Badger one - Dr Collins Greg vs Tor Impregna and abuse(at)his.ISP
Well... I tracked this badger fast enought (the headers in his mail were a dead giveaway). Still, I wanted to kick his groin, since I was impatiently waiting for a mail from one of my baits.
Recived 05.12.03 at 0706:
DR COLLINS GREG.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA
LOME -TOGO.
TELE+228-9 181271.
DEAR FRIEND,
I AM COLLINS GREG THE AUDITING AND
ACCOUNTING UNIT FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT INTERNATIONAL BANK OF
AFRICA I am writing following the impressive information about
your profile through the website your capability and reliability
to champion this opportunity. In my department, we discovered an
abandoned sum of $18.5 million US dollars (EIGHTEEN MILLION FIVE
HUNDRAD THOUSAND US DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customers Mr John Schelpert from united states of
america who died along with his entire family in October,1999 in
a plane crash.
Since we got this information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money
because we can not release it unless somebody applies for it as
next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that
his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in
the crash leaving no body behind to claim the money. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we don t want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed bills.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after long period, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request
for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine cannot
stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 25%
of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to
the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during this transaction and 70 % would be for
me and my colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the Bank as
relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your private,
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your
reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the
application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
100% hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of
fear as all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this letter. I decided to contact you as you have
products of interest in your part of the world where we can
invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we are
civil servants. We can conclude this operation within ten banking
days.
Please keep this very confidential. Contact me for more
information, all confirmable before you apply if you want.May God
be with you. Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed
information which are confirmable before you can make up your
mind to apply.
Peace and love always.
Best regards.
COLLINS GREG.
PLEASE REPLY WITH THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS
collins_iba_info@financier.com
Lets fire of a nice, innocent reply.. nothing that can tip him off:
Your proposal sounds very interesting in many ways to me. Please tell me more about how you suggest we handle this.
Tor Impregna
Can't be simpler than that.
Off course, he bites. Less than two hours after his first mail, I get this in my box:
Dear Tor,
Good day to you Tor,i am sure you are fine today.I want to thank you for your prompt reply,infact i will want to tell you that transaction of this kind has procedures that must be followed and like i told you before for the understanding of this project i will like you to go through the detailed clarification,so as to have a solid background into the transaction.Take your time and go through the details for you to know the reason for this transaction.Below is the details for you to study carefully.
It was tabulated for much better understanding .
I..About the deceased.
The deceased customer, Mr. John Schelpert was a big customer of International Bank of Africa (where I work),he operated a coded account with us and died on a plane crash.No bodies was recovered from the crash site because of very poor rescue facilities. However, they were given a ceremonial mass burial near the crash site. He was born in Guyana in 1929 of Italian parents from Venice but he was fully known as an American. He was a Civil Engineer who had handled so many projects here in West Africa. He had a wife and two daughters of course all of them were on the same plane. He has a registered company here in Lome Togo but folded up after his demise.
2...Why we want to do the transaction.
You must understand that in the banking industry chances or opportunities like this are common but not heard. People put their monies in banks and some of these accounts are either coded or confidentially operated, therefore, when such people die what do you think that happens to these monies when nobody comes for their claims? Well, this is one of the numerous avenues good "free" monies are made within and amongst the bankers. I did not mastermind Mr. John Schelpert's death and I did not operate or manage his account, if there was something that I could have done officially to have this money sent to his real relatives independent of the bank management, believe me, I would have done it. Normally, when something like this happens in the bank, it is reported to the management. The management can only wait for five years for a next of kin to show up without publishing it or making it public because of course, false claimants must definitely show up. Therefore, it is not published and the bank only waits for the real heir to show up as the availability of such funds are expected to be in the late "customers will" which would be the only source of knowledge of it by anybody who is entitled to such estate. So the bank gives five years for this, and if no claimant comes forward then the Management sends the money to the Debt Re-conversion Department and the account is closed. Now the question is, who runs the Debt Re-conversion Department and who is the Management? The answer is simple. The Chairman, Managing Director and Board Members. These are individuals and these monies are shared by them and nobody asks questions period. In fact these issues are not even discussed outside board meetings. To explain myself properly, I am not a board member and of course, I am not part of the Management and I am not rich, therefore, if I have this opportunity and throw it to the wolves, then I must be the "stupidest" the most "foolish-man" that has ever lived. It was the Account Officer who discovered this and informed me, so we are the only ones involved.
3..Security on the project.
We have fully put all the underground works and logistis in perfect order and since this is an opportunity open to anybody, we do not see anything wrong or "fraudulent" in what we are doing as long as we are not hurting who should not be hurt period. I can only tell you that it is just destiny that brought us together. You are a human being and you can draw your own judgement from the above explanations. Because I am quite sure of what I am doing that is why I am committing all my savings in this project because I know what the catch is and it is worth it, my conscience is clear and I have no genuine reason to worry about the dead. The procedure of establishing the next of kin would be taken care of by me since this has to be certified by my office, do not worry about this.
4..Amount involved.
The amount involved in this transaction is Eighteen million five hundred thousand united states dollars only. However, this project involves a large sum of money and I would want you to take your time before we commence. I occupy a very sensitive position here in the bank and I want to be very careful so that the project is carried out very smoothly and successfully.
5..Sharing patterns
As gratififcation for helping us do this transaction, you are entilted to 25% of the total amount while 5% will be set aside to take care of all expences incured on the process of making this transaction a sucess.
I hope the above data gives you a clearer picture of everything involved.I am waiting for your reply or call as the urgency implies.
Have a nice day and God bless
Best regards,
Sincerely,
COLLINS.
Two mails... I had all I needed from his headers, as well as from where he opened his mail, to swing into action. Tracking down his ISP was easy, and mailing abuse just as easy:
Sir / Ma'am.
This is to inform you that I have recived not one, but two emails orginating at IP 207.218.2.60 (believed to be part of your network), that appears to be what's populary refered to as 419 scams, also known as Advanced Fee Scam.
The full headers of the recived mails are:
<header 1>
>From <collins30@myfishbox.com> Fri Dec 05 00:06:31 2003
Received: from GODZILLA.annex.com [207.218.2.60] by
mindy.myownemail.com
with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-6.06) id A061ED90224; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:06:25 -0600
Received: from 207.218.2.60 ([207.218.2.60]) by
GODZILLA.annex.com with
Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713);
Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:43:35 -0800
Content-type: text/plain
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:43:20 -0800
From: collins30@myfishbox.com
Subject: READ AND REPLY
To: collins30@myfishbox.com
Return-Path: collins30@myfishbox.com
Message-ID:
<GODZILLAzhxRz3s2gu5000009be@GODZILLA.annex.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Dec 2003 08:43:35.0528 (UTC)
FILETIME=[B47E2680:01C3BA42]
X-UIDL: 1069780522
Status: R
<header 2>
>From <collins30@myfishbox.com> Fri Dec 05 02:02:22 2003
Received: from GODZILLA.annex.com [207.218.2.60] by
mindy.myownemail.com
with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-6.06) id AB86F0F0184; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 02:02:14 -0600
Received: from 207.218.2.60 ([207.218.2.60]) by
GODZILLA.annex.com with
Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713);
Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:26:49 -0800
Content-type: text/plain
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:26:42 -0800
From: collins30@myfishbox.com
Subject: DETAIL INFORMATION TOR.
To: impregnator@wolf-web.com
Return-Path: collins30@myfishbox.com
Message-ID:
<GODZILLAUyGZo86UOps00000a9d@GODZILLA.annex.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2003 08:26:49.0886 (UTC)
FILETIME=[877F1BE0:01C3BB09]
X-UIDL: 1069780524
Status: R
I will keep the full texts of the emails on file for another ten working days in cause you wish to see them.
Yours
Tor Impregna
Norway
However, I was feeling benovelent, so I sendt 'Collins' one last mail as well:
Hei Collins.. if that is your real name. You're acting dumb enought for it to be it in fact...
Now, we both know that there are no shitload of money waiting for me in Africa. Infact, We know your not even in africa, or smart enought to use a relay to appear to be there (not that it would have mattered to me). In fact, you're at the IP address 207.218.2.60, which neatly places you in Phoenix Arizona (thats in the US, in cause you're to dumb not to know).
In fact, you are right here: http://tinyurl.com/xwz9
You appear to use the ISP Global Crossing, and as you should know if you had been smart, their abusedepartment was just an e-mail away from my computer. They have your initial mail and your rely to me - pretty clear proof that you was engaging in Advance Fee Scam. I've checked with friends I have stateside. The AFS is a federal offence...
Now, Since we both know this, how about
you stop beeing a fool and instaed engage in some real baiting?
For starters, I would suggest you look over at these sites to get
ideas:
http://www.taynow.wisesurfer.net/
http://www.oocities.org/scambaiter2003/
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
http://ausetkmt.com/419.html
and my own simple website temporarely at
http://www.oocities.org/won_tolla_1973/
No bad feelings
'Tor'