Hello

I wanted to let you know, I joined this forum just to post some letters I received. I never sent money, told him, them I was uncomfortable sending money. I will include my replies as well. I honestly did not think it would go on as long as it did.

My good friend, FIRST LETTER DATE 22MAY09

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?,I am using
this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar business has
been concluded with the assistance of another foreign partner from Isreal
who financed the transaction to a logical conclusion.Due to your effort,sincerity,courage
and trust worthiness you showed during the course of the transaction.I have
left a certified international bank cheque worth of $1,200, 000.00 cashable
anywhere in the world for you.

Contact my account officer in Benin he will send the cheque to you or help
you to transfer the money into your account if you like to receive the money
through bank to bank transfer.His contact info:

Mr.Tokpe Maurice in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Email address: [email protected]

You should send him your:

Full Name.........................
Telephone number................
Currect mailing address where you want him to send the cheque to you................

I am now in Isreal investing my own share of the fund.Please note that i
am busy and have no chance to check my email always.Therefore, Contact my
accountant officer he will help you to receive the money as i have instructed
him.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Hoping to hear you.

Mr.Mathew Hounsou
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Dear XXXXXXXXX, SECOND LETTER DATE 27MAY09 4:29am

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your mail.Yes,I have the instruction to send to you your certified bank cheque kept in my custody by your associate (Mathew Hounsou).He instructed that as soon as you contact me,I should forward the cheque to you through Courier Company.

Now that I have received your email contact and have taken cognisance of your mailing address.I will today be at the courier company to confirm modalities of registering and dispatching of your cheque to you.I will communicate you as soon as I am back from the courier company.

Please do confirm receipt of this email.

Sincerely,

Mr.Tokpe Maurice
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Dear XXXXXXXX, THIRD LETTER DATE 27MAY09 8:15am

I was able to confirm all modalities for delivery of the cheque to you.

I have to checked all internationally acclaimed courier companies such as DHL, UPS and FEDEX .

Below are the necessary findings I made from the courier companies for the dispatch of your cheque Here is the cost of sending your cheque through any of these Express courier services and the cost from here to your country. You are required to paythe necessary courier charges to enable me send your cashier cheque immediately to you

Please these are the preffered channels of delivery I confirmed, make your choice and get back to me today for payment advice.

DHL
Mailing;...............................$160.00
Vat .....................................$25..00
TOTAL...........................................$185.00

UPS
Mailing:................................ $155.00
Vat:..................................... $25.00
TOTAL:.......................................... $180.00

FEDEX
Mailing...............................$150.00
Vat .......................................$25.00
TOTAL.............................................$175.00

Sincerely,

Mr.Tokpe Maurice
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When are you paying for the delivery of your check? FOURTH LETTER DATE 30MAY09 5:03am
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Attn: XXXXXXXXX, FIFTH LETTER 02JUNE09 7:30am

Are you ready to pick up this $5,000 sent today.We have concluded to effect your payment through Western Union $5,000 daily until the $1,200,000 is completely transfered. Meanwhile, Pascal Cohouvi has Western Union $5,000 in your name today.

So contact Western Union Agent to pick up this $5000 now:

Contact Person: Mr.William Kakpo E-mail: [email protected]
Ask him to give you the mtcn,sender name,question and answer to pick the $5,000

Also you should send to him your informations

YOUR FULL NAME
YOUR ADDRESS
YOUR DIRECT PHONE NUMBER

Thanks Mr.Martin Kouyaté
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Mr.William Kakpo, MY FIRST RESPONSE 02JUNE09 11:44pm

Sir, thank you for your help in this matter. Included below, this was sent to me and I was told to contact you.
Also there will be fees associated with these Western Union transfers, will you be able to cover these fees from the proceeds? Also what about your time and effort in this matter? I would like to be sure that you are taken care of.
Did I understand correctly that a Western Union has already been sent, I was told to ask you to give me the mtcn,sender name,question and answer to pick up the $5,000.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to call me. The information you requested is listed below in RED.

Best Regards,
XXXXXXXX
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FROM OFFICE OF THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER. LETTER #6 03JUNE09 6:17am
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC/ADDRESS 455 AGBOKOU,ANKPA
ROAD OPPOSITE TUNDE MOTORS COTONOU.
WEB:http://site.www.westernunion.com/

ATTN: XXXXXXXXX,

We acknowledge the receipt of your email and wish to clarify you on our contact to you. Be informed that we have been mandated by the ministry of finance of Benin Republic to pay all out-stand payment which yours is inclusive.

However, be informed that your payment of $1.2 million dollars have been approved and gazetted to be released to you. But for us to proceed with the release of your fund as advised, your file have to be renewed and the cost is $125 US dollars only.

As soon as we confirm the receipt of payment of $125 US dollars today , you will start receiving your payment of $1..2 million dollars in bits starting with $5,000 us dollars.

Therefore you are hereby advise to go to the western union money transfer office now to send the renewal fee $125 US dollars today with the information below

RECEIVER NAME:.......... MR. CHUKWUKA ONYEKA
COUNTRY............ Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Text Question== FUNDS
Answer............... TRANSFER
Amount............... $125

The moment we receive the payment information MTCN number of $125 we will release the first payment information of $5,000 to you and you will pick up the money and another will be sent to you by tomorrow.

We hope hearing from you ASAP.

Yours in service.

Mr. William Kakpo
FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER
WESTERN UNION OFFICE BENIN REPUBLIC
THIS IS OUR CONDUCT CODE ( 303)
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Mr. William Kakpo, SECOND RESPONSE 03JUNE09 10:36pm

Sir, please be advised you have control of a large sum of money, I have given you permission on two occasions to remove fees for transfer of funds and also for your time and energies spent in this matter. I am a man who understands that time is money. I feel quite uncomfortable forwarding any sum of money to you with the amount you are already holding marked to be forwarded to me. I would feel much more comfortable with a split of some kind. I will leave the opening to you to see what you feel your time is worth.
I wait patiently now in your service.

Best Regards,
XXXXXXXX
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LETTER #7 04JUNE09 8:21am
Inasmuch as i have available your funds of $1.2 m i cannot take any amount out of the funds without renewal of your payment file with the Ministry Of Finance,it is also important that you understand that without this renewal your funds transfer is virtually impossible.So instead of wasting unnecessary time it is advisable that you send the required $125 to facilitate what needs to be done so we can commence with your funds transfer.

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MY RESPONSE 04JUNE09 8:56pm
And what happens to the 1.2m as I am uncomfortable to send you any money without any good faith on your part.
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LETTER #8 05JUNE09 3:54am
[i]The $1.2m will be declared unclaimed funds and send to Federal Reserve account

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MAYBE I AM MAKING HIM MISS SLEEP????? ~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Welcome to Western Union LETTER #9 05JUNE09 5:03am
Send Money Worldwide
FROM OFFICE OF THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC/ADDRESS 455 AGBOKOU,ANKPA
ROAD OPPOSITE TUNDE MOTORS COTONOU.
WEB:http://site.www.westernunion.com/

Attn:XXXXXXXXXX?,

This is to notify all our customers about the latest development concerning all the payment that are left in our custody,which yours are inclusive Besides, yours where given a bill of $125.00,in order to receive your payment of which we didn’t hear from you for sometime now....

Hence, our Western Union is now offering a Special BONUS to help all our customers that are having their payment in our custody due to of prices. In order words we are now requesting that those involve should pay only the sum of $65. 00 to receive all their payment abandoned in our custody.

Besides, my dear, this is the opportunity for you and have to comply and your funds shall be transfer to your desginated address.

But remember that after (3 DAYS) you did not make the payment then we will divert your funds to Goverment Fund, to aviod problem or we will cancel the payment for this year untill next year because this year is not like last year.

Again after (3 DAYS ) We will enter A new project for the year and that is the reason why we decided to help to all our customers before we enter into the new project.So be advise to send the $65.00 immediately so that we will register your payment and for you to start receiving $5000..00 as from tomorrow. After the payment of $65.00 you will start receiveing your money every day $5000.00 through Western Union and Money Gram $5000 by money gram untill the full payment of $1.2m is completed. So what you will be receiveing per day is $10,000
Beneficiarey name----------------------------
Address--------------------------------
Tel phone-----------------------------
CONTACT PERSON: MR.WILLIAM KAKPO
EMAIL: [email protected]
Thanks

Mr.Martin Kouyaté

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SO I WAS SURPRISED TO RECEIVE THIS LATEST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Dear XXXXXXXX, LATEST LETTER DATE 22JUNE09 6:50am

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your certified bank cheque of $1.2 million US Dollars but I did not hear from you. Then I went and deposited the cheque with EMS International Courier Services, BENIN REPUBLIC for delivery to you because I want to travel to Madrid, Spain and will not come back till next month end.
So I want you to contact EMS International Courier Services, BENIN REPUBLIC to know when they will deliver your package.
I have paid for the delivery charges,the only money you have to send to them is their security keeping fee which is $59 US Dollars only to receive your package as they told me.Below is their Contact Address:

Contact Person: Mr.Djimon Williams
Director: EMS International Courier, BENIN REPUBLIC.
E-mail: [email protected]

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security keeping fee. I gave them your delivery address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake on the course of delivery to you. Send to them the followings:-

1. Your full name & address where you will receive the package.
2. Phone number for comunications.
3. A scan copy of your identity.
4. Security-keeping fee of $59 only

Let me know as soon as you receive your package.

Thanks and bye.
Mr. Tokpe maurice

~~~~~ By checking out EMS International Courier Services, BENIN REPUBLIC I found a link to this website.
I kept all e-mails in a folder and I was going to turn them over to the FBI, could you give me some
advice on this matter as to weather there is a better way to handle this situation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Welcome to Scamwarners.
Reporting him to the FBi is a waste of time, I'm afraid. There are too many scammers, mostly working anonymously out of West African Internet cafes. Law enforcement doesn't have the resources to deal with them.
I think sites like this and www.419eater.com next door, are more effective than the police.

Hi Sharkman

Welcome to Scamwarners

Beaten to it by Arnold so some of this is doubled up but I will post anyway.

Unfortunately the FBI are extremely unlikely to do anything about this, in your case you didn't lose any money so there is no victim, even if there was a victim, the police in your country have no jurisdiction in Africa where the scammers reside

The police are under resourced and dont have time to investigate every scammer and then cant do anything about it if they did.

The vast majority of these scammers come from Africa or Russia although they do come from other parts of the worlds as well where corruption and an almost public acceptance allows scammers to thrive, paying a bribe here and there seems to keep them out of jail.

The best thing you can do is exactly as you have done, post scam emails here, (minus your own is generally best but not a huge problem if the scammer cant identify you) hopefully others will do as you have done and find the truth before being scammed.

The other thing you can do is to tell your family and friends about this, public awareness is our best defence

Welcome Sharkman! You've already received sound advice from Arnold and Ralph so I'll just say thanks for taking the time to join and post the emails. By doing so, you may have saved someone from becoming victim to this scam.

Do check out 419Eater.com, you seem a natural scambaiter. Baiters at Eater use all fake information to waste the time of scammers but also gather intel like scammer bank accounts, fraudulent websites, etc.