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Home - The Chronicles - The Baker The BakerIn which Gilbert Murray, a baker whose wife has the finest baps in Lincolnshire, stands as next of kin to someone he's never heard of in the hope of inheriting their lost millions. Cast of characters
Note that the fake barrister in this particular scambust adopted the name of a real barrister who is currently practising law in the UK and overseas. To prevent any confusion between the fake barrister and the real barrister, the fake barrister in this scambust is referred to throughout as "Bernard Williams", rather than the pseudonym he actually adopted. From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENT AND PERSONAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL Sent: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:38:19 (AUDB) AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC, DESK OF DR CHARLES IJEOMA. RC NO: A4568UD. Dear Sir, I have a proposal for you, this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will. I am Dr Charles Ijeoma, the Manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the AUDB Bank of Nigeria PLC and work with African Union Development Bank Plc (one of the African leading banks in the west coast). Here in this bank existed dormant account for the past five years which belong to one of our customers (Mr Andreas Schranner) who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in July 31st 2000 in a plane crash. When I discovered that there had been no deposits nor withdrawals from this account for this long period, I decided to carry out a system investigation and discovered that none of the family member nor relations of the late person is aware of this account. This is the story in a nutshell. Now I want an account overseas where the fund will be transfer according to the due process of our bank in order to avoid violation of any country and international monetary law on fund transfer. Thereafter, I had planned to destroy all related documents for this account. It is a careful network and for the past eleven months I have worked out everything to ensure a hitch-free operation. The amount is not so much at the moment and plus all the accumulated interest the balance in this account stands at $15 million. Now my questions are:
To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return email and enclose:
Finally, it is our humble prayer that the information as contained herein be accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it deserves. I expect your urgent response if you can handle this project. Write to me at this direct contact email address: dr_charlesijeoma01@yahoo.com or drcharles_ijeoma@sify.com. I am expecting your urgent response as soon as you receive my message. I look forward to receiving your prompt response. Respectfully yours, Dr Charles Ijeoma AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Re: URGENT AND PERSONAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL Sent: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:01:40 Dear Dr Ijeoma, I have just read the astonishing email you sent to me earlier today. Is this for real? To be perfectly honest with you, it sounds too good to be true. If you can provide some proof that what you're telling me is for real, I'd definitely be interested in working with you on this: I'm a baker, and it's getting harder and harder to make a good living, what with all the competition I'm getting from the supermarkets nowadays. I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: MORE DETAILS, URGENT AND PERSONAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL Sent: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:36:59 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Many thanks for your urgent reply and how is your family? I hope fine. Please understand that the details of this transaction is all about the fund deposited in our bank by one of our late customer Mr Andreas Schranner and after several years of no deposit and withdraw on this account number we then decide to conduct a routine investigation to find the actual cause of this dormant account. Upon our investigation we then discovered that the owner of the account is dead along with his entire family and before his death he forgot to register with any of his relations as his next of kin, I believe is for a special reason best known to him, but upon this discovery I therefore contact you with a view of making business with you and recover this fund into your bank account for our mutual benefit. In order to commence, all I require from you is your honest assistance to be able to recover this fund and you must promise me never to use this advantage to cheat on me or sit on the fund the moment it is transferred into your bank account. For us to commence transaction, I will appreciate that you respond to me with your details and this include your full name and address, telephone and fax numbers and your full bank account details and a copy of your identification. Note that the moment I am able to get all this information I will continue with every other arrangement to ensure we get necessary approval from our bank to enable you to receive the fund as the next of kin. Moreso, concerning your request for more proof of the existence of the said fund in deposited account, indeed I have some vital evidence to share with you about the deposited fund but that will be when I am sure you can be trusted by me because such vital information are not allow to be expose since it is the soul of the transaction and with such data anyone could apply as the decease next of kin and claim the fund without any hitches. Sir, I think you can understand why I cannot disclose such important documents to you at first sight but I believe that once you reply back to me and maybe we can start by establishing a friendship in an attempt to enable us to adapt the ability to trust each other and after which I promise to share the vital information you have requested for with you and please do not get upset with me since I am trying to be very careful in my conservative nature because I am still in active service with the bank where this discovery is made. Please understand that under this new arrangement there is absolutely no risk involved as me and my colleague had perfected every arrangement to ensure we destroyed every related documents regarding the fund and the deceased the moment you inform us that the fund had been received by your local bank account. Under our agreement, we had decided to offer you 20% of this fund as part of your effort to work with us to ensure we are very successful in this transaction while the remaining fund will be kept under your custody for preservation pending when we visit your country for the fund because we hope to put the remaining fund into any lucrative investment in your country recommended and managed by you while we remain as your partner. This is all about this offer and we do hope you consider our request and pay urgent attention to all our requirement to enable us achieve some progress. Looking forward to hear from you urgently and please view the attachment for a copy of my passport for proper identification and I look forward to see yours in your future reply. Dr Charles Ijeoma  From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: The information you asked for Sent: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:16:22 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email and for sending me more information about this business proposal of yours. To be perfectly honest with you, I can barely believe that this is happening. I've never considered myself to be all that lucky - try as I might, I've never managed to win a penny on the lottery, for example - so I'm absolutely astonished that you've contacted me with this business proposal. How did you come across my email address? Do you read the baking trade press at all? My wife and I are bakers, you see, and my wife won an award earlier this year for her baps. I always reckoned she had the finest baps in Lincolnshire, and now it's official. We've got the trophy to prove it too, in pride of place behind the counter. The local paper did a little story on us after we won the award, so maybe that's how you came across my name. Well, however you came across my email address, I'm very pleased that you did so and that you decided to contact me. Things are getting tough in the baking game at the moment, and to be perfectly frank, the business isn't doing as well as it used to be. I've been wanting to expand the business for a while now, but it's been difficult to raise enough capital... but this business proposal of yours sounds like it might be exactly what we've been looking for. The 20% you're so generously offering me should be more than enough to fund an expansion of the bakery. You mentioned in your email that you were concerned about trust. Well, let me assure you that you will be able to trust me implicitly. I'm a baker, born and bred, and as such I'm a man of my word. Trust is very important to me, Dr Ijeoma, so let me assure you that you won't find me wanting on that score. Now then, here's the information you wanted:
You also asked for a copy of my passport. I'm not too handy with computers, but I'll have a go at scanning it in and send it on to you. I must explain by the way that we're having a bit of a problem with the phones here in the village. There were some strong winds three days ago and they blew down the telephone lines leading into the village. We're still waiting for the telephone company to come and sort it out, but we're quite remote out here and I don't think we're top on their list of priorities. Looking on the bright side, my satellite-based internet connection hasn't been affected, so we'll be able to communicate by email until the phones are working again. So, what's next Dr Ijeoma? I look forward to hearing from you. I'm so excited at the prospect of all this money: I think I'm going to go and celebrate tonight with a few drinks in the Cock and Bull. I can't wait to tell my friends about my good luck. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENT REQUEST!!!!!!!!! Sent: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:21:34 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your kind attention and how about your family and together with your baking business I hope fine. From your story, I want to believe that God have a purpose of making people from different works of life and endeavour to meet themselves for a purpose of his mercy in attempt for him God to shower his blessing to us. Come to think about your story, I want you to understand that difficult time do happen and it is not as if it is course but it just a way of life but at the end of it all God always make a way out just for us to benefit and put ourselves and business back to track. Back to our transaction, I have received your information containing your bank account number and other information but some important information is currently missing out of the information you have presented with me and that is your banking address and the name of your bank and I will be happy you find these missing item and send it across as urgent as possible. Please understand that once I receive your complete details I promise to appoint or hire an attorney who will proceed on behalf of you at the court level to procure all the vital legal documents with your name and information as the beneficiary of the fund and the next of kin to the deceased and with these important documents you and I will be able to apply through our paying bank for their mode of transfer and payment of this fund into your account. Moreso, apart from your 20% offer for taking part in this transaction and keeping the entire fund in your account awaiting my arrival in your country for the sharing of this fund and investment which I hope you recommend to me as soon as I arrive in your country, I also promise to make you a shareholder in the proposed intending business which we hope to co-join and operate in your country provided I will still find you faithfully in safekeeping of this fund at my arrival. Again, I also understand from your mail that your telephone number is currently out of service due to some problems in connection but I advise you can reach me at any time through my personal mobile phone so that we can interact and talk about this important transaction in case we have the same faith. Finally, I still want to remind you once more to send the following information to me as urgent as possible so that we can make progress and some of this vital information includes:
The moment I have this useful information I promise to do my best to secure the approval we need for this transaction from various authority in my country and I can assure you that there is no problem. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma Tel: +234-8023313682 or +234-8034376436 From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Could you reassure me on one point? Sent: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:01:45 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. My family (my wife Elizabeth and my son Gilbert Jnr) are fine, thanks for asking, and I'm OK too... apart from a bit of a thick head. I think I did a bit too much celebrating down at the Cock and Bull last night. I was chatting to one of my friends down the pub last night and telling him all about this proposal you've put to me, and he sounded a note of caution. He wondered whether all this was strictly legal. Thinking about it, he has a point: surely it can't be right that I can claim this dead man's money as my own when I don't know him from Adam? I'm a bit worried about that, to tell you the truth. After all, I've got my reputation to think about, and I wouldn't want to get myself mixed up with anything illegal. The last thing I'd want to do would be to get in trouble with the law. I know you've told me that this transaction will be risk-free, but before I move any further forwards on this, I'd appreciate it if you could give me your categorical assurance that there's no way I'm going to wake up one morning and find the police knocking on my door because of this... or some angry relative of the dead man. Are you sure you've considered all the angles? Please get back to me as soon as you can. I'm worried. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENT REPLY Sent: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:08:44 -0800 (PST) Dear Friend Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your urgent response and how is your family I hope fine. I have carefully read and understood every point you have made in your last mail and I am happy to inform you that you don't have any need to worry about the legality of this transaction for it is 100% genuine and risk free. Before I contacted you, I have made some series of investigation and research about these that you have made mentioned in your mail and I have also contacted the attorney for his kind opinion and professional advice since I so much trusted him and believe in the attorney's professionalism in this area of our transaction and the attorney confirmed to me that since all the relatives of the deceased are dead along with him in the plane crash and for the fact that the deceased did not leave anybody to succeed him as his next of kin in case he dies maybe for the best reason left with the deceased when we was alive, therefore the attorney reliably informed me that anyone is free to apply for the claim of the fund without any problems or breach of law and order, now or in the near future. Again, I see no reason why you should be worried about this transaction since it does not call for such and beside the attorney whom I have appointed and will recommend to you the moment I got all your information correctly will be the man in charge of all this transaction and will play your role and active full representation at the court level and in the presence of our bank as far as this transaction is concerned and on your part, all that is expected from you is to watch and make sure you co-operate with the attorney to ensure the fund is wired completely. About your friend's remark, please do not allow this thought to bother you in any way since your friend is just speaking from his opinion. Please understand that I have perfected every arrangement to ensure free transfer of this fund direct into your account without any hitches and after you have confirmed to me that the fund has been received into your account by your local bank, I promise to destroy every related documents about the deceased and the fund in our bank and with this arrangement we will not leave any trace of the fund and we will live to enjoy our fund without any problem please trust me. Furthermore, in case that reason is not enough encouragement, I still want you to know that I am actively involved in this project and I have my lovely family to keep and will not allow anything bad to happen to them and that is why I have taken my time out and do all the necessary underground work in order to give pace for us receiving the fund into your account based on the best option of the bank paying due process. Finally, about the legality of the transaction, I will like to draw your urgent attention and inform you that our attorney will proceed to the court just like I told you in my previous mail and procure all the vital legal documents that we needed with your name as beneficiary and the new next of kin to the deceased and concerning your distance relationship with the deceased not to worry all the necessary court documents and approval from various agency will adequately take good care of that and the attorney will ensure all the documents procured on your behalf from the court regarding this transaction is presented to you for proper acknowledgement and for your personal file in case of reference. Sir, having considered all this vital point, I want to advise that you have nothing to worry about since we have already made plans on ground to address all the issues you have mentioned and ensure we have access to the fund and transfer it into your account freely without any hitches and I encourage you to go ahead and send your banking address and the name of your bank to me as urgent as possible so that we can achieve some progress. In case you have any more question with regards to the fund and the deceased, I advise you to contact me for more explanation since I am the one who introduced these business to you in the first instance and always try and take your friends by surprise and do not go about and be telling them all about your life and expectation, don't you think they will be jealous with your prosperity something please consider my sincere advice and respond urgently. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Thanks for the reassurance Sent: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:46:38 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. I must say, it sounds as if you and your attorney have thought of everything. I'm impressed with the confidence you seem to have that this transaction won't get us into trouble, and with that in mind, I'm happy to move forward. Now then, if I remember rightly, you wanted the name and address of my bank. I bank with Bartletts - a small but long-established outfit with an impeccable reputation for security and confidentiality - and the branch address is Bartletts Bank PLC, 14 Slocombe Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK. You already have the account number and sort code. You mentioned your family in your last email. Tell me, how many children do you have, Dr Ijeoma? Elizabeth and I have just the one: Gilbert Jnr. He's a fine lad, and although he's only in his early teens he's already got a good eye for dough. I'm hoping he'll take over the bakery when Elizabeth and I retire. So, what's our next step? I take it you've got all the information you need to move forward. Let me know if you need anything else. I'll be out for most of the morning purchasing flour. I used to be able to buy it locally, but the local windmill was torched by a mob last September, and ever since then I've been having to buy my flour from further afield. Please get back to me as soon as you can. I'll check my email as soon as I return. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. Just a small point, but could I ask you to consider using a touch more punctuation in your emails? You do write in very long sentences and they're a little bit difficult to read sometimes. It may help if you think of your paragraphs as eccles cakes, your commas as raisins and your full-stops as currants: if you stint on raisins and currants you end up with very poor eccles cakes. From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: REPLY Sent: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:48:28 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your kind attention and how is your family I hope everyone is fine. I have received your mail containing your bank name and address once again thanks for your swift attention. Now that I have your complete details I promise to forward it to the attorney who promised to proceed to the court on Monday along with it for the procurement of all the vital legal documents we need to have for the release of the fund into your account from our paying bank and I have advised the attorney to contact you and present you copies of the documents immediately he is done with it. Thanks. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: What is your attorney's name? Sent: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:38:16 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. I'm pleased to hear that you've now got all the information you need for us to move forward. You say that your attorney is going to get in touch with me once he's finished at the court next week. Tell me, my friend, what's the name of your attorney? Do let me know so that I can look out for his email next week: I get so many junk emails every day that it can be quite difficult to sort out the wheat from the chaff. Why, I very nearly deleted the first email you sent to me earlier this week, thinking it was rubbish. What a mistake that would have been! While we're on the subject of this attorney of yours, I take it he's capable and trustworthy? Given the nature of this transaction, I think we definitely need a lawyer who understands what's required of him, if you know what I mean. You didn't tell me about your family, my dear fellow. How many children have you got? What's your wife like? Do tell. Anyway, I hope you have a very pleasant weekend with your family, however large it is. I'm going to be very busy this weekend: there's a church fete on Sunday to raise money for the vicar's organ restoration fund (he has the largest organ in Lincolnshire), and we've agreed to provide around two hundred cream buns for the occasion. Elizabeth is going to look after the baking side of things and I'm going to decorate them with whipped cream once she's taken them out of the oven. That's an awful lot of buns to decorate in one go: I'm sure my wrist will be aching like crazy after I've squirted my cream over Elizabeth's buns. Well, do have a good weekend, Dr Ijeoma, and I look forward to hearing back from you and your attorney early next week. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: The attorney's name Sent: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:27:47 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your mail and how is your family and together with your baking business I hope fine. Sir referring to the question you asked about my family and I am pleased to inform you that I have a lovely wife by name Muzi and she is very beautiful and lovely in fact what attracted me to her in the first place was her beauty and I hope very soon you will meet her and as for my children I have three children, Charles Junior 23 years old and he is in final year in the Federal University of Lagos and Amaka and Juliet both female and they are also in the University of Jos all in Nigeria. About the lawyer we hired, though he is not my personal lawyer but a notary public an attorney with Supreme Court of Nigeria and he is a senior advocate in his capacity and also recognised internationally. Not to worry about the attorney he has been briefed adequately about the sensitivity of this transaction and he understood perfectly his role as an attorney and I can assure you of his ability to handle this transaction going by his past records and I am sure he will perform excellently and below are his name and contact information just as you have requested: NAME: BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS (SAN) TEL: +234-8033581268 The moment you hear from him please endeavour to reach me as quickly as possible to enable us to decide the next line of action towards recovering this fund into your account and until then have a wonderful weekend and my regards to your wife Elizabeth and Junior. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: I will contact you as soon as I hear from the attorney Sent: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:36:27 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email and for sending me the attorney's details. I'll look out for his email and contact you as soon as I hear from him. I hope all goes well for him in court today and that he manages to get hold of the documents we need without any problems. It was nice to hear about your family. You must be a very happy man, to have an attractive wife and three obviously intelligent children. All three of your children are in university, are they? They obviously inherited their intelligence from their father's side. Tell me, did they inherit their mother's good looks as well? You'll be pleased to hear that our church fete went well yesterday, and Elizabeth's cream buns sold very well. We actually sold out very quickly: once word got around about how my wife had her buns out on display, people crowded round the stall, eager to get their hands onto them. The vicar was particularly keen to grab hold of her buns. We had managed to raise a good amount of money for the restoration of the vicar's unusually large organ by the end of the day, and when the fete was over, to thank us for our hard work, the vicar took Elizabeth and I into the church and showed us his organ in all its glory. It really is quite a size: Elizabeth said that she'd never seen such a large one in all her life. The vicar could see how taken Elizabeth was with it, and he asked her if she wanted to have a play with it. Elizabeth is quite a fine organist, and a look of rapture crept across the vicar's face as she sat down and started to run her fingers over his organ. She played quietly and softly at first, before gradually increasing the tempo and bringing things to a shuddering climax. The vicar said afterwards that it had made him go quite weak at the knees. Anyway, as predicted, my wrist is aching slightly today from having squirted so much cream onto Elizabeth's buns over the weekend, so I'll have to give it a bit of a rest today. Well, here's hoping you have a fine day, my friend. I'll be back in touch as soon as I hear from the attorney. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: WAITING TO HEAR FROM THE ATTORNEY Sent: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:10:32 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your mail and I really appreciate all your concern for me and this transaction in particular. The moment you hear or receive any information from the lawyer kindly indicate to me. Best regards, Dr Charles From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: I haven't heard from Mr Williams yet Sent: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:28:04 Dear Dr Ijeoma, I haven't heard from your attorney, Mr Williams, yet. I do hope that he didn't have any problems in court yesterday and that he managed to get hold of all the documents we need. I will let you know as soon as I hear from him. I must go now: one of my regular customers, Mrs Demimondaine, has just walked into the shop. She'll be after her usual daily order of a large granary loaf and two sticky iced finger rolls. Mrs Demimondaine's husband thinks that she's on a strict diet, and apparently he has no idea that she buys two sticky iced finger rolls each day from me as well as the loaf of bread. It's our little secret - her husband knows nothing about it - but there's nothing Mrs Demimondaine likes better than to enjoy a couple of my sticky fingers after lunch each day. I'll get back to you as soon as I hear from the attorney. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: DOCUMENTS FROM BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS Sent: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:06:53 -0500 (EST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 29TH/11/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY DEAR SIR, PLEASE CONFIRM THE RECEIPT OF THESE ATTACHED COURT AFFIDAVITS PROCURED ON BEHALF OF YOUR ALLEGED CLAIM TO LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNER'S FUND DEPOSITED AT AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS  From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: STATEMENT FROM OUR CHAMBERS Sent: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:19:46 -0500 (EST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 29TH/11/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY DEAR SIR, SEQUEL TO THE URGENT REQUEST PUT BEFORE THIS CHAMBERS IN COMPLIANCE TO OUR MODE OF PROCEDURE OF SERVICES BY DR CHARLES IJEOMA WITH REGARDS TO YOUR ALLEGED CLAIMS OF THE LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNER'S FUND VALUED AT USD15 MILLION DEPOSITED AT THE AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC. WE WRITE TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS CHAMBER HAVE SUCCEEDED IN PROCURING THE AFFIDAVIT/COURT APPROVAL ON YOUR TRANSACTION CURRENTLY UNDERGOING DUE PROCESS AT THE AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK PLC, LAGOS, NIGERIA. SIR, THIS FEDERAL HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE INJUNCTION REVIEW THAT YOU ARE ENTITLED TO APPLY FOR YOUR RELATIVE'S FUND WITHDRAWAL INTO YOUR ACCOUNT AND THEREFORE WE HEREBY ENCLOSE HERE IN THE ATTACHED PROFILE FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT TWO (2) COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS PROCURED BY THIS CHAMBER IN THIS REGARD FOR YOUR FILE/PERUSAL. AT THE SAME TIME, WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT THE ORIGINAL COPIES OF THESE DOCUMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED BY THIS CHAMBER TO THE AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK FOR PROMPT ATTENTION REFERRING TO THE TRANSFERRING/RELEASING OF YOUR FUND INTO YOUR DESIGNATED BANK ACCOUNT AS DULY STIPULATED IN THESE DOCUMENTS. FOR FURTHER ENQUIRY YOU CAN CALL US ON +234-8033581268. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS  From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Mr Williams has sent me some documents Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:54:52 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Good news, my friend: Mr Williams has been in touch and sent me some documents. I've attached them to this email. I'm not quite sure what Mr Williams wants me to do with the documents, to be perfectly honest. I'll send him a quick email and find out. It seems as if we're making good progress, Dr Ijeoma. You must be as pleased as I am. Please give my best wishes to your attractive wife and your two intelligent children. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. I hope you don't mind me picking your brains, but with you being a doctor it would be silly not to take advantage of your medical knowledge. I've been having problems with my right knee recently: it makes a funny clicking sound when I walk and it feels a bit tender every now and again. Do you have any idea what could be the matter with it? From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Thank you for sending me the documents Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:57:30 Dear Mr Williams, Thank you for sending me those documents yesterday. They look very nice. Obviously everything went well for you at the court. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your efforts on my behalf. However, I do have a couple of queries and I'd be grateful if you could look into them and get back to me as soon as possible. Firstly, what do I need to do with the documents you sent me? Do I need to send them to anyone? If so, whom? Secondly, in the second email you sent me you stated that (and I quote) "... WE HEREBY ENCLOSE HERE IN THE ATTACHED PROFILE FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT TWO (2) COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS...". However, you only actually sent me one copy of each document. Could you therefore please send me an additional copy of each document by return? I look forward to hearing back from you and to receiving additional copies of the two documents by return. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. I noted that the emails you wrote to me were written ENTIRELY IN CAPITAL LETTERS. You probably do things differently over there in Nigeria, but over here in this country only ignorant dolts send emails written entirely in capital letters. Obviously - being a barrister - you wouldn't want to be mistaken for an ignorant dolt, so could I ask you to write any future emails to me using a conventional mixture of both upper-case and lower-case letters, like any normal person would? From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: ALWAYS KEEP ME POSTED Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:44:55 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your informations from Barrister Bernard Williams and how about your family I hope everyone is fine. I have carefully studied the attached documents from Barrister Williams and I am very much excited just like you are and hopefully with these court certified documents I am 100% sure that we will not have any problem while applying for the withdrawal of this fund from our bank. Right now that we have all the proof of the fund at least we can now go ahead and apply for the immediate release of these fund into your account without any fear and I know that the bank will respond positively to our request as the sole beneficiary of the deceased and the inheritance of the $15 million. As soon as I received your mail, I have contacted the attorney by phone and was made to understand that he has already submitted the hard copy of these documents which I refer as the original copies to the bank for prompt attention and according to our attorney he assured me that there is no problem and advised that we should go ahead and apply for the fund without any fear and that the bank have the original copies of these documents now. All the same, since you said in your mail that you have contacted him well it's OK by me and let's wait to hear from him and then decide on what action to take next but while that is going on I advise you ensure you keep the documents very safe in case of any future reference as you are regards as the sole beneficiary of the fund. Any development from the attorney I will appreciate you keep me inform. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: UPDATE Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:16:05 -0500 (EST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 30TH/11/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY, We write to acknowledge your mail. Sir, the second copy which we refer to in our previous correspondence have been submitted to the bank on behalf of your good self and the copy sent to you is purposely for your record and safekeeping as the sole beneficiary to the fund. Please be inform that your transaction is currently undergoing due process at the African Union Development Bank and the bank promised to reach you with details of the fund in a short while and at this point we want to submit that we have done all in our capacity to encourage a solid transfer of the fund allocated to you as the sole beneficiary into your designated bank account. Thanks for your observations from our previous correspondence, some of our clients choose to be written to in block letters for easy clarifications. FOR FURTHER ENQUIRY YOU CAN CALL US ON +234-8033581268. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Thanks for clarifying matters Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:09:42 Dear Mr Williams, Thanks for your email and for clarifying matters. It's good to see that you are obviously in full control of matters over at your end. To be perfectly honest with you, I was a little bit worried at first at the prospect of using a lawyer I didn't know for this transaction. I've used the same lawyer over here in the UK for the past ten years or more and I had my doubts that you would be able to match the impeccably high standards of competence that he has always displayed in my dealings with him. However, I pleased to be able to tell you, Mr Williams, that you have proved me wrong. I couldn't be more pleased with the way you are handling this transaction. It's also good to see that you've managed to get the hang of that CAPS LOCK key. Your skills are obviously not restricted to the legal world; by the looks of things you are obviously something of a genius when it comes to computers too. Well done, Mr Williams. Keep up the good work. I will wait now to hear from the bank. Thanks again for your sterling work on my behalf. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Awele Bello To: Gilbert Murray Subject: APPROVED FOR PAYMENT & OFFICIAL INVITATION Sent: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:38:38 +0000 (GMT) AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA (AUDB) Date: 30th November 2005 ATTENTION: Mr Gilbert A Murray SUB: APPROVED FOR PAYMENT ESTATE OF LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNER'S FUND VALUED AT $15 MILLION (FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) ONLY. Dear Sir, We are pleased to inform you that the aforementioned fund has been approved for immediate payment into your bank account in UNITED KINGDOM by this bank having received the proof of legitimate documents from your lawyer, Barrister Bernard Williams. Please view the attached payment transmittal for more details and acknowledge the receipt of this message within 48 hours GMT. In addition, you are hereby invited to come forward to our bank head office at the above address along with your late uncle's death certificate and reactivation fee for the purpose of reactivation of your late uncle's dormant account to enhance further credit into your account. Accept our congratulations in advance!!! Yours faithfully, Mrs Awele Bello International Remittance Dept For: African Union Development Bank PLC  From: Gilbert Murray To: Awele Bello Subject: Regarding my late uncle's fortune Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:42:49 Dear Mrs Bello, Thanks for your email regarding my late uncle's fortune. I am delighted to hear that the contents of Mr Schranner's bank account has been approved for immediate payment into my own bank account. The email you sent me and the letter that was attached to it raised a number of issues that I will need to discuss with my lawyer. I will get back to you as soon as I've done so. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. You might like to have a word with your bank's stationery department: I couldn't help but notice that the name of your department has been spelled incorrectly in the header of your letter. Whoever designed that headed paper for you deserves a rap on the knuckles if you ask me. From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: The bank has approved the payment! Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:01:33 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Good news, my friend: the bank has approved the payment of that Schranner chap's money into my bank account! I got a letter from a Mrs Awele Bello telling me so this morning. I imagine that you probably know Mrs Bello, given that she works in the International Remittance Department of your bank. Tell me, my friend, how does that differ from the Foreign Remittance Department where you work? I must say, I'm a bit surprised to see that your bank has got two different departments that deal with remittances from abroad: surely your two departments must do pretty much the same thing? And the letter heading said that it came from the "Foreign Remittance Operations Department". Is this yet another similar department? That looks like a classic case of over-manning if you ask me. Anyway, there does seem to be a slight problem: Mrs Bello is asking for Mr Schranner's death certificate, and I don't have that. Do you have any idea how we can go about getting hold of a copy? Given that Mr Schranner's body was probably burned to a crisp in the plane crash he died in, do you think there will even be a death certificate? It must have been a hell of a job for the authorities to identify his body given that all that would have been left would have been a pile of charred bone fragments. I was wondering whether it might be worth me getting in touch with Mr Welsby, a lawyer I've used on and off for the past ten years or so. He might be able to help us out by locating and obtaining Mr Schranner's death certificate. In fact, Mr Ijeoma, do you think it would be worth me getting Welsby involved in this business anyway? If any legal issues crop up at this end, it might be useful to have him to hand to deal with them as soon as they arise. Welsby's a fine lawyer, and very well-respected in Lincolnshire legal circles. He also charges extremely reasonable fees. Welsby's got the sharpest legal brain I've ever come across. He proved invaluable the other year after an unfortunate incident involving three kilogrammes of rat poison that Elizabeth had poured into a sack marked "plain flour" after the bag split and the rather lethal batch of barm cakes that I inadvertently baked the following day. Welsby worked wonders in the ensuing court case. Not only did he manage to get all charges against me dropped, he also persuaded the judge to award me costs against the bereaved families. I can't recommend Welsby highly enough. Let me know if you'd like me to contact him, my dear fellow. I am sure he would be able to help us out in this business. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. You didn't give me any advice about my knee. Is there anything you'd recommend that might help matters? From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENT REPLY!!! Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:18:50 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your message and how about your lovely family and your beautiful wife Elizabeth and Junior I hope they are all fine. I have received your mail containing the translated information from the bank asking for the deceased death certificate but I would have prefer to have a copy of the bank instruction in order to understand fully all that is contained therein from a banker's professional experience. In any case, I want you to understand that we now have a big task at hand regarding the death certificate which we must produce to enable us to recover this fund from the bank. In an attempt to fix this problem, I have contacted Barrister Bernard Williams immediately I received your mail on how to go about it. The lawyer confirmed to me that he can help us in securing the death certificate but requested that it will have to cost us some money about $3,750 to procure the death certificate and I want to believe that this where your urgent financial assistance will be needed in order to fix this problem. About your advice to involve Mr Welsby in this case I have also discussed this matter with Barrister Bernard Williams who reliably inform me that the effort of Mr Welsby will not encourage in this nature of request since the deceased in question was living here in Nigeria before the accident occurred and Barrister Bernard Williams stated that under the Nigeria jurisdiction is whereby such document with regards to the death certificate will be procured and from the lawyer advice I want to submit that employing the services of another lawyer in your country will not be necessary for now but we can still hire his services maybe the moment I arrive in England for the purpose of investing this fund. Right now all I require from you is to inform me as urgent as possible on how much you can at least afford to pay as part of your support to encourage the attorney to proceed further and secure the death certificate as urgent as possible having considered the fact that we have few weeks to accomplish this transaction and recover our fund into your account before the bank will go on vacation for the long Christmas holidays. Lastly, while making up your mind about how much to contribute towards achieving the death certificate I will advise you to consider the fact that I sponsored the documents we got from the court that gave us the approval to fund without asking for your support and now that we have urgent need at hand I look forward for you to show me some commitment from your side to show that you are part of this transaction. Lastly, as for your knees I am sorry my very good friend, I am not a medical doctor but an economist with PhD in monetary economics and international finance. Please review this request and advice. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: The letter from the bank Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:05:28 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. Elizabeth and Gilbert Jnr are both very well. Thank you for asking. How are your family? You asked me to send you the letter that I received from the bank this morning. I've attached it to this email so that you can see what they said for yourself. You said in your email that Mr Williams was asking for $3,750 to get hold of the late Mr Schranner's death certificate. That sounds like an awful lot of money to me: that's over 2,000 when you convert it into real money. Are you sure that Mr Williams isn't trying to take us for a ride here? I'm a little bit concerned that he may have bumped up his fees simply because he knows how much money we're going to make in this deal. Perhaps he sees us as some kind of cash cow. Why exactly does Mr Williams need quite so much money for what seems at first glance to be quite a simple task? Has he given you a detailed breakdown of the figures? Have you asked him to justify the amount he's asking for? Look, my friend, why don't I have a word with Welsby about this and see if he'd be able to do something about this for us? Welsby's fees have always been very reasonable, and I'm sure he wouldn't charge us over 2,000 just to obtain someone's death certificate. I don't mind contributing financially towards the success of this transaction - given the fact that you've paid for everything yourself up until now, it's the least I can do - but I'd like to be sure that Mr Williams isn't trying to fleece us before I part with any cash. What do you reckon, my friend? Shall I get in touch with Welsby and see if I can get him to swing into action on our behalf? Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Awele Bello To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Confirmation of your acknowledgement Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 14:23:44 +0000 (GMT) AFRICAN UNION DEVELOPMENT BANK OF NIGERIA (AUDB) Date: 1st December 2005 ATTENTION: Mr Gilbert A Murray SUB: APPROVED FOR PAYMENT ESTATE OF LATE MR ANDREAS SCHRANNER'S FUND VALUED AT $15 MILLION (FIFTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) ONLY. Dear Sir, We are pleased to acknowledge your mail and we hope that you endeavour to get back to us in time with a view to informing the bank about your schedule date of your arrival to enable the bank to fix a date suitable during our official banking hours for the formal endorsement of our classified documents that will enhance onward fund remittance into your designated bank co-ordinate. Note: all protocols requested by this bank in our previous correspondence are expected to be met before your arrival date. Yours faithfully, Mrs Awele Bello International Remittance Dept For: African Union Development Bank PLC From: Gilbert Murray To: Awele Bello Subject: Acknowledgement Sent: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:02:11 Dear Mrs Bello, Thank you for your acknowledgement which acknowledged the acknowledgement I sent you this morning to acknowledge the email you sent to me yesterday. This acknowledgement - my second acknowledgement - is to acknowledge your acknowledgement of my previous acknowledgement - ie my first acknowledgement. Regarding the forthcoming transfer of my late uncle's fortune, I would like to assure you that everything is in hand. I expect to be in a position to meet your protocols within the next day or so. I will be back in touch when I am in a position to move forward. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENT! URGENT!! Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:19:22 -0800 (PST) Dearest Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your mail, I am happy to hear that Elizabeth and Gilbert Jnr are alright and as for my family we are all doing very fine except that we are very much interested in making sure that this transaction is concluded before the bank goes on vacation. Regarding the fee by Barrister Bernard Williams I want you to understand that I have negotiated this amount with him and he insisted that the amount is what that is required from the agency concerned with the issuance of the death certificate and I have decided to consider the fee due to the fact that he is the very one who is in charge of this transaction from the beginning and he understood very well about our secret and now that we have already involved him from the beginning there is no way we can drop him now for our best interest and I hope you understand the point I am trying to make. Though the amount may look as if it is very huge to compare with the nature of our request but having been given enough reason to justify this fee by Barrister Bernard Williams I decided to give him the benefit of doubt and allow him to perform this task for us so that we can go ahead and complete our transaction with the bank to enhance further release of our fund into your account. Again, I have also discover from the remittance advice of the bank that we still have another fee to administer and that is the $1,780 which the bank explain as the reactivation fee and having plus the two fee together we have about $5,530 to pay before we can go ahead and conclude this transaction with the bank. After due consideration, I have resolved to take care of the activation fee of $1,780 and I want you to consider the $3,750 requested by the attorney for the procurement of the death certificate so that we can achieve some progress. One more thing, I also understood from the remittance advice that you are advised to come forward to our banking hall and sign the bank classified documents for the official release of our fund and I also read that we were given another option to appoint a lawyer who will stand on your behalf to complete the transaction in case you won't be available. Based on this option, I have decided to arrange with Barrister Bernard Williams to stand on your behalf and assist us to complete this transaction by signing all the documents mentioned by our bank having considered the busy nature of your business. Lastly, I want to submit that you listen to my advice and let us reason in the same way and make sure this transaction is concluded in more clean way to avoid any hindrance and as for your lawyer Mr Welsby I want you to forget about inviting him into this transaction since we have decided to give Mr Williams the upper hand to assist us complete this transaction. Now my advice is that you contact Barrister Bernard Williams and request for his payment procedure and endeavour to transfer the fee for the death certificate to him as urgent as possible to enable us to end this transaction immediately and also forward the last instruction from the bank to him as well let him respond to the bank and give the bank a date for the completion of our transaction. Finally, in case you cannot be present in our banking hall to complete the transaction I will advise that you reply to the bank explaining to them that you cannot be available due to illness and to replace your unavailability you have order your lawyer Barrister Bernard Williams to act on your behalf and he will come forward with all that is required. Please do this for me and get back to me as urgent as possible and once I hear from you I will try my best to find the fee for activation and send to him as well. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: I'm confused now Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:55:16 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. I'm sorry, my friend, but you've confused me now. Are there two fees to pay? I thought there was just one. What's the second fee for? And what's all this about getting Mr Williams to stand in for me because of illness? I'm not ill at all; in fact I've never felt better. And what does he have to stand in for me to do anyway? All this sounded as if it was going to be very simple at the start, but it's turned out to be very confusing. There's just so much information for me to take in, and it's making my head hurt. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to explain it all to me again, my friend. Please get back to me as soon as you can. Do give me regards to your wife and family. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Don't be confused now Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:24:12 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your mail, and how about your family I hope fine. Please don't be confused about the whole process, to be frank with you the information I gave was exactly what I understood from the bank advice which you forwarded over to my side and I don't mean to scare you while giving you these briefs. In any case, about the fee which you mention please understand that one comes from the attorney Barrister Bernard Williams with regards to the death certificate and the next one is from the bank for the reactivation of the deceased dormant account and I hope you can now understand how comes about the two fee you have mentioned. But in any case, I advise you stop being confused and inform me on how much you can afford to pay from your end as part of your support towards ensuring this transaction is completed as urgent as possible. Secondly, about my statement regarding your illness please understand that I feel very sorry for using that comment but all I have always wanted is to ensure that we gave a reasonable answer to the bank why the lawyer will be representing you in performing the signing of the bank classified documents. Sir, all I have always wanted is to ensure that our fund is credited into your account by next week and for us to achieve this we must ensure we make necessary arrangement to meet all that the bank has requested latest by Monday and all will be fine. Finally, please understand that all this process is very simple just like you first thought and be rest assured that once we make the requirement available the bank will release our fund to your account with immediate effect. Lastly, I hereby advise that you contact the lawyer immediately and transfer the money according to how much you have agreed to pay as part of your support and reply back to me as urgent as possible. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Waiting for your urgent reply Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:16:49 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, I hope you have gotten my last mail regarding the two fees you thought about please make sure you respond to me as quickly as possible and inform me on how much you can afford to contribute as part of your assistance having understood very well that I sponsored the two documents we got from the court which gave us the approval of this fund. I understand perfectly well on how you are feeling right now about the two fees involved in this transaction but I am afraid this is the fact we must have to accept if we are to achieve any progress or not and so I will like to advise that you open up to me and inform me as urgent as possible on the amount of money you will be willing to pay as part of your support and let me see how to find the rest provided we make some progress. Please you have to be fast in taking any decision regarding this payment to enable us have a clean completion of this transaction by next week with a view to recovering the fund into your account. Looking forward to your swift reply, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: I'll have to sit down and go through my accounts Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:27:28 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your emails. Things seem a little bit clearer now that you've explained them to me again, but this is still an awful lot for a simple country baker like me to get my head around. The world of international finance is all new to me, you see. I'm used to baking bread. That's nice and simple in comparison. If I understand what you're trying to tell me, you'd like me to take care of the $3,750 fee that Mr Williams is asking for. Is that right? To be perfectly honest my friend, I don't have that kind of money just lying around. Like I told you, things are tough in the baking business these days and I'm not making nearly as much money as I used to. I blame the supermarkets: they've all got their own instore bakeries nowadays, and it's getting harder and harder for a small businessman like me to make a living. I'll tell you what. I'll sit down this weekend and go through my accounts and see if there's some way I can come up with the money. How does that sound to you? I might be able to put off paying some of my creditors for a couple of weeks or something like that. Is that OK with you? On a completely unrelated matter, I wonder if I could ask your advice about something, my friend? I'm thinking of having a new sign made for the front of the shop - the paint's starting to peel on the existing one - and I was wondering whether I should adopt a slogan for the bakery and have it painted on the sign. I'm after a slogan that emphasises how long the business has been in my family. I was thinking about "Murray's Bakers... we've been in bread for over two hundred years". What do you think? Do you reckon that might boost my sales? I must go: one of my regular customers, Mr Rooney, has just come into the shop. He's a big fan of my jam tarts. I've never known a man with such a fondness for tarts. People have commented to me that every time they see Mr Rooney he's got a different tart with him. He's even been known to pay for two or three tarts at the same time. Do get back to me and let me know what you think of the new slogan, won't you my friend? And I'll have a good look through my accounts this weekend and see what I can do to come up with the money. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORTS Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:44:39 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your urgent reply, I am happy you now understand the meaning of my explanation from my recent mails at least now we have one thing in common and that is to source for a way to ensure the bank requirements is met by next week. Regarding your submission to check your account possibly this weekend and come up with the lawyer's fee for the death certificate, I think is nice idea in the right direction and I want to advise that if you can suspend the payment of your customers till later date as a means of raising money to pay for the death certificate I can assure you 100% that once our fund is released and wired into your account by next week as expected, I am sure you will have enough money to service your business and pay back all your creditors. Now I will advise you to contact the lawyer Barrister Bernard Williams immediately and inform him to give you his payment details to enable you to transfer the $3,750 first thing Monday morning so that the lawyer can proceed to the agency in charge of the issuing of the death certificate and secure it with immediate effect. Secondly, I now understand that I have to look for an avenue of raising money for the activation fee as fast as I can so that we can both have the two fees paid by next week Monday to the lawyer for the final release of our fund. Again, as for your idea to have a new sign made for the front of the shop is a very beautiful idea and this will go a long way in increasing your sales and boosting your finance from the bakery and also create more awareness about the existence of the bakery business and I will also advise that you make use of a striking slogan like Murray's Bakers like you mentioned, I believe is already a household name in the bakery industry in Lincoln. Looking forward to your next reply and have a wonderful weekend with your family. Best regards, Dr Ijeoma From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: STILL WAITING TO BE UPDATED Sent: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 05:07:27 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks and how about your family I hope fine. I am beginning to get worried after checking my mail frequently today with a view to hear from you but none, well I want to believe that everyone in your family is OK because that is more important. And concerning your business I hope you have received the advice I gave from my previous mail and I want to believe you will utilise all that I have advised very well for the progress of your business. Lastly, regarding our transaction please kindly make haste and inform me about the payment of the death certificate and ensure you contact our attorney Barrister Bernard Williams as soon as you can and always have in mind that we just have to work very hard to accomplish this project by next week. Once again, I will be looking forward to your swift response. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Sorry I haven't got back to you yet Sent: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 10:18:35 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your emails. I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to get back to you yet but it's been a bit of a hectic weekend here: my bread oven has broken down and I've been flat to the boards trying to arrange for someone to come and fix it as soon as possible. That oven is my lifeline - without it, I don't have a business - but it's proving to be terribly difficult to find someone who can come and fix it at such short notice who doesn't charge the earth for their services. As a result of this, I haven't had chance to go through my finances yet, but rest assured my friend that I will do my best to go through them later today. I'll get back to you tomorrow. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Please try to hasten up Sent: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:45:34 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your reply mail and how about your family and together with your business I hope fine. I have received your mail and got your explanation but please try to hasten up because time is no longer on our side. Looking forward to your swift response and as you endeavour to reach me with the details of your payment please make sure you contact the attorney at the same time and ask for his payment information so that you can transfer the money direct to him and let us conclude this transaction as soon as possible. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: This has not been a good weekend Sent: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:10:11 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. This has not been a good weekend, my friend. I eventually managed to get someone to come round and fix my bread oven yesterday, but he charged an arm and a leg for having to come out at such short notice, and on a Sunday too. I didn't have much choice in the matter though; if I didn't get the oven fixed I'd be out of business in a week. I've already lost all of Saturday's takings, and if people start to think that I'm unreliable, they'll take their regular orders elsewhere. I've just opened this morning's post, and I've already had a letter from one regular customer, Mr Doku, to inform me that as I couldn't provide him with his daily order of cakes on Saturday, he'll be placing his order with one of my rivals from now on. Actually, looking on the bright side, I won't be too sorry to lose Mr Doku - or Sid to his friends - as a customer. A lot of my customers are set in their ways and order exactly the same thing, day in, day out, but Mr Doku was verging on having an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Each day he'd come in for nine cakes, all of them different, and he'd stand there in the shop, holding up the queue, insisting that I place the nine different cakes into the box in a particular order. He'd get very upset if I put a cake in the wrong place. He's a very strange man, and no mistake. But that's by the by. The fact remains that if I lose many more orders like that, I'll be in danger of going out of business. The bad news is that now I've had to pay to have my bread oven repaired, I really don't know where I'm going to find the money to pay for this death certificate we need. Even if I delay paying my creditors, I still won't be able to come up with the money for another two or three weeks, because paying for the oven repair has left my bank account completely empty. I think I'm going to have to wait until I've taken enough money in the shop to pay for the death certificate: I just can't see any other way of doing this. Of course, I suppose there is always one way I could get my hands on the money this week... but no, I couldn't do that. It just wouldn't be right. I'd get into dreadful trouble if anyone found out. I just couldn't... Do you think that a delay of a couple of weeks will be OK, my friend? Short of doing something that I really don't feel comfortable with, I can't see any other way around this. Or do you think there's any way you could raise the money at your end? I'm dreadfully sorry for all this, my friend, but things just don't seem to be going right for me at the moment. Please get back to me as soon as you can and let me know what you think, my friend. Once again, I'm really very sorry. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. On a brighter note, I ordered a new shop sign on Saturday morning. I asked the sign painter to paint it with that slogan that you liked so much. He's not got much work on at the moment, so I'm expecting it to be delivered sometime later this week. From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Review and get back to me Sent: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:50:32 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your mail. I have considered all that is said with regards to the money for the death certificate procurement and I wonder why your bakery machine will have to develop fault at this time that we are desperately in need of money to service our transaction that is able to bring changes to our lives and that of our families. Again, just after I got your mail I decided to dialogue with the attorney if we can find another means of securing the death certificate since the time you proposed to me to be able to provide the money will be too late having understood very well the urgency of this vital document and the role it has to play for the release of our fund by the African Union Development Bank. Sir, The attorney advised that we deposit any amount ranging from $700-$100 (sic) respectively to enable him proceed to the agency in charge for the issuance of the said certificate for registration and according to the attorney it will take us additional one week to two weeks to secure the death certificate from the agency after our registration and the earlier we apply for it the better for us. Moreso, having understood your point very well from your last mail I have no doubt in your capacity to raise this mobilisation fee in our attempt to encourage the attorney to swing into action in procuring the desired documents and at the end of the two weeks which we expect to receive the approval for the death certificate I believe you must have gained a lot of balance financially to transfer the complete amount to the lawyer before the document can be issued out. Lastly, please review this money and get back to me in case we share the same view and please don't even ask me to pay any cent because I am currently looking for a means to raise the money for the activation fee. Looking forward to your urgent reply, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: I may be able to get hold of the money we need Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:16:41 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. I have to tell you, I didn't get a wink of sleep last night. I was up all night, fretting and worrying over this issue of the money that Mr Williams needs to get hold of the late Mr Schranner's death certificate. If only my bread oven hadn't broken when it did, things would have been a lot easier for us. I appreciate the fact that you've tried to negotiate with Mr Williams, and it was good to see that he thought we might be able to make some progress if I sent him some of the money now and the rest later. But I'll be honest with you, Dr Ijeoma: this transaction means so much to me that I don't want to do anything that might jeopardise it... and if delaying sending the money might jeopardise things, then I'd rather do whatever I can to get hold of all the money now. That's why I've been lying awake all night, tossing and turning - and then doing some more tossing - going over things in my head and trying to work out if there is a way I can get hold of all the money Mr Williams needs. Well my friend, I think I may have found a way. You see, the local businessmen of Gypping in the Marsh work together each autumn to raise money to buy Christmas presents for the children in the local orphanage, Saint Bunty's. We've been doing it for over ten years, and the orphanage is so short of cash that if we didn't do this, they wouldn't be able to afford to buy any presents at all for the poor little orphans at Christmas. Apparently the orphanage is especially short of cash this year, so we've been working harder than ever to raise money. For my part, I've been baking special "gingerbread orphans" this year and selling them alongside my usual gingerbread men, with all of the profits going towards the orphanage fund. Each little gingerbread orphan has its own little gingerbread crutch, and instead of the happy, smiling face that I paint onto my normal gingerbread men with icing, I give each little gingerbread orphan a very sad face, with a downturned mouth and with a few icing tears running down their little gingerbread cheeks - because, of course, they have no gingerbread parents. I don't mind telling you, Dr Ijeoma, that deciding to bake these gingerbread orphans this year was a stroke of genius. They're selling like hot cakes - except that they're actually cold - and I've managed to raise more money than ever for the orphanage this year. Between us all, the local businesses have managed to raise almost 2,500 for the orphanage this year. That's a record! That means we'll be able to buy more presents than ever for the poor little orphans this year. Now then, to get to the point, this year it's been my turn to collect and look after the money until we spend it on Christmas presents, and I've got it stored in my safe in the cellar. As we've still got a few weeks between now and Christmas, I was thinking about taking the money I need to send to Mr Williams out of this fund. But the thing is, my friend, I'm absolutely sure that the other businessmen wouldn't approve of this at all. In fact if they found out about it, I could get into serious trouble for misappropriating charity funds. So before I'd be willing to do this, I'd need your absolute assurance - and a similar assurance from Mr Williams - that we'd be able to bring this transaction to a close before Christmas so that I can replace the money before anyone notices it's gone missing. If anything were to go wrong here, not only would I get into serious trouble, but the poor little orphans would have to go without Christmas presents this year, and that would never do. What do you think, my friend? If you are 100% sure that we will be able to conclude this transaction in time for Christmas, and if you and Mr Williams can both send me your personal guarantee of this, then I'd be willing to dip into the money that we've raised for the orphanage and send Mr Williams the $3,750 he needs. I hope I've found us a way around the problem of the money. Please get back to me as soon as you can, my friend, and let me know if you think it will work. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:09:42 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your message and how about your family and business generally I am sure everything is fine. I have received your mail and understood perfectly well the money you intend to raise through the orphanage's trust fund kept under your custody and I want to assure you that once we are able to provide this fee required by the attorney to procure the death certificate that we are 100% sure to recover this fund from our bank by next week. My dearest friend, I want you to see me as an aged man and the last thing I will do in my life is to deceive you if I am not sure that this will work out within the a shortest time we got before the Christmas. Please understand that grey head they said is a sign of wisdom for an old man in my age and I want to reassure you that once you are able to take this decision and have this urgent need met between now and tomorrow we will have a different story to share all together because I believe by then we must have been sure of the actual date and time we will be expecting to receive this fund wired into your account by the bank. Now without wasting time, I will advise that you go ahead and contact the attorney and ask him to give you his payment information based on Western System electronics transfer (sic) to enable you to transfer the much needed death certificate fee to him as fast as you can to enable him to receive the money the same time it is paid and continue with the procurement of the death certificate and please understand that the earlier we do this fast the better for us. Lastly, I promise to contact the attorney immediately and ask him to write a reassurance letter to you immediately as per your request and enclose his payment details in the same mail to enable you to transfer the fee to him and let us conclude this transaction as quickly as possible so that we can receive the fund and spent part of it for the orphanage's gift items. Finally, since we are taking the money from the orphanage's fund I suggest that we donate even if it is $20,000 only to the orphanage's home the moment we receive our fund please take note of this and do not forget to remind me once we complete this transaction. Good luck, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: BERNARD WILLIAMS AND CHAMBERS PAYMENT INFORMATION Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 06:18:51 -0500 (EST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 6TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY, Sequel to the instruction received from your close friend and business associate and a client of these honourable chambers Dr Charles Ijeoma with regards to the fee requested for the procurement of late Mr Andreas Schranner's death certificate procurement we hereby present herein the full payment information which is strictly on Western Union money transfer base of the option of our client Dr Charles Ijeoma. Sir, having received the below payment details we advise that you go ahead with your payment to enable us to receive the money as urgent as possible so that we can proceed to the agency concern for the issuance of the said documents and revert to you with immediate effect as regards to the urgency of your request. Sir, you are please advised to direct all payment via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER with the following payment information: BENEFICIARY: MR AUGUSTINE MOSINDI ADDRESS: PLOT 4, GREEK ROAD, APAPA GRA CITY: LAGOS COUNTRY: NIGERIA SECRET QUESTION (sic): WHITE? ANSWER: BLACK Above name person is a staff of this chamber and he is the chief accounting officer of our chambers charged with the responsibilities of our accounting department/receiving and making out payments from and to our clients. This is all about our method of receiving payment from our foreign clients except otherwise for a very huge sums of money we prefer giving our bank account. Lastly, in our attempt to encourage towards enhancing smooth transfer of this fee we got this information from our accounting department of which we hope it will improve and help your learning about the Western Union agent offices nearest to you. And for further information about the Western Union agents in your area please go through the information below and revert to us. Once you are through with your payment we advise that you send us the payment information as urgent as possible. FOR FURTHER ENQUIRY YOU CAN CALL US ON +234-8033581268. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS Western Union agent locations/addresses and phone numbers:
From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Are you sure that things will work out alright? Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:05:26 Dear Dr Ijeoma, Thanks for your email. It's not that I don't trust you, my friend, but I can't emphasise enough what a difficult decision this is for me. I know that I really shouldn't use the money that we've collected for the orphanage for this purpose, and I'm very afraid of losing it if anything goes wrong... but I just can't think of anything else to do. You've given me your assurance that everything will go smoothly, so thank you for that. But I am still waiting for a similar assurance from Mr Williams. After all, he's the man who's going to be obtaining the death certificate and sorting things out for us. He's just sent me an email that explains how I should send the money to him, but he hasn't given me the assurance I require. I trust that you can understand my caution, my friend: after all, my friends and associates have entrusted this money to me, so it's not only the poor little orphans' Christmas presents that are dependent upon this transaction working out; my personal reputation around the village is at stake as well. If anything were to go wrong... well, it just doesn't bear thinking about. Could you please get back onto Mr Williams and ask him to send me the assurance I need, my friend? As soon as I've received an assurance from him, I'll make arrangements to transfer the money. I am placing my trust in you, Dr Ijeoma. My trust and my reputation. Please don't let me down. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: YOUR LEGAL SATISFACTION IS OUR DELIGHT Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 04:12:25 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 6TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY, Dear Sir, Having presented our payment details to you with regards to the procurement of your late uncle's death certificate and in the other hand we write to draw your attention with a view to encourage your faith on the transaction and understand that our chamber is charged with the responsibilities of ensuring that your late uncle's fund is credited into your account in line with the rule of law under the stipulated period approved by the Federal High Court of Justice under this jurisdiction. Sir, being knowledgeable on the rule of law and the injunction of the High Court it is well acceptable that African Union Development Bank hold the liability to make the deposit of this fund entrusted to you by the court as the only survival of the late interstate (sic) in line with the constitutional human right and allied matters of the Nigeria constitution chapter 8 section IV paragraph H3. This section of the law interprets that African Union Development Bank under section IV demands that all her requirement is met before allowing the release of the fund into your account as the beneficiary and in paragraph H3 it was well understood that you maintain every legal right to apply for a suit to challenge the management of African Union Development Bank for any infringement on their part to deny you access to your fund if after meeting their requirements in line with section IV of the Nigeria constitution. Having fully understood the following section of the law and the legal implications in case of failure in attempt of the African Union Development Bank to meet their obligation in transferring this fund assigned to you by the judiciary, we however advise that you have the legal backing of our chamber solidly behind you and we are total sure by our profession that your fund will be wired to your account on the condition that we provide the necessary requirement to meet condition of the payee bank. Based on the forgoing analysis, we advise you reconsider further step and go ahead and make your payment direct to us without any form of prejudice and we reassure you of our chamber commitment to ensuring the urgent recovering of this fund into your designated bank account in United Kingdom within seven days working period. ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Are you absolutely sure about this? Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:04:18 Dear Mr Williams, Thanks for your emails. Are you absolutely sure about this? Can you give me your categorical assurance that nothing will go wrong with this transaction? I don't know if Dr Ijeoma has told you, but I'm having to borrow the money that you need to get hold of this death certificate, and I could get into terrible trouble if anything goes wrong and I can't pay the money back. So are you 100% sure, Mr Williams? I can't afford for there to be the slightest margin of error. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: LET ME REASSURE AGAIN Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:30:33 -0800 (PST) Dear Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your urgent reply. I have received your mail with regards to the fee required for the payment of the death certificate and regarding the instruction you said that I should inform Barrister Bernard Williams I have just done exactly according how you have advised. Please my friend, I want you to understand that I am a human with conscience too and I quite understood very well the circumstances surrounding the money you wish to pay for the procurement of the death certificate in an attempt to safe us from losing this fund and I am reassuring you that I will never let you down. I can assure you 100% that once we are able to secure the death certificate our fund will be wired within one week and you will confirm the money as well in your account and I want you to trust me and consider all that I have told you because my word is my bond and I will not fail you by the special grace of God. Lastly, I advise you go ahead and make the payment first thing tomorrow morning and send the payment information direct to the attorney and keep me posted and having understood very well the great importance of this money you intend to pay out from the orphanage's treasury. I promise to send down someone to supervise the attorney and compel him to carry out our request as fast as possible because I will not allow you to be disgraced or mocked by your associates please trust me. Once again, thanks for your effort and I can assure you we will have a smooth transfer of this fund into your account and at last everyone will be happy. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Be absolutely sure that we will deliver Sent: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 08:51:35 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 6TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY, We respond in acknowledgement to your last instruction. This is to serve to reassure you of our commitment to go extra miles in ensuring we encourage a smooth transfer of your late relative's fund into your account within the shortest period of time we have in our disposal. Sir, bearing in mind that we are reputable chambers holding our promises to our clients in high esteem we are solidly behind you and will leave no stone unturn to meet your desired goal towards ensuring your late uncle's death certificate is procured and enforce the immediate realisation of your inheritance fund into your account within the shortest period ever. Now, we give you our permission to go ahead and make the deposit in our favour and consider your transaction done. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma; Bernard Williams Subject: Thank you for your reassurance Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:04:57 Dear Dr Ijeoma/Mr Williams, Thank you both for your emails and for your reassurance that nothing can possibly go wrong in this transaction. I am now reasonably confident about the thought of taking the money out of the orphanage's Christmas fund. As long as you are both 100% sure that I will be able to pay the money back into the fund before it is missed - and in good time to buy Christmas presents for all the poor little orphan boys and girls - I will look into making the payment today. Mr Williams, could I please ask you to confirm exactly how much I need to send you and who I need to send the money to? How should I get the money to you? Should I pop a cheque into the post to your chambers, or would you prefer a postal order? Please let me know. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Consider the payment via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:31:47 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 7TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY Dear Sir, We appreciate the confidence you imposed on our chamber to deliver your service without any prejudice and we are greatly honoured. In respect of the amount, we like to inform you that the fee for the procurement of the death certificate of late Mr Andreas Schranner is still at the same rate $3,750 only and this is exactly the amount we needed to receive from you in order to procure the document. As for your method of payment, due to the urgent demand of this death certificate this chamber advises that you consider the undermentioned information for your payment with a view to enable us to apply for the immediate withdrawal of your payment the very moment it has been deposited in favour of this chamber to enable us to swing into action immediately. For your information pay strictly based on this instruction. Sir, you are please advised to direct all payment via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER with the following payment information: BENEFICIARY: MR AUGUSTINE MOSINDI ADDRESS: PLOT 4, GREEK ROAD, APAPA GRA CITY: LAGOS COUNTRY: NIGERIA SEGRET QUESTION (sic): WHITE? ANSWER: BLACK Above name person is a staff of this chamber and he is the chief accounting officer of our chambers charged with the responsibilities of our accounting department/receiving and making out payments from and to our clients. This is all about our method of receiving payment from our foreign clients except otherwise for a very huge sums of money we prefer giving our bank account. Lastly, in our attempt to encourage towards enhancing smooth transfer of this fee we got this information from our accounting department of which we hope it will improve and help your learning about the Western Union agent offices nearest to you. And for further information about the Western Union agents in your area please go through the information below and revert to us. Once you are through with your payment we advise that you send us the payment information as urgent as possible. FOR FURTHER ENQUIRY YOU CAN CALL US ON +234-8033581268. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE PAYMENT Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:10:18 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, I am simply delighted in your effort to ensure we come to a better conclusion of this project as soon as possible with a view to recover the fund into your account before the end of next weekend. Regarding the payment information of the lawyer, I want to believe that you inform me during your mail that the lawyer have provided you with his payment information and I want to advise that you consider the payment information of the lawyer and ensure you pay strictly to all his instruction in attempt to avoid delay. All the same after reading your mail, I decided to contact the lawyer again and verify from him about his payment information and the lawyer reliably inform me that he has given you instruction to pay through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER and not only that, the lawyer also admitted that he gave you the description of the WESTERN UNION AGENT nearest to you for prompt attention. Now my advice as your partner is that you consider the payment instruction of our lawyer and endeavour to proceed with the payment through Western Union money transfer as urgent as possible since you have the address as said by our lawyer I believe nothing is stopping your payment this time. Lastly, as for the amount, yes we agree that you sponsor the death certificate and I will take care of the activation fee on the bank side and by so doing you are only going to be responsible to transfer the amount $3,750 only for the death certificate fee to the attorney. Once this fee is confirm to me and I will see what I can do to provide the attorney with the activation fee with all manner of urgency it deserves to enable him to proceed to the bank and complete the transaction. Right now, I want to believe that you have been cleared with this issue of the payment and I advise that you go ahead and do that immediately and make sure you respond back to me. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: A few questions Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:23:04 Dear Mr Williams, Thanks for your email. I have a few questions, and I'd be grateful if you could get back to me with answers to them as soon as possible. Firstly, your email refers to a "segret question". What precisely is a "segret question"? I've had a look in my dictionary and the word "segret" doesn't appear. The word "egret" does appear in the dictionary - it's apparently a white heron that has long plumes during the breeding season - but what that has to do with getting the money to you is anybody's guess. Could you please clarify exactly what you mean by "segret question"? Secondly, your email states (and I quote): "for further information about the Western Union agents in your area please go through the information below". However, there isn't any "information below". Did you miss something out of the email? Please get back to me by return so that I can make the payment as soon as possible. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Western Union address of the agents in your area Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:24:29 -0800 (PST) Western Union agent locations/addresses and phone numbers:
From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Answer to your questions Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:32:51 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 7TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY Dear Sir, In response to your request please understand that secret question is one of the items you have to fill in the Western Union form for it is usually asked in the form which you have to fill for the receiver of the fund to be able to claim the money which is known by only you and the recipient of the money. To your second question, the information we advise that you consider below is about our directives to the nearest location of the Western Union agent nearest to you and in case you miss this information we will send it back to you separately. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Find the missing information which you refer to Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:38:49 -0800 (PST) Western Union agent locations/addresses and phone numbers:
From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: A question about the secret question Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:59:21 Dear Mr Williams, Thanks for your emails and for sending me the information that you'd forgotten to include in your last email. I'm not entirely sure that it was necessary for you to send me quite so many copies of the email, but that is probably just a reflection upon the thoroughness with which you carry out your legal duties. I see now what you meant by "segret question". I had assumed that "segret" was a Nigerian word, but I see now that it was just a crass spelling error on your part. Thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding and for explaining why a secret question is required. Now then, while we're on the subject of this secret question, it has crossed my mind that the word "white" on its own doesn't actually constitute a question as such. Strictly speaking, a question is a sentence of enquiry that asks for a reply, and taken on its own, the word "white" definitely doesn't fit this definition. For a start, a sentence should contain a verb, and I remember very clearly from my schooldays that "white" is an adjective, not a verb. And even if "white" was a question, I think it's highly unlikely that the answer to it would be "black". I mean, that wouldn't make any sense at all, would it? The two are polar opposites. Do you think this might cause problems during the money transfer? I was wondering whether it might be better if we used a different question... a proper question: one that starts with "who" or "what" or "why" or "when" or "where"? Do you think this would be a good idea? Do let me know and I'll see if I can think one up. Best regards, Gilbert Murray At this point, something entirely unexpected happened: a third party - presumably a rival scammer - managed to hack into Dr Ijeoma and Mr Williams' email accounts and, impersonating the two original scammers, started to email Gilbert in an attempt to persuade him to transfer the money to someone else entirely. This confused the hell out of Gilbert... and out of the scammers too. Initially, nobody knew what on earth was going on, but Gilbert worked it out in the end. From this point forward, I have tried to identify those emails that came from the "fake" Dr Ijeoma or Mr Williams. Given that when it comes down to it they're all actually fakes, it was sometimes hard to tell... From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: VERY VERY URGENT Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:29:30 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, I am simply delighted in your effort to ensure we come to a better conclusion of this project as soon as possible with a view to recover the fund into your account before the end of next weekend. Regarding the payment information of the lawyer, I want to believe that you inform me during your mail that the lawyer have provided you with his payment information and I want to advise that you consider the payment information of the lawyer and ensure you pay strictly to all his instruction in attempt to avoid delay. All the same after reading your mail, I decided to contact the lawyer again and verify from him about his payment information and the lawyer reliably inform me that he has given you instruction to pay through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER and not only that, the lawyer also admitted that he gave you the description of the WESTERN UNION AGENT nearest to you for prompt attention. Now my advice as your partner is that you consider the payment instruction of our lawyer and endeavour to proceed with the payment through Western Union money transfer as urgent as possible since you have the address as said by our lawyer I believe nothing is stopping your payment this time. Lastly, as for the amount, yes we agree that you sponsor the death certificate and I will take care of the activation fee on the bank side and by so doing you are only going to be responsible to transfer the amount $3,750 only for the death certificate fee to the attorney. Once this fee is confirm to me and I will see what I can do to provide the attorney with the activation fee with all manner of urgency it deserves to enable him to proceed to the bank and complete the transaction. So this is the information you will use sending the money through Western Union transfer. Below is the information for you to send the fees: NAME: CHRISTOPHER MIKER ADDRESS: 22 WILLIAMS STREET, SURULERE, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 23401 As soon as you send the funds today I want you to get back to me with the Western Union details below:
Right now, I want to believe that you have been cleared with this issue of the payment and I advise that you go ahead and do that immediately and make sure you respond back to me. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: VERY VERY URGENT Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:31:17 -0800 (PST) Hello Again Mr Gilbert Murray, Regarding the payment information I provide to, I don't want you to be confuse because I just contact Barrister Bernard Williams, and I was to give you the new information for you to make the payment today. Once again below is the new information again: NAME: CHRISTOPHER MIKER ADDRESS: 22 WILLIAMS STREET, SURULERE, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 23401 As soon as you send the funds today I want you to get back to me with the Western Union details below:
And also I want you to contact Christopher Miker through his private mail box because he is the one that will pick up the funds at the Western Union location for Barrister Bernard Williams, so this is Christopher Miker's email: christopher_miker@yahoo.com. As soon as you send the fees today I want you to email the Western Union details to Christopher Miker I will also inform him to contact you today. So I await for the confirmation from you today. Thanks, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Christopher Miker (presumably, our hacker) To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Hello Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:37:22 -0800 (PST) Hello Gilbert Murray, I just receive a call from Barrister Bernard Williams, he inform me to contact you today about the required funds, so as soon as you send the funds today get back to me with the Western Union details, awaiting your urgent reply asap. Thanks, Christopher Miker From: (The "fake") Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTION Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:55:34 -0500 (EST) Mr Gilbert Murray, I will like to inform you that as soon as you send this fees for me to secure the death certificate, am 100% assure you that everything will be alright, send the money via Western Union because the fastest way to receive money in every country is via Western Union, so go ahead send the fund today and get back to me immediately so that I can get everything go smoothly in this week. INFORMATION: NAME: CHRISTOPHER MIKER ADDRESS: 22 WILLIAMS STREET, SURULERE, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 23401 So I await for the confirmation from you today. Thanks, Barrister Bernard Williams From: (The "fake") Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENT Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:58:44 -0500 (EST) Mr Gilbert Murray, I will like to inform you that as soon as you send this fees for me to secure the death certificate, am 100% assure you that everything will be alright, send the money via Western Union because the fastest way to receive money in every country is via Western Union, so go ahead send the fund today and get back to me immediately so that I can get everything go smoothly in this week. INFORMATION: NAME: CHRISTOPHER MIKER ADDRESS: 22 WILLIAMS STREET, SURULERE, LAGOS, NIGERIA, 23401 So I await for the confirmation from you today. Thanks, Barrister Bernard Williams From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS UPDATE Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:36:30 -0800 (PST) Attention Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your observation from our recent instruction, bear in mind that this will not cause any problems during the money transfer. However, we permit you to use any word like you have advised eg "who" or "what" or "why" or "when" or "where". Consider this and get back to us as urgent as possible and most importantly always endeavour to make sure you transfer the money today to enable us fasten the procurement of your late uncle death certificate. Yours faithfully, Barrister Bernard Williams Esq From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma; Bernard Williams Subject: Please stop confusing me! Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:52:35 Dr Ijeoma/Mr Williams, Stop it! Just stop it, both of you! This constant barrage of emails is confusing the hell out of me! Have you both been drinking? It's not surprising that I'm confused. For one thing, you both seem to insist on sending me the same email two, three or even four times. Then you tell me to transfer money to someone called Augustine Mosindi, before changing your minds and telling me to transfer the money to someone I've never heard of before called Christopher Miker. Who the hell is this Christopher Miker, and what's happened to Mr Mosindi? Please, I beg you, try to explain this to me clearly and simply. I feel like I don't know what's going any more. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS UPDATE Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:53:56 -0800 (PST) Attention Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your observation from our recent instruction, bear in mind that this will not cause any problems during the money transfer. However, we permit you to use any word like you have advised eg "who" or "what" or "why" or "when" or "where". Consider this and get back to us as urgent as possible and most importantly always endeavour to make sure you transfer the money today to enable us fasten the procurement of your late uncle death certificate. Yours faithfully, Barrister Bernard Williams Esq From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: STOP SENDING ME THE SAME EMAIL MORE THAN ONCE! Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:12:49 Mr Williams, STOP SENDING ME THE SAME EMAIL MORE THAN ONCE! YOU ARE DOING NOTHING BUT CONFUSING THE ISSUE! Gilbert Murray From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Mr Augustine Mosindi is the right name for the payment according to the attorney Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:05:08 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your mail. Just immediately I got your mail about the confusion in the name of Mr Augustine Mosindi and the controversial name of Mr Christopher Miker, I hasten to contact the attorney immediately for proper verification. Sir, the attorney admitted only giving you instruction to pay with the name Augustine Mosindi who he refer as the chief accounting officer of his chambers and not Mr Christopher Miker. Please sorry if you find anything contradicting from the accounts department of the attorney's chamber with regards to the names you mentioned. And for the volume of mail you received I have also caution the attorney about it and he admitted that as of the time the mail was sent that his internet connection was down but in order to ensure you got all the information he has to keep sending it sorry for the inconveniences this might have caused you. Finally, please confirm your telephone number to me. Thanks. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: We apologise for all the inconveniences Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:39:44 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 7TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY, We respond in acknowledgement to your last instruction. We apologise for the volume of mail received from our chamber it was as a result of the slowness in our internet connection. Referring to the two names you have received from our chambers we are sincerely sorry for the confusion caused by our account department and we have taken note of that. Sir, the right name for the transaction still remain MR AUGUSTINE MOSINDI. Thanks for your good understanding and we look forward to your swift response. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma; Bernard Williams Subject: I'm still confused Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:10:02 Dr Ijeoma/Mr Williams, Thanks for your emails. I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I'm still confused. First of all you tell me to transfer money to a Mr Mosindi, then you change your minds and tell me to transfer the money to a Mr Miker - who is now sending me emails demanding money and information from me, I'll have you know - and then you change you minds yet again and tell me to transfer the money to Mr Mosindi after all. What one earth is going on over there? Up until now this had seemed like a relatively simple business transaction, but I don't mind telling you that my mind's reeling now with all the complications and contradictions you have both introduced into things today. Are you absolutely sure you want me to transfer the money to this Mr Mosindi? Please make up your minds, gentlemen: I don't want to transfer the money to Mr Mosindi, only to have you turn around the next moment and tell me that I should have transferred it to Mr Miker all along. I just don't know where to turn at the moment: this is all terribly confusing. Perhaps I should turn to Welsby for advice: he's probably dealt with transactions like this before, and he may be able to give me some helpful hints. What do you reckon? Should I pop my head around his door tomorrow and see if he can help me out? In the meantime, I'm going to have a good long sit down and a nice cup of tea and try to clear my head. I hope you realise, gentlemen, that we've wasted the entire day with all this coming and going. Given the time constraints we're under, that's not good. That's not good at all. Please get back to me with a definitive answer as to who I should transfer the money to, and let me know what I should tell this Mr Miker who is now bothering me. Hopefully we'll be able to make some real progress tomorrow and make up for lost time. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Understand me go now and send the money OK Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:31:06 -0800 (PST) Thanks for the quick response I really appreciate it Gilbert Murray, like I said you have to send the money today. Go ahead and send the money to Mr Christopher Miker. Don't send it to Mr Mosindi. Try to understand me why are you doing this to me don't waste time go and send the money to Mr Christopher Miker now and get back to me that you have sent the money to him. If Mr Christopher Miker pick up so that everything will done this week hope to hear from you as soon as you send the money to Christopher Miker today. Thanks, Ijeoma From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Understand me go now and send the money OK Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:33:13 -0800 (PST) Mr Mosindi, Thanks for the quick response I really appreciate it Gilbert Murray, why are doing this barrister contact me immediately I received your message he has contact you with Mr Christopher Miker full details. Don't worry go and send the money today. Thanks, Ijeoma From: (The "fake") Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: URGENTLY REPLY NEEDED Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:59:13 -0500 (EST) Hello Murray, Let me know what is going about the transfer of the money today, cos I have contact Mr Christopher Miker that will received the funds for me, that you will be sending him the confirmation and he just contact me that you have not get back to him with the Western Union money details, so let me know what is going with the status of transferring the funds today. Mr Ijeoma contact me that you want to send the money to Mr Marindi (sic) please don't send the money to him again due to some reasons, so Mr Christopher Miker is the man send the money to now and immediately you have the funds sent to him, get back to him via email with the confirmation for the transfer. Thanks, Barrister William From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: We only recomend Mr Augustine Mosindi from Bernard Williams and Chambers Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:08:10 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 7TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY Sir, We strictly recommended Mr Augustine Mosindi for the payment and be officially inform that we did not recognised Mr Miker or any other person as a member of this chamber for your information. Any payment made to Mr Mikers (sic) is at the payee risk we advise you to be very careful in trying to manage this situation. Thanks for your good understanding and we look forward to your swift response. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Stop confusing the right name still remain Mr Augustine Mosindi Sent: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:54:28 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, How are you and together with your family I hope everyone is fine. I want you to understand that I am writing this mail to you in great pain due to the urgent call I got from the attorney some few minutes ago before writing this mail. Sir, I want to believe that we have both agreed that you consider the name given to you for the payment by the attorney and this name is no other person but Mr Augustine Mosindi and I am very worried where you got your Mr Miker and please for your information the attorney is getting upset by your pressure email saying similar things and this has cause for great concern. Please understand that we are adult and must be able to conduct ourselves as one I see no reason why you keep doubting the name Augustine Mosindi given to you by the attorney and if I may ask who is Mr Miker please explain. The attorney did not recognise that name and the person is an intruder and if allow him gain access to our transaction we are finish so be very careful and follow the attorney instruction and I can assure you 100% that there is no problem. Since we started this transaction I have never doubted you and I accept to believe everything you are telling me with regards to this transaction and if indeed you said that the fund you intend to raise is from the orphanages and our intention is to ensure we complete this transaction as urgent as possible and recover the fund within the shortest time ever and reimburse the orphanage's account where the money was borrowed then why waste all this time? Lastly, I have pleaded with the attorney about your immense pressure saying the same thing and we have both resolved that if you fail to pay this money today we will assume that you are not really serious with the transaction and we will do all in our capacity to stop you as the beneficiary of the fund and find another means of having the need of the death certificate met provided we achieve some progress. Please in case we have the same faith I advise you go ahead and make the payment using Mr Augustine Mosindi and send the information to the attorney and me and inform Mr Miker that he is nothing but an intruder and he should leave us alone. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: (The "fake") Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: GOOD MORNING Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:25:33 -0500 (EST) Good morning Murray, I want you to go and send the money to Mr Christopher Miker this morning so he can pick up the money up for me, so that I can make everything done fast. Get back to me with Western Union money transfer details. Hope to read from you today. Thanks, Barrister William From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Will you please make your mind up? Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:34:56 Dr Ijeoma, What in the name of Greek buggery is going on at your end? I have just read your astonishingly rude email in which you had the nerve to accuse me of wasting time. It isn't me who's been wasting time here, Dr Ijeoma; it's you and Mr Williams! You ask why I keep "doubting the name Augustine Mosindi". Because you and Mr Williams keep telling me to send the money to Mr Miker instead, that's why! You also ask who Mr Miker is. How the hell should I know? It's you and Mr Williams who introduced him to me. You and Mr Williams have wasted an entire day, first telling me to send money to one person then contradicting yourselves and telling me to send it to someone else. I have attached an email you sent to me yesterday, in which you told me to send the money to Mr Miker, so that you can see this for yourself. I have never been so confused in all my life. I just don't know what to believe any more. The only thing I can think of is that you and Mr Williams are either schizophrenic or drunk. WHY do you tell me one thing in one email and then contradict yourself in the next? I just don't understand. Time is running out here, Dr Ijeoma. Kindly get things sorted out at your end and make your mind up who I should send the money to. And then stick to your decision, and let me know. Gilbert Murray From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: VERY URGENT Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:14:28 -0800 (PST) Hello Gilbert Murray, Thanks for the quick response to my mail I appreciate it, as I instructed you to send the money to Christopher Miker, so go ahead and send the money today to Christopher Miker, the reason why I told you not to send it to Augustine Mosindi, I was told that Augustine Mosindi was in ill and the sickness was very serious and I don't think he can be able to go to Western Union location to pick up the funds that was the reason why I told you to send the money to Christopher Miker, and also am very sorry for the confused OK, as soon as you send the money to Christopher Miker today I want you to email him the Western Union details because he told me that he was contact you yesterday and you are not reply to his mail, so try to send the Western Union details to him today. Best regards Dr Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Mosindi or Miker? Which is it to be? Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:28:43 Dr Ijeoma, Have you gone quite mad, sir? In each email you send me, you tell me something completely different. In the last email you sent me yesterday, you told me that I should send the money to Mr Mosindi, and acted as if you had never heard of Mr Miker. Now, in the email you have just sent me today, you are telling me to send the money to Mr Miker. This business transaction is turning completely bizarre. Mosindi or Miker? Which is it to be, Dr Ijeoma? Gilbert Murray From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: What on earth is going on? Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:44:47 Mr Williams, Perhaps you would like to explain exactly what is going on? In the last email you sent to me yesterday, you asked me to send the money to Mr Mosindi. In the email you sent to me today, you asked me to send the money to Mr Miker. If I can quote from the email you sent to me yesterday, you told me that "we strictly recommended Mr Augustine Mosindi for the payment and be officially inform that we did not recognised Mr Miker or any other person as a member of this chamber for your information". Let us leave your atrocious grammar aside for the moment, and contrast this with a quotation from the email you sent to me this morning: "I want you to go and send the money to Mr Christopher Miker this morning so he can pick up the money up for me, so that I can make everything done fast". I have attached the email in which you said that to this email, to prove that I am not making this up. How can you possibly reconcile those two completely contradictory statements, Mr Williams? Dr Ijeoma is making similarly contradictory statements from one email to the next. How do you explain it, Mr Williams? Are the two of you schizophrenic, or are you drunk? Or have you both recently suffered a heavy blow to the head? I can't begin to tell you how confused I am, Mr Williams. Something strange is going on here, and I don't like it. I'm not sending money to anyone - not to Mr Mosindi or to Mr Miker - until you sort out whatever is going on. Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Thanks for your information Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:19:15 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 8TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY Sir, Thanks for your observation we are glad to have received your last message which includes the copy of the letter asking you to pay to Mr Miker. Indeed we sincerely apologise for the mishap and we believe it occurred as a result of our carelessness to have allowed an intruder to tamper with our official correspondence which is against our ethics and profession not when money is involved. But be rest assured that we have taken adequate measures to correct our mistake and learn from it and we give you our word 100% that such will not occur again and we are grateful to you for alerting us on time. Now, to avoid controversy in the payment of your death certificate of your late uncle this chamber however advises that you transfer the money directly to me using the below information. Pay directly to me via Western Union money transfer: Beneficiary: Barrister Bernard Williams Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by your side always. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Now that have told you to send it to Miker so go ahead and make the payment today Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:46:50 -0800 (PST) Hello Gilbert, Thanks for the quick response to my mail. Am very sorry for the confusion, please bear with me I was told that Mr Mosindi he can't pick up the money because he not feeling fine very serious illness. So go ahead now and send the money to Christopher Miker, I await for the Western Union details. Thanks, Dr Ijeoma From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Urgent Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:05:52 -0800 (PST) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, How are you and together with your business I hope fine. Please confirm to me if you have made the payment today as I advised in my previous mail. I was thinking to meet with the attorney later in the day once I close from office to confirm your payment to enable me to have rest of mind because I am very worried over this delay. Sir, in case you telephone is now working please let me have the number so that I can reach you from time to time with regards to this transaction. Thanks, Dr Charles Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams; Cc: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Do you mean someone has hacked into your email account? Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:11:26 Dear Mr Williams, Thanks for your email. I think I am beginning to see what is going on here. Do you mean to say that someone has hacked into your email account and has been sending me emails, pretending to be you, asking me to send the money to Christopher Miker? Is that what's been going on? If that is indeed what's been going on then I have to say that I'm shocked and dismayed at your lack of security, Mr Williams. This probably also means that someone - probably the same person - has hacked into Dr Ijeoma's email account as well as yours. That would explain the barrage of confusing emails I've been receiving from you and Dr Ijeoma for the past two days, first telling me to do one thing and then telling me to do another. In fact I've just received another email from Dr Ijeoma - or perhaps from someone who is pretending to be Dr Ijeoma - asking me to again transfer the money to Mr Miker. I've attached it to this email. This raises a serious problem, Mr Williams. Given that someone who seems to know an awful lot about this transaction appears to be impersonating you and Dr Ijeoma, how do I know whether the emails I receive are really from you and Dr Ijeoma, or if they are from the imposter (whoever he is)? If I get it wrong, I could end up doing completely the wrong thing, thinking that you or Dr Ijeoma have instructed me to do something when in reality it's the imposter who sent the email. I think we need to do something about this, Mr Williams. For a start, Dr Ijeoma may not yet be aware that someone has hacked into his email account and is sending emails, pretending to be him. I suggest you tell him straight away so that he can do something about it. I also think that we need to work out some kind of system so that I know whether the emails I receive are genuine. Do you have any ideas? This is a terrible security lapse on your part, Mr Williams. How on earth could you let this happen? I've never experienced problems like this in all the years I've been dealing with my own lawyer, Welsby. You should take a loaf out of his book when it comes to security and confidentiality, Mr Williams. As I said in my last email, just to be on the safe side, I will not be transferring money to anyone until this business of the imposter has been sorted out once and for all. The ball is in your court, Mr Williams. We still have a problem here. Kindly deal with it at once. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Stop thinking wrong OK Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:29:42 -0800 (PST) Hello Gilbert Murray, Thanks for the mail. Try to understand nobody hacked into my email account and why are you doing this to me like I told you Mr Augustine Mosindi is not feeling fine. Mr Christopher Miker is going to pick up the money. I have emailed you to let you understand stop delaying this transaction bear with me I said am very sorry for yesterday's confusion. Mr Christopher is the right person to receive the money. Go and send the money now stop delaying as I instruct you nobody is pretending. Don't take this to wrong place OK. We don't have time to waste go and send it and get back to me OK. Understand me very well. Thanks, Dr Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma; Cc: Bernard Williams Subject: Get your story straight, then I will transfer the money Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:44:25 Dr Ijeoma (if indeed you actually are Dr Ijeoma), How I wish I did understand you very well. The plain fact of the matter is that it is not me who is delaying this transaction; it is you and Mr Williams. I am ready to transfer the money. But I cannot transfer the money until you and Mr Williams get your story straight and agree on who I should send it to. You are still telling me to send it to Mr Miker, but Mr Williams has just told me that Mr Miker is "an intruder" who has managed to gain a foothold in this transaction as a result of Mr Williams' carelessness. I'm not making this up; this is what Mr Williams himself has told me. This once-smooth business transaction is quickly turning into a farce. After the ridiculous goings-on we have experienced over the past two days, I now have very little confidence in either you or Mr Williams. If you want this transaction to continue, this is what you need to do. Firstly, get your story straight with Mr Williams and decide who I should transfer the money to and STOP GIVING ME CONFLICTING ADVICE. Secondly, if someone has indeed hacked into your email accounts, sort out that problem. Then - and only then - will I even consider transferring this money. My patience is fast running out. I've had more professional business dealings with the young lad on the street who sells matches. Either you and Mr Williams get this problem sorted out, Dr Ijeoma, or you can wave goodbye to me and my money. Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Give me a call immediately +234-8033581268 Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:35:17 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 8TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY Sir, We write to acknowledge your mail and from all indication we accept the mistake is from our chamber and we are currently working hard to put an end to it. For now we advise that you limit your mail to this address only and understand that any correspondence you received from this particular email box is coming directly from our chamber: info_williamssolicitor@yahoo.com. Furthermore, at this point I have concluded with Dr Ijeoma to stop any direct contact with you to save us from this trouble until further notice and this means that you cut any further contact with Dr Ijeoma for the meantime and focus on our chamber since we are pioneering the entire process. Please always check for our format of writing mails to you to be accurately sure you are communicating with the right chamber and for security reason I advice you to transfer the money directly to me and stop any further payment with Mr Augustine Mosindi or Mr Christopher Miker for security reason and please know that with my name as the beneficiary - Barrister Bernard Williams - nobody can attempt to claim any money paid in that name since I am 100% sure that the intruder who is contacting could not be recognised as legal practitioners. Please understand that my chief accountant Mr Augustine Mosindi is fine and currently present at duty in my chamber and he is not sick as lied by those people. Sir, to be honest with you I am tired of writing mails explaining the same story and I will want you to call me on the phone now and let us put a stop to this hacker now. My personal telephone number is +234-8033581268. In case your telephone has not been fixed please find another alternative like considering going to a pay phone and give me a call because I have tried calling you and no response is coming from your end. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by your side always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: I will do as you suggest Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:29:46 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE (see later for an explanation). Thanks for your email. It seems that we're finally getting to the bottom of what has been happening here. I've been wondering what the hell's been going on for the past couple of days. I assumed that you and Dr Ijeoma had lost your minds or hit the bottle or something, given the contradictory information you were both giving me. And you probably thought the same about me... Well, now that we both know what has been happening, I will do as you suggest: I will ignore any further emails from Dr Ijeoma's email account and I will do my best to verify that any emails I receive that appear to be from you really are from you. Could I suggest that we both adopt a simple security measure, to help us to pick out our real emails from the ones that this hacker is sending? I suggest that we both start our emails to each other with the words "CUSTARD SLICE" (my favourite cake), just as I have done in this instance. That way, we will know that any emails that don't start with the words "CUSTARD SLICE" are from this hacker, whoever he is. Let me know if you agree on this security measure, Mr Williams. I'm convinced it will prove to be useful. If you do agree, please start using it immediately, and use it every single time you email me. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. I would ask you to take a long, hard look at the security measures in your chambers. There's obviously a leak somewhere: how else could someone else get wind of this deal? Perhaps you have a mole? I am severely disappointed in you, Mr Williams. Your appalling security very nearly ruined this entire transaction. From: Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: I have changed my email address for security reason Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:37:01 +0000 (GMT) Dear Partner Mr Gilbert Murray, Thanks for your patience with me please understand that things are beginning to take a new shape and I am beginning to know the source of my problem courtesy your effort. Please understand that all these problem was caused by the lawyer's secretary who the lawyer inform me that he asked her to send a mail to you when he was about leaving to court for some urgent case. More importantly, I was with him today some couple of hours ago to find a lasting solution to this problem just as you have advised because it is no longer strange to us to know that some intruder is taking advantage of our lawyer's carelessness to hurt us. Well let me inform you on part of the urgent decision reached with the attorney today based on your advice that we ensure we put an end to this matter to enable you to carry on with your payment. For now I and Barrister Williams have agreed that you stop contacting me for now until this whole trouble is over and I have given Barrister Williams the upper hand to deal with you based on my approval to ensure we avoid the mishap and not only that we have both agreed that you make the payment direct to Barrister Bernard Williams and not to any other person for that matter in attempt to protect your money and most importantly our transaction. My dear friend, I want to understand that this temptation is the attempt of our enemy the devil to steal from us and we will not allow it and please be inform that I have been working for this bank for over 25 years and this is the first time I am having this opportunity to better my life and that of my family. Sir, to encourage you more I have decided to attach a copy of the mail you first sent to me and my passport copy in a way to reassure you that you are still dealing with the right person and the information you get from this mail is 100% genuine and I will be very happy you consider it. Lastly, I have also decided to change my email account in a way to correct this problem and from now on I will advise you contact me only on this mail for security reason and my new email is drcharlesijeoma005@yahoo.co.uk. Sir, I want to plead with you in the name of God to please after going through this mail to send money directly to the lawyer using his name as the beneficiary example pay with Barrister Bernard Williams only and not any other person for that matter. Thanks for your patience and remain bless. Best regards, Dr Charles Ijeoma Sure enough, a scanned copy of Dr Ijeoma's passport and the first email Gilbert ever sent to him was attached to the above email, proving that the email was written by the "real" Dr Ijeoma. Still, we don't have to acknowledge that fact... From: Gilbert Murray To: Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: Stop contacting me, you detestable hacker Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:10:28 Sir, I now know you to be a detestable hacker who has done his best to try and frustrate the very important business deal that I am currently engaged in. I just want you to know that I am now aware of what you have been trying to do and that I will not believe a word you tell me any more. You have done enough damage already. Stop contacting me, and go and crawl back underneath whatever rock you crept out from under in the first place. Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Thanks for your wisdom (CUSTARD SLICE) Sent: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:37:47 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 8TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sir, I write to acknowledge your mail and most importantly I appreciate your wisdom in providing a lasting solution to this problem and on behalf of my chamber we are very grateful to you for having understanding and being knowledgeable to be able to detect my chamber's correspondence from the hackers. Now that we all believe that this problem of the intruder is completely put to rest by the new modern of our professional ethics in writing to each other on the account of this transaction till the end. Henceforth, I advice that you consider the next step towards the procurement of the death certificate latest by tomorrow and let us round up this transaction to enhance the crediting of your fund into your account and in case we share the same view please go ahead and transfer the fee $3,750 first thing tomorrow morning in order to bring joy and restore confidence to my client Dr Ijeoma who has been trying very hard to ensure this transaction pulls through. Please with all due respect you can now transfer the fee using my name as the beneficiary Barrister Bernard Williams. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by your side always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: I will see if I can make the payment this afternoon Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:03:15 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your email. I'm glad to see you've started using that security measure I suggested yesterday. If we keep that up, we won't go far wrong. I seem to be receiving fewer emails now from whoever it was that managed to hack into yours and Dr Ijeoma's email accounts. I can only presume that you've taken some action at your end to deal with the problem. If so, well done. Tell me, have you found out who's been doing this? If it's someone who works in your chambers, I hope you're going to give them the sack and inform the police. They nearly ruined everything. On the subject of the hacker, I did receive another email late yesterday afternoon from him. He was pretending to be Dr Ijeoma again, and this time he even sent me a scanned copy of Dr Ijeoma's passport to make me believe him. Well, I was having none of it. I've got to know my friend Dr Ijeoma quite well by now, and I could tell straight away that this email hadn't been written by him. For a start, the spelling and grammar was appalling: it looked as if it had been written by someone who has a mental age of four. Anyway, you'll be pleased to hear that I responded to the email by telling the hacker that I was onto his game and that he wasn't to contact me again. Now then, back to our transaction. I'm going to be out all morning buying flour. However, I'll be back in the afternoon: I've got to be around as the local sign painter is due to come and put up a new sign above my shopfront. I'm very much looking forward to seeing it. It includes my new slogan - one that was approved by Dr Ijeoma himself - "Murray's Bakers... we've been in bread for over two hundred years". I'm sure it's going to look great, and I'm hoping it will boost my trade. So, as I'm going to be back in the village this afternoon, I'll see if I can make the payment then. I'll get back to you as soon as I've done so. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Waiting for your payment this afternoon (CUSTARD SLICE) Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:54:15 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 9TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sir, I write to acknowledge your mail. With due respect we appreciate your security contributions towards our professionalism and we promise to treat your transaction with utmost caution to ensure such problem does not arise again. Be inform that the perpetrator of this hacker was no other person but my personal assistant and I have taken disciplinary measure on him, and has been given a sack letter from this chamber for this harm he has cost this chamber so far and now that we are able to adopt this new formula in communicating to each other I want you to be rest assured that your transaction is in safe hands with us and I have vow personally to handle any correspondence from this chamber personally. As regards to your payment, I hope to receive your payment information during your next reply since you promised to make the payment this afternoon and I will be very much around my computer waiting for your payment details to enable me to proceed to the agency responsible for the issuance of your late uncle death certificate for procurement so that we can conclude your transaction as urgent as possible. However, with regards to the message you received lately yesterday thanks for the manner in which you handled it and always remember that we both have agreed to limit this transaction on this mail only since it is much safer. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: A small problem Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:47:10 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your email. I must say, I was extremely disturbed to read that the hacker who nearly managed to ruin this entire transaction was your personal assistant. He tried to steal over 2,000 from me, Mr Williams, and if he had succeeded, not only would he have managed to wreck this important transaction, he would also have ensured that the poor little orphans of Gypping in the Marsh had to go without any presents this Christmas. What on earth are you doing Mr Williams, employing a despicable thief like this as your personal assistant? Don't you carry out any checks on the people you employ? Did you not ask for any references from the man's previous employers? Presumably not; if you had have done, I imagine you would have found out that the only employment that this callous individual was suited to was sewing mailbags. I can only hope that this regrettable affair has woken you up to the need for proper security, Mr Williams. I advise that you carry out security checks on all of your other employees as soon as possible, so that you can weed out any other dishonest individuals before they manage to drag the name of your chamber any further through the mud. While I am pleased to hear that you have given this person the sack, I really think you ought to go further, Mr Williams. After all, this man is a thief. I must insist that you get the police involved, Mr Williams. You're a lawyer. Prosecute the man for attempted theft and for impersonating a lawyer. With your legal background, I've no doubt that you'll manage to persuade the judge to throw the book at the fellow. Now then, back to our transaction. I've looked into sending you the money via Western Union, but unfortunately it appears that my nearest Western Union agent is quite some distance away. However, I've been talking to the sign painter (who is currently up a ladder fixing my new sign to the front of the shop) and he tells me that the local post office deals with something called "MoneyGram", which sounds very similar to Western Union. According to the sign painter, you can use it to send money instantly to virtually anywhere around the world. Rather than sending the money via Western Union, would you be happy for me to send it via MoneyGram, Mr Williams? Please let me know. It would be much more convenient for me. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Western Union Details Needed From Murray Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:27:49 -0800 (PST) Thanks for the mail. As soon as you send the money, now I want you to get back to me with full Western Union details used to send the money so that I can confirm that is true you sent the money. As soon as you send it don't worry I will take care of everything just send the Western Union details to me. Don't send it to anybody immediately you send it to me I will contact whoever is going to take care of death certificate I will contact him. Because I don't mistake from you OK. I will you to get back to me with Western Union details. Thanks, Ijeoma From: Gilbert Murray To: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma Subject: I know your game Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:18:22 "Dr Ijeoma", My lawyer, Mr Williams, has filled me in on what's been happening over the past couple of days. Thanks in part to that fine gentleman, I now know the following to be true:
Now that I know your game, there is no way on this earth I am going to transfer any money to you or to "Christopher Miker". Therefore, you may as well stop wasting my time and yours, and stop contacting me. Gilbert Murray From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Fwd: Western Union Details Needed From Murray Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:26:37 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. As you can see from the attached email, your ex-personal assistant is still at it. Please contact the police immediately and have this man arrested. He's nothing but a common thief, and a menace to society. Do let me know about the MoneyGram issue as soon as you can. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: THANKS FOR YOUR INFORMATION CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sent: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:45:26 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 9TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sir, I write to acknowledge your mail. With due respect, I will appreciate to receive your payment strictly via Western Union money transfer for it is more convenient and stress free and beside we do not have close access to MoneyGram which you suggested and so you are persuaded to sacrifice even if it is one day to enable you to proceed to the Western Union money transfer agent. Moreso, in case you cannot be able to consider any further attempt to proceed to the Western Union agent due to distance, in that case you can now transfer the money using our account informations as follows. Pay to: CITI BANK NA, GLOBAL CLEARING SERVICES, CITICORP DATA SYSTEMS INC, CLIFFS NJ 07632 USA SWIFT CODE: CITIUS33 BENEFICIARY BANK: BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) SWIFT CODE: AFRIBJBJ BENEFICIARY NAME: UNDER GRACE ACCOUNT NUMBER: 01764640005 This is all about my method of payment via account and is 100% guaranteed safe sir, and for your information I have also received the urgent information you forwarded to me and I believe it is from the hand work of my personal assistant who I have dismissed and his counterparts and I have printed a copy of the message you have just directed to me as number evidence and I promise you that I will do everything in my power to ensure he is brought to book and punished for the offence of impersonation and theft which is a serious offence and he is liable to a sentence of 11 years imprisonment. However, be officially informed that we need your support and encouragement to have all the evil perpetrators punished according to the rule of law and this means you have a part to play by ensuring you furnish us with day to day mails that you receive from them to enable me to have more evidence ready for prosecution. Please confirm this payment information to me as urgent as possible. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: CONFIRM THIS INFORMATION (CUSTARD SLICE) (my favourite cake) Sent: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:22:12 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 10TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sir, I write to draw your attention with regards to our new plan in accepting your payment via wire transfer and the account information in view to enable you to achieve this development has been provided in our yesterday correspondence. Since I did not receive any acknowledgement from you with regards to the new payment plan I thought it wise and compassionate to write you again and ask about your present health condition and I want to believe you are sound and alright. I am also happy to inform you that I have arrested my personal assistant who has been causing all the havoc and he is now with the police awaiting to be charged to court by Monday and according to his testimony of his confession he informed the police on interrogation that he is not alone in the business of hacking but he also have some two other outsiders with him to perpetrate the evil and I hope to update you about the progress of his trial as we continue with our transaction and be rest assured that all about your transaction is going very fine with the bank pending when the death certificate will be ready to enhance the bank transfer of your late uncle's funds. Moreso, in case you did not get the account information I sent to you the previous day please pay through the account below. Pay to: CITI BANK NA, GLOBAL CLEARING SERVICES, CITICORP DATA SYSTEMS INC, CLIFFS NJ 07632 USA SWIFT CODE: CITIUS33 BENEFICIARY BANK: BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) SWIFT CODE: AFRIBJBJ BENEFICIARY NAME: UNDER GRACE ACCOUNT NUMBER: 01764640005 This is all about my method of payment via account and is 100% guaranteed safe sir, and for your information I have also received the urgent information you forwarded to me and I believe it is from the hand work of my personal assistant who I have dismissed and his counterparts and I have printed a copy of the message you have just directed to me as number evidence and I promise you that I will do everything in my power to ensure he is brought to book and punished for the offence of impersonation and theft which is a serious offence and he is liable to a sentence of 11 years imprisonment. Please confirm this payment information to me as urgent as possible. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS Lastly, I have also decided to change my email account in a way to correct this problem and from now on I will advise you contact me only on this mail for security reason and my new email is drcharlesijeoma005@yahoo.co.uk. From: (The "fake") Dr Charles Ijeoma To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Re: I know your game Sent: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 09:31:43 -0800 (PST) Hello Murray, I don't understand what you're talking about, am an honest man please try to cool down. You're thinking wrong. From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: I'm a bit confused Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:03:52 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your emails and for sending me details of the bank account you said you'd like me to pay your fees into. However, I have to admit that I'm confused. You're a Nigerian lawyer, working for a Nigerian law firm. In Nigeria. With that in mind, I would have expected you to have a Nigerian bank account. I certainly would have expected you to at least have a bank account in the name of your law firm; the bank account you've sent me details of is with some American bank, and it's in a totally different name. How is this? It all seems very odd to me. Being based in Nigeria but having a bank account with an American bank under a completely different name must make it terribly difficult when you want to send your secretary to the bank to pay in a cheque. It really would be a lot simpler for me if I could pay you your fees via MoneyGram, Mr Williams. Surely there must be some way we can do this? Please get back to me as soon as you can: after all of the delays we experienced last week, time is definitely not on our side any more. I'm expecting my fellow businessmen to ask me for the money we've raised for the orphanage any day now so that they can go out and buy toys with it for all the poor little orphan boys and girls. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. I'm also somewhat confused at the reaction to my new shop sign. It certainly seems to be attracting attention, but not the sort of attention I expected; people seem to be standing outside the shop, pointing at it and sniggering. I don't understand why at all. I think it looks very nice. From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Fwd: Re: I know your game Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:10:25 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. While it's good to hear that your former personal assistant has been arrested and charged with impersonating a lawyer and attempted theft, it seems that one of his colleages is still at large, and as you will be able to see from the attached email, he's still trying to extort money out of me. You said in your email that your disgraced personal assistant confessed under interrogation. I suggest that you ask the local police to tighten the thumbscrews so that they can find out the identity of the man's accomplices and arrest them too. Do keep me informed about the progress of this man's trial, Mr Williams. Tell me, will you be acting as the prosecuting lawyer yourself? Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Don't be confused Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:09:55 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 12TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sir, We write to acknowledge your mail. Please be officially inform that the account we gave in our previous correspondence belong to our stockbroker and I decided to give the account due to the urgent nature of your business with my chamber after reaching agreement with the stockbroker to provide me with the exact amount you wish to transfer to me once you send your transfer slip to me. Again, let me again draw your attention and inform you that I have a personal account with the name of my chamber but allowing you to pay direct to the account will hinder my chances of receiving the fee on time and will slow my effort in meeting the need of the bank with regards to your payment having understood fully well the urgent need of the money and the importance of the orphanage's gift. Sir, please try and bear with us and understand that MoneyGram you have suggested to me is very far from my location of operation and I will have to travel as far as six hours to get to their location and this is not possible because of my profession and the high demand of my service as a legal practitioner by my clients and for this reason I still insist that you pay through our account already provided or consider the Western Union money transfer since you are the very individual which need our service in the area of your business and you will at least adhere to our advice. Lastly, thanks for your information with regards to the hackers and be rest assured that plans are on the way to arrest all of them and bring them to justice and details of this will send to you in our subsequent mail. Please confirm this payment information to me as urgent as possible. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS Lastly, I have also decided to change my email account in a way to correct this problem and from now on I will advise you contact me only on this mail for security reason and my new email is drcharlesijeoma005@yahoo.co.uk. From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: You must be mistaken, Mr Williams Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:06:40 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your email. You must be mistaken about the location of your nearest MoneyGram agent, Mr Williams. I nipped into the post office this morning and asked the postmistress about sending money via MoneyGram to Nigeria. When I told her that you'd said that you were six hours away from your nearest MoneyGram agent, she consulted the MoneyGram handbook and found out that there are plenty of MoneyGram agents throughout Nigeria... including a good many in Lagos, where you are based. According to the postmistress, most of the major banks in Nigeria are MoneyGram agents. I can't see how it could possibly take you six hours to travel from your office to the nearest bank, Mr Williams. You would have to be walking at a snail's pace for it to take you that long. Going by what the postmistress said, you should have no trouble at all collecting the money if I send it to you in this way. I appreciate what you've said about your stockbroker's bank account, but I really don't like the idea of transferring the money into someone else's bank account. For one thing, bank transfers aren't instant, so it would be days before you were able to get your hands on the money, and that might be too late. So, given that a bank transfer will take too long, there are no Western Union agents anywhere near me and there are plenty of MoneyGram agents in Lagos, I must insist that we use MoneyGram to get the money to you. Time is running out, Mr Williams. The way I see it, MoneyGram is the only route open to us. I'm sure you'll agree. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. The postmistress made a very strange comment about my new shop sign. She mentioned that she'd noticed it on her way to work this morning, and told me that she's always thought that my eyes were a bit too close together. I didn't understand what she meant at all, but when I asked her to elaborate, she just sniggered, made some excuse and turned to serve the next customer. This is most unnerving. From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: OK Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:43:23 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 12TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Sir, We write to acknowledge your mail, with regards to your suggestion please you can go ahead and pay via MoneyGram. Thanks. Please confirm this payment information to me as urgent as possible. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Who should I transfer the money to? Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:59:27 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your email. I'm very pleased to hear that sending your fee to you via MoneyGram will be acceptable to you. Given that you think you will have such a long journey to the nearest MoneyGram agent (although I still think you're probably mistaken about that) do you want me to use another name when transferring the money? After all, I wouldn't want to waste your own valuable time... especially not when you'll no doubt be busy making preparations for the case against your former personal assistant. Perhaps you would prefer me to transfer the money to an office junior rather than yourself (presuming that is, that your office junior isn't a thief like your personal assistant turned out to be)? Do let me know and I will transfer the money first thing tomorrow. Best regards, Gilbert Murray PS. Talking of your former personal assistant, do you know if the police have made any breakthroughs yet regarding the identity of his two accomplices? Surely they should be able to beat the information out of him before too long. I have heard that repeatedly slamming a desk drawer shut onto a suspect's testicles can be a very effective method of obtaining information. Do you know if your local police use that particular method, or do they have a different modus operandi? From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Pay direct to me Sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:44:39 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 12TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Thanks for your update I advise you can now transfer the fee using my name as the sole beneficiary. Mr Bernard Williams Sir, if by tomorrow I did not receive your payment confirmation I am sorry you will never hear from me again since my job as a legal practitioner is high demanding and I think I have been so lenient in handling your case. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: How dare you be so rude to one of your clients? Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:08:48 Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. I have just read the last email you sent to me yesterday. Quite frankly, Mr Williams, I'm shocked. Shocked and offended. How dare you be so rude to me, sir? What on earth have I done to deserve such shoddy treatment from you? I can tell you now, Mr Williams, I do not expect to be addressed in this way by someone who I am paying for their services. I think a little respect is called for here, my good man. You say that you think you have been "so lenient" in handling my case. Well let me tell you sir, that this case would have been done and dusted a hell of a lot more quickly had it not been for the fact that you employed a common thief as your personal assistant! Had that man not wasted precious time by stealing my details, impersonating you and trying to con me out of my money, you would have received your fee by now. That whole affair and the resulting delay was YOUR fault, Mr Williams. It had nothing to do with me. In fact, I think you could argue that it is ME who has been lenient in my dealings with YOU, and not the other way round. I am sorry, Mr Williams, but I must demand an immediate apology from you. I have never been so insulted in my life. We are so close to a successful conclusion to this transaction now: I have the money ready to transfer and we have agreed on a method of getting the money to you. But I am simply not prepared to transfer the money to you - or to work with you any further on this business - unless I first receive a full and abject apology from you. Apologise by return, and I will transfer the money to you this morning. If not, I will find myself another lawyer. Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: MY APOLOGY Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:38:03 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 13TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) I am sorry for the manner in which you were addressed in my previous correspondence please find a place in your heart to forgive and I promise to be more friendly in our future dealings. Thanks for your usual co-operation and we promise to stand by you always. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: That's more like it Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:06:22 Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thank you for your apology. Consider it grudgingly accepted. Kindly remember to keep a civil tongue in your head for the remainder of these procedings, or I will be tempted to contact the eminent Welsby and place this matter into his more than capable hands. Now that I have received your apology, I will transfer the money to you. I will pop down to the post office in the next hour or so. I will get back to you later today with the details you need to pick up the money. Gilbert Murray From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Money transfer details Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:24:52 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. I have just returned from the post office, where I transferred the $3,750 that you need in order to obtain the late Mr Schranner's death certificate to you. Here is the information you will need in order to collect the money: MoneyGram reference number: 85229794 Sender's name: Gilbert Arnold Murray Recipient's name: Bernard Williams Amount transferred: $3,750 Test question: In bread? Answer: Oh yes You are well aware how urgent this has become - especially given the delays and confusion we experienced thanks to your crooked personal assistant - so I would be grateful if you could collect the money and use it to obtain the death certificate as soon as possible. Tell me, how soon do you think you will be able to achieve this? I am keen to replace the orphanage's money as soon as I possibly can. Please get back to me as soon as you have collected the money. I will be out for most of the afternoon buying flour, but I will check my email as soon as I return. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: I NEED THE RECEIPT OF YOUR PAYMENT Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:36:43 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 13TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) We write to acknowledge your payment via Money Gramm (sic). Sir, at this point I regret to inform you that I was refused the payment today by the officer stationed at the Money Gramm agent nearest to my office following the main point below:
Having consider all the above mentioned point I humbly like to submit here that you endeavour to send the receipt of your payment as urgent as possible either by fax or email via attachment. Thanks for your usual co-operation. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Sorry, I think I may have made a mistake Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:48:51 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. I was most perplexed when I read your last email, in which you explained that you had not been able to pick up the money that I have transferred to you. Well don't worry; I think I may have found the reason for your failure to collect the money. I've had a closer look at the MoneyGram receipt that the postmistress gave me, and I can now see that the MoneyGram reference number is actually 85221794, not 85229794 as I mistakenly told you earlier. The postmistress has rather bad handwriting, you see - the poor dear is getting on a bit and her hands are a little shaky when she writes - and her 1s look very similar to her 9s. I'm terribly sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you, Mr Williams. Mind you, looking on the bright side, it certainly didn't take you six hours to get to your nearest MoneyGram agent now, did it? I will be only too delighted to send you a copy of the MoneyGram receipt - and I'm sure you'll be able to understand how I came to make such a mistake when you see just how bad the postmistress' handwriting is - but unfortunately I won't be able to get it to you until tomorrow. My scanner is broken, you see. However, we are going round to the vicarage for tea tonight, and I'm sure the vicar has a working scanner. I'll scan in a copy tonight at the vicarage after tea, and send it on to you first thing in the morning. In the meantime, I suggest that you go back to the MoneyGram agent, armed with the correct reference number this time. I'm sure you'll be able to pick up the money without any problems now that we've ironed out my silly little mistake. Let me know if you do get a chance to pick up the money before the end of the day, then I'll know that I won't have to scan in a copy of the receipt for you. I'd rather avoid doing that if I could: computers aren't really my strong point. Once again, please accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: I INSISTED Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:43:50 -0800 (PST) BERNARD WILLIAMS & CHAMBERS DATE: 13TH/12/2005 ATTN: MR GILBERT A MURRAY CUSTARD SLICE (my favourite cake) Thanks for your immediate response. I still insist that you endeavour to send the receipt of your payment to me by your next reply since the situation still remain the same at the Money Gramm (sic) agent office please advise. Thanks for your usual co-operation. STILL AT YOUR SERVICE. YOURS FAITHFULLY, BARRISTER BERNARD WILLIAMS ESQ PRINCIPAL, LEGAL PRACTITIONERS From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Are you sure you're going to the right place? Sent: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:59:23 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Once again, I am most perplexed - peturbed, even - at your continued failure to pick up the money I have transferred to you. Tell me, Mr Williams, are you sure you're going to the right place? I transferred the money to you via MoneyGram, not this "Money Gramm" outfit that you've been referring to. Perhaps you've got confused between the two and you've been going to the wrong office? It's certainly worth checking. I must say, Mr Williams, I am starting to feel a touch uneasy about this. There is a lot of money at stake here, and I don't like the thought of the poor little orphans' Christmas present money hanging about in the MoneyGram system for too long. Can I suggest that you go to a proper MoneyGram agent this time (please note the correct spelling)? I'm sure you'll be able to pick up the money if you make sure that you go to the right place. On top of this, I'll send you a copy of the receipt first thing in the morning. Surely when you receive that you will be able to pick up the money without any problems whatsoever. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: I think I know what the problem is Sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:49:58 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. I write with good news, my dear fellow. First of all, as promised, I have attached a copy of the MoneyGram receipt to this email. I was wrong when I said that the vicar had a scanner; apparently that was the verger's, and the police took it away along with all the rest of the verger's computer equipment when they arrested him last year after that bother about the contents of his hard disk. But let's not go there. Anyway, luckily for us the vicar has a digital camera, so I was able to take a photograph of the receipt. I'm sorry if it's a bit blurred, but I had enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine with the vicar by the time I took the photograph, so my hands were shaking a little. I had a chat to the vicar about the problems you've been having trying to get your hands on the money I transferred to you, and the vicar suggested that I should go back to the post office first thing this morning to see what the problem was. So that's exactly what I did, and I'm pleased to be able to tell you that I think I've sorted everything out. I explained to the postmistress that the reference number of my transfer did not show up on the computer at your MoneyGram agent. The postmistress explained to me that MoneyGram are currently in the middle of upgrading their computer hardware. This has apparently resulted in what she called "internet connectivity" problems, and apparently mine is not the only transfer to have gone missing over the past ten days or so. What this means is that the transfer is definitely in the system - the postmistress showed it to me on her own computer - but it is not showing up on your local MoneyGram agent's computer system because of these "internet connectivity" problems. However, it turns out that this is not a problem, because there is a simple solution. The postmistress told me exactly what your local agent needs to do in order to access details of the transfer and gain access to the money. Apparently your agent simply needs to initiate procedure MG-RV8 on their computer system, entering the reference number of the transfer that I gave to you. This procedure, which apparently gives the agent access to all transfers that have got "stuck" in the system, will make the transfer available to the agent, meaning that you will be able to collect the money. The postmistress was rather surprised that your local agent had not done this already: apparently it is standard procedure for MoneyGram agents when things like this happen. She even showed me the procedure in her MoneyGram Procedures Handbook. She said to me that if your local agent hasn't heard of procedure MG-RV8, they probably don't know their job very well. She suggested that your local agent could benefit from some more on the job training. Perhaps you ought to mention this when you go to collect the money. Anyway, I am sure you will agree that this is extremely good news: it means that you will be able to collect the money I transferred to you immediately, simply by instructing your local MoneyGram agent to initiate procedure MG-RV8. Apologies once again for the inconvenience. Please get back to me as soon as you have collected the money from the MoneyGram agent. Tell me, how soon do you think you will be able to get hold of the death certificate once you have got your hands on the money? Do get back to me as soon as you have collected the money, won't you Mr Williams? I will be waiting to hear from you. Best regards, Gilbert Murray  From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Urgent request for your personal identification Sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:13:47 -0800 (PST) Dated 14-12-2005 CUSTARD SLICE Attention Mr Gilbert Murray, I write to acknowledge your mail sorry for the delay in getting back to you it was as a result of my urgent court proceedings this morning but now that I am back I promise to keep in touch always. Back to business I have received the attached information of your payment via MoneyGram thanks for your kind attention I promise to repeat my appointment with the local agent here in my state and pick up the money. In an attempt to procure the death certificate of your late uncle, I will appreciate that you send to me as quickly as possible a copy of any form of your identification to enable me to obtain a sworn affidavit of oath from the court by tomorrow expressing your close relationship with the deceased in an attempt to facilitate the issuance of the item from the concerned agency. Sir, I appreciate you understand how important it is to let me have your personal identification for the smooth procurement of your late uncle's death certificate and I will advise that you pay urgent attention to this request and ensure you present me with your identification by your next reply. Yours faithfully, Barrister Bernard Williams Esq Principal, legal practitioners From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: I will try to find someone with a scanner Sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:27:26 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your email. I quite understand the reason for your delay in responding to my email. A renowned barrister such as yourself must find it difficult to cope at times, what with all the court cases you must have on the go at the same time. On the subject of court cases, tell me, how is the case against your former personal assistant progressing? Have the police interrogators broken the man yet and persuaded him to grass on his criminal associates? Let's hope so. You've asked for a copy of my personal identification. There's a slight problem here: as you know, I don't have a scanner. I'll have to ask around to see if I can find someone who has one and is willing to let me use it to scan my passport. One of my customers must have one. I will get right onto this and see what I can do. I won't be available for much of this afternoon: I am due to give a practical bakery demonstration at the local sixth-form college. I go there once a month to teach the students the rudiments of baking. I must say, it's a pleasure to talk to such receptive and enthusiastic students. I often have their parents coming into my shop specially to thank me. In fact only yesterday the father of one of my favourite students came in to tell me that as a result of the time I've spent with his daughter, she's now got a bun in the oven. I will check my email as soon as I get back from the college this afternoon. Do get back to me as soon as the money is in your possession, my dear fellow. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Try and send your personal identification urgently Sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:45:01 -0800 (PST) Dated 14-12-2005 CUSTARD SLICE Attention Mr Gilbert Murray, I salute your patience in waiting for my correspondence. Let me inform you that I have again visited the MoneyGram and have completed all the necessary information regarding the money you sent to me but there was a little problem, the agent inform me that she can no longer continue with the transaction as a result of slow down in their internet connection from their head office. Thereafter, I was asked to repeat my appointment by tomorrow and hopefully I am sure by then I will receive the money. Once again thanks for sparing your time to ensure I receive this money without any hitches and I can assure you of the commitment of my chamber to stand by your side at all time and most especially work out the possibilities of your payment to be wired into your account as urgent as possible. Furthermore, I advise you endeavour to send a copy of your personal identification to enable me to hasten the method of procuring the death certificate the moment I withdraw the fee from the MoneyGram agent. Looking forward to your swift attention. Yours faithfully, Barrister Bernard Williams Esq Principal, legal practitioners From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: These delays are infuriating Sent: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:06:02 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. Thanks for your email. I have to say, I'm disappointed to hear that you haven't managed to get your hands on the money yet. These delays are infuriating. I never would have used MoneyGram if I'd have known how unreliable they seem to be. I wouldn't be surprised if the internet connectivity problem your MoneyGram agent was complaining about was the reason why you couldn't get hold of the money yesterday. Let's keep our fingers crossed that your MoneyGram agent manages to sort out her technical problems by tomorrow so that you can collect the money then. I really do appreciate the efforts you're going to in order to bring this transaction to a successful conclusion as soon as possible, my dear fellow. You've been to the MoneyGram agent three times already by my reckoning, and tomorrow will make it four visits. I do hope that all the time you are spending at the MoneyGram agent isn't detracting from your court cases too much. I haven't managed to find anyone who has a scanner yet, but most of my customers come into the shop early in the morning to pick up their bread, so I'm confident I'll be able to find someone who is willing to scan in my passport tomorrow. I'll send it on to you as soon as I can. I had a marvellous afternoon at the local sixth-form college. I set the students a task last month - some baking homework, if you like - to test their cake baking and decorating skills. Each of the students had to bake a cake in the shape of an animal and bring their creations along to the college this afternoon so that I could taste them all and judge which was the best. I have to say, the standard of the students' baking was exemplary, which made it very difficult for me to decide which cake deserved the prize. In the end I narrowed it down to three cakes, which had been modelled on a pussycat, a beaver and a starfish. Kimberly Wyatt's ginger pussy was beautiful - she told me she'd modelled it on her mother's pet cat, Felix - and it tasted delicious. I thought Ashley Roberts' beaver was even more attractive, but it didn't taste quite as sweet. It was only when I got stuck into Melody Thornton's chocolate starfish that I knew I had found my winner. If these students are anything to go by, the future of baking in Gypping in the Marsh is in safe hands. Do get back to me as soon as you have picked up the money tomorrow morning, Mr Williams. Time is not on our side. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: Have you collected the money yet? Sent: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:49:41 Dear Mr Williams, CUSTARD SLICE. What is going on over there, Mr Williams? Have you been back to the MoneyGram agent to collect the money yet? I've got problems at this end, Mr Williams: I had a visit this morning from Ann Anias, the chair of the local branch of the Association of Small Business Operators (ASBO). She'd come to collect the money that we'd raised to buy Christmas presents for the poor little orphans. Apparently she thinks she'll be able to get a great deal on a container load of substandard toys that has been shipped in from China. The toys have apparently failed to meet European health & safety and fire regulations. Normally they'd be sent right back to China, but Mrs Anias has a friend who works in the docks and she reckons that with his help she'll be able to get hold of the container load of toys at a knock-down price. They may well be dangerous fire hazards, but she reckons they'll be good enough for the orphans. Of course, I couldn't give Mrs Anias the money; I've transferred most of it to you. I gave her some excuse about the money being in the safe and not having the key on me at the moment, but she's going to come back tomorrow and she'll be expecting me to give her the money. What are we going to do, Mr Williams? I'm going to need that money back so that I can give it to Mrs Anias tomorrow, otherwise she'll find out that it's missing and she'll think that I've stolen it. Have you collected the money yet? If so, I'm going to have to ask you to send it back to me right away, my dear fellow. If you don't, I'm going to be in deep trouble. Please get back to me immediately and let me know what's going on. I'm seriously worried. Best regards, Gilbert Murray From: Bernard Williams To: Gilbert Murray Subject: Scam buster Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:32:00 -0800 (PST) Dated 16-12-2005 CUSTARD SLICE Attention Mr Gilbert Murray, The MoneyGram still did not accept your transaction and all the information including the receipt of your payment is fake. And for your information I have contacted the bank with regards to your fake information and very soon the Interpol and the EFCC will soon catch up with you just wait for a while... you bastard... Respect yourself and please don't contact us again... be warn! Yours faithfully, Barrister Bernard Williams Esq Principal, legal practitioners From: Gilbert Murray To: Bernard Williams Subject: So, the penny has finally dropped Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:46:22 Dear "Mr Williams", CUSTARD SLICE. So, the penny has finally dropped, has it? I can only suppose that after your numerous fruitless visits to your local MoneyGram agent you decided to do a bit of searching on the internet and came across my website. I do hope I didn't waste too much of your precious time scurrying backwards and forwards to and from the MoneyGram office... actually, no. That's a lie. I know full well that I've wasted a good deal of your time over the past few weeks, and I'm very happy about that. I only hope that your experiences at the MoneyGram agent were suitably embarrassing. It may interest you to know that your clownish exploits have been amusing thousands of people on a daily basis. It's always a joy to come across a gullible scammer, and you've proved to be more gullible than most. But shame on you, "Mr Williams". You were quite prepared to steal thousands of pounds from charity funds, and to deprive the poor little orphans of Gypping in the Marsh of their Christmas presents. That's truly despicable - and completely inexcusable - and you should be ashamed of yourself: there's absolutely no justification for the heartless theft you were attempting to carry out. Have you ever considered going out and getting yourself an honest job, "Mr Williams"? One that didn't involve stealing from innocent people? One that didn't bring shame onto you and your family? One that didn't bring the reputation of your entire nation into disrepute? It may be worth thinking about... especially now that I've passed on your details to the relevant authorities. Given the time of year, it's traditional to sign of an email by wishing the recipient a merry Christmas. But I don't wish you a merry Christmas, "Mr Williams"; I actually wish you were behind bars. Best regards, Gilbert Murray Copyright 2003-2026 www.gilbertmurray.co.uk. All rights reserved. Copyright notice |
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