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419 — And Also With You

October 6th, 2006

You may remember some time ago I had a brief conversation with a Mrs Peace Dibor. Well, after I sent the last email on that page, she did eventually get back to me.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Aug 19, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: thanks for ur reply

Hello?

Eventually.

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Aug 29, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: Tnx, pls. consider this & inform me your opinion

Helo Dear Andrew Taylor ,

Goodday

Thank you soo much for writting in details as i have gone through your mail & thanks alot my good friend, sorry for my little bit delay in reply since was a little bit sick but now ok, our correspondence so far has given me some kind of trust and confidence in your person.

Truly speaking,I have had some time to think this over and have decided to pitch my tent with you. I have to thank you for taken the time out of your busy schedule to write and help me to understand you more.

The tuneof your email sent me message that you are a trustworthy person in whomI should trust even with our family secrets. Now that Ihave fully established trust in your person, I will just have to open-up to you. I could not tell you this at the beginning since I was not sure of your personality.

The realfact is that i am the personal assistance to the chairman of the contract award committee of our ministry of works and housing hereinDakar, for our present security reasons, I won’t disclose the most vital proves to you for now until I hear more from you. After due deliberation with my Boss,I decided to forward to you this business proposal unfortunately my boss passed way last weekend, he was involved n a ghastly car crash which took away many souls.

I want you to assistme cash this certified draft through the foreign contractor’s paying bank and move it into your account.

This fund came from the contract our government awarded through our ministry and it has been executed and our commissioned was paid to us through a certified bank draft. Unfortunately, we cannot cash this draft while over here because to our law forbids civil servants to operate such amount or own foreign accounts, we have agreed to share this money with you in the following percentages: 30% for you while 50%for my Boss and20% for me as the contact person. Upon indication of your interest tofully co-operate with me.

As soon as we confirm receipt of thismoney in your nominated account,either myself or my husband will come over to any country you may advice to arrange for our own shareandpossibly invest part of this money in your country or any busines you may advice .

Let honesty and trust be our watch word throughout this transaction.

Please furnish me with some more details about yourself such as your nationalIdentity or I.D Card for proper proof, recognition about whom exactly that you are and your direct phone numbers and your country dial codenumbers so that we can easily reach each other because we now talkingof financial matter and a whole lots of fund is involved so care mustbe taken for one not be ruined.
Do not neglect this request because it will go along away to create trust and remove fears/doubtswithin us,i shall also return to furnish you with my identity as well for your refference.

We need to get to know ourselves too well, and it’s better be done through this very gradually process.

I look forward to hearing from you immerdiatelly.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Peace Dibor .

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Aug 29, 2006 3:09 PM

Helo Dear Andrew Taylor ,
Goodday .

Happy to hear from you today as when God wishes thats the usual way it goes.

I quite appreciate your response and i would say that we haven’t really met but i strongly beleive that it takes one to know someone as i have gone and found your good profile and understand you are a very responsible person so i want to be the first that will sacrifice her time out of the busy schedules to get to know a dear friend like you today.

I want to beleive that you would feel the same as i do.

At first, i want to tell you more about myself, i was born on 26th march 1972, i am presently 34 years old, i got married immediately after my secondary school in Dakar Senegal.

I am blessed with two daughters and a son, my first issue is agirl( Kimberly), she is 12 years old, while my second issue is a boy (Keny),he is 8 years and my last issue is a girl(Ify) she is 6 years old.My husband’s name is Mr Patrick Dibor, he used to work with RTS in Senegal but he is presently retrenched. I work with the ministry of works and housing and i’m presently the personal assistance to the director general of the ministry.

I’m happily married and i love my family so much, we are not rich but hard working.
I wish to send you my identity and at least some photographs on my receipt of your response.This will enable us know that we are relating well and we are honest enough to confide ineach other.

I still want to prove to you that this is not a kind of game, joke or a child’s play. Thanks for your kind interest and your willingness to work and assist me in this transaction. Please, find here under the details of the transaction for better understanding. I must confess to you that you sound good and ready by detailing your concern in this business and I had actually sent this proposal to five(5) different persons including you.

I received three responses so far but I am yet to choose the person for me in this transaction. If I am satisfied with the information you shall give me about yourself, then I may choose you as my partner in this transaction.

We are talking about a whole lot’s of financial matter, therefore i want you to assure me very well that you won’t betray me as per trust, it’s a given thing that trust is earned, it is not given out lightly, however, I need you in this transaction but you need to convince me more because I’m giving you today my trust in totality.

Please i would appreciate if you can tell me more about youself in your next mail, if you wish to call me, then you can call my house phone: 00 221 368 1601.

Do not get frightened whenyou call and my husband picks your call because he is aware of you, so feel free to call me if you can.

If possible can you forward to me a scanned copy of your Identity for recognition? Are you really sure that you can handle this transaction with absolute confidentiality untill you receive this funds in your account? I will provide you with further details for us to proceed by you contacting the bank incharge on my behalf, if I’m satisfied with your next mail content, which i am waiting to receive now.

Thank you very much for encouraging me and please be blessed as i wait to hear more from you.

Regards from
Ms Peace Dibor.

They were a while coming, but honestly I’d only expected the one.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sep 13, 2006 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: Its my wish to work with you but i need an assurance & trust from you

Halo 2 Mrs Peace Dibor!

First, let me apologise for the delay in getting back to you. This was
due to my being somewhat busy sorting out some business in the Vanilla
Dome. However, I am finished there now, and I am at your disposal
until such a time as I must move on to the Twin Bridges.

I gather from your mail that this could result in my collecting a
great many coins. As you know, this would be very valuable to me as it
would increase my life counter significantly.

I am attaching a scanned copy of my passport. I hope it is acceptable
as identification.

Andrew

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You make me wait, you get a stupid passport. That’s the deal.

I should warn you, Dibor doesn’t half go on a bit.

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 14, 2006 2:26 PM
Subject: Its my wish to work with you but i still need an assurance & trust from you

Dearly Mr. Andrew Taylor,

Thanks for your email message of a self explanatory message including your good explanation as contained in your last letter to me, the total amount in , the International Bank Draft amount is US$ 3,800.000,00 ( Three million eight hundred thousand US Dollars ) .

I still want to prove to you that this is not a kind of game, joke, a child’s play & i do not want waste of time in this crucial business as its schedule to be fullfiled with your concept.

If you wish to call me, then you can call my house phone: 00 221 368 1601, aslo you can email me you direct valid telephone number so that can likewise call you whenever i can to discuss ,share and we feel each others voice .

Thanks for your kind interest and your willingness to work and assist me in this transaction. Please, find here under the details of the transaction for better understanding. I must confess to you that you sound good and ready by detailing your concern in this business and I had actually sent this proposal to five(5) different persons including you.

I received three responses so far but I am yet to choose the person for me in this transaction. If I am satisfied with the information you shall give me about yourself, then I may choose you as my partner in this transaction.

We are talking about a whole lot’s of financial matter, therefore i want you to assure me very well that you won’t betray me as per trust, it’s a given thing that trust is earned, it is not given out lightly, however, I need you in this transaction but you need to convince me more because I’m giving you today my trust in totality.

Thanks for forwarding to me a scanned copy of your international passport as an identity & this only for our own recognition of each other, I will also send mine in return email to you if am satisfied with you next response .

Are you really sure that you can handle this transaction with absolute confidentiality untill you receive this funds in your account? I will provide you with further details for us to proceed by you contacting the bank incharge here in Dakar on my behalf, if I’m satisfied with your next mail content, which i am waiting to receive now.

All regarding this transaction is for our future better & thank you very much for encouraging me and please be blessed as i wait to hear more from you.

Try to reply today .

Regards,

Mrs. Peace Dibor .

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sep 14, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: Its my wish to work with you but i still need an assurance & trust from you

Halo 2 Mrs Peace Dibor

I want to assure you that I can hold these funds in secret. I am often
collecting coins and nobody will question a few more. I can keep the
whole transaction under my wing-cap, so to speak.

I look forward to hearing from you again.

It’s-a me,
Andrew

She sent me this message, in its entirety, twice. Why? I have no idea. Why does she do anything?

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 15, 2006 6:13 PM
Subject: Establish contact with the paying bank now & my i.d attached for your recorgnition

Helo Dear Mr. Andrew Taylor,

Tnx for responding in full details as i now have no more doubts about your honesty in this transaction. Every necessary documentation is made to be officially done between you & the bank so you have to contact the draft cashment/paying bank now.

You have proved beyond reasonable doubt that you are indeed ready to work with you with good intentions for me, please make sure you keep every conversation confidential because of my job and to avoid sabortage. I don’t anyone to know how we made this money untill it’s cashed and paid into your account.

My i.d is attached for a recorgnition of who you are dealing with, i will call you as soon as i am enable to get your valid telephone number from you so that we can at least enjoy each other’s choice and chats.

I have decided to cash this draft through an apex bank over here because i don’t trust the banking rules of UK, it entails alot of taxes and most are upfront fees and taxes. I actually do not like anything Britons that survive by taxation and they also would like to investigate on how we got this money, so it is better we cash it through african bank Senegal since it’s also one of the major affiliate banks where any amount contained in a drafts can be cashed easily.

Therefore, stated below is the contact of the Bank of Africa Senegal, please extablish immediate contacts with this bank below.
………………………………………………………………..
Bank Of Africa Senegal(BOASE)
39,Av.Leopold Sedar Senghor,
Dakar Senegal.West Africa.
Direct Tel: 00 221 466 2471
Direct Fax: + 221 892 4845, Direct E-mail : boase@sanfranmail.com
Contact person: Mr.Omar Ndiaye ( Foreign operations Dept.)
Amount on the Draft : US$ 3,800.000,00
………………………………………………………

Remember that your purpose of contacting this bank of Africa Senegal is to inform them that you have been nominated by me to represent me in cashing the draft which i had earlier forwarded to them a letter authorisation to permit them work with you on my behalf which they accepted and are waiting for you.

Now you are going to contact this bank by either phone or e-mail, though i prefers e-mail since we don’t have same time difference. Send an e-mail to this bank immediately and ask them to please give you all necessary details on how to cash certified bank draft through their treasury. Make sure you forward to the bank the amount and the name of the beneficiary written in that draft to enable them respond to you on time.

I am appealing to you, to please do all things with utmost sincerity and make sure you do not delay in any response to the bank, i want us to cash this money within this week but it deppends on how fast you shall be when you starts with the bank. Though i am looking forward to hearing from you as you commences with the bank mentioned above, i wish you well but do not relax untill our good becomes better and our better becomes best. This is all i can say for now, please let’s move on with united spirit and morale ok.

Note that attached to this message is the copies of my international passport for your own recorgnition, I want you to contact the Bank of Africa Senegal immediately.

Regards from,

Mrs. Peace Dibor.

Note, you can fill the below letter for example and send to the bank .

Bank Of Africa Senegal(BOASE)
39,Av.Leopold Sedar Senghor,
Dakar Senegal.West Africa.
Direct Tel: 00 221 466 2471
Direct Fax: + 221 892 4845
E-mail : boase@sanfranmail.com
Contact person: Mr.Omar Ndiaye ( Foreign operations Dept.)

Dear Sir,

I hereby would like to take this opportunity to inform you that I have been nominated by Mrs. Peace Dibor to cash the International Bank Draft in the amount of US$ 3,800.000,00 ( Three million eight hundred thousand US Dollars ). I hereby would like to request you to advice on the proceedure to fasting up the cashment /release of this funds remittance to my nominated bank account here in mention your contry.

Please find my bank details as below follows :

state your bank details
==============
==============
==============

For your kind attention and your good cooperation, allow me to thank you very much in advance.
I am looking forward to hearing from you again.

Kindest regards,

Mr. your full name .
Address, phone .

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Yes, ma’am!

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: boase@sanfranmail.com
Bcc: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sep 15, 2006 8:01 PM
Subject: Fwd: Establish contact with the paying bank now & my i.d attached for your recorgnition

Dear Sir,

I hereby would like to take this opportunity to inform you that I have
been nominated by Mrs. Peace Dibor to cash the International Bank
Draft in the amount of US$ 3,800.000,00 ( Three million eight hundred
thousand US Dollars ). I hereby would like to request you to advice on
the proceedure to fasting up the cashment /release of this funds
remittance to my nominated bank account here in Termina.

Please find my bank details as below follows :

The Clock Town Bank
West Clock Town
Clock Town
Termina

For your kind attention and your good cooperation, allow me to thank
you very much in advance.
I am looking forward to hearing from you again.

Kindest regards,

Mr. Andrew Taylor

From: boase@sanfranmail.com
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: 15 Sep 2006 19:06:40 -0000
Subject: Re: Fwd: Establish contact with the paying bank now & my i.d attached for your recorgnition

Thanks for contacting the management of Bank of Africa Senegal, we shall revert to you shortly.

Swish bastards.

From: BANK OF AFRICA SENEGAL (boase@sanfranmail.com)
To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
Date: Sep 18, 2006 6:54 PM
Subject: Confirm Receipt

Bank Of Africa Senegal(BOASE)
39,Av.Leopold Sedar Senghor,
Dakar Senegal.West Africa.
Tel: 00 221 368 1543
Fax: 00 221 892 4845

Attn:Mr.Andrew Taylor

In view of your request for claims, cash and transfer of USD3.8M on behalf of Mrs.Peace Dibor. We sincerely apologise for late response, investigation has been conducted and your information coincided with those in our record based on the report from our payment verification board.

Be informed that before further transfer process can be effected in your favour, we need to receive the following documents from the court of Senegal precisely, to prove that you have been mandated by Mrs Peace Dibor.

(1) Forward a scaned copy of your identity and carefully fill the attached questionnaire form.
(2) Present a sworn affidavit from high court of Senegal.

We hope that you will understand that our request for the above documents and information are part of our security protocols to avoid fraudlent claims or an unwarranted taking advantage of our customer’s by some individuals or some other distance relation, who might have had access to his/her privacy.

On receipt of the above requirements by e-mail attachment, we shall verify them and once we are satisfied, we shall process draft and effect the transfer without further delay. Thanks for your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Omar Ndiaye.
Foreign operations & International Remittance Dept.
(Bank of Africa Senegal,Dakar-Senegal)

You don’t really need to see the attachment. It’s terribly dull. This letter, again, came twice. I wonder if she writes paper letters out twice and sends them in separate envelopes.

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 16, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: I see & pls. i will need an instant feedback hence you heared from bank

Dear Mr. Andrew Taylor,

Thanks for your brief upadet as i can now really see that you have followed up with the bank.

Am glad you understand the high need to follow up with the cashment process/process of this transaction with the bank and i advcie you constantly adhere strictly to the instructions & directives of the bank so as to encourage the instant final processing, cashment & transfering of this draft amount to you & each of us will smile .

Please do constantly keep me post, hence you receive updates from the bank .

Regards ,

Mrs. Peace Dibor .

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sep 19, 2006 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: I see & pls. i will need an instant feedback hence you heared from bank

I just got a letter from the bank saying that they want a a sworn
affidavit from the high court of Senegal. I cannot go to Senegal as I
am currently in Germany, and only have one Warp Whistle. What should
we do?

Andrew

Again, twice:

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 19, 2006 3:29 PM
Subject: Please read to carefully fill the form & contact the lawyer to obtain the bank requirement

Dearly Honourable Mr.Andrew Taylor ,

I’m so sorry for coming to the mail this late & also thanks for writting to me on the instant note .

I have gone through the questionnaire form that was sent to you by the bank also as you filled and advice that you instantly send your I.D preferably your passport scan copy to the bank as they requested and also do approperiatelly fill the form and send back to the bank, please in the column of the form where your relationship with me the owner of the funds is requested, i prefer your answer to remain that ” YOU ARE MY FOREIGN BUSINESS PARTNER/REPRESENTATIVE” this answer is perfectly ok & regards the bank request for a paper “AN AFFIDAVIT OF OATH/SUPPORT FROM COURT OF SENEGAL”, is one of the reason why i delayed being busy in verifying for the solution which has been clear explained by my few special consultations that the afoementioned paper will be officially obtain from the court of Senegal here.

This is why i disappeared into search since after reading your email since as i want to make sure that i sellect the best and relaible lawyer over here whose name can influence any bank to release the fund without delay.

The amount of fund we are transfering is very large and it deserves to use a famous lawyer so that they won’t look down on you.

I also want you to be aware that lawyers in this country likes work on payment though it won’t be much except there is some other court fees ok, i am telling this so that you won’t be surprise when the lawyer comes up with something of this nature.

I have told the lawyer little about you and he is waiting to hear from, therefore contact him immediately and let him know all you want him to secure for you
which is this official paper “AN AFFIDAVIT OF OATH/SUPPORT FROM COURT OF SENEGAL” as the bank requires & explained is to get this transaction official & legalised .

Make sure you do not argue with him and be aware that he will surely ask you for his charge, so do not say that i did not inform you because lawyers over here does not accept to work for foreigners without being paid due to past expriences therefore be noted so that you won’t get embarassed by the lawyer when you try
to come up with some kind of strange offers.

I want you to respect your personlity because i really placed you higher and the lawyer is expecting to hear from a man of calibre and honour of your type of person .

Therefore make sure you mentain this height and do not disappoint me before him, i have placed you with honoured because of the amount of money involve so that he will have regards as well for you. Here on the below are the lawyer’s contact.

Name : Barrister Abdullahi Djallo
Principal Partner: AMDYCHAMBERS SENEGAL
Address : 12 Harmo grand-yoff, Dakar Senegal
Direct tel: 00 221 431 2751
Direct e-mail: amdychambers@myway.com

I also want to let you understand my present condition, ever since my husband got retrenched/lost his job, life has become so rough and tough for my family.

I am the breadwinner of the family with my poorly paid salary which has not been to us since last month, as you can see that my last hope of reviving my family life lies unto this transaction as i also wish that your share of this funds will stand a benefit for you .

Also in this funds t i hope to survive my children because they have been withdrawn from the private school back to the public school because i couldn’t afford to pay their school bills due to the standard set by the private schools over here.

I am saying this to you so that you will understand how important this fund is to my life, and there is other hope apart from it, therefore i am counting you and i hope that i will celebrate with you when this victory is achived, i am optimistic that you are capable of standing any sudden request of this Lawyer for the service no matter how much he may charge because i am looking unto succssfullness of this transaction and not what we spent but the joy in securing the documents from the court on time and the fund released which will instantly create and exist fruittion for us .

Please make sure you follow this directives and do not argue or provoke the lawyer into being angry or feeling you are unwortful .

You should be able to note my directives and try as much as you can to have it done as i explained to you so that we can be uplifted to a higher level in life and in riches.

I need an instant reply from you as you also contact the Lawyer.

Ever yours truly,

Mrs. Peace Dibor.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sep 20, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Please read to carefully fill the form & contact the lawyer to obtain the bank requirement

Halo 2 Peace Dibor!

Would it not be simpler and cheaper to ask my regular lawyer, Phoenix
Wright Ace Attorney to look over the papers? He could put it on my
account that way.

If you have any objections, please say so (or press A).

Andrew

This one came twice, too:

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 20, 2006 2:12 PM
Subject: My suggestion & pls. inform me if you have already contacted the Lawyer

Dearly Honourable Mr. Andrew Taylor,

How are you & your family today hope you are ok.

Have you already contacted the lawyer i directed here for you ? if not, all you need first is to contact the lawyer to know the exact requirement, though there surpose to be but who knows if there might not be any requirement .

You just made a very good suggestion but its only because this paper is meant to be obtaine in the Court of Senegal here since the draft wil be instantly process/cash & likewise transfer to you from here in Senegal, even if that your attorney can come over here, it will be costlier or you already know any attorney here, the Lawyer generally recommended is this particular notable & famous Lawyer i have issued you his contact for us to ensure a perfect job to abvoid any error thereafter .

Take note of our reason for handling this transaction with the Bank Of Africa & the Lawyer here is their guarrantee & assurance with the help of this solid notable lawyer
here to provide every official hard copy document for the coverage of any query from any country for any reason of the funds, tax, the funds existence etc and that why you need to instantly make a contact with the lawyer & supply his request to him & enable him an instant perfect fulfillment of this transaction for us .

Everything regarding the cashment of the draft & ist instant transfer is already totally on your full name as you can confirm from the B.O.A bank , i have already entrusted in you so be assured that all necessary requirement will come from you now & regain from the funds hence you comply fully with the instructions/requirements of the lawyer & the draft already cashed and transfered to your account in any country of your choice .

I am not even minding your arrangement on any country of your choice to transfer the funds since your wish ever remains my command in any country of your proper arrangement for the funds to be transfer but my total interest is to get this funds out of here to your safety custodian hand & thats why am pleading that you do everything possible to face this current requirement from the bank or the lawyer so that we can get this transaction instantly wrap up and each party shall smile.

Please do instantly get intouch with the Lawyer and instantly get back to me with update .

Remains every yours faithfully,

Mrs. Peace Dibor .

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Sep 20, 2006 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: My suggestion & pls. inform me if you have already contacted the Lawyer

Mrs Peace Dibor,

I’ve not contacted my lawyer yet. I’ll email yours tomorrow. I would
give him a ring, but I need all my rings in case I run into any of Dr.
Eggman’s minions again.

Dearly Honourable Andrew

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: amdychambers@myway.com
Date: Sep 21, 2006 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Please read to carefully fill the form & contact the lawyer to obtain the bank requirement

Halo 2 Amdy Chabers!

Mrs Peace Dibor tells me I require something called “AN AFFIDAVIT OF
OATH/SUPPORT FROM COURT OF SENEGAL”. I was wondering if you could help
me get one; I’ve never seen one in a question mark block.

Andrew

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 21, 2006 7:00 PM
Subject: Contacted the Lawyer now .

Andrew Taylor ,
Try to contact the lawyer now i have given you his contact information as delays will not help in the succession of this transaction .

Hoping for your email update.

Mrs Peace Dibor .

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Sep 29, 2006 7:33 PM
Subject: EXPECTING A GOOD NEWS FROM YOU SOON .

Hello Dearest In Heart Mr. Adrew Taylor
How are you to day including your family? I hope fine if so thanks be to GOD ALMIGHTY.
My love your silence is very painful ok! I dont know why its happening or because of what i adviced begging the lawyer, please lets do that & he will collect the amount you said you have, he the lawyer will agree i feel maybe you are not with upto the amonth he mentiond, ask him to less it and i anexpecting a good news from you.
I dont know why you stopped issuing words to me since i heared last from you, for that i have not being my self.
Remainber the love i have for you remember the thinking i have being thinking about you here. why this behaviour when every thing is about to end.
Please try and do your possible best to make sure that you settle with the lawyer ok! it may be enemies of progress that does not want our progress & keep on discouraging ing you please dont listen to them ok! Remainber that i will come and join you there very soon immerdiatelly the fund gets there to you .
I will be expecting your mail soon from yours in heart Peace.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Oct 2, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: EXPECTING A GOOD NEWS FROM YOU SOON .

Worry yourself not about enemies of progress. I jump on enemies!

Andrew

But, er, then I think I sent her something for the wrong scammer. Oops.

She may yet reply, I suppose, but probably not.

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419 — Peace Be With You

August 21st, 2006
From: Mrs peace (mrspeace_dibor@virgilio.it)
Reply-To: peace_di@mail.ru
Date: Aug 9, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: MY GREETINGS TO YOU

Attention Dear,

I am Mrs,Peace Dibor, the personal assistance to the
chairman of the contract award committee of the ministry of works and
housing here in Senegal, for security reasons, I may not wish to
disclose the most important thing for now until I hear from you. After
due deliberation with my Boss, I decided to forward to you this
business proposal, we want you to assist us cash our certified draft
through the foreign contractor’s paying bank, from the Republic of
Benin into your care.

This fund resulted from the contract awared
and executed as commissioned paid to and my Boss in the ministry, note
that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts,
we have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30% for
you while 50% for my Boss and 20% for me as the contact person. Upon
indication of your interest to fully co-operate with me.

As soon as
we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated account, my broker
and I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share and
possibly invest part of this money in your country. Let honesty and
trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. Please furnish me
with some details about yourself, your prompt reply will be highly
appreciated.

Reach me on the e-mail addressed as follows:
mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk

Yours truly.
Mrs Peace Dibor.

Typical. The boss gets the lion’s share, as usual. I got this email twice.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: peace_di@mail.ru
Date: Aug 15, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: MY GREETINGS TO YOU

Mrs Peace,

Here, as you requested, are some details about me:

Name: Andrew
Height: 5′10″
Favourite Beatle: Paul McCartney
Favourite Beetle: Scarab
Colour: Pinkish
Religion: All
SSID: N/A
Email Address: None

Andrew

Apparently, anything that is not a wireless network is an SMTP server…

From: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Aug 15, 2006 2:49 PM
Subject: thanks for ur reply

Helo Andrew Taylor
Happy to hear from you today, I quite appreciate your response and i would say that we haven’t really met but i strongly beleive that it takes one to know someone. I want to be the first that will sacrifice her time out of the busy schedules to get to know a dear friend like you today. I want to beleive that you would feel the same as i do.

At first, i want to tell you more about myself, i was born on 26th march 1972, i am presently 34years old, i got married immediately after my secondary school in Dakar Senegal. I am blessed with two daughters and a son, my first issue is a girl(Kimberly), she is 12years old, while my second issue is a boy (Keny), he is 8years and my last issue is a girl( Ify) she is 6years old. My husband’s name is Mr Patrick Dibor, he used to work with RTS in Senegal but he is presently retrenched. I work with the ministry of works and housing and i’m presently the personal assistance to the director general of the ministry.

I’m happily married and i love my family so much, we are not rich but hard working. I quite believe that we can start from here since it takes one to know someone. I want you to understand that race or distance does not matter but loving and caring matters a lot in life. I look forward to hearing more from you. I wish to send you my identity and at least some photographs on my receipt of your quick response, i shall send mine to you. This will enable us know that we are relating well and we are honest enough to confide in each other.

I want us to get to know each other more, i want us to build a honest business relationship, if you wish to call me, then you can call my house phone: 00 221 419 1172

When you call and my husband pick your call because he is aware of you, so feel free to call me if you can. I look forward to hearing more from you soonest.

Yours truly,
Mrs Peace Dibor

“It takes one to know someone”? What does she think that means?

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: Mrs Peace Dibor (mrspeace2@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Aug 16, 2006 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: thanks for ur reply

Hello, Peace Dibor,

I was glad to get your reply. My house is made of bricks, but I
believe that too many cooks spoil the broth, so let me tell you a
little more about myself. I like eating pasta and once I ate so much I
threw up but that was OK because nobody saw. I’m vaguely suspicious of
the French, and I don’t ‘get’ hip-hop. My friends call me “Ethelred”
and refuse to tell me why. I have two children, but I’m not allowed to
see them ever since my ex-wife found out about them. Never liked them
anyway.

I look forward to getting your photographs and proceeding with our business.

Andrew

[?]

Robert: once you told me your real name
Andrew: Did I?
Robert: because i guessed where Andrew Taylor was from

If you haven’t read this chatlog, do so now. Otherwise, this won’t make any sense.

Andrew: Damn you!
Robert: but I forgot it :-(
what? you did tell me it!
and you said I thought it wouldnt be a good name to give out
do you remember ? :P
Andrew: Yes
Robert: …I forgot the name though
will you tell me again :-)
?
Andrew: I might.
It was “Lee Harvey Oswald”.
Robert: was it :-S
why so ashamed of that
Andrew: People seem to act suspicious if I tell them I’m called Lee Harvey Oswald.
Robert: is that your whole name?
Andrew: My whole name?
Robert: yeh
or is it your first name or what
Andrew: You think perhaps I’m Lee Harvey Oswald Michael Smith?
Robert: lol
Andrew: That’d be a bit of a mouthful, don’t you think?
Robert: nah
so middle name is
Harvey
?
Andrew: It’s a silly name, isn’t it, “Harvey”?
On it’s own.
Robert: ermmm
kind of
your confusing me!
Andrew: Not as silly as “Rubbertoes”, mind.
Robert: yeah
thats funny
:-)
lee, harvey, oswald yes?
all seperate names.. first middle last
correct?
or incorrect
Andrew: Correct.
Robert: How come your tryping quite slow

Because I lead a shady double life and have to look up my own name on Wikipedia.

Andrew: I have several windows open.
I’m trying to get a good shot in one of them.
Robert: oh
right
so do you have or ply any other games

The trick is to get into the mind of your chosen subject.

Andrew: I like shooters.
Robert: oo
so do I.
Have you gotm but any chance…..Half_life 2
got by any chance***
Andrew: Yes, I’m playing through that at the moment. Well, not right at this moment.
Robert: so that means you have CSS
Andrew: Does it? Lucky me.
Robert: you dont sound very enthusiatic!!!
Andrew: Well, I’m quite good when I’m a terrorist, but the rest of the time it’s just boring.
Robert: ahhh

Oh, yes, I’m the magical time-travelling gunman.

[?]

The Ministry Of Silly Works

August 6th, 2006

From: atallah@universia.net.mx (atallah@universia.net.mx)
Reply-To: atallah3@indiatimes.com
To: undisclosed-recipients
Date: Jul 29, 2006 12:14 AM
Subject: MINISTRY OF WORKS AND

MINISTRY OF WORKS AND
HOUSING

LAGOS-NIGERIA

PHONE
234-8052413735
FAX:234-1-7590800
PLEASE REPLY TO THESE BOXES.

atallah2@indiatimes.com
atallah3@indiatimes.com

DEAR SIR,

WE WRITE THIS LETTER WHICH
I PRAY SHOULD BE URGENTLY
REPLIED.

I GOT YOUR
CONTACT DURING MY YEAR OF SERVICE IN THE
FOREIGN
MINISTRY.

I DR DANSUKI DAN , PRESENTLY THE DIRECTOR OF
THE
MINISTRY OF WORKS AND HOUSING
HEADQUARTERS , LAGOS
NIGERIA

I AM IN NEED OF YOUR GENUINE ASSISTANT AND
TRUST
BECAUSE AS A TOP OFFICIAL OF RULING GORVERNMENT,
I
WANT TO SAFE GAURD MY INTEREST IN YOUR COUNTRY
BEFORE
THE END OF THE TENURE OF THIS ADMINITRATION,
MORE ALSO WE AS CIVIL
SERVANT ARE FORBIDDEN TO OWN
OR OPERATE ACCOUNT HENCE A FOREIGNER
IS NEEDED.

I PRESENTLY HAVE AN OVER INVOLCED
CONTRACT PAYMENT OF
USD38.5M(THIRTY-EIGHT FIVE HUNDREN THOUSAND
US
DOLLAR) WHICH HAS REMAIN UNCLAIMED SINCE
1997.MY
SUPERIOR IN THIS PRESENDENCY HAVE MANDATE ME
TO
PRESENT A NONEST FOREIGNER WHO CAN
CONVENIENLYPROJECT
THIS FUND FOR US IN HIS BANK
ACCOUNT IN HIS COUNTRY. I SINCERELY
BELIEVE THAT YOU
CAN BE OF GREAT ASSISTANCE TO US. THIS IS WHY I
AM
CONTACTING YOU AND ALSO REQUESTING FOR
YOUR
DISCRETION,MATURITY AND
CO-0PORATION.

MY SUPERIORS HAS COMPLETED ALL
ADMINISTRATIVE STEPS
TO SEE THAT THIS FUND RECEIVES ALL THE
REQUEST
APPROVALS IMMEDIATELY YOU GIVE ME THE GO
AHEAD.

ALL I NEED FROM YOU ARE THE
FOLLOWING.

(1) BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER

(2)
NAME AND FULL ADDRESS OF YOUR NORMINATED WITH
TELEPHONE AND FAX
NUMBERS

(3) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS FOR
EASY
COMMUNICATION BE! TWEEN US.

I SHALL SEND
YOU BY FAX DETAIL OF THE CONTRACT
EXECUTED SOON AFTER I RECEIVE
YOUR FAX MESSAGE. YOU
WILL BE ENTITLED TO 30% FO THE TOTAL
FUND
IMMEDIATELY WE ARRIVE YOUR COUNTRY FOR SHARING.
10%
WILL COVER ALL MISCALLANEOUS EXPENSES WE SHALL DO
BOTH
HERE AND IN YOUR COUNTRY. PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO REACH
ME FOR MORE
DETAIL. DO NOT HESITATE TO SEND ME
A FAX MESSAGE AND CALL AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE. I
SINCERELY COUNT ON YOUR ASSISTANCE.REMEMBER .I
AM
HIGHLY PLACED OFFICIAL AND EXPECT ABSOLUTE
DISCRETION
FROM YOU IN ORDER TO PROTECT OUR HONOUR
FROM FOREIGN JOURNALIST WHO
SEEK TO DESTROY MEMBER
OF OUR RULING CIVILIAN GORVERNMENT

THIS TRANSACTION IS HITCH-FREE, SO YOU NEED
NOT
ENTERTAIN ANY FEAR AT ALL.

I
EXPECT YOUR REPLY IMMEDIATELY.
BEST REGARDS,

DR DANSUKI DAN

How fortuitous. That’s just what I need. Plus, clearly “Dansuki Dan” is a comic book character.

From: Andrew Taylor Mailed-By: gmail.com

To: atallah3@indiatimes.com
Date: Aug 1, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: MINISTRY OF WORKS AND

DEAR DR DANSUKI DAN, MINISTRY OF WORKS AND

I am currently in the process of building a small extention to my
house. I would love to help you out when I am finished; it should only
be about a week. Perhaps in the meantime you can help me — I need to
lay some flooring, and tolevel is I will need some WORK SAND. Perhaps
somebody at the MINISTRY OF WORK SAND could get me some?

ANDREW

From: atallah3 (atallah3@indiatimes.com) Mailed-By: indiatimes.com
Reply-To: atallah3 (atallah3@indiatimes.com)
To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
Date: Aug 3, 2006 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Re: MINISTRY OF WORKS AND

THANKS FOR YOUR MAIL PLEASE RE-READ MY MAIL AND GET BACK TO ME.

DR DANSUKI DAN

Alright.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: atallah3 (atallah3@indiatimes.com)
Date: Aug 3, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Re: MINISTRY OF WORKS AND

DEAR DR DANSUKI DAN

Thanks for your reply. To be honest, I’m impressed that Nigeria even
has a MINISTRY OF WORK SAND, let alone such a helpful and polite one.
Here, WORK SAND is not given the attention that WORK SAND enthusiasts
believe it deserves. I have written to WORK SAND WEEKLY many times on
this topic, but they never print my letters.

You’ll be glad to hear that today I got the wiring checked and the
conservatory is in fine shape. The WORK SAND is the last piece of the
puzzle.

ANDREW

He’s not got back to me yet. The MINISTRY OF WORK SAND is clearly not fit for purpose.

[?]

From: janet jeffrey
To: heather.daisy@gmail.com
Date: May 15, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: Urgent response needed

Hello,
i am interested in your product but firstly
before i proceed i will like you to answer the
questions below.

Do u accept credit card?

Can you ship to lagos Nigeria?

Can you ship via DHL/FEDEX/or UPS?

Waiting for your swift response.
Regards
Janet J.

Reply me asap with your website or product lists.

Well, I don’t know who Janet Jeffrey is, but then, I don’t know who Heather Daisy is either, so what the hell. Only problem is, I don’t have a product, or product list. But I do have a website. And on that website is— no, wait, I do have a product list…

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: May 15, 2006 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Urgent response needed

Hi Janet,

1. Yes, I accept credit cards.
2. Yes, I can ship to Lagos.
3. I canship using FedEx, but not UPS because they killed my daughter
and I boycot them now.

Here is my poduct list:

Item one: AS1 Cheap-O-Naff alarm system
Protects your home aginst insects and small birds. Priced at only
£24.95 it is a snip at only £24.95.

Item two: AS2 B.O.G. Standard alarm system
Protects aginst dogs, cats, and squirrels. At £32.95 it is still
cheaper than Resident Evil II for Nintendo 64.

Item three: AS3 Excellent quality alarm system
Protects against nuclear war and even Jehova’s Witnesses. Priced
£39.95, it is more expensive, but you get a free watch, in a small
plastic egg.

Item four: AS4 Excellent if slightly too fictitious alarm system
Offers complete protection against all forms of crime. At £1000.95,
you cannot afford to have one.

Item five: Yoguhurt Launcher
Also catapults milk and cheeses. Has a range of 25ft (7.62m). Only
£49.95. Yoghurt not included. May contain traces of peanut.

Item six: Yoghurt Launcher Deluxe
Also catapults milk, cheeses, custard, and for the lactose intolerant,
pork pies. Has a range of 50ft (15.24m). Costs £60.00, but comes with
a free banana yoghurt.

Item seven: Moblie boulder
Most boulders are quite difficult to move. Not this one. Measuring
only 2in (4.9cm) it will fit convieniently in your pocket. Also, there
will be lots of room in there when you have paid us £39.50 for it.
Batteries not included.

Item eight: What’s In The Box
Noone knows what it is. Not even me. It will only cost you £5.20 to
find out. You know you want to.

Item nine: Blue Banana
This banana is a very odd colour, for a banana. For only £20.00, it is
even compatible with the Yoghurt Launcher and the Yoghurt Launcher
Deluxe. CAUTION: DO NOT EAT.

Item ten: Brick Repellant
The patented formula in this spray bottle will render all bricks and
some small rocks very frightened of you and they will do thier best to
escape you. Only £15.45.

Item eleven: Everything Else
What do you give to the man who has everything? This rather nifty box
containing everything else. Only £45.95.

Item twelve: Remote-Control Chair
All the functionality of an ordinary chair, with a remote control. £27.85

Item thirteen: Paper thin Hi-Res 1-colour computer monitor
Even flexible. Requires no power source. A4 size. £199.95

Item fourteen: Batteries
Size AA. Last up to 500 hours. Batteries not included. £2.50

Item fifteen: Year 2002 calendar
Not 100% millenium compliant. £42

Item sixteen: A shoe
Only £99.99. Buying two will give you a 50% chance of obtaining a PAIR
of shoes. Buying three gives a 75% chance of getting a pair.

Item seventeen: Year 2002 planner
Plan all your appointment in this smple book. Includes no Tuesdays. Only £315

Item eighteen: Fly-Terminator
This miniscule robot flies around your house exterminating houseflies
it comes across, then taking over their bodies and adding them it its
elite pack of Fly-Terminators. Garaunteed not to fly out of your home.
£70.00 for a pack of 5.

Item nineteen
Item nineteen is guaranteed to provide hours of use on a single battery. £54.99.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Andrew

I didn’t think anybody would fall for that. But that is because I routinely underestimate the stupidity of other people.

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 15, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: Quote me now..

Hello,
Thanks for the mail back,However i will like you to
calculate the product below including shipping and get
back to me

Item Sixteen………………………………5pcs

Item Thirteen…………………………..1pcs

Item fourteen………………………….9pcs

Shipping Address:
26,Oguntoye street,
Mushin Lagos
Nigeria 23401.

I will be waiting for your swift response.

Right… so that’s five shoes, one bit of paper, and nine empty boxes. That’ll be eight hundred pounds, please.

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: May 15, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Quote me now..

I’ve had a look at the shipping prices, and the price is as follows:

Products: £722.40
Shipping: £80.00 (depending on the weight of the package. This is
subject to change)
Total: £802.40

I’ll do it for £800 if the shipping price isn’t much about £80.

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 15, 2006 1:16 PM
Subject: Quote me now////////////////////Favour needed asap.

Hello,
Thanks for your Reply ,However i will like to let
you know that i am in need of the product below i want
to present it on my promotional day which is coming up
very soon,I will want to to get me the product below.

Nokia 8800…………………………………5pcs

However I will also like to let you know that i really
appreciate the transaction btw the both of us so i
will want you to do me the favour,However I will
conpensate you with the sum of £100 for your transport
fare.

I will be waiting for your swift response today.

And now we’re being scammed. They just want phones. Well, I can do phones.

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: May 15, 2006 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: Quote me now////////////////////Favour needed asap.

Hi Janet,

We do not normally sell mobile telephones. What kind do you need?
Contract? Pay-and-go? Unlocked? We may be able to come to some
arrangement, particularly if you up your order of Item Thirteen to
3pcs. (Generally our policy is to require customers to have bought 18
units in total before we can offer special arrangements like this.)

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 15, 2006 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Quote me now////////////////////Favour needed asap.

Hello,
I will like to let you know that i am satisfied with your reply also i will like to let you know that the one i needed is (nokia 8800……..(unlocked),Get back to me asap with the quote and for the item thirteen i will want you to explain better,Waiting for your swift response now.

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: May 15, 2006 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Quote me now////////////////////Favour needed asap.

Hi Janet,

Here is your new order, as it currently stands:

Items from product list (18 total)…….£1122.30
Nokia 8800 (5)………………………………….£759.00
Shipping…………………………………………..£125.00
Total……………………………………………….£2006.30 + VAT

The items from theproduct list are 5 shoes, three monitors, and 9
battery packs. If you would like to make any changes, please tell me

In many ways I think I was getting a bit carried away by all of this. Especially since Janet’s heart clearly wasn’t in it.

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 19, 2006 8:15 PM
Subject: get back to me

Hello,
I am still waiting for my shipping details,Moreso i
will like you to give me your phone number.

What a rubbish email. I shall wait for a better one. I got it. (I’ve obscured the credit card numbers)

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 18, 2006 1:33 PM
Subject: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hello Andrew Taylor,
Thanks for the quotation,
i will like you to split and charge the overall
cost with the cost of my order and mobile phone now
from these credit cards and get back to me with the
confirmation and the shipping details.

NAME ON CARD: JANET JEFFREY
CARD TYPE: MASTER CARD
CARD ACCOUNT NUMBER: 546616023774xxxx
CARD EXPIRY DATE: 05/07
CVV CODE: 543
—————————————————
NAME ON CARD: JANET JEFFREY
CARD TYPE: MASTER CARD
CARD ACCOUNT NUMBER: 546616023774xxxx
CARD EXPIRY DATE: 05/07
CVV CODE: 544
—————————————————-
NAME ON CARD: JANET JEFFREY
CARD TYPE: MASTER CARD
CARD ACCOUNT NUMBER: 546616023774xxxx
CARD EXPIRY DATE: 05/07
CVV CODE: 545
—————————————————-
NAME ON CARD: JANET JEFFREY
CARD TYPE: MASTER CARD
CARD ACCOUNT NUMBER: 546616023774xxxx
CARD EXPIRY DATE: 05/07
CVV CODE: 546
—————————————————-

HERE IS THE SHIPPING ADDRESS BELOW
ATT: SULAIMON OSHINEYE
ADDRESS: 26 OGUNTOYE STREET
OFF LADIPO STREET
CITY: MUSHIN
STATE: LAGOS STATE
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
ZIP CODE: 23401

Looking forward to hear from you with the confirmation
and shipping details.
Regards
JANET JEFFREY

As tempting as it was to buy myself some plasma TVs under Janet’s name, I’m not 100% sure it would have been a great idea. That email came twice. I felt I was in a bit over my head — eight sets of credit card details? What? All I normally get is a photo of someone with Janet Street Porter and a stack of increasingly rubbish certificates. This is a but much for me. I shall stall and buy time.

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: May 19, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hi Janet,

Unfortunately, I can’t take credit card orders directly via email.
You’ll have to use the website like everybody else. Sorry about that.

Andrew

Then Janet said something that caught me off-guard.

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 24, 2006 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hello,
Pls i wil like to let you know that i am a very busy man i want you to do me the favour by helping me go to the website.

I’d rather assumed he was a very busy woman. But I need time. Time to make a fake website. Because I do things properly, I do.

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: May 31, 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hi Janet

Sorry to keep you waiting, but we’re having a bit of trouble with the
website at the moment. I’ll let you know when we’re back up to speed.
I hope it’s not inconveniencing you too much.

Andrew

But he doesn’t listen

From: janet jeffrey
To: Andrew Taylor
Date: May 31, 2006 9:53 PM
Subject: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hello,
I will like to let you know that i need the goods and the phone pls charge my credit card and send me the shipping details.
Regards

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: Jun 4, 2006 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hi Janet,

Sotty I’ve not contacted you in a few days. WIth the website down I’m
totally snowed under with a backlog of orders and requests and
invoices and so forth. We should be back up and running in the next
few days, so when the website’s back up I’ll send you a link and we
can get this thing in motion properly.

Thanks for your patience,

Andrew

From: Andrew Taylor
To: janet jeffrey
Date: Jun 4, 2006 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: PAYMENT DETAILS /// CONFIMATION AND SHIPPING DETAILS NEEDED ASAP

Hi Janet,

Further to ly mast email, you will be pleased to learn that the
website has just been brought back online. Apparently the problem was
that one of the cleaners had unplugged the server to plug in her
vaccuum cleaner, and when she’d plugged it back in it had reverted to
“evil” mode. Once we switched it back it worked perfectly.

Here is the URL of the store website: http://taylor.andrew.googlepages.com

You’ll notice there are some fields at the bottom for you to fill in
“other items” that you want. This is where you should enter details of
your phone orders. Note that you must spend at least £750 in the rest
of the store to use this feature.

You tend to get a reply back within a week of filling in the form.

Thanks.

Andrew

The website was essentially an email form I set up. Whatever anyone filled in on it was sent straight to my email. Take a look at the page before you read any further. It’s OK, I’ll wait.

Well, he didn’t fill in his Gettysburg Address, or his PIN. Or ther colour, design, weight or address of his card. And his card is called “Master Card” which is either very witty or very dumb, depending on inflection. Also, he changed his order to 20 alarms, 10 chairs, 5 shoes, and 10 houseflies.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet_store09@yahoo.com
Date: Jun 6, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Submitted form from apathysketchpad.com/stuff/emailform.php

!!!ERROR

Your order was rejected for the following reason(s):

– Failure to complete card details.

We aplogoise for the inconvenience

VersaMax Customer Service team

From: janet jeffrey
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (Yes, this is you. Learn more)
Date: Jun 7, 2006 11:43 AM
Subject: Submitted form from apathysketchpad.com/stuff/emailform.php

Hello,
I will like to let me know what else i am suppose
to fill,also i will like to let you know that i want
to paste 2 credit card details how will i do it pls
advise.

I could tell this was important to him because he sent it three times.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet jeffrey
Date: Jun 7, 2006 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Submitted form from apathysketchpad.com/stuff/emailform.php

This is an automatic response from the VersaMax Ordering Daemon.

If your items did not arrive, please wait until they do.

To use the VersaMax online store you must complete ALL card details.
Some details do not apply to all cards. If for example your card has
no colour, say because it is invisible, then enter “N/A” in that box.

If you wish to return an item, please send it via carrier monkey to
VersaMax HQ, Seattle, Columbia, Spain, SW1 2PR.

If you wish to use multiple credit cards, please fill in multiple
forms and add the phrase “MULTICARD ORDER” to the “Gettysburg Address”
field. Enter a different card on each order. This is a limitation of
our software. We hope to make this process simpler in the future.

Thanks,
VersaMax Customer Service Team

So, he filled in a new order, this time asking for some different items again, and I acknowledged it:

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet jeffrey
Date: Jun 10, 2006 11:27 AM
Subject: Thankyou for submitting your order.

Your odrer with VersaMax stores was successful, and will be dispatched
when you are registered as a VersaMax customer. Please register online
at http://taylor.andrew.googlepages.com/newcustomer

Thankyou for your order and your time.

VersaMax Customer Disservice Team

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet jeffrey
Date: Jun 13, 2006 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: Thankyou for submitting your order.

This is an automatic reminder.

Your order is being held for dispatch. It will be dispatched when you
register as a customer by fillingin the online form at
http://taylor.andrew.googlepages.com/newcustomer

Thankyou,

VersaMax Customer Services

Janet, or Jayeola as he apparently likes to be known, likes the colour BLUE.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet jeffrey
Date: Jun 15, 2006 11:13 PM
Subject: VersaMax Customer Registration

Thankyou for registering as a VersaMax customer! This is an automated response.

To verify your account and complete registration, please fill in the
brief form located at
http://taylor.andrew.googlepages.com/customerverification

This will allow your account to be verified and any orders you may
have placed to be dispatched. Thankyou for your time, and happy
shopping!

The VersaMax Customer Aggreivance Team

Look at that page, too. Apparently, Jayeola thinks a good name for the robot would be “Funmilola”. Though even he doesn’t know if that thing is supposed to be a moose. Also, he didn’t come up with a caption and doesn’t know what a handbag is. But, in appreciation of his singular devotion to clicking checkboxes, I decided to allow it. This time.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet_store09@yahoo.com
Date: Jun 18, 2006 1:32 AM
Subject: Congratulations from VersaMax!

Congratulations!

You are the 1,000,000th customer registered at VersaMax online stores,
and qualify for our STAR PRIZE — five FREE Nokia 8800 mobile phones,
with chargers, manuals, fuel, and carrycase! (If you have ordered any
part of the prize then as a goodwill gesture that order will be
cancelled automatically to prevent customers wasting money buying
things they have won anyway.)

To claim your prize, please reply to this email with “STAR PRIZE” as
the subject line, and fill the body of the email with the phrase “My
name is Jack Bauer and I’m a federal agent” one hundred times. (We
suggest you copy-paste it rather than typing it every time!) This is
to prevent automated responses.

Thankyou, congratulations, and we hope you enjoy your prize!

Yours,
The VersaMax Customer Assimilation Collective

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
Date: Jun 19, 2006 8:57 PM
Subject: STAR PRIZE

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Well I don’t think that’s quite what I said, now is it? For that you get punished, with my Stupidest Form Yet.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 19, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: STAR PRIZE

Thankyou for your swift reply. To complete your claim, please fill in
our STAR PRIZE claim form, at
http://taylor.andrew.googlepages.com/starprizeclaimform

VersaMax Customer Troubling Department

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
Date: Jun 20, 2006 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: STAR PRIZE

I am not able to fill the form,i dont understand it.

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
Subject: update me asap…

Hello,
I am still waiting for your swift
response.concerning my order i want you to get it
shipped and get back to me with my shipping details.

Regards
Jeffrey.

Damn you and your incompetence. Never mind. I know someone who is expert at dealing with people who are of a lower technical ability than herself:

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 21, 2006 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap…

Hello Janet

Your email has been forwarded to me, and I’ve investigated the matter.

It appears that you ordered some items from our website, and then won
our STAR PRIZE. Since the STAR PRIZE is five mobile phones of the same
model as you ordered from us, the order in question was automatically
cancelled because you had won those items anyway. If you still want to
recieve the other items you ordered, please fill in a second order
from the website, http://taylor.andrew.googlepages.com

If you just want your STAR PRIZE, then reply to me and I’ll forward
your email on to the head of the STAR PRIZE department for his
immediate attention.

Congratulations on winning!

Chloe O’Brian
VersaMax Customer Service Team

—–Original message—–

Chloe, could you have a look at this for me?

Andrew

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
Date: Jun 22, 2006 11:40 AM
Subject: update me asap..

Hello,
I will like to let you now that i only want my star prize so get back to me asap and let me know when it will be shipped,concerning my order I will get back to you when i want it to be shipped.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 22, 2006 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Alright, I’ll forward your email on to Bill, our head of STAR PRIZEs.
He’s quite busy lately, as it’s STAR PRIZE season here, so he might
take a day or so to get back to you. I hope the prize is worth the
wait! Just sit back and wait for his email.

Chloe O’Brian
VersaMax Customer Service Droid

Bill will sort everything out. Even if he has to go under the radar and let Chloe work from his house.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 23, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Hi Janet,

Chloe has forwarded your email to me. First, let me say
congratulations on winning the STAR PRIZE. In order to ship the prize,
our system requires me to get some information from you. Firstly,
obviously, your shipping address.

Secondly, our trade magazine (circulation about 1,500) would like to
run an article about the winner of the STAR PRIZE. Would it be
possible for our editor, George Mason, to ask you a few questions for
the article? It would only be simple things, and we’ll send you a copy
of the article once it goes out.

Would it be possible to get a photograph of you for the articleas well?

Bill Buchannan
Head of STAR PRIZEs

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
Date: Jun 26, 2006 9:05 AM
Subject: shipping details needed asap…

Hello.
Thanks for the mail back,However I will also thank
your company for giving me this star prize,Also I will
want you to know that concerning the article you are
talking about I will want you to not worry about it,I
am a very busy Man I dont always have time nowadays,So
I will like you to find my shipping info below.

Address:
26,Oguntoye street,
Mushin Lagos
Nigeria 23401.

ATTENDANT:
ADEFOLU OLASENI.

TEL:
+2348020984619.

I will be waiting for your earliest response.

Regards
Janet.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 26, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: shipping details needed asap…

Okay, Janet.

Let me get on that now. In the meantime, George has asked me to inform
you that, for policy reasons, we have to run an article about all
winners. If you don’t want to cooperate he says that’s OK and he’ll
just make something up. We’ll still send you a copy, of course, when
it is released.

If you don’t want him to make something up just email me back with a
few details for him to include and I’ll see that he gets them. I’ll
let you know what’s happenning with your STAR PRIZE as soon as I know
myself.

Bill Buchannan
Head of STAR PRIZEs

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
Date: Jun 26, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: shipping details needed asap…

Hello,
I will like you to send the article to me,Also get
back to me with the shiping details.

I started composing my swift response.

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
Date: Jun 27, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: update me asap..

Hello,
I am still waiting for your swift response.

You do not want to mess with the VersaMax Media Department!

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 28, 2006 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Hi Janet

I thought you’d like to know, VersaMax news ran an article on you, as
winner of the STAR PRIZE, today. I’ve attached the front page for you.
If you want to read the rest you’ll have to purchase it from our media
department, run by Nina Myers. I can pass an email on for you if you
want to do so.

I had to invent a few of the details because you neglected to give me
an interview. I hope I got it mostly right. Do let me know if I
didn’t.

George Mason
VersaMax News Editor

I attached a PDF of our newsletter, which carried the following stories:

VersaMax — Because your needs are unimportant.

Sales increase and decrease simultaneously
Sales of VersaMax products are said to have increased and decreased sporadically this month, resulting in a net increase of 5% and a net decrease of 7%. When asked if this was a positive or negative turn of events, sales manager Tony Almeida said, “In many ways, it’s both. Certainly the increase in sales is a positive development and one which we should be proud of, but the accompanying drop in those same sales is a problem we must address.”

VersaMax Company Tie Chosen
The new VersaMax company tie was selected last night by the board of directors at Division.
It will not be officially unveiled until last Wednesday, but is said to include at least nine griffins. It is unusual for a VersaMax tie to include more than five griffins, so this is an interesting decision sure to prove controversial with VersaMax’ more conservative employees.

VersaMax Declared Independent State
See pages 9-14

VersaMax all-midget customer base ruled “coincidence”
See page 3

STAR PRIZE WINNER
As promised when VersaMax was founded, the one-millionth customer will shortly be receiving her STAR PRIZE from VersaMax. The prize is four US dollars, and the winner of these dollars is Janet Jeffery, a wholesaler from Middle Earth. She owns Europa’s largest branch of Starbucks, and once ate an entire puppy just for the hell of it.

Her favourite pastime is hurting children. She has three children of her own, the survivors of a total litter of nineteen. They have only nine limbs remaining between the three of them.

Janet declined to send a photograph, so we took this one while she was in the shower.

Her business interests have taken her to such exotic countries as the UK, the Ukraine and the Ukraineslovalabant. Her former employer, God, said of her “I hate her. She scares me a bit, to be honest. I’m fairly sure I saw her stealing holy water once. I’m honestly not certain how one goes about stealing that, because I was giving it away for free at the time, but she definitely gave the impression that she was stealing it. Perhaps you would like to buy my new book, The Man Who Would be God, available at all good bookshops.”

Two of her eyes are myopic. She writes limericks for Komputer Fur Alle magazine. Her legs are made of cotton. Her favourite T-shirt reads, “I am a cauliflower”. She claims it makes her feel closer to God, whose favourite T-shirt, she claims reads “carrots are the greatest things since potatoes.” She can recite pi to a hundred decimal places (including the three) but cannot remember which of her children is Naomi and if that’s the same one as broke her leg while playing the special cliff-diving game she invented for her. Her husband left her in 1992 after only an hour of marriage because he meant to marry someone else with a similar name. For more information about Janet Jeffery and more photographs of her in the shower, please see pages 15 through 30.

As I say, I had to be a little inventive.

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
Date: Jun 30, 2006 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Can you pls expain what you mean by all this rubbish
you are writing about me.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 30, 2006 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Hi Janet,

We always run an article on our STAR PRIZE winners. It’s what we do.
As you declined to give an interview I had to guess at most of it. Was
I close to the mark?

If you wish. we can run a correction in the next issue — just tell me
what you’d like amending.

George Mason
VersaMax News Editor

From: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
To: VersaMax Ordering Daemon (taylorandrew@gmail.com)
Date: Jun 30, 2006 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

i am ok with it,just get back to me asap with my
shipping details.

I sent a couple more emails, but I don’t think they’ll be getting a response. If they do I’ll keep you up-to-date.

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jun 30, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Shipping? We thought it would be easier just to give you the four
dollar STAR PRIZE as store credit. It would cost us more than four
dollars to ship it to you, after all!

Bill Buchannan
Head of STAR PRIZES

From: VersaMax Ordering Daemon
To: janet jeffrey (janet_store09@yahoo.com)
Date: Jul 8, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: update me asap..

Hi Janet,

Just thought I’d let you know that everything has been sorted out and
that your STAR PRIZE of FOUR DOLLARS will be sent as soon as you
nominate an account. Please get back to me and let me know where you’d
like it sending.

Thanks,

Bill Buchannan
Head of STAR PRIZES

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This is a long one. You might want to print it out for a train journey or something. Hell, it took me half an hour just to copy paste it from my email.

From: MR BRAND (mrbrandam@yahoo.com)
Reply-To: mrbrandam@netscape.net
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 2, 2006 5:21 AM
Subject: Call me Immediately.

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: mrbrandam@yahoo.com

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Am Brand, General-Auditor South coast Courier Service South African Plc Based UNITED KINGDOM During the course of our auditing, I came across an A/C own by a dead foreigner late Mr. Philip White bearing the sum of $25m US (Twenty Five Million us Dollar) and this A/C has not been Access for the past 8 year ago. I want to use my position and influence as General- Auditor to obtain all legal approvals of this fund to your nominated A/C and I will give you the legal documents,� upon your positive response once I hear from you through my telephone or fax number above and reply me with your Full name, full contact,private phone and fax number to enable me apply for the release of the fund in your name. Remember you have 25% share of the fund.

Regards,

Mr.Am Brand.

Direc-Tel:(+44)704-011-2006.

Fax:(+44)870-068-6501.

mrbrandam@netscape.net

- MR BRAND

Alright, I’ll call you Immediately.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: mrbrandam@netscape.net
Date: Apr 4, 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: Call me Immediately.

Hello, Immediately. How are you? How are things going with that $25m
US (Twenty Five Million us Dollar)?

Andrew

419 scammers don’t half go on a bit…

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 5, 2006 11:29 AM
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGMENT .

Dear Andrew,

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your your e-mail accepting to be of great assistance to this transaction. I promise that you will never regret your association with me and you are going to benefit immensely from this transaction and 25% for you then 70% for me while 5% will be for the expenses from my side and your side after transaction but as for now you have to take the charges from your side while i take mine.

I am happy your are giving me your full sincerity and honesty because that will help me confide in you the required trust necessary for the success of this transaction. I hope also that you will never disappoint me. And you have to understand that this is genesis of our relationship.

In view of the above I advice you send me a copy of your passport for my perusal and for my personal identification. I will send to you also a transaction agreement, which you will sign and send back to me . That will guide us through out the duration of this transaction. Although we have no much to waste. I have perfected an avenue to actualize the dream of this transaction. My idea is due to South African strict banking policy and also being third war country we cannot be able to use bank to banks for fund transfer now. Which you have already experienced. All we need to do is to move the fund in cash out of South Africa through diplomatic means after you must have been made the beneficiary.

Once this is done you assume full owner ship status of the fund, thereby making impossible for government to seize this funds. So I have to apply for the release of the fund through the courier service company,(SkyWest Financial & Securities Plc) and an insider there introduces me to their headman in Europe so he suggested we should use courier Service Company via a joint venture agreement with them and also with their connection there, they can easily use it to open a none resident account in your name and from there move it to your account for our investment.

Direct line:+44-704-011-2006.
Regards,
Brand Am.

The trouble with fake passports is that they take so long to do.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 9, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: ACKNOWLEDGMENT .

Dear Immediately,

I am well, thank you. I went out last night. It was a good evening.
you should come out sometime. What are you doing on Thursday?

Andrew

I don’t think he’s really trying any more now:

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 10, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: urgent .

dear andrew,

many thanks for your e-mail to me and i really want to do this business with your . but presently i need your full contacts to enable me apply for the release of the fund in your name.

regards,
Brand

But then he comes in with a masterstroke:

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 12, 2006 8:12 PM
Subject: Call the point Man in London to verify.

Dear Andrew,

Many thanks for your e-mail to me and i want to inform you that my real name is Mr Brand Am From South Africa but base in UK Because of this transaction to be successfull between me and you.

I am making arrangements to send the consignments out through diplomatic courier to london. So if this arrangement is okay for you just let me know immediately. Why we choose london is because there is a financial consultant who is very much ready to assist you handle every procedure of the transaction on my behalf as you over there.

A diplomat introduced me to their point person that is the Financial Consultant in London, who receives goods for African politicians and Presidents through one Security Company. Thus, the movement of the funds to london is necessary because of the connection there and also to avoid any traces of this fund when moving to Dubai and after the transaction.

All relevant documents to prove you as the real benefid has been done by the attorney and submitted to the security company today because they said as we applied that it will take 5 working days to reach london. The point man in London is a financial consultant of Cash Flow Corporation. His name is Dr Jay Patel and this is his direct telephone/fax number you call him immediately to know when the consignment arrived london.
SkyWest Financial & Securities Plc.
Dr Jay Patel (Director Of Accounts)
Accounts,Logistics & Operations
Tel/ 44-776-513-6892
Fax/ 44-870-912-3162
E-mail- accounts@sky-west.net

Regards,
Brand
NB:There is my International passport for your Identification.

And, sure enough, here was the attached file:

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Call me cynical, but… Oh, forget it. It’s too easy.

Well, I had to reciprocate, didn’t I?

From: Andrew Taylor
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net”
Date: Apr 15, 2006 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Call the point Man in London to verify.

Mr Am,

I am glad to recieve your email. Please find attached a copy of my
passport as you requested.

Andrew

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In fairness, this is my actual passport.

I do wish he’d stop changing the subject line. It messes up my GMail inbox something rotten.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 18, 2006 6:49 PM
Subject: urgent.

Dear Andrew,

Mnay thanks for your pp sent to me and please you have to scan the inside not the out side. because i have effected the shippment to London since last week.
Please remember the password which i gave to you and i need your full conatct phone number because delivery should made to you by this week so call him and get back to me just ask him if the consignment has arrived london cos they are worried because you as the real owner of the consignment has not contacted them so try to call them just ask him you want to know if your consignment has arrived to london tha it was send from south Africa.

Further, Call the point man.

SkyWest Financial & Securities Plc.
Dr Jay Patel (Director Of Accounts)
Accounts,Logistics & Operations
Tel/ 44-776-513-6892
Fax/ 44-870-912-3162
E-mail- transfer_dept@sky-west.net
E-mail- accounts@sky-west.net

Regards.
Brand.

Password? I certainly don’t remember any password.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net”
Date: Apr 18, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: urgent.

Mr Am,

Many apologies for scanning the wrong part of my passport. Please find
attached the correct page. I hope it is OK.

I shall email the point man in London, To Verify, now.

Andrew

uploads/brandam3.jpg
This is also my actual passport. If you’re interested, the photo is Charles Soludo.

I also emailled the fictional haulage firm, SkyWest:

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: transfer_dept@sky-west.net, accounts@sky-west.net
Date: Apr 18, 2006 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: urgent.

Dear To Verify,

I, the real owner of the consignment sent from South Africa, would
like to know if it has arrived in London. It is in a red container
about five feet across and smells faintly of porridge. It is marked
“THE CONSIGNMENT” and it makes a “crackity” sort of a noise if you
rattle it. (Don’t worry; it is quite sturdy and won’t break if you
rattle it.)

Thankyou, To Verify.

Signed,
Andrew

To Verify and Immediately are both very honest men. Also, if you enter your names as “To Verify” and “Immediately”, you get infinite rear missiles.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 19, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: Mail From Brand.

Dear Andrew,

Many thanks for your e-mail to me and also your pp send for our indentification over this consignment and i still promise what i said at the initial time that i will not disapoint you and i want to have such promise from you too.

Further, i am so happy you are a black man like me too so i hope we will understand each other very well and this relationship wqe are greating between the two family will be everlasting relationship between our family.

You forget to send me your private phone and fax number it will enable me have heart to heart conversation with you and also remember the securtiy company deal with that too (Fax and phone0 so as you fail to send it to me never fail to send it to them because they must call you befor they will come for the delivering of the fund.

mail me when you send email to the point man as you said.
Regards,
Brand.

The racist bastard!

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 19, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Mail From Brand.

Dear Immediately,

I emailed the point man at transfer_dept@sky-west.net and
accounts@sky-west.net just after I emailed you last time. I apologise
for not calling you Immediately in my last email.

Andrew

I’d rather assummed those were also his email addresses, and he’d know everything I sent to them. Odd. It must be a very inefficient crime syndicate I’m dealing with here.

From: accounts@sky-west.net (accounts@sky-west.net)
Reply-To: accounts@sky-west.net
To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
Date: Apr 19, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Consignments Procedures

Consignments Procedures
19Th:April:2006
Attn: Mr Andrew Taylor.
Sir,
We received your E-mail message with regards to the arrival of your Consignments
through our Clearing Dept in your name and your personal particulars as the
Beneficiary/Owner of the Consignments.
For Verification and Examination of the Consignments Documents to avoid Clearing
and Delivery of Consignments to wrong Beneficiary/Owner,, You are advised send to
us immediately by (FAX OR E-MAIL) the following requirements for the immediate
Clearing and Delivery of your Consignments to you as the Beneficiary/Owner.
(a)Your identification Particulars (e.g, Copy of your drivers license or Copy
of your International Passport.
(b) Find Attached your (Consignments Procedures Form) which you have to fill
correctly and send back to us immediately for proper Verifications and
Examination of the Consignments Documents.

SkyWest Financial & Securities Plc.
Dr Jay Patel (Director Of Accounts)
Accounts,Logistics & Operations
Tel/ 44-776-513-6892
Fax/ 44-870-912-3162
E-mail- transfer_dept@sky-west.net
E-mail- accounts@sky-west.net

Here’s Google�s View-As-HTML version of the form.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 20, 2006 5:25 PM
Subject: From Brand.

Dear Andrew,

many thanks for your mail and remember My name is Mr. Brand Am not immidiatelt ok.

So when you email him what did he said ? has the consignment arrived or not yet ?.

ask him how you can clear your consignment if it has arrived.

Regards,
Brand Am.

Your name is “Brand Am”? Well, why didn’t you say something sooner? What sort of a stupid name is “Am” anyway? “Hello, my name is Mister Am”. Stupid. “I am what I am, to whit, Am.” Honestly.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 20, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Mr Brand Am

The accounts department as Sky West asked me to fill in a form, which
I am doing now, and to send them a copy of my passport. Will they want
me to scan the inside or the out side?

Andrew

It’s best to check these things.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 21, 2006 9:19 AM
Subject: From Brand.

Dear Andrew,

Please fill the form and scan the inside of your ppp and send to them immidiately so that we can proceed.
Further , why we should be fast is to avoid putting demorages on our head after paying he shipment fee to them.

So do it and get back to me and please send me acopy of the form so that i can take a look on it.
Regards,
Brand.

Inside. Right.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: accounts@sky-west.net
Date: Apr 21, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: Consignments Procedures

Jay,

Please find attached your form and my passport. Is my consignment
still OK? If it starts making noises, just give it a whack with a
rolled up newspaper or something. That usually quietens it down.

Andrew

Again, see Google�s View-As-HTML version of the completed form. I also sent him my passport, which was the same as the one further up.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 21, 2006 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Brand Am,

I have sent them the form. I’ve attached a copy to this email for you
to peruse at your perusal.

I do not know what a demorage is but I don’t think I want one on my
head, as it would mess up my hair.

Andrew

I attached the same form document to this email too. I can only assume he didn’t read it.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 22, 2006 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Dear Andrew,

Many thanks for your e-mail to me and you have not told me if the consignmewnt has arrived London.

Further, Ask him how we can clear our fund because an inside there in south Africa told me that we we should be fast enough that we can make it by next week.

Please ask him and furnish me with more information.
Regards,
Brand.

He’s becoming very cryptic lately, is Immediately.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 22, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Brand,

I did not tell you if the consignment arrived because SkyWest did not
tell me either. I shall ask them, and I shall ask them how we can
clear the funds quickly as well.

Andrew

And, because I’m true to my word:

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: accounts@sky-west.net
Date: Apr 22, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Consignments Procedures

Jay,

I just want to check on my consignment again. Has it arrived in
London? If it has, could you email me straight away, and then give it
a couple of sharp taps on the corner marked with an X? Thanks a lot,
it will appreciate that.

Also, Mr Am has asked how we can fund a clearing inside South Africa
next week. I’m not sure what he means by this but I’m sure you will.

Andrew

See, I think what’s happenning here is that one of the scammers has rumbled me and not told the other one.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 24, 2006 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Dear Andrew,

Confirm from them and get back to me and i need your phone number as well too.

That said, these emails were only six minutes apart… Probably he’s just an idiot.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: accounts@sky-west.net, transfer_dept@sky-west.net
Date: Apr 24, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Consignments Procedures

Dr Patel,

I really need confirmation that my consignment has arrived in London.
The collective is growing most concerned.

Andrew

Although that said, this gap was only one minute.

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 24, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Mr Am,

I have emailed them again. I will let you know what they say when I get a reply.

Andrew

Really, it’s this kind of thing that’s why I didn’t update the comic much in April.

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 24, 2006 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

I don’t know why you don’t want to give me your phone number. do you want to go away with thr fund when you clear it. let me have your phone number.

This, I think, has gone on long enough. I think it’s time to start pushing the boundaries of credibility until they inevitably snap…

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 24, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Mr Brand,

I haven’t given you my phone number because I live in a big house with
eight other people and only one phone, and my housemates don’t know
about this deal yet. I haven’t told them about it in case it falls
through and I look like a fool.

We can either communicate by email, or else wait for a few more of
them to be voted out and then use the phone.

I think he believed me. Call it a hunch…

From: mrbrandam@netscape.net (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
To: taylor.andrew@gmail.com
Date: Apr 25, 2006 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: From Brand.

Dear Andrew,

Let me believe you for that i want you to verify things with Dr.patel on how to clear the consignment. mean the fund.
call him on phone and verify how to clear the consignment.

Regards,
Brand

I think I pushed it too far with this next one:

From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com)
To: “mrbrandam@netscape.net” (mrbrandam@netscape.net)
Date: Apr 25, 2006 7:51 PM

Brand,

I called Dr Patel and he told me that SkyWest policy forbids him from
discussing specific consignments without a signed copy of form 42b.
I’ve filled it in and sent it off but it may take a day or two to get
there.

He was able to tell me, though, that 102 of the 104 consignments in
his care arrived safely in London on Thursday morning. I think it’s
safe to assume one of them is ours, however we can’t claim it until
form 42b arrives at his office.

Andrew

There’s always a chance I’ll hear back from him, and if I do I’ll keep you posted, but until then the moral is not to try and convince people who run fake companies that their own policies require they send you a form that doesn’t exist.

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