that's excellent

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:32 am

Thought I'd have some fun with the request for my personal history. Pretty happy with the this little detail...

Quote:

I had a wife, but she left me and took our 10 children with. My lawyer says it had to do with my incontinence in handling her temperature, and the fact that the house was constantly filled with golden showers.

Honestly, if I had known she didn't like gold rings and necklaces I would have given her pearls
Cool

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 2:46 am

Great response. I especially like your intentional use of wrong terms lol.

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 2:15 pm

I had a long plane flight recently so I drafted a super lengthy response to the typical scam letters I receive. It includes numerous questions and requires a lot of detail from the scammer. It takes me 3 seconds to cut and paste it in response. So far only 4 of 50+ scammers have responded by answering all of the questions but I'll keep at it. Most ignore it but when they do respond it's entertaining and boy do they waste a lot of time.

There used to be this link on eater that you could send lads to where the "carrot" was that when they filled out all of the information on the site they would receive their MTCN code. The lads had to work through 50 questions and then it would reset. I actually had a few answer everything. It was hilarious.

Trying to do something similar via email. Smile