18 April 03

From Pedro Guei,
Cote D'Ivoire. west africa
Dear Sir,
Good day to you in the name of our Lord.
Let not my mail come to you as a surprise, I am contacting you based on the trust and confidence I reposed on you that you can be capable of executing this transaction to our mutual benefit and I know you will not betray me.

I am Mr. Pedro Guei, the son of Gen. Robert Guei, who was the former military president of my country Cote D'Ivoire. My late father was murdered on the 18-09-2002 while attempting to gain power through a failed coup d'etat.

I confide in you to disclose my late fathers' wealth acquired while in office as the president. The sum of ($9 Million Dollars) deposited into a finance security company abroad for safe-keepig by my late father without making the real contents of the consignment that contains the fund known to the finance security company.
I am soliciting for your assistance in securing,investment/management of this fund because I am a young man with no experience in investment and management of fund.

Proceedures :
1. I have already made an arrangement on how the money will transfer to you as soon as i hear from you.
2. You are required to furnish me with the following :
3. Bank account number
4. Your direct tel & fax number
5. Beneficiary name of the account number
6. Your full mailling address and full name.

With the above informations, I shall commence the procedures for the transfer of the fund to you.

But before we can commence any of the above arrangement, an agreement
must be reached first. I therefore advise you to treat this with utmost secrecy and urgency by reaching me immediately.
I await hearing from you urgently on my direct telephone number : +229-96-29-73 or email :pedrorobertguei@444.net <mailto::pedrorobertguei@444.net> or sunnyguei@lycos.com <mailto:sunnyguei@lycos.com> for more informations.
NOTE:I am not ready to (contact any other person) until I get a reply from you.


Yours' brother,

Pedro Guei

20 April 03

Hi Pedro
Thanks for your e-mail.
$9 million is a lot of money. If I help you how much is there for me?
J Master

21 April 03

dear Master,

thank a lot for your response, please i will like to have your direct telephone so that we can discuss on this issue.

well, without wasting time i will offer you %15 of the total sum which is $9 million dollars i hope it will be ok for you.

please send me your direct telephone and your full mailing address and full name to enable me speak with you concerning this transaction/investment in your country.

thanks
yours brother
pedro guei

21 April 03

Hi Pedro
I think that'll be OK.
My phone is not working properly at the moment but you can fax me on (UK)
xxxxx-xxxxxx
Look forward to hearing from you.
J Master

21 April 03

dear master,

i am very happy to have some one like you as my foreign investor, please i hope you will not diserpoint at the end.

please dont be offended for the word i used, you know we have to trust each other in this transaction/ investment in your country.

please i will like you to contact my lawyer so that he will tell you what to do and to enable him draft an agreement concerning your percentage to take in this transaction as we discussed and also to tell you all the requirement we needed to conclude this transaction as soon as possible.

please advise your country code number ok.

bellow is the information of my lawyer.
his name is Barrister John Nafis.
his email is : barristerjohnnafiss2003@yahoo.com or johnnafis@avu.org :
his direct telephone number is +229-98-98-57 .

please contact him as soon as you receive this message is very important and dont fail to call me on my direct telephone +229-96-29-73 for more information and to hear from you ok.

thanks
yours brother
pedro guei

21 April 03    (So I contact the lawyer)

Dear Barrister Nafis

Mr Guei has asked me to contact you to arrange an agreement between us.

Please e-mail me with the proposed agreement.

Regards

J Master

22 April 03

               WELL   COME  TO

      HARRISSON DOSU/ JOHN NAFIS ASSOCIATES

               JURISCONSULITE HUSSIER DE JUSTICE

   01 BP 5321 AKPAKPA  COTONOU REPUBLIC  OF BENIN                     

PHONE:+229-989857

E  MAIL : barristerjohnnafis2003@yahoo.caor johnnafis@avu.org

BARRISTER  ETUDE JOHN NAFIS ESQ

ATTN: JOKE MASTER

THIS IS TO CONFIRM THE RECEIPT OF YOUR LETTER WHICH IS WELL UNDERSTOOD.

Without wasting valuable time exchanging correspondence over this issue of their fund transfer. it is highly important fort me to educate you what is required to conclude the transfer toyour account as instructed by my client MR. PEDRO GUEI

Now be fore we proceed, you will be required to forward the following information that will enable me to change the transfer of ownership in your name and favour and to forward a power of attorney in your favour.

FORWARD YOUR FULL NAME

YOUR ADDRESS

YOUR TELEPHONE AND MOBILE PHONE

once i get this information, every necessary document will be submitted for the change of the beneficiary in your namd and favour as the person my client empowered and authorised for the clearance and claim.

you will only require to settle for the clearance fee once the finance company contact you for the transfer.

you have to send the account particulars where you want the fund to be transferred.

call me for more verification 00229-989857

JOHN NAFIS

PRINCIPAL PARTNER

22 April 03

Name    Joke Master

Fax        uk    xxxx-xxxxxx

Tel         not currently working - be fixed next week

Address xx xxxxxxxxx xx, xxxxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx, xxx xxx, UK

Regards

J Master

22 April 03    (The lawyer gets clumsy)

Attn: Mr; jokes Master

sequel to your response over my email.
kindly note that your details has been forwarded to the rps for onward transfer once you settle the clearance fee but there is some information which you must have to send to me before the transfer process commence.
1.  YOU NEED TO FORWARD YOUR PASSPORT OR DRIVING LINCENSE BY ATTACHMENT IMMEDIATELY.
2.  NOTE THAT YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO PAY THE BANK FOR THE TRANSFER FEE BEFORE THEY CAN TRANSFER TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
3. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND YOUR ACCOUNT PARTICULARS WHERE YOU WANT THE BANK TO TRANSFER AS INSTRUCTED BY MY CLIENT JUDITH AND DAVID MAKOULOU.
CALL ME FOR MORE INFORMATION ON 00229-989857

REGARDS
JOHN NAFIS

22 April 03    (Time to get stroppy)

What are you talking about?

I have had no dealings with Judith & David Makoulou - I've never even heard of them.

The only time I have contacted you was to do with my dealings with Pedro Guei.

Are you competent? At the very least this is a severe breach of client confidentiality.

Does Mr Guei realise what mistakes you make?

J Master

22 April 03    (With copy of lawyer's e-mail)

Dear Pedro

Below is an e-mail I have just received from your lawyer, John Nafis, together with my reply.

The man is totally incompetent.

Can you trust him to act for you in a confidential way when he is sending details of his other clients to me?

I look forward to your reply.

Regards

J Master

22 April 03

dear master,

please i want to know if you have contacted my lawyer as told you in my previous mail.

please if you contacted him keep me informed.

thanks
yours brother
pedro guei

23 April 03

Attn Mr.JOKE MASTER
Good morning to you.
highly sorry for the mistake being made by my secretary.
i directed her to forward you to send the following information that will enable me send you the power of attorney and transfer of ownership will be effected in your name and details for us to proceed to the bank to deposit .
note that the bank will contact you soonest and you are only required to settle for the cost of the clearance fee to enable them transfer to your account as approved.
1.YOU NEED TO FORWARD YOUR PASSPORT OR DRIVING LINCENSE BY ATTACHMENT IMMEDIATELY.
2.  NOTE THAT YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO PAY THE BANK FOR THE TRANSFER FEE BEFORE THEY CAN TRANSFER TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
3. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND YOUR ACCOUNT PARTICULARS WHERE YOU WANT THE BANK TO TRANSFER AS INSTRUCTED BY MY CLIENT PEDRO GUEI
SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE.

KINDLY CALL ME FOR US TO TALK ON PHONE FOR CLARIFICATION 00229-989857

BARRISTER JOHN NAFIS

23 April 03

What cost of clearance fee?

Pedro never mentioned this.

What transfer fee?

Pedro never mentioned this either.

Are you sure about this?

You've already made a big mistake in forwarding other clients details to me and I'm beginning to have serious doubts about your competence.

How much money are we talking about here? I'm not going to willy nilly splash out sums of money without being absolutely sure that they're being handled correctly and your recent cock-ups don't exactly inspire confidence. What sort of qualifications do you need to become a lawyer in the Ivory Coast anyway - very few I suspect.

Don't do anything until I've contacted Pedro.

Yours

J Master

23 April 03

Pedro

Can you trust this character? He seems to be extremely unreliable. How do we know that he won't take the money and do a runner?

Please get back to me urgently.

Regards

J Master

23 April 03

Dear JOKE MASTER

it is important you call me on phone today unfaillingly for us to clarify everything as my secretary made such mistake

call me at 00229-989857

regards

john

23 April 03    (Enter the man from the bank)

DEAR SIR

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FILL THE ATTACHED FORM WITH THE APPLICABLE TRANSFER FEE AS STIPULATED.

REVERT ACCORDIGNLY

MR. MOHAMMED KHALIL

DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

23 April 03

Mr Khalil

Sorry but it's impossible  to fill out the Authority To Remit document as it is too dark and my details will not be legible when I fax them back to you.

Do you have another (white background) copy that you can send to me so that I can transmit the completed form to you.

Yours sincerely

J Master

24 April 03

FOR THE ATTENTION OF MR. JOKE MASTER

SIR
CONSEQUENT UPON YOUR RESPONSE OVER THE NOTIFICATION OF THE TRANSFER OF YOUR MONEY WHICH AMOUNTED TO THE SUM OF $9MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS.

YOU CAN FORWARD YOUR BANK DETAILS SINCE YOU HAVE DISCOVERED THE DARKNESS OF THE SHEET WHEN FAXING BACK. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND BY EMAIL AND DO NOT MAKE ANY SINGLE MISTAKE WHILE MAILLING.

IT BEHOOVES YOU TO FOR THE OFFICIAL PROCESS OF TRANSFER AND HAVE YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TRANSFERRED TO YOU BY YOU PAYING FOR THE COST OF THE TRANSFER FEE IMMEDIATELY WHICH AMOUNT TO $7,000.

NOTE, UPON CONFIRMATION OF THE PAYMENT OF THE CLEARANCE FEE AS STIPULATED, YOUR TOTAL MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO YOUR ACCOUNT AS APPROVED SO ENSURE YOU FORWARD YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS CORRECT TO AVIOD ANY ERROR IN TRANSFER.

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE THE PAYMENT VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER BECAUSE OF TIME CONSTRAIN WITH THE REFERENCE OF OUR ACCOUNT KEEPER.

MR. EZE DAVID EMENIKE

COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC

AND FORWARD THE WESTERN UNION INFORMATION FOR THE COLLECTION

THE CONTROL NUMBER.......................

THE QUESTION AND ANSWER..............

THE SENDERS NAME..............................

UPON CONFIRMATION OF THE PAYMENT OF THE ABOVE FEE, YOUR FUND WILL BE WIRED TRANSFER TO YOU VIA KEY TESTED TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER AND A SLIP OF THE TRANSFER WILL BE FAXED TO YOU AND YOUR BANK FOR CONFIRMATION.

FINALLY, I STILL REPEAT, ENSURE YOU FORWARD YOUR ACCOUNT PARTICULARS CORRECT.

CALL ME ON ME IMMEDIATELY YOU SEND YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND MAKE PAYMENT OF THE TRANSFER CHARGE.

REVERT ACCORDNIGNLY

MR. MOHAMMED KHALIL

24 April 03

Attn: Mr. JOKE MASTER

This is to let you know that i reeived your mail but highly surprise because of the way you approach me because of the mistake my secretary did as regards your name which i have pleaded.

kindly understand that i have forwarded your detail to the bank for onward transfer once you pay them for the cost of transfer that is what i mean by clearance fee and that is the only expenses you are going to incure over this transfer.

my client will get in touch to tell you what is required since you have failed to comprehend me.

regards but ensure you get in touch with me once the bank contact you for the transfer.

barrister john nafis

24 April 03

dear master,

sorry that you have not heard from me for the past two days now, i am ill and geting alright now please how far have you gone with my lawyer?

Please i need to hear from you to enable me know the next step to take ok.

please use new email address :prg_2003@444.net or pedroguei@zwallet.com
for security reasons and i will like you to call me on my direct number
+229-96-29-73 for more discussion.

please send me your direct telephone number ok.

thanks
yours brother
pedro guei

26 April 03

dear master,

Please i need to hear from you to enable me know the next step to take ok.

please use new email address :prg_2003@444.net or pedroguei@zwallet.com
for security reasons and i will like you to call me on my direct number
+229-96-29-73 for more discussion.

please send me your direct telephone number ok.

thanks
yours brother
pedro guei

27 Apr. 03

Pedro
The bank sent some documents that were illegible and also asked for $7000.
I don't know if we can trust them or that incompetent lawyer.
Regards
J Master

27 Apr. 03

dear  master,

thank you very much for your email today, please point of correction the document bank sent to you is geniune i wonder for your statement, how can bank send you illegal documents.

please ask my lawyer to confirm everything to you please, i want this money to get to your account before tuesday this week.

for your information my visa will come's out this week and i am preparing to meet you soonest immediately this money transfer to you in few days time.

please contact my lawyer and finalise with him so that this money will be transfer to you as soon as possible.

thanks
yours brother
pedro guei

29 Apr. 03

Dear Pedro
You're quite right of course - a bank can't send illegal documents. Not a real bank anyway. However you should be aware that the Ecobank's post code in Cotonou is  01 BP 1280 and NOT 01 BP 1370, their telephone and fax numbers are 31.40.23 & 31.33.85 NOT 68.26.77 & 33.27.17 and their e-mail address is ecobankbj@ecobank.com NOT ecobankdubenin_rep@yahoo.com

Your efforts are amongst the poorest I've seen in a long list of 419 scams.
You, together with John Nafis and Mohammed Kalil should really brush up on your letter writing technique and fake documentation.

It has, however, been a real pleasure stringing you along for the last couple of weeks and, hopefully it has diverted you from finding a more gullible client.

Bye for now
Joke Master (The name should have given you a clue)

29 Apr. 03    (Pedro does not easily give up)

dear master,

you should know that the eco-bank have so many branch and the one you are talking about is there head office mohamed kalil is in there branch you can see there address in there letter headed paper.

please i am not hear to be discussing about this if you are ready to help you go ahead and pay the money to them to enable them transfer the money to you for the investment ok.

the money is real and geniune and it belongs to me at the moment so whatever you said about it is not my problem so far i know that my money exist am less concern whatever you may say about it ok.

if you like you can come down here to witness everything with your naked eyes and that will enable you to beleive the transaction.

thanks
pedro guei
awaiting for your reply to know what to do.

29 Apr. 03

Re: awaiting for your reply to know what to do.
Stick it where the sun don't shine. Give up, you've been rumbled.