Friday 20 September 2013

PAINS AND GAINS PART 5





Mrs Pamela Anthony came into my life also, from a reply to my bulk mails I’ve always sent. She was an old woman who needed to be loved again, thus I presented myself as a widower who needed love too. I wasn’t a Nigerian but an African and she was a Canadian. Progressively, our love got impressive. We chatted all night, saying erotic things and turning ourselves on. We sent voice messages on yahoo messenger, and did nude pictures sometimes, to expose the level of our commitment to ourselves.  Honestly; only distance was the problem. 

Pamela told me she needed to meet a Nigerian. I was shocked when she said that. I asked what she wanted to do with a Nigerian and she sent me a mail. She said there is a truth about her she has never told me. That night we chatted for over two hours at a stretch.  We talked about her family and her late husband. She said she needs someone who can come to Canada and invest some money. She said she has an inheritance grant that is huge and she is choosing a Nigerian because they are the most desperate and conclusive. A Nigerian can get anything done at any cost. She didn’t disclose the amount anyway but I was fully interested. She said she wants to transfer the inheritance grants into the business. That is the major reasons she is looking for a husband. I tried to figure everything out as I browsed to confirm there was something called inheritance grant, or was her husband the real Mr Anthony of Canada. 

The man had been a very wealthy man with estates spread across the country. In his testament, he had asked for his wife’s denial from all his property, until she has started showing a sense of being responsible. I was amazed by the man’s request and I knew at a point white men can be stupid. My arrangements changed and I started planning on how to invest money in Canada. My love for Pamela intensified this period, and all I was looking at was getting money from my other clients to make the best living to come in Canada. 

We agreed we are going into real estate also, and agriculture, thus we registered a company online. We worked out the intricacies of success in the business, and we argued we don’t need a business consultant. We worked out everything on our own. Pamela is a meticulous person; if you don’t greet her in the morning, she gets furious. If you don’t pick your calls, you have to explain. I was just coping with all these because I know it would soon be over. We agreed we needed sixteen thousand Canadian dollars to get the investment on the row. 

The week after the company’s registration I chose to tell Pamela the truth. One faithful evening I called her and told her the truth about myself. I confessed being a Nigerian and told her based on the hardship, I scam people for a living. I told her I wasn’t supposed to tell her the truth, but with the feelings I’ve grown for her in these last three weeks, I cannot but just tell her the truth. She cried and cried for up to two weeks and said it was going to be very hard to build trust in me again. I convinced and apologized to her, and afterwards she accepted. She told me to stop doing the work, and said we should live a normal life together. She asked how many people I have scammed, and I obviously reduced the number. I intensified my scam works and payments were coming in. it was three months with Pamela now, and I’ve hit the target of sixteen thousand Canadian dollar but I need to make extra cash for myself before travelling. Now I knew Pamela inside out. I knew where she stayed, knew her neighbours and her staff. She was a real part of me. Our talks ranged from the best sex she has ever had, to the fact she can’t stay without sex for long when she’s in a relationship. I started giving  her orders from Nigeria. She sent her measurements for me to make native wears for her which I did.  I had made almost three thousand dollars extra and now it was turn for me to come to Canada. 

It wasn’t easy selling off my things in Benin. The prices were not impressive at all. She had also gotten a property for me in Ontario which I could buy. The purchase would have been reasonable before I travel or I should just initiate it. I sent the first part of the money to Pamela which was eight thousand Canadian dollars. She sent to me the papers and actualization receipt. I went to the embassy with the papers and my visa was denied because I’ve not fully paid. She reported to foreign missions department in Canada about me and they gave me another hearing. 

We both agreed to pay fully for the property so they don’t have any reason to deny me again. I sent the remaining part of the money. Then the confirmatory receipts were sent to me. I have sold everything this time; all I had left was my car. I’ve left my house and was staying with Esosa. Even Esosa doesn't know I was buying a property. In Benin; as opened as everybody is, no one tells the other what he or she is doing. I waited for two weeks to get my visa and those two weeks were the longest two weeks of my life. My tailor has finished sowing Pamela’s clothes but I didn’t collect it because I don’t want anyone questioning me. She has started the process of inheritance retrieval. We were going into a wedding and the church was aware I was coming. All was set for me to live in the life I expected. 

I had a plan. I had made up my mind on how Pamela would die. I would inherit everything and change my name. All plans were on point as I closed the accounts I didn’t need. 

The text message read three weeks, thus I went to the embassy to collect my passport.  Collection was in the afternoon so I had to wait. Lagos is full of traffic hold up, but I didn’t mind every time I made the trip. It was a trip to somewhere. When I finally got the visa; I was given a multiple entry visa for five years. I called Pamela immediately to tell her, and she screamed on the phone. I was scared for her. Hope her neighbours didn’t report her for disturbance? She couldn’t hide her happiness. I left Lagos for Benin that day to sell my car, buy my ticket and finish up what could be done. When I settled at home I picked my phone and called Pamela and to my surprise a guy picked the phone and told me: congratulations and welcome to Canada in a short while. Guy I be Benin boy no worry yourself. Then I knew the scammer have been scammed. I fell on the bed and ………….

Thursday 19 September 2013

PAINS AND GAINS PART 4




I now had to leave Abuja for a place I’m less obvious. I didn’t enjoy the fact that men of the law now know me as a scammer, thus I relocated to Benin City. Benin was the headquarters of yahoo and girls prefer you to be a scammer than being a normal hustler. Hustling in Benin rested on copy and paste. The whole knowledge I acquired in Abuja was inconsequential when I got to Benin. Here scams mails are invented daily. Different formats and they follow it up with some spiritual backing called yahoo plus. 

Parents supported children who are interested in investing in this venture. Cybercafes made so much money, and you see people of all calibers exhibiting different traits, all in the name of money making. The environment was a little violent but it was more interesting. Everything was on a fast lane, as people were making money by the second. Benin boys can speak their dialect to a white man and he will pay. The city that added confidence to scam; I appreciate them. 

It wasn’t long before I knew the members of the game in the city. And they introduced me to another format of scam. Instead of keeping mails on your laptop or computer; you can turn the white man or woman (maga) to your confidant and friend.
Dating scam is the highest paying scam in the world. They become so close to you and later help you to ruin yourself. The first format I got goes thus:
Hi my new friend

Im glad to see that you have decided to reply,I see it is very short letter. It is all right because you are astonished to get my letter. I want you to know that I have only good intentions and I have not any secrets. The thing is that I will work in your country for three months or so and I would like to meet a nice man to fall in love or just be closest friends. I don't want to live in Russia because I have not any chances here, it is hardly possible to explain from first time but I want you to know my plans. I will work in any shop, bar or restaurant the agency that i am going through will suggest me some locations. It will be my choice in the end as to what option to go for.

So I will have a simple work till I improve my English. And I can choose any town of your area, agency will only help me to get a visa and all travel documents + some suggested placed to work in. My best friend last year met the man from the USA when she worked there for three months, too. She had two jobs. From morning till 4 pm she worked in amusement park and after it she worked as a waitress in some bar till midnight.

She was very tired of course but made very good money there. It is special program for young people who wants to work abroad and I think it is the right way for me , I am lost here, and I think that I look pretty enough to find a better place .I want to repeat the same way, it is only my chance to meet a nice man. I want to work in USA or in Europe or any nice country. I am full of plans and different dreams and I want to share my life with good man because I'm also full of love and tenderness, I know that I am not so beautiful like Hollywood Princess but I do hope to meet my Prince and I am sure he will be not be disappoined to meet me in the real life! This is why I am going to go through the same way. Well,I will close this letter and I do hope to get your reply.

I will leave russia in two weeks or so (I can't tell you everything exactly right now) and I would like to be sure that I have the man who waits for me there. I will work all day and I want to find a man to spend all free time together to get to know each other better.if you have any interest to meet me I will be more than happy to meet you too. I will tell you all details about me and my life if you like my pictures and want to meet me! please send picture of you too!!!

I write to you with my new mailbox [address removed], please write letters now only on this mailbox.

I will wait your next letter.
Kiss you , Marina (this is my name)!
PS here are my pics
I hope they to you will like.
I hope you to me will answer

Once the reply comes to my box we automatically become friends. In dating scams the person being scammed has so much confidence in you and with these I met Austin.
Austin was a real estate developer in Illinois. I had posed as a lady who loved him. I showed him naked pictures of a particular girl I downloaded from the internet. He would tell me how good he feels looking at me naked. I satisfied him and cared for him so well. But the whole story changed when I had to leave Russia and go for a short tour in Congo. There my luggages were stolen and I became stranded. He started by giving me money for survival. That $2900 was the beginning on his miseries. He paid so well that he sold his house. He owed two banks and after 7 months of continuous payment; Austin Bupp commuted suicide. 

I needed another person thus I got Gerald. An Australian who wants to marry a Russian. I have downloaded pictures for him also. Gerald believed I was a nurse, thus money won’t be my problem. I told Gerald my step mum is harsh, thus I want to run away from home. We agreed how I will come to Australia to meet him but in all truthfulness I ran to Vietnam and he now started arranging my immigration papers for me. That was where Gerald’s problem started. He also was sent to twenty years imprisonment after I’ve dealt with him. The last person caused me this whole problem and that is Mrs Pamela Anthony……..

Wednesday 18 September 2013

PAINS AND GAINS PART 3





With $3400, my pride was restored again. Now I knew the meaning of entrepreneurship. I work for myself now. The subsequent weeks brought good fortune also. I could rent a house in Gwarinpa. A dream of five years in my imagination has just been realized. Henry is the man; I became very loyal to him and believed everything he said. The subconscious was that he believed in me also. He trusted me with the growth of his company of fraudsters but I was looking at doing all things myself. Three consecutive times I was paid and I had to share my money with people just for the fact we work in the same office.
I have stayed six months with him, and it’s time now for me to decide which route I will follow. I told I wanted to stay on my own but would still refer jobs to him when I can’t proceed. He exposed me to a new format and that was where I got my first 6 million naira. In our entrepreneurial world it’s called transfer. It is the final stage of fraud. It goes thus:

This is just a short true note about your unpaid fund, therefore, you need to relax and read very well to your best understanding.
I am Mr Tony Albert. a computer scientist hired from Germany to work with central bank of Nigeria because of my ability to operate computerized activities. I am 25 years old, just started working with C.B.N. I came across your file which was marked 'X' and your released disk painted RED, I took time to study it and found out that you have paid VIRTUALLY all fees but the fund was not released to you.

The most annoying thing is that they won't tell you the truth that on no account will they ever release the fund to you, instead they allow you spend money unnecessarily, I do not intend to work here all the days of my life, I can make the funds be released to you if you can certify me of my security and assure me that when I make the release, you will settle me.

I needed to do this because you need to know the status of your Funds and cause for the delay as well being in your shoe, Please this is like a Mafia setting in Nigeria, you may not understand it because you are not a Nigerian or you might not have been to Nigeria. The only thing needed to release this fund is the Original Anti drug/terrorist clearance certificate which will be tendered to any of your nominated bank and the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) for clearance of the transferred amount in your account. I also understand that many of these Mafias might have told you to pay for such before which you might be thinking that it is the original you are paying for, but I must assure you that the only person who is in the position to give you the original is in the Federal Ministry of Finance which I will give you more information on it after you acknowledge the contents of my email.

Once the Original Anti drug /terrorist clearance certificate is obtained funds will immediately reflect in your bank within 24 Hours, the certificate is all that is needed to complete this transaction.
The only authorized person who will issue you your Original document from the Federal Ministry of Finance is Honourable Njoku Watson and his personal Phone number is +234 912 197 4059.

Before you call him, I want you to know that you cannot get the certificate for free, as he will not even want to give you but if you indicate your file to him in good faith, he will understand because he is a God fearing person who has Human sympathy.

Please Note: when contacting him, do not/ never tell him I was the one, just make sure you indicate your file letter X and tell him painted colour Red so that he would recognise your file.
Note that the actual funds is valued at $15.5 MILLION USD and the president made a compensation fund release for all unpaid beneficiaries valued at $10 million USD.

Therefore, you will not be able to receive your Original initial fund but the sum of $6 million will be transferred to you as soon as the original documents is cleared and every two weeks after the first six million had been paid to you, they will make deposit of two million into your account every two weeks but the important thing is to get the Certificate and the first Six Million.

Listed below are the mafia's and banks behind the non release of your funds that I managed to sneak out for your kind perusal.

1) Prof. Charles soludo (had been sacked from CBN by the Federal Government)
2) Chief Joseph Sanusi
3) Dr. R. Rasheed
4) Barrister Awele Ugorji
5) Mr Roland Ngwa
6) Barrister Ucheuzo Williams
7) Mr. Ernest Chukwudi Obi
8) Dr. Patrick Aziza
Deputy Governor - Policy / Board Member
9) Mr. Tunde Lemo
Deputy Governor - Financial Sector Surveillance / Board Member
10) Mrs. W. D. A. Mshelia
Deputy Governor - Corporate Services / Board Members
11) Mrs. Okonjo Iweala
12) Mrs. Rita Ekwesili
13) Barr Jacob Onyema
14) Dr. Godwin Oboh: Director Union Bank Of Nigeria.
15) Mr John Collins: Global Diplomat Director.
16) Foreign fund diplomatic courier
17) Barr. Becky Owens
18) Rev. Steven Jones
19) Bank of Africa
20) Mrs. Debbie Hargrove
21) Mr. Michael Wagner
22) ADB Bank Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
23) FSA UK
24) NATWEST BANK
25) ECO Bank
26) Credit Bank
And many others that I do not have advantage of posting here.

Do get in touch with me immediately to conclude this final transaction immediately, and also send to me your convenient address, Tel/Fax numbers for easy communications.
Regards,
Mr Tony Albert


I am now a guru in internet fraud. Unimaginably I was also close to the church. I prayed everyday and never missed morning mass. Revivals were my specialty and the incredible happened on day. I was at the bank to pick up small money and two men in red t shirts walked close to me: sir, are you Mr Peter jumbo? I answered yes and why…….. You are under arrest by the EFCC.  A chill ran through my spine has I felt it that the end has come. I blinked to the guy at the bank bringing the money, as he disappeared into the bulk room. My phones were seized as I approached their Wuse ii office. It was the headquarters and they treated me like Interpol was looking for me. I had no backup apart from Henry, thus the option of call I was given was to him. He said I should wait a little and in twenty minutes a man walked into the detention room and called my name. He pulled me up and removed the cuffs on my hand, put his hand around me and started talking to me as we walked out of the office. He told me to go meet Henry, he would give me the remaining update.
Next day news: international fraudster disappears from EFCC office and then I loved this country more.


Tuesday 17 September 2013

PAINS AND GAINS PART 2



OFFICE SOMETIMES



The first introduction was from my university classmate Henry. Henry was not that a smart boy; he was just there, and he never acted like someone who would be great in life. But the instance I saw him, my life was having a turn around. I got into the shortest profession called YAHOO. It was a wonderful experience and it led me to this point I am. 

Henry was driving a car I didn’t ever believe he could ever drive in his life. He stopped to sort out something with a recharge card seller when he heard our shouting across the road with a suya man. The man had sold suya to us five days ago, which we used to support Garri. We have tried to dodge him, but that faithful day he caught up with us. The Aboki brought out suya knife to threaten, and our shout as if we were justified, made him slow down a little. Henry tapped me from behind and I felt a sense of shame. He asked what happened, and the suya man explained. He brought out a thousand naira note and gave the man. I told him the suya was Four Hundred Naira worth, but he told me to leave the change. My squatter and I rolled with him as he bought us a bottle of Jack Daniels, and he counted ten thousand naira to pay. I opened up to him on how broke we were, and the whole unemployment thing. He asked if I was interested in doing what big boys do lately; the yes was the fastest in my life.  He gave me his number and an additional ten thousand naira. I promised to call him the next day. That day was the first time in twelve months I slept well. 

We confidently paid all our debts, and we were proud again for one day. Eight o clock on the dot I was in his house. I knocked and I was surprised he even had a security man. He escorted me and my roommate into a big sitting room with eight laptop computers and some very young boys working on them. I thought it was a business center until he came out. 

He told me this is YAHOO: the real money. He explained how it works and said if I can concentrate on it, at most by two weeks I should be able to count my own one hundred thousand. He gave me a laptop and told me to start sending bulk messages to different email addresses. The work was simply copy and paste.

The mail read thus:
The National Lottery,
PO Box 1010,
Liverpool,
L70 1NL,
United Kingdom.
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04
Batch: R3/A312-59

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#951) held on Wednesday, 2nd January 2003.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475678645 188
with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 02, 19, 28, 33, 44, 49, 21.which subsequently won you the jackpot prize. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £714,075 (Seven hundred Fourteen Thousand and Seventy Five Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £714,075 would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

To file for your claim, please contact our judiciary agent:
Mr Trewy Kopoly
Email: claims_dept@mail2trewy.com

Provide him with the information below:
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Draw Number above:

That way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents/paperwork can be prepared for you. You would be required to show an instrument of identification when cashing your cheque i.e. Drivers License or International passport. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.


Good luck from me and members of staff of the U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,

Sir James Duchess.
Online Co-coordinator for U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY, Sweepstakes International Program.



This was the new job I got. I had a target to send a day. The emails were many and I wondered where they got them from. Every other person was doing the same and in time we were all friends. We talked from how much one can make to what we’ll buy when the money comes. The boys were now my source of income; no longer Henry. The first payment came three days after I started work. One of the boys had collected money from a client. The bulk of the money would be given to him, but all the members of the office would share from it. I was given $200 and at this time I knew this was my office. 

I worked day and night. Sleep was a luxury I couldn’t afford and at the end of the first week I’ve had eleven replies in my e-mail box opened for me. They all needed to collect their money and I wondered what greed could do to people. Henry processed the payment for them through some stages. With promises that were never ending. The fraudulent way was paying and whenever I see some friend and colleagues still queuing up to be attended to in offices that have no job for you I wonder if they haven’t gotten the revelation yet.

It was now two weeks at my new office:  an establishment without a letter headed, no id card, no registration with CAC, and an office without a salary structure. Your efficiency determines your output. Five people have paid the first payment for their virtual money and on that faithful Tuesday, Henry called the whole office again, and presented to me an envelope. He gave the remaining eleven people $200. I held the envelope in fear and excitement. I couldn’t open it, and when I eventually did; tears rolled down my eyes. I felt the pain in what my government cannot do for me; Henry has done. At this point I knew nothing would take me away from this office. I must grow old to be a director, and slowly I counted the money, it was $3,400…………….

MY JAPA- STORY EPISODE 2

Ahmed and Awa dared to dream beyond their familiar streets, in the heart of Kano, wedged between the bustling Bompai Road and vibrant Kofar ...