Rose Chukwu of the Ministry of Finance has just informed me that two men have told her that I was terminally ill and that they were there to claim my money. I'll have Peter Draggin take this one.

Conventions within the thread:

E-mails from the fraudsters are in black.
E-mails from me (Peter Draggin) 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.

[ Mar. 19, 2005 ]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Urgent Reply
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 02:28:18 +0000
From: xxxxxxxxx@zipmail.com.br

I am a director with the Federal Ministry of Finance and was instructed by the Hon Minister of Finance to find out before the end of this month, why your contract/ claim of your part payment of $15.5 Million fund have not been credited to your account.

However their is two gentlemen who came from your country to claim this fund on your behalf and the reason giving to us is that you are the one who send them that you are terminal sick and they provide account of Union Bank of Swizterland for the payment to be made.

Kindly reconfirm your banking particulars to us and to know if you are the one that send them,your telephone and fax numbers and your full name for us to check with the one in our file.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Rose Chukwu
Please forward your response to my private
E:mail:(xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.uk)

Hmmm...wonder what country's Ministry of Finance Mrs. Chukwu works in.

From: Peter Draggin
To: mrsrose_chukwu
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:14:54 -0500
Subject: Re: Urgent Reply

Dear Mrs. Chukwu,

I am Peter Draggin and I have no idea who these two gentlemen are. I am not terminally ill. The gonorrhea is almost all cleared up now. I am not even in the hospital. I implore you not to release the funds to these two gentlemen. They are fraud stars. I do not even have a Swiss bank account.

Please get back to me at once.

Peter Draggin

No response. Another failure.