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Princess Tema Agama of Cotonou, Benin is wealthy and wishes to have a long term relationship with me. Let's find out what kind of a response Shanda Leer gets.
Conventions within the thread:
E-mails from the fraudsters are in black.
E-mails from me (Shanda Leer) are in italicized green.
Red X's represent characters that have been changed to protect personal info.
Comments from me are in bold black.
The game commences with the scammer's initial e-mail.
-------- Original Message --------
From: princess princ <princess2pp@latinmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:02:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: I AM WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
Dear Friend,
GOOD DAY AND COMPLIMENT,
I am writting this letter in confident believing that if it is the will
of God for you to help me and my family, God Almighty will give you the
grace to do so and He will bless
and reward you abundantly, I got your contact through internet during
my search on some one who would help us.
I use to be a female student with the University Du Benin, I am 24
years old I could like any person who is caring, loving and home oriented I
would love to have long-term
relationship with you and to know more about you. I would also like to
build up a solid foundation with you in time coming if you can be able
to help me in this transaction. Well; my both parents died earlier
seven month ago in a tragic car accident while coming back from a wedding
reception of a relation, I and my kid brother were left alone,my father
was a titled King before his death.
I was his Princess and the only one now who can take care of his wealth
with my kid brother,presently we are in Cotonou for safety reasons
because of the little wealth he
left behind for us as we were being hunted by his kingsmen who wants to
make away with the huge money.My father left (USD6,350.000.00) six
million three hundred and
fifty thousand USD with a security company before he died and I don't
now how and what I will do to invest this money somewhere overseas so
that his kindred will not take the money over what belong to my father, I
am a young female as stated and by our culture that is why I was happy
when I saw your contact and I strongly believe that by the grace of God
you will help us secure and invest this money.
I therefore need your help in bringing the boxes contaning the money
out from the security company, based on your reply I will furnish you
with more details on how we can proceed.
Meanwhile, I am ready to pay 10% of the total amount to you if you help
us in securing this money and another 10% interest of annual income for
handling this business for us
which you have absolute control over, if you can handle this project
sincerely and also willing to assist me in lifting this money,kindly
reach me and I will let you know the next step to take toward actualizing
this transaction as quickly as possible, please do reply me at
xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk free.I look
forward to hearing from you soon.
Thank you and God bless you.
Princess
From: Shanda Leer
To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Date: May 3, 2005 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: I AM WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
Greetings Princess,
I am so very excited to receive an email from a real princess I don't
even know where to start. I have so many questions.
I guess I should start by asking for your name.
My name is Shanda Leer and I live in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. I am very
pleased and flattered that you have chosen me to write to. I am 30
years old and I have the means to assist you in your plight. I am also
caring, loving and home-oriented, and I too am looking for a long-term
relationship.
Did I understand you correctly that you are prepared to give me 10% of
more than $6,000,000 if I help you? That appears to be very fair and
generous of you. As I have already implied, I would be very happy to
assist you.
Of course, I would love to have a photograph of you. Please try to
include one in your next email to me.
I am very much looking forward to hearing from you again soon.
Warmest regards,
--
Shanda Leer
From: princess princ
To: shandaleer@xxxxxxxxxx.com
Date: May 4, 2005 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: From Princess Tema Agama.
Dear Shanda Leer,
Thank your for the encouraging reply,and in response to your question as to the way you can be of help to us;as I had already enumerated to you in my first mail that I want you to come in as a front for us to claim this money from the safe deposit house under the auspices of you being our late father foreign partner, invest the money on our behalf,and you will be entitle to a remuneration of certain percentage of the proceed of the investment.
The latter is just my proposition,and it can be reviewed,but the most important thing is you standing up for us to get the money out of this country to a safer zone where I and my brother can live,school and work in peace without any fear of persecution because of our inheritance.
That is just the summary of our expectation from you and we pray that you should consider helping us as proposed to you.
I will be waiting for a definitive response from you,and if there is any more question that you are willing to ask,please do not hesitate to ask me and I will answer you to the best of my knowledge.
Thank you,my appreciation for the time you had spent in replying and reading my mails and for even giving it a thought to respond.
God bless you
Yours faithfully
Princess Tema Agama.
Tel:00229-96-XXXX
NB: Your Question: Did I understand you correctly that you are prepared to give me 10% of
more than $6,000,000 if I help you?
My answer is Yes, but if you are nice to me when I and my kid brother come to your country that mean you will be the one to control all the business because If I come to your country we have to go back to school after my school I will now take over from you but you will be the one to teach me because I don't know any thing about business.
So tell me what do you do for a living, are you married, do you have kids, please be truthful with me.
From: Shanda Leer
To: princess princ
Date: May 5, 2005 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: From Princess Tema Agama.
Dear Princess,
I have no idea what I should call you so I will stick to 'Princess' for now.
Certainly I have many questions. How can I be of assistance to you and
your brother? When will you be coming over to the U.S.? Are you still
in Benin? Should I go over to Benin to assist you?
To answer your questions, I am General Education Development
Instructor at the Dallas-Ft. Worth Council for the Hearing Impaired. I
am also a part time author, having already published one book. It
didn't exactly make the New York Times best-seller list though. I am
single, I live alone at this time and I have no children.
I must confess that I know very little about business myself but we'll
cross that bridge when we get to it.
I was hoping to receive your photograph in your last email. It would
be nice to put a face to your emails.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Yours,
--
Shanda Leer
From: princess princ
To: Shanda Leer
Date: May 5, 2005 2:19 PM
Subject: From Princess Tema Agama.
Dear Shanda Leer,
I hereby acknowledged in receipt of your message of today as matter of fact you can call me with my name Princess Tema Agama.
As we need to enter United States of America legally to enable have a good status, we will need your assistance to get legalise letter of invitation and other insurance documents to be require by America Embassy to permit us getting student visa to study as we are still in Benin republic the third world country were things move in snail movement. I knew that all this process will require a lot of money both for our air fare and travel expenses .Based on these mentioned assistance made up our mind to seek for your assistance to stand for us as our late parents foreign partner to enable claim this fund and use some part to our assistance to come over to United states for studies, while you will invest the remaining part into any business you deem fit.
My brother was very happy to your answer to our question and he wants to talk to you as he can’t write well. Kindly send your direct telephone number to reach you or you can call us with this private telephone 229 the country’s international dialling code while 980 403 as you are calling of Untied States will dial 011 229 980 403.
We strongly believed in divine nature and that the spiritual aspect of life controls the physical that was platted in our mind from infancy. You need to work accordable to retrieve this fund on our behalf as that is very important as my brother is interested in politics and hopefully he may be a senator or president and good education is the key.
Disciple was down rooted in our family of which on daily bases we do cry for what happened to our family as we are requesting you to be of assistance to us quickly.
Be advised to contact Mr Owusu Osei the Director of the clearing house vault were it was deposited as they knew not that the consignment with batch C/5847E contents liquid cash here or call our lawyer Barrister Owusu Osei with the telephone number 011 229 985 239 to inquire from our father foreign partner what is require for to make claim that deposited treasure of your late partner. We need urgent approach to save our life and for to have a good future.
Thanking you for all you effort to help us.
May divine blessing and blessing be upon you as render such assistance.
Yours faithfully
Princess Tema Agama
From: Shanda Leer
To: princess princ
Date: May 5, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: From Princess Tema Agama.
Dear Princess,
Perhaps you did not read my last email. With all due respect, I had
some questions for you that remain unanswered. As well, I had
requested a photograph of you, a request that remains unfulfilled.
Concerning telephone contact, I'm afraid we're out of luck. Eleven
years ago I had brain surgery to remove a tumor. Several complications
resulted from that surgery, the most serious of which was a complete
loss of hearing.
Since then I have adapted to my condition rather well which resulted
in my landing the very fulfilling job that I have now.
Communicating in person is usually not a big problem; by telephone
however is impossible. This is why I am open to the idea of travelling
to Benin if need be (assuming you are still in Benin).
I shall await your reply.
Respectfully yours,
--
Shanda Leer
From: princess princ
To: Shanda Leer
Date: May 6, 2005 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: From Princess Tema Agama.
Dear Shanda Leer,
We are serious children with good future and we are not ready to welcome you into our life unless you are ready to down to cotonou Benin republic and see us face to face okay.
Thanking for your understanding.
Best regards
Princess Tema
From: Shanda Leer
To: princess princ
Date: May 6, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: From Princess Tema Agama.
Greetings,
Well, you have shown once again that you simply choose to ignore my
emails. I had specifically asked you if you wanted me to travel to
Benin to assist you.
Frankly, Princess, I believe you are beyond my help. I cannot deal
with anyone who chooses to ignore me.
I wish you and your brother well in your future endeavors.
--
Shanda Leer
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