I am sorry to hear that GIMPS is no longer operational in Togo. I imagine MoneyGram must have ceased using the system some time since Mrs Elzebub last used it to send money to her son. I shall travel back into town tomorrow and cancel the GIMPS transfer.

Where do we go from here? I simply cannot believe that it can be so difficult to transfer money from one country to another.

I must say, I don't think much of your idea of stuffing the money into a pair of pants and mailing them to you. That doesn't sound very secure at all to me. Is this the way you normally get your clients to pay you for your legal services? Welsby has never asked me to pay his legal fees by stuffing the money into a pair of sports pants and posting them to him. In fact when I think about it, Welsby has never asked me to stuff money into any item of sports clothing at all and put it in the post. Mind you, as you say, some things are probably done differently in Togo. Tell me, do all lawyers in Togo use this method of payment?

Well, Mr Micheal, where do we go from here? I will ask Nat West for his advice tomorrow morning when I cancel the GIMPS transfer. I am sure we will be able to come up with something.

Until then, please accept my most sincere apologies for the considerable trouble you have been put through over the past week. It must have been terribly embarrassing for you, going into all of those banks only to be turned away empty-handed and shown the door.

I will get back to you tomorrow. Never fear, Mr Micheal. We shall prevail.

May Jesus bring us divine inspiration as we sleep tonight.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Do it this way

Sent: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:16:46

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

What I mean by using the method of putting the fund into a sports shoe or canvas is that since your bank has not been able to transfer this fund through those ways that was given to them, and for the chance of time is against us, and how I have been let down by the ministries and the banks we have been moving up and down, that was the reason why I suggested that method.

For if the fund is pulled that way it will make the officials of the ministries put more understanding thinking towards me and my efforts that I have made.

If you can't use this way to transfer this fund, get the fund from your bank and go to any of the MoneyGram offices in town or any of the Western Union money transfer offices and make a direct transfer and you will see the difference than transferring them from your account. When you make the fund transfer you must obtain the control number and every other information that may be required to claim the fund from any of their branches it may be tendered to.

Note: when I got your mail I was about going to the ministry board director's house to know what could be his outcome reaction towards these things that is going on and what could be his reasonings. I had a long time discussion with him and he could clearly understand that with the effort that I have implemented towards this transaction and my surprise towards them during the formation of the documents processing period, that it was the time he gave order for the documents to be prepared and be set due to the fund that I have given to them at the beginning of the starting of the obtaining of the documents from their offices.

What you have to do is to make sure that the way I directed you is followed and you will see that we will be more relieved. I had to work all through the rain that poured today, driving in the rain to and fro trying to see what we can do to get the funds out from the way it has been done. It was very stressful to my kind of person, and even the banks telling me things that I don't suppose to get from them. Anyway, I will not blame them until they come towards my own side. I will show them my own type of handling.

I will be waiting to hear from you in the morning so to know what we are to do and to move on, and may God bless you in everything.

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I have a suggestion

Sent: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:03:58

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email, my dear fellow. I must say, it left me rather confused. Are you seriously asking me to place 20,000 in cash into a sports shoe and send it to you in the post? Or are you asking me to try transferring the money again via Western Union or MoneyGram? Well, I can tell you now that there is no way I am placing 20,000 into a shoe and entrusting it to the postal service. Only a madman or a fool would even consider such a course of action. I am surprised that you suggested it, to be perfectly honest.

However, I have a suggestion. I travelled into town first thing this morning and had a talk with Nat West, my bank manager. We discussed the situation, and I told him that I wanted to make sure I got the money to you without any further trials and tribulations. It sounds as if you have been through enough over the past week, my dear fellow, what with all this to-ing and fro-ing from bank to bank in the rain.

Given the problems that we have already encountered, I am loathe to send money to you via Western Union or MoneyGram again without first making sure that their computer systems are functioning properly: the last thing I want to do is to make you go through yet another embarrassing and humiliating experience at a bank, my dear chap. When I explained this to Nat West, he came up with what I think is an excellent suggestion.

Nat West suggested that in order to check that the Western Union network is working properly, I should ask you or Mr Ukoha to transfer a small amount of money to me via Western Union. If I am able to collect the money without any problems from my local Western Union agent, we will both know that the network is working, and I will then be able to make the required transfers to Mr Ukoha.

You will only need to transfer a very small amount of money to me in order to carry out this test: I would suggest $20. I will of course add the amount you transfer to me to the amount that I subsequently transfer to Mr Ukoha, once we have verified that the Western Union network is free of problems.

I think this is an excellent plan: it allows us to move forward without the fear of placing you in another embarrassing situation, and to be perfectly honest, I cannot see another way of moving forward.

Unfortunately, work commitments around the parish mean that I will be unable to travel into town again today to collect the money, and then to transfer the 20,000 to Mr Ukoha, so I will be asking a clergyman friend who is currently staying with me, a Mr xxxxxx, to carry out the transfers today on my behalf. Therefore, please transfer a small nominal amount (for example $20) to Mr xxxxxx using the following information:

Receiver's name: xxxx xxxxxx

Receiver's address: Hemlock Cottage, Gypping in the Marsh, United Kingdom

Please scan in a copy of the Western Union payment slip and send it to me as soon as you or Mr Ukoha have done this, along with the MTCN. As soon as I receive this, I will send my colleague into town to pick up the $20. If he receives it without any problems, we will know that the Western Union network is free of problems, and I will instruct my colleague to transfer the 20,000 to Mr Ukoha.

I look forward to receiving the scanned payment slip from you later today.

May the Good Lord bless us all.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. I must tell you that it is imperative we conclude our business this week: I will be away next week at the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention, so I will not be able to do anything at all next week. Make haste, Mr Micheal, and transfer the $20 to me this morning so that my colleague can transfer the 20,000 to Mr Ukoha before the end of the day.

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Have you made the transfer I suggested?

Sent: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:44:02

Dear Mr Micheal,

I am surprised not to have heard back from you regarding the email I sent you this morning, in which I suggested a sensible way for us to move forward.

I told you in the email that I will be unavailable next week as I am attending the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention, so it is vital that I get the 20,000 to you before the end of the week. If not, we will have to wait until I return on the 19th October, and I imagine Mr Mambel and his colleagues will be getting rather impatient by then.

I am looking forward to the Vicars' Convention, as it happens. I am due to give a speech to the convention midway through the week on the importance of bring and buy sales and coffee mornings to the spiritual wellbeing of the parish. I am also looking forward to networking with my fellow churchmen, and hopefully to drumming up some more support for my organ restoration fund. I am going to take along some photographs of me with my unusually large organ proudly on display so that I can show it off to the other clergy.

So, what is the status of things? Have you made the transfer I suggested to check that the Western Union network is operating without any of the problems that beset us last week? I had hoped that you would make the transfer before lunchtime so that I could send my colleague into town over lunch. If you had done that, we might have had the entire transaction concluded by now.

Still, it is only Wednesday, so it is not too late. I suggest that you make the transfer this afternoon so that my colleague can pick up the money first thing tomorrow, and then we can transfer the 20,000 to Mr Ukoha immediately afterwards.

Do send me a scanned copy of the payment slip as soon as possible, my dear chap. I am sure that Reverend Oshimolowo would be none too pleased if he found out that you were delaying things yet again.

May Jesus, who in his wisdom cast out the money lenders from the temple, send prayers to ensure the safe transfer of the $20 Mr Ukoha needs to transfer to me.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Working to be through

Sent: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:26:56 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

Sorry for the delay of your mail, it was the so much busy that we had been working through for the formation you gave in order to get a way through of remitting funds.

The working transmitting systems was very bad today as we are experiencing heavy downfalls over here, and that is the reason why the transmitting systems did not work very fine.

By tomorrow it will be done and I believe everything will be OK, but we have been making another alternative to obtain the fund if that way did not work out fine. There is this man that will come from Asia who will be going to India with the Reverend Pastor for a very big crusade that will get hold in India in the coming few days now. As the Reverend said, it is only your programme that is withholding the Pastor from making the trip to India where he will fly to England to meet you for the final anaylsis of your people's programme to be accomplished, while I will fly from Togo to meet your people as well and to get my proper fees paid to me and to find out how the Verger's problem is going on.

So please do not panic about anything for everything is going to be OK very soon. The man that will come from Asia will be in a position to get your fund if the way we are working will be delayed by the systems of the Western Union money transfer offices, so we can send the money to his foreign accounts and he will come down with the fund over here as he will be coming to Lome, Togo to meet the big Reverend Pastor.

Have patience, for nothing has gone wrong towards your transaction with the ministries over here, for I myself cannot be giving you mails when nothing has been done to be OK in any way, so you have to put a little trust on me for I will not be happy seeing the work that I have been given to work to be failed.

All will be fine in a short while.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: We must have everything completed by tomorrow

Sent: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 07:19:36

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. It is all very well you starting to plan an alternative way of me getting your money to you, but time is running short. We must get everything completed by tomorrow: after then I will be away at the Anglican Vicars' Convention.

Send the $20 to my colleague first thing this morning to check that the Western Union system is working correctly, send me a scanned copy of the payment slip, then I can get my colleague to transfer the 20,000 to you later today.

We have no time left, my dear chap. You need to act now, or else all will be lost. I expect to receive the payment slip from you before lunch so that I can act today.

May God guide your feet to the Western Union office without delay.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: You are delaying things again

Sent: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:31:52

Dear Mr Micheal,

What on earth is going on over there? Yet again you are delaying things. I expected to receive an email from you this morning informing me that you had transferred $20 to my colleague, with a scanned copy of the Western Union payment slip attached, but I have heard nothing at all from you.

Do you not understand the urgency of the situation, my dear fellow? I am leaving on Saturday to attend the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention, and once I am there I will not be able to contact you in any way; the convention is being held on an extremely remote Scottish island.

You have told me twice now that you are delaying things because of heavy rainfall. A little bit of excess water is not a good reason for delaying business of this magnitude. Did Noah allow a little bit of rain to stop him from carrying out the Lord's work? No it did not. He merely carried on building his big boat. Did a bit of water stop the Israelites as they fled in terror from the persecution of their enemies? No it did not. They simply parted the Red Sea and went on their way, like any normal person would have done. Did a bit of water stop Jesus Christ himself from doing his holy work? No it did not. He simply turned it into wine and carried on with his business.

Where there is a will, there is a way, Mr Micheal. And I starting to wonder if you have the will to see this transaction through.

I am afraid it is time for an ultimatum. Either you transfer the $20 to my colleague by tomorrow lunchtime to check that the Western Union network is operating correctly, or I am through with this whole business and you can wave goodbye to me and my money. It is taking up far too much of my time.

The ball is in your court.

May Jesus lend you his holy tennis racket and help you to return it satisfactorily back into my court without incurring a foot fault.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Expect the fund this afternoon

Sent: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 06:42:18 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

So sorry for the delay of the payment. It was because of the call I went to answer at the security company to pay the form processing fees and for them to start the formation of lifting of the treasures out from the security company down to your mail contact address in the United Kingdom. That is why you have not heard from me since morning.

The amount of the processing fees is $640 and I have made the payment of $620, leaving the amount of $20.

The fund will be transferred this afternoon. I am to inform you that, and I will send the payment formation to you as soon as the fund has been transferred, but there is one thing that could not be completed. Due to the payment I just made to the security company, it will not be up to the amount firstly requested. The one thing I am sure that is important is to make a way of obtaining the fund.

I remain,

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Latest updated issues

Sent: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:27:57 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

It is a very great pity that with all the effort we tried to send some money to you today, but it was this, their system, and we have to use the MoneyGram systems tomorrow morning. They are almost the same thing and you can get your fund the same way and at the same time with the Western Union money transfer systems.

I know your being annoyed is not you knowing what I am passing through here myself. It is all the work on me because the Pastor is now so much busy with the team that will be going to India with him, as he is waiting to hear the confirmation of the man coming from Asia whom I told you we can use his means to get the fund more easily than passing through this stress we are observing.

Do not be so much worried in mind. By tomorrow we are going to work to achieve our aims. The fund I sent to the providence security company took almost the fund I have at hand for the moment, but no matter what, I will make sure that something is done by tomorrow morning so that by the time the way is open to receive your fund to the ministries, you will know that I am working in the best way you have to achieve the aim of what you are looking for.

I have to go bed for now. I have worked all the day in putting your things together. I know you might be wondering if I am doing serious things to make your job been done. I have to go and obtain same money from a client who I am working his formation of works at the projects that he is doing, and use the money to pay for your processing fees at the security company offices today. For where the Reverend must not be disturbed for at least two days now for they are in deep praying and fasting with the team that he will be going down to India with.

In anyway, I will make sure that something is done tomorrow morning, and may the Almighty God reward you back of your understanding mind, for if the right things are not done in the normal ways you will not find me right in my works. You may not understand, for you are not here with us to see what we are passing through.

I will get in touch with you by tomorrow. Try to understand me and feel more free to do anything with my chambers I promised to work for in honesty and the way that it may be very fine with you and us over here.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Get the payment slip to me by lunchtime or it will be too late

Sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 06:09:16

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I am extremely disappointed to see that you still have not managed to transfer the $20 to my colleague in order to check that the payment system is working correctly.

Time is now running extremely short. I have got up early this morning to pack my things in readiness for my trip to the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention and to give my unusually large organ one last polish. If you do not get a scanned copy of the payment slip to me by this lunchtime at the very latest, it will be too late for my colleague to travel into town, collect the money and, presuming that the transfer is successful, transfer the 20,000 to you.

If you do not get the payment slip to me by this lunchtime, we will have to place this entire project on hold until 19th October, when I return from the convention. That would be a great shame, and a missed opportunity in my eyes, and worse still, in God's eyes.

Make haste, Mr Micheal. Get thee to a MoneyGram agent and transfer the $20 to my colleague as soon as they open this morning.

If we are to move forward today, I expect the receive a scanned copy of the payment slip by midday.

May Jesus put a spring in your step and call you a taxi to take you speedily to your nearest Western Union or MoneyGram agent.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. Given the problems we had with MoneyGram over the GIMPS transfer I made to you, I really would prefer it if you could transfer the $20 to my colleague via Western Union. It really is not that difficult; the two Western Union transfers I made took no time at all.

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: PAYMENT BEEN MADE

Sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:54:06 -0700 (PDT)

THIS IS THE RECEIPT OF PAYMENT.

The scammer's Western Union receipt
(Click to enlarge)

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: PAYMENT BEEN MADE

Sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 03:27:57 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

This is to let you know that because of the payment we paid the security company yesterday that makes us not to come with the requested amount, Reverend Pastor Matthew gave me some money, $450, and I have to raise some to come up to the amount been mentioned to you on my yesterday's mail.

Please take the notification of the slip payment receipt for we are waiting to hear from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Just in the nick of time

Sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:14:43

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for making the test payment as my bank manager suggested. You are just in the nick of time, my dear fellow. Better late than never, I suppose. I shall get hold of my colleague and send him into town this afternoon to collect the payment and to check that the Western Union network is operating without any of the problems that we experienced last week.

I will get back to you as soon as my colleague returns from town.

May God bless you for the action you have taken.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

At this point, "Reverend Murray" checked the Western Union website to ensure that the scammer had actually made the transfer. Safe in the knowledge that the transfer had been made, the good Reverend visited a Western Union agent and collected the princely sum of 7.00 exactly.

The cash, incidentally, has been donated to Cancer Research UK. I'm sure that the scammer would be delighted if he knew that his money had gone towards a good cause.

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I cannot think where my colleague has got to

Sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:02:21

Dear Mr Micheal,

I am sorry to say that I am still waiting for my colleague to return from town and let me know whether the Western Union money transfer you made went through successfully. I had hoped he would return immediately so that I would be able to send him back into town straight away with the 20,000 I need to transfer to you.

He did assure me that he would come straight back here to Gypping in the Marsh as soon as he had finished at the Western Union agent, but he should have been back hours ago. I simply cannot think where he could have got to. If he does not get back soon, it will be too late for me to transfer the 20,000 to you today, and then it will have to wait until I return from the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention. And that would be a terrible shame.

I can only hope that he turns up soon. I will let you know as soon as shows up.

May Jesus bless the money you transferred to me via Western Union.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Some good news and some bad news

Sent: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 17:10:48

Dear Mr Micheal,

I write to you with a mixture of good news and bad news.

First of all, the good news. Praise the Lord! Thanks be to God! Christ on a bike! The Western Union transfer you made was successful!

I am sorry to say that my colleague has just rolled up here in a terrible state: he is very much the worse for drink, and it was all I could do to get any sense out of him at all. From what I can make of his drunken babblings, he collected the money you transferred this lunchtime ( 7 exactly), and headed off back in the direction of Gypping in the Marsh, just as he was supposed to do.

Perhaps I should explain at this stage that my colleague is a recovering alcoholic, and he is staying with me at the moment in an attempt to wean himself off the demon drink. He was doing extremely well until today, when on his way back from the Western Union agent he passed a "Bargain Booze" store. Satan waved temptation in front of his face, and I am ashamed to say that he was not strong enough to resist it. He propped up his bicycle outside the shop, went in, and spent the 7 he had just collected on a bottle of cheap gin.

Well, Mr Micheal, I don't need to tell you what happened after that. Suffice to say that he has just turned up back at the cottage having lost his bicycle in a ditch somewhere, and having acquired quite a few cuts and bruises on the way.

I have to say, I feel guilty for putting him in temptation's way. If it had not been for me sending him into town, he would not have had the opportunity to purchase the gin, and he would still be on his way to recovery.

Well, they often say that one has to be cruel to be kind. Therefore I have locked my colleague in the cellar to sober up. As I will not be here for the next week to keep my eye on him, I think the best thing to do is to make sure that he cannot be tempted again while I am away. Therefore, before I leave later tonight I shall throw enough food and bottled water into the cellar to last him a week, and lock the cellar door firmly behind me. It may sound rather unkind, but it will do him good. I am sure he will thank me for it upon my return.

Now for the bad news. Unfortunately, Mr Micheal, my colleague returned from town too late for me to transfer the 20,000 to you today. If only you had made your transfer earlier, as I asked you to, we could have had everything tied up by now. But now I will not be able to make the transfer to you until I return from the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention.

I am most dreadfully sorry for this delay, but I did warn you that this might happen if you did not transfer the money to me as soon as possible. This is what comes of leaving things until the last minute. "Never put off until tomorrow that which you can do today," as Saint Paul said in his letter to the Acedians.

I am afraid that there is now nothing I can do until I return to Gypping in the Marsh on 19th October. Please pass on my sincere regrets to Reverend Oshimolowo, and to all those nice gentlemen at the various ministries.

I will contact you on the 19th, and then we can make arrangements to get the 20,000 to you.

May the Good Lord teach you the virtue of doing things promptly and the evils of procrastination.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Re: Some good news and some bad news

Sent: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:41:19 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

Today I signed the approval papers of the release signatory to the treasures that have been deposited with the security company (Providence Security Company) as to wait for the main documents to arrive, for the forwardment to be made and an order of clearance to be made by the authorities of the security company so as to forward the treasures to the right destination.

We are then required to forward those documents to the security company as soon as possible, so as to enable us to be on the rightful position to claim the treasures at the security company.

I am waiting for your earliest response as soon as you come back, as I and the entire concern of this premise welcome you back to your ministry services.

And also do not hesitate to inform me of the condition of the Verger and how he is, and the man that was drunk, how is he? I hope he is now more better.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I have returned from the convention

Sent: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:51:36

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email my good fellow. I am delighted to be able to tell you that the annual Anglican Vicars' Convention went splendidly well, and a marvellous time was had by all. I am pleased to be able to report that my speech to the convention on the importance of bring and buy sales and coffee mornings to the spiritual wellbeing of the parish went down extremely well.

We did not spend all of our time talking about coffee mornings and jumble sales though; the convention dealt with a number of other similarly weighty matters during the week. One of the main debates related to a topic that has been troubling the Anglican church for some time now: whether or not to allow the ordination of practising Satanists as bishops. This has been disallowed for centuries - ever since the schism caused in the church by Satan's original decision to rise up in opposition to God - and many within the church are now keen to heal the rift that resulted from that momentous event. However, not all are convinced, and the debate was enlivened recently by the decision of an American Anglican church to ordain a practising Satanist as a bishop. You may have read about that case in the press. I wonder where Reverend Oshimolowo stands on this issue?

At first, we seemed to be making some progress at reaching a firm and final resolution on the topic. However, given the time available, it proved impossible to reach agreement on the tricky subjects of goat welfare and human sacrifice. In the end, a compromise was reached, but nobody was entirely happy with it. We decided to adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, thus practically enabling the ordination of Satanists without actually condoning their actions. I only hope that this policy proves to be more successful than the similar policy we adopted towards the ordination of ginger-haired people two years ago, which failed in a very dramatic and very public way. It was most embarrassing for the church, I have to say.

Thank you for asking about the Verger. I hear that he has been moved to a maximum security prison and is now being held in solitary confinement for his own safety. However, I am finding it somewhat difficult to acquire more information at the moment. I will keep you posted.

Regarding the colleague that I locked in the cellar while I was away to keep him away from the temptations of strong drink, I am sad to say that I returned home late last night to find a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. I was in such a hurry to leave for the convention the other week that I made a slight mistake when throwing food and water into the cellar to keep him nourished while I was away. Instead of throwing bottles of mineral water down into the cellar, I mistakenly threw down some bottles of white spirit that I had bought in order to clean some paint brushes. The bottles looked very similar, so it was an understandable mistake.

Unfortunately, given the absence of any other liquids in the cellar, it appears that my colleague must have been forced to attempt to quench his thirst with the white spirit at some point during my absence, with somewhat regrettable results. Things were rather messy when I got down there. I trust I need not go into details.

Suffice to say that I am about to cycle round to the local undertaker and make arrangements for the disposal of the poor man's body. The undertaker is a very discreet man, and I am sure that he will be able to deal with the situation in a suitable manner. I know that he helped the Verger out last year after an unfortunate incident in which a young nephew who was visiting him somehow managed to accidentally strangle himself with a leather strap, and I am sure that he will be just as circumspect in this situation. We could do without any unnecessary adverse publicity: that would be most unseemly.

This is all most distressing, and dealing with the situation will probably take up most of my day. However, I am well aware that we must press on with our business. Therefore, I would appreciate it if you could remind me of what stage we are at, and let me know what I need to do next.

May the Lord find a seat around the cocktail bar of Heaven for my poor unfortunate colleague, and pour him a stiff Bloody Mary to welcome him.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. I would appreciate it if you did not tell anyone else about the unfortunate situation regarding my colleague. I have only told you about this because I trust you implicitly.

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Welcome and let's move ahead

Sent: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:36:59 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

It is very bad news to hear that your colleague who was alive just on the past week have gone in that way, it is a very shock to me that you come to pass this kind of situation for now. May his soul rest in peace with God in Heaven.

For not to waste much time, I am just coming back from the security company. That is why your message was delayed in reply. The security company are now waiting for us to forward the documents from the justice and the ministry to enable them to make the final endorsement on our claiming the treasures that have been deposited with them. At least we are supposed to forward them by Thursday and the ministries are waiting for their completion fund to be made to them as I have been working with all I could to see that they do not have any double mind on me, that we are not much serious with our premise.

Meanwhile, you have to make every possible means to see that you come up with something by tomorrow morning. You have to use the means we used to transfer funds to you, and see what you have to do by tomorrow so that we can get the mind of these ministries and for them to be free minded with us.

I have been in a very struggling mood with them. It is only that they have known my priorities for a long time now, that is why they can still listen to me when I make my request from them and they will honour me.

First, try with four thousand and see how it goes, and when we confirm the reception of funds then you can go ahead to make the remaining balance by splitting them in that way. Try to go by yourself and make a withdrawal, then go to the Western Union money transfer office by yourself and use the method to send funds to the ministry so as to make haste to obtain our aims.

At least if not your travel to the convention, it could have been by this week, we could have lifted our consignment from the security company and down to the UK.

The situation with your friend the Verger, as you said is like it have gone to a very bad situation since he have been transferred to another place from your end. No problem. Any time you feel to have advice from me, or to get to my attention if it will still be possible to handle his matters, then get to my reach very fast so that I will know what to do. I want you to have a very free mind on concerning your colleague so as to make you concentrate on our priorities that we are working on, and the Reverend's secretery will be giving you every information about the Pastor, for he have gone to India on the programme he told you that will be coming up at that place. By now they must have started the crusade as I learned from the young woman this morning on her arriving from Kenya where she have been in been taking some records on their building programme that is going on at Kenya.

We welcome you back from your trip and beg the Most High God to take absolute control of everything about your case with the young man that has just died. May his soul rest in peace as we pray to God, Amen.

I am waiting to know what next I am supposed to do. In the morning let us see what we can do to obtain a very good position again fully from the ministries.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: A slight problem

Sent: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:04:28

Dear Mr Micheal,

I write with bad news, my dear fellow. As I mentioned to you yesterday, after the unfortunate incident regarding my poor deceased colleague (may his drink-sodden body rest in peace), I contacted the local undertaker to arrange the disposal of the body.

The undertaker arrived this morning with his new assistant Igor, a rather odd-looking fellow with a pronounced speech impediment, a crooked spine and terribly bad facial scarring. Once I had explained things to the undertaker, he told me that was quite happy to help me out. However, given the circumstances and the fact that I want to keep my poor colleague's tragic death a secret (people could get quite the wrong idea if they found out what happened, and that would not do at all), he demanded a rather large payment from me to sort things out. As a result, I have withdrawn 4,000 from my organ restoration fund and have used this money to pay the undertaker.

Once I had paid the undertaker, Igor limped down into the cellar and wrapped my poor colleague's lifeless body in a bag. His eyes lit up when he saw the body - both the blue one and the green one - and he muttered something like "Nithe and freth, jutht how I like them" as he loaded the body into the hearse. I am not quite sure what he meant by that. Anyway, the undertaker told me not to worry about a thing. He told me that Igor will make sure that the body is put to good use. I am not quite sure what he meant by that either. However, I am sure that they can be trusted to deal with the matter with the utmost discretion.

Unfortunately, this means that I no longer have 20,000 available to send to you for the purposes of this transaction; I now only have 16,000 left in the organ restoration fund. I apologise profusely for this, but I trust that you can appreciate the predicament in which I found myself over the past couple of days. I had no choice but to pay the undertaker in order to ensure that he keeps quiet about this whole affair.

I do hope this will not jeopardise our transaction, and that it will not prevent us from releasing the consignment from the security company. Do you think Reverend Oshimolowo could possibly ask his congregation to dig deep in their pockets and raise the extra 4,000? Please let me know.

As soon as you get back to me I can make arrangements to send the money to you. Tell me, who should I send it to: Mr Ukoha or Mr Kplola? Or would you rather I placed the money into a running shoe and posted it to you?

Do get back to me as soon as you can, my dear fellow. I do so hope that the unfortunate events of the last few days have not cast a shadow over the success of our transaction.

May Jesus ensure the quick and secret disposal of my poor colleague's body.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Make haste my dear client

Sent: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 04:44:57 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

I got your point in the problem that just came up with you, but I have discussed with the Pastor's secretary and she must have sent the message to her master by now to see what that can be done.

In order to make a very good stand with the ministries today while we wait for the Pastor's advice, I advise you to see what you can do to make payment to the ministry today so as to get a very good stand from them and let them have what is called free mind with us and make my image to be reorganised with them so that they can do our priorities fast, as I am making the arrangement to complete the remaining four thousand pounds. I believe the Pastor will do something.

What you have to do as fast as you can is to make sure something is done today, for I and the colleagues from the ministry to monitor the fund from you are waiting, and as I promise you that I will make the very best I could to make sure that the treasures are being lifted up at least by Friday as soon as we get the documents from the ministry.

Try to make another payment to be forwarded so that we can achieve our aims very fast as we planned.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience that came up with you. Bear heart. It will all be OK, I promise you very soon. Prepare to welcome us very soon in England, maybe in some few days now, then I shall see you face to face to discuss with you on the long run of how we passed through on everything.

I will be going to the ministry right away to inform them of the little delay for they have been waiting to hear from me and for them to have a little patience for some moment.

I will be waiting to hear from you. I stand to work and obtain the right that I have been appointed.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Another slight problem

Sent: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:17:25

Dear Mr Micheal,

I must apologise for the delay in responding to you, my dear fellow, but I have had the most frightfully awkward afternoon. I had just sat down after lunch with a fresh cup of tea, a nice biscuit and a copy of the Reader's Digest, thinking that my problems were over, when there was a knock on the door. When I answered it, I found to my horror that there was a policeman standing in the doorway!

Despite my shock, I managed to keep relatively calm, and I asked the policeman in. After all, I thought to myself, he could just have been calling on me for some spiritual advice, or to ask me which numbers God would advise him to pick for tonight's National Lottery draw.

However, it turned out that my postman had contacted the police one day last week when I was away, because he thought he had heard blood-curdling screams coming from the cellar of Hemlock Cottage. The policeman was sent out to investigate last week, but upon arriving at the cottage, finding me absent and hearing no noise at all from the cellar, he decided to leave his investigations until I had returned from my convention.

He asked me if I could account for the screams that the postman had reported. Of course, you and I know that the postman must have heard the dying screams of my poisoned colleague, but I could hardly tell the policeman that. So, I am ashamed to admit that I lied to him. I told him that it could have been a cat with its paw stuck somewhere.

Of course, the policeman wanted to investigate the cellar himself. I took him down there, thanking the Lord that the undertaker had removed the body this morning and that the policeman had not called a few hours earlier. Having found nothing in the cellar, he left, apparently satisfied with my explanation.

I only hope that I managed to convince him: I am not a very good liar. Well, after all, I have been brought up to tell the truth at all times, as I am sure you have too, so lying does not come naturally to me.

I am still in something of a state of shock after the policeman's visit. It took no less than three cups of tea to calm my nerves sufficiently for me to write this email to you.

As I am sure you can appreciate, this afternoon's events have meant that I have not been able to arrange a payment to you, for which I apologise. I will do my best to make the payment tomorrow.

However, I cannot make the payment until you tell me who you would like it made out to: should I make the payment to Mr Ukoha or Mr Kplola? Please advise. Please also let me know as soon as you find out whether Reverend Oshimolowo is able to raise the additional 4,000 that we now require.

I look forward to hearing back from you, my good fellow.

May the Good Lord keep the wolf from your door, and the police from mine.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Guideline

Sent: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:50:45 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

I believe that the Good Lord will take care of your problem and solve it by Himself, Amen.

I just came in from the ministry in the request of our documents to be ready to be obtained at any moment as the Pastor's secretary came to meet me at the ministry offices, as agreed before going to pass the message to the Pastor. She came back with good news from the organising committee of the crusade guild that are in control of the crusade programme going on in India, and that after explaining to the Pastor what had happened to you while you were away, then the Pastor agreed to do what the best he can.

In getting the Pastor's fund it will be by tomorrow as the secretary said, and that the Pastor said you should take heart on what that happened, that it is God who gives and takes. Whatsoever that happens, you should give thanks to God. He the Pastor said he will put you in a special prayer so as to pass through some kind of problems. As the secretary said, when she told the Pastor of it, that it seems like he had already had something like a vision about you concerning these problems that you are passing through. So he said you should not be afraid of anything and that God has already taken control of everything.

You should make the payment through Mr Dede Agu Ukoha. He is the person the ministry chose for their payment.

I remain as I have some other things to do about your premise.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I shall make the payment tomorrow

Sent: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:29:09

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email, and for confirming that I should make the payment to Mr Ukoha. I shall make a payment of 4,000 as you suggested tomorrow morning. Let us only hope that Jesus has cast the demons out of the Western Union money transfer system by tomorrow morning. I do not want a repeat of the farce that occurred last time I tried to transfer money via Western Union.

You said in your email that Reverend Oshimolowo had a vision of the problems that have been troubling me over the past two days? Was this precognition? If so, I wish he had warned me about what was going to happen beforehand: that way, I might have been able to avoid poisoning my colleague with white spirit.

And I am not at all sure that I should thank God for what has happened, despite what the Reverend says. While God may be quite happy that my colleague has now joined him in Heaven, somehow I doubt that the poor fellow's family are going to feel the same way when they find out that he is missing. I must say, I am dreading that: seeing as they know that he was staying with me, I will be the first person they get in touch with when they have not heard from him for a while.

What do you think I should tell them, Mr Micheal? What do you think would be the best way to handle it? I cannot tell his wife that I have poisoned her beloved husband. I cannot tell his three young children that thanks to a careless mistake on my part, they will never see their poor daddy again. They are bound to get in touch with me before too long. What should I tell them? Help me, Mr Micheal. I need your advice, please.

Pray for me, my dear fellow. I am at a very low ebb.

May the Good Lord show me the way out of my current predicament.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I have transferred 4,000 to Mr Ukoha

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:26:57

Dear Mr Micheal,

I am pleased to be able to tell you that I have made a Western Union transfer of 4,000 to Mr Ukoha. After a fitful night's sleep, disturbed by unpleasant dreams involving my sadly departed colleague and his crying children, I got up first thing this morning, went into town and made the transfer at the Western Union agent. I have attached the receipt to this email for your convenience.

I am praying that the Good Lord will bless our business transaction. Surely after all the problems we have faced up until now, the Lord will now see fit to speed our transaction on its way.

Please let me know as soon as Mr Ukoha has collected the money from the Western Union agent. As soon as he has done so, I will make three more transfers to him, of 4000 each.

If we can get this done by the end of the day, when do you think it will be possible to have the $25 million delivered into my organ restoration fund?

What with all the distress of the past few days, I have not had chance at all to play with my unusually large organ. I shall go to the church and have a good hard play with my organ right now. I often find that playing with my organ helps to calm my nerves in stressful situations: it normally gives me a huge sense of relief.

I shall check my email around lunchtime. Please try and send me an update on the situation by then, so that I can travel into town this afternoon and make the remaining payments.

May Jesus be with me as I play with my organ and caress it gently with his loving hands.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

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From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Stop delaying my hard work and make the right thing

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:20:50

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

We have gone to the Western Union money transfer and they have looked into their computers and did not find the payment there. Please could you please stop making me look a fool going to the bank. It is starting to look as if I am a beggar.

The system you were asked to use was not the system you used to transfer this fund. You like taking your own decision on some things and that could make you not to be a very good successful man unless you change to be very directive in anything you do for a living.

You are being asked to use the WILL CALL SYSTEMS. That is the way you can get the fund to reach us. Go to the Western Union offices with the copy of the way we used to transfer you the fund and they will know what to do on the systems you are being asked to use.

Note: I will perfectly tell you that I will not be happy if I should go to that bank again and find that you still used the way you chose, not the way the fund could get to us. You have to use your hand to the Western Union money transfer offices and ask them to use the system we required and which has been used to send you money.

If that could not be done immediately, you know that I am going to quit from this, and will let the Pastor to know this so, as to know that I will be quitting from this transaction. Then you can get to another lawyer who can be very honest to you and to work for you with the manner that I have been working with you with all the mind free that I have.

Do this today and right away so that we can make something to add to the fund the Pastor has just sent to the ministry today. If from India funds could come very and so easy, then from the UK you go to use the system that is not in the data of the Western Union system as they said.

I am waiting anxiously to hear from you, and if not I am quitting from this until you learn how to be hearing someone's advice.

I await,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I cannot believe the problems we are having

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:20:26

Dear Mr Micheal,

I was surprised and shocked to read your email. I cannot believe the problems we are having, my dear fellow. I have now transferred money to you using four different internationally-recognised systems, and you and your colleagues have failed to collect the money on each and every occasion. I simply do not understand what is going on. The garden snails of Satan are surely gorging themselves on the green leaves of our transaction.

I can only apologise for making you look like a fool and a beggar at the bank. I am sure it must have been trememdously embarrassing for you and Mr Ukoha to have been shown the door empty-handed yet again by the bank officials. They must be getting to know you quite well by now, given the number of times you have visited them over the past few weeks. But please do not let this worry you: I am sure that the bank staff know full well exactly what sort of person you really are.

Never mind, my dear fellow. I shall head straight back to the Western Union agent and see what I can do. I am confident that we will find a solution to our problems before the day is out.

Please do not talk of giving up, my dear fellow. As I have told you before, God hates a quitter. As Saint Peter said in his letter to the Gabriellians, "Don't give up, because you have friends, don't give up, you're not beaten yet, don't give up, I know you can make it good". Gain strength and courage from those words, my good man.

I will get back to you with good news as soon as I return from the Western Union office.

May God himself ensure that we encounter no more problems of this kind with the Western Union computer network.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I have found the solution to our problems

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:47:09

Dear Mr Micheal,

I write to you with good news, my dear chap. You will no doubt be pleased to hear that I have found the solution to our problems.

I went straight back to the Western Union agent after I wrote my last email to you, and explained the problem to them. I am happy to say that they have sorted the problem out, without the need for me to make another transfer.

The lady at the Western Union agent was extremely helpful, and managed to turn the transfer I made into a transfer of the sort that you and Mr Ukoha will be able to access. Apparently all that Mr Ukoha has to do is to go back to his Western Union agent, give them the same MTCN as earlier, and ask them to initiate procedure FU2-G1T on their computer system. As soon as the agent has carried out this procedure, Mr Ukoha will be able to collect the money instantly.

Please, Mr Micheal, make haste with Mr Ukoha to the Western Union agent. As soon as I hear that my 4,000 is in your hands I will rush to make the remaining payments.

God is surely with us now, Mr Micheal. In my prayers, I can hear him laughing in Heaven.

May Jesus point your dusty shoes in the direction of the Western Union office again.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THIS NEXT CHANCE

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:02:48

ATTENTION GILBERT MURRAY,

I have been to the Western Union money transfer and after many research in their computers, they could not raise the fund, and that means the money is not in their system.

You are now advised to use the receipt we used to send you the seven pounds and go to the Western Union money transfer and tender it with them for them to use the same system to send the fund. I will not be in a good mood to answer anything that when this premise again, and at the same time I have to let the Pastor know that you are not taking my advice as been required, and should let him to pay me my money if you people would be in a good understanding mood with me.

I have been belittled for a big way. I did not know this would take up to this long while I have many things that I had at hand at the same time.

You are advised on what to do. If you like, go to the Western Union money transfer and listen to your manager who do not understand that that formation is only used at Europe, not in West Africa. I am wondering about something, if you people will really make up the promise that you have made, or is like you do not like someone working in honesty with you. Like the man that just died, I am not happy, I must have be honest to you.

I remain to hear your next plan to delay my work to you and your next man, the Pastor.

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I do not know what else I can do

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:26:36

Dear Mr Micheal,

I am distraught, my dear fellow. Yet again, you and Mr Ukoha have been back to your Western Union agent and returned empty-handed and humiliated. This is awful news.

I do not know what else I can do to get the money to you. I took Mr Ukoha's receipt with me the last time I went to the Western Union agent, and they assured me that they had converted my transfer into a format that you and Mr Ukoha would be able to pick up.

So far in this transaction, I have transferred money to you and your colleagues three times using the Western Union network, once using the GIMPS network, once using the FUCWITS network, and once using the TWATS network. Yet despite my best efforts, you, Mr Ukoha and Mr Kplola have failed to pick up the money on every single occasion. What are you doing over there? This is not some game we are playing, you know. Collecting the money I transferred should have been child's play.

I am at my wit's end, Mr Micheal. Really, I am. I am now so desperate to get this money to you that I am almost tempted to follow your laughable suggestion of shoving the money into a shoe and posting it to you. Do you think I should do that?

But perhaps we should persevere with the Western Union network. After all, Mr Ukoha managed to transfer money successfully to my poor dear departed colleague, so I should be able to use it to transfer money to him.

I shall return to the Western Union agent tomorrow morning and make one last attempt to transfer the money to you. I have to say though, I am growing tired of this whole business. You and Mr Ukoha will have to buck your ideas up tomorrow morning if you do not wish me to lose patience with you.

I will be in touch in the morning when I return from the Western Union agent.

May God watch over everything you do, taking notes for use on the day of the Final Judgement.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: I have a suggestion, what do you say after your next try?

Sent: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:27:00 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

I appreciate your efforts towards this transaction you know, but what you don't understand is that there in the UK the systems you use their is not the same system that is being used here. As you can see, the fund sent to you was received by your client you sent to the Western Union money transfer offices and he got the money.

You can still detect that there are many differences in the way that has been used in the fund that you sent today. Nobody is doubting that you do not sent money or not, but you have to understand me and my colleague that the way the fund is being sent is not the normal way.

SUGGESTION: I was just suggesting that if you can just be in a very free mind with me, as I have with you in a very free way of working in honesty to you people, and at the same time believing the Pastor because of his position regarding the kind of man he is and his work, that is why I have to work with all my mind with you people, and as much as you can see there is no money that have paid to me and I have implemented some of my position being acts in this premise.

I suggest that you can do it this way, in case you try the other way and it does not work out. You can use the way I suggested initially, but you can buy a wall clock and two mobile phones. Open the wall clock and remove the engine inside the clock and put the whole fund inside the clock and close it back and use the two mobile phone to be forwarded to the attention of the same bearer, since the fund is going to their offices, but send the airway bill tracking number to me so as to monitor the items. With my stand, I promise you that nothing will happen to your fund and it will be delivered to the department it will be going to, as long as I am concerned.

The address is Box 1210, Lome, Togo, attentioned to the same bearer, Mr Dede Agu Ukoha. Once you send the tracking number I can handle it, for I have been with the DHL people and it can never be opened so far as you did not let the officer you are to send the items from that such things are inside the clock, and it will be delivered to the place it's going to.

I just want to help to ease the situation from all of us are into it, so as to make sure at least by Monday morning all this stress will be over and we will be moving to the best stage, to claim the treasure from the security company and to get to the end of this transaction.

Try to get my point, Reverend Gilbert, and to free me from the bank people so as they will not be having a kind of mind that I and Mr Ukoha are having a kind of game to be played with their authority.

I will be waiting to hear from you and to know your mind towards my suggestions to get the fund very safely over here.

May the Most High God be in position to solve our problems forever as the Pastor urges you to be of good courage too.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I have transferred the money the way you suggested

Sent: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:17:09

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email, my dear fellow. I am pleased to tell you that there will be no need to resort to your somewhat bizarre suggestion of placing the money inside the workings of a wall clock, because I have finally managed to transfer the money to Mr Ukoha using the Western Union method you suggested.

It took a bit of explaining at the Western Union agent, but they finally got the point I was trying to make, and made the transfer using the same method that Mr Ukoha used to send the money to my poor deceased colleage the other week. I am sure this news will be as much of a relief to you as it is to me.

Unfortunately, I am having some trouble with my scanner at the moment: my computer crashes every time I try to use it, so I have been unable to scan in the Western Union payment slip. However, I gather all that you need to collect the money is the MTCN, and that is 3522919573.

Please get back to me as soon as Mr Ukoha has collected the 4,000. I will make the remaining transfers as soon as I hear that the money has gone through successfully.

May God bless you and Mr Ukoha, and send Jesus to fix my scanner.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Recheck the control number

Sent: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:49:05 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

Thanks for your mail this morning and for your efforts towards this magnitude. We have been to the Western Union money transfer and notice the absence of funds in their computers. They checked for the confirmation number and it did not reflect on their computers.

The man at the head searching systems told me that the system which you used is good, but the number did not reflect on their computers. So they said you should check the control number, if it is very accurate. If possible call the Western Union people and make a crosscheck of the number you sent, if it is the same.

If we go for the second time and do not get the fund, then you know that you are going to use the method I suggested with a wall clock, and open the back where the engine is and remove the engine of the clock and put the total fund as I suggested to you. If it is sent today by DHL then you know we will get the fund by Monday over here, for I will monitor the item from the courier service's systems, if you really want me to still work for you and your colleague.

You have to wait until we go for the second time to see if can reflect to the Western Union offices. Maybe something is fishing from your end not sending the fund out from your end but do receive in.

I will be waiting for the reconfirmation of the control number.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I apologise, for I seem to have made a mistake

Sent: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:58:40

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I was most distressed to hear that you and Mr Ukoha had yet another wasted visit to your Western Union agent. I should imagine you are probably on first name terms with them by now, given the number of times you have visited them over the past few weeks.

I have done as you asked, and checked the MTCN that I gave you. I am ashamed to say that it seems as if I made a mistake when I gave you the number. I told you that the number was 3522919573; but looking closely at the form, I can now see that the number is actually 3522979573. I do apologise, but it is very easy to get ones and sevens mixed up when you have eyesight like mine.

I hope that my little mistake has not caused you too much inconvenience. Never mind though; now that you have the correct MCTN, you and Mr Ukoha should be able to collect the money immediately. Please let me know as soon as the money is in your hands.

May Jesus remind me to go to the opticians and get my eyes checked out.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. Do give my best regards to your chums at the Western Union agent.

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: YOUR FRIEND PASTOR MATTHEW SAID

Sent: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:26:04 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

We are just coming back from the Western Union money transfer, and after much more verifications and their expertise in confirming that no such signals from the UK money transfer offices at all were forwarded to Lome, Togo on that verification name, MR DEDE AGU UKOHA.

Now, there is an alternative on which we can use from the Pastor himself, for after all this stress I have to let him know of what that we are passing through here, and the Pastor have made an alternative that may be OK for you and for us.

Reverend Matthew said that we should forward this man's name to you who is in London and that he will be coming to meet him in India from his parish in London. He said you should try to send the fund to this man today so that he will make the remittance to us by tomorrow, so that we can move to obtain the documents from the ministry offices.

Name: DAVID THOMAS

Address: 49 MANOR ROAD, ERITH, LONDON, ENGLAND, DA8 2AE

Send the said total amount to this man in London so as to get the fund as soon as possible. We need your earliest response.

Faithfully yours,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

I don't want to pass through any more stress again concerning this, only the Pastor have pleaded on your behalf for more patience.

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: This sounds like a good way forward

Sent: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:14:16

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I simply cannot believe that you have experienced yet more problems with your Western Union agent. Do these people know what they are doing? This is most disappointing, and it must have been extremely embarrassing for you. I can only apologise yet again for any inconvenience this has caused you. It is almost as if God himself is doing all he can to prevent me from getting this money to you.

Never mind. You seem to have come up with a way forward. Although I have to admit that I was looking forward to going shopping this weekend and looking for a suitable wall clock to send to you, sending the money directly to someone in this country sounds like a much better idea to me.

However, given all the problems we have been having with transferring money in one way or another, I am somewhat loathe to place 16,000 in the post and send it to this man. I would feel much happier and much more secure if I could give the money to Mr Thomas in person. That way I would be absolutely sure that the money was safely on its way to you.

Do you think this would be possible? If so, I could arrange to travel to London one day next week to meet Mr Thomas and hand him the money in person. I would be quite willing to do this to ensure a successful conclusion to our transaction. Please let me know if you think this is feasible. If so, perhaps you could provide me with Mr Thomas's email address so that I can get in touch with him and make arrangements.

Who is Mr Thomas, by the way? Is he a member of Reverend Oshimolowo's church?

May the Good Lord heal the wounds of embarrassment, shame and humiliation that I have unintentionally inflicted upon you over the past few weeks.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: A LITTLE DISAPPOINTMENT. BUT GO ON

Sent: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:15:56 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

With the information the Pastor gave, after getting to contact the man you are to meet in London who will be meeting the Pastor in India, we learned that the Pastor thought that the fund would be given to him today while his flight schedule is today. By the time I am giving you this mail the flight must have left to India where he is going to meet the Pastor for the crusade that is going on there for a moment.

We experiencing this have already felt bad, but in order to meet up to our requirements, you are please advised to use the means you have been bearing in mind to get this fund to us so as to meet to the deadline of the ministry before we are asked to pay any delay fund of processing documents, and that will be by next week, and I don't want to pass much stress any more concerning this premise.

Reverend, the method that I suggest I believe will be more very helpful to you and to us too. You will not be able to pay the huge charges that may be involved in sending this fund through a bank or through any means of transaction, and at the same time this will not make us to pass much stress again.

Tomorrow will be OK for you to send the fund through the way we have chosen. Do not fear of anything for the Most High God is in control of everything as been assured by the Pastor, for as I know he must be in a very serious prayer over this issue.

The two ministries are not in a happy mood with me and the Pastor himself for the delay of everything as it is been done. Please, I want you to do this as you are making the arrangement to send the fund. You are to be advised please for the two directors to be very happy with you and to believe that it is not really your fault that this thing has been delayed to this extent. Buy any two mobile phones for them and include it in the systems that you are going to use and send it to them as a gift from you in appreciation working things for you in advance, so that they will believe my words more than anything that you are a very good man and that the delay was not from you.

I know exactly what I am passing through in order to get you happy in working with you in honesty and with all the very best I could on behalf of the Pastor too. Send the items as soon as possible to enable us to meet the deadline of Wednesday next week. When I will be with you in the UK there are lots of things that I will discuss with you that I have passed through while I am working your formations to get this done in the very best way.

Note: send the items and do not let the DHL to know that you put things like money inside the wall clock; only the clock itself and the mobile phones so as for them not to have the mind to look into your sendings.

I await your earliest response.

Faithfully yours,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

We are not too happy that this man will be leaving today to India to meet the Pastor; we thought that it would be something like Monday or that. Sorry for the inconveniences that we may have put you to.

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Do you have any other contacts in the UK?

Sent: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:57:34

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I am disappointed to hear that Mr Thomas will not be able to meet up with me to collect the money you need in person.

I have thought about sending you the money hidden inside a clock as you suggested, but if it is at all possible, I would much rather hand the money over to someone in person. Do you or Reverend Oshimolowo have any other contacts in the UK I could meet up with and hand over the money?

Please let me know.

May Jesus bless you and your family with a weekend of Holy bliss.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: NO TIME WASTE AGAIN PLEASE

Sent: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 04:34:00 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

Thank you for your message and your view being understood. You don't have to hand over the parcel to someone. All you have to do is to go to the DHL offices and make the parcel deposited with them and forward it to the address been given to you. Nobody will ever open it once it has been booked with the courier services and it will be monitored till it gets to us here, and once it comes to Lome, Togo we will claim the item and get the fund inside it. Do not fear if anything will happen to the fund so far as you make the procedures I ask you to follow.

I don't think the Pastor will have that much time to leave the programme they are having to look for someone who can obtain the item from you. You don't even have to let anyone know that such a thing is inside the wall clock, that is what you have to understand.

Do this today if it could be possible with you so that by Tuesday morning we will get this item from the DHL offices and head to the ministry to complete our work with them and get the documents from them and forward them to the security company so that at least by the same week we will lift these treasures and come down to the UK and finish the remaining necessary things to do and for me to be free and continue my programmes.

Do not hesitate to forward the airway bill number to us so as to monitor the item from the DHL search till it comes to Lome, Togo.

Name: DEDE AGU UKOHA

Address: 15 REU DE LE-AGLISE, COCATIME, LOME, TOGO

BOX 1210, LOME, TOGO

That is the name and address you are to use to forward the item.

We are waiting anxiously to hear from you very soon as required, and may God have it guidance to the item till it gets to us safely, Amen.

Faithfully yours,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James Micheal

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Are you absolutely sure that this method is safe?

Sent: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:04:21

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I am sorry to hear that Reverend Oshimolowo does not have any other cronies in the UK to whom I could hand the money personally.

I am still not sure about packing the money inside the workings of a clock and sending it to you though. There is something about this that just does not sound right. Why do I need to hide the money? Why can I not get it to you in some other way, without all this wall clock and dagger subterfuge?

Are you sure this method is safe? Perhaps I should consult Welsby and see what he has to say about it. What do you think?

May God provide me with guidance on this troublesome matter.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: BEST SOLUTION

Sent: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:53:14 -0700 (PDT)

Dear sir,

Thank you for your mail and other of understanding. We are making other arrangements on how you are to make the fund get to us safely. But we are making two alternative ways on which you are to make the remittance to us without having any problem.

The first is, you are to send the fund in three names that are given to you below. They are the Pastor's church members whom you can send the fund to in London. Their names are stated below, on which you will send the fund to them through Western Union, and immediately they receive the fund, their relations worshipping with us here in Lome, Togo, will pay us the same amount immediately.

Please, if you are using the Western Union, you have to send the money from outside London in three transactions of 3,000 POUNDS STERLING EACH.

The second is a very good friend of mine and also a businessman from TAIWAN who you can send the fund to his account and he will give us the equivalent here in Lome, Togo. As soon as you forward to me the payment information, that my good friend will give us the same amount here without any delay.

Advise me on which will be more OK by you.

We look forward to hearing from you so that we can get what we are looking for from the security company and from the ministry.

These are the names to be used by Western Union:

MARK JOHNSON, BIRMINGHAM CITY, LONDON W1, ENGLAND
STANLEY OBI, 49 MANOR ROAD, ERITH, LONDON, ENGLAND, DA8 2AE
DAVID JACKSON, BIRMINGHAM CITY, LONDON W1, ENGLAND

This is my good friend's account from Taiwan stated below. Please, if you choose to pay into the account, do not hesitate to forward to me the payment informations to enable me to collect the equivalent of the money without any delay.

Thank you and God bless.

BANK OF TAIWAN, CHENG CHUNG BRANCH, NO 47 TAIWAN TAIE RD, TAIPEI, TAIWAN ROC

Swift code: BKTWTWTPO45

Account number: 045-007-000723

Beneficiary: YOUNG FAST ENTERPRISE COMPANY LIMITED

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: Please reconfirm the addresses of these people

Sent: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:53:27

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I am delighted to hear that Reverend Oshimolowo has some more cronies in this country to whom I can pay the money you require.

However, I fear that you have made a mistake in the addresses of two of these people: Mark Johnson and David Jackson. You have given their addresses as being in "Birmingham City, London W1". However, Birmingham is not in London at all; it is a city in its own right, over a hundred miles away from London.

Please send me the full addresses of these two people, and kindly ensure that they are correct this time. I do not want us to face any more delays in this matter as a result of me having the wrong addresses.

I look forward to receiving the correct addresses of Mr Johnson and Mr Jackson by return.

May the Good Lord teach you a little bit more about the geography of the UK than you currently know.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: THE ADDRESSES ARE OK

Sent: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:31:02 -0700 (PDT)

Dear sir,

On the verification that I have made, I believe the two men are in the same group on department in the church. That means the addresses are correct.

We will be waiting for them to confirm you have forwarded the fund to them through Western Union by Monday so that as soon as they send to us the confirmation of fund received by them and their people over here will give to us the equivalent of the fund over here.

Sorry for this mail came in a little late to you. I was away to the director of the ministry to hear his agenda for call on me to have a discussion about your case, for he knows me and my kind of person for many years now and he was keen to ask me why I am involving myself in a kind of delay transaction like this. I have to let him to know that I am in the same church with the Pastor, that even I myself have not been paid and explain to him on your issues, then he have to understand and give me some more chance.

Please Reverend, I will like you people to help me get out from this very soon for I have a lot of things coming around me that the delay of your formation have made me to let some apart because of the time to handle them. I will be very happy to see that I am free a little bit.

Send the fund to them by Monday morning so that by the few hours they confirm the receipt of the payment and they will give their people over here the order to give us the equivalent here in Lome, Togo.

MARK JOHNSON, BIRMINGHAM CITY, LONDON W1, ENGLAND
STANLEY OBI, 49 MANOR ROAD, ERITH, LONDON, ENGLAND, DA8 2AE
DAVID JACKSON, BIRMINGHAM CITY, LONDON W1, ENGLAND

The names are OK. You can go and send the fund to them.

Faithfully yours,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: The addresses are not "OK"

Sent: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:10:38

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. Unfortunately, as I have already told you, the addresses are not "OK".

Mr Obi's address sounds alright, but the addresses you have given me for Mr Johnson and Mr Jackson are patently incorrect. Birmingham is no more part of London than Gypping in the Marsh is.

Do these gentlemen live in Birmingham or London? They cannot live in both.

I cannot go to the Western Union office with the addresses you have given me; they are plainly incorrect, and I would hate for the staff in the Western Union office to look at me as if I was a fool. You must know what that's like, given your frequent visits to your own Western Union agent over the past few weeks. Is that what you want, Mr Micheal? To put me through as much embarrassment, shame and humiliation as you have suffered?

Kindly provide me with full addresses for Mr Johnson and Mr Jackson, just as you have done for Mr Obi. As soon as you do that, I can arrange to get the money to them.

I can appreciate what you said in your last email about the amount of time this transaction is taking. However, everything would be done and dusted a lot quicker if you provided me with the correct information in the first place, rather than sending me incorrect addresses.

May Jesus bless Reverend Oshimolowo and all his cronies living in Britain.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Do it this way for there is no longer time

Sent: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:27:02 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

Sorry for the delay of this message and the reply not coming up at the same time you send it. I have to call on the secretary of the Pastor to make verification for the correct addresses, as much as we have none now they lived there as it was in London before so they still use the addresses as at the old name they have been and still receive anything that is sent to them.

But as it is, you have to use the address of Mr Obi for the three names, for they will go to Mr Obi as has been arranged by the Pastor, as the secretary made us to understand that as soon as the confirmation of the fund is sent to us here and they will go to Mr Obi and to the Western Union together to collect their fund as their relations here will give to us the equivalent of the fund that has been forwarded to them over here.

You are advised to do so for as much they all worship at the same church and they know each other as been appointed. There is not much time left for us to be moving up and down, though I like your clarifications. As an understanding man I have viewed you to be, I know and thank you for the mistake that has been observed that shows too well you can handle this fund very well when it comes to you.

You know we have a deadline of forwarding this fund to the ministries and it will not be good that we cannot complete this before their deadline, and to eventually to go into more additional funds which I myself will not be happy about it, for all we had passed through. Send also the payment receipt to the Pastor's secretary so as for the Pastor to be aware of the fund so that the bearers' names that is to receive these funds will be alerted in time and for us to go to their relations here to collect the equivalent fund over here.

May the Most High God be with each and every one of us from now and to the rest of the days that are left for us to accomplish what that remains in Jesus Name, Amen.

I remain,

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I would feel more comfortable handing over the money in person

Sent: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:54:26

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email and for explaining the situation regarding the addresses of Mr Johnson and Mr Jackson.

I spent some considerable time praying to the Lord last night for guidance on what to do, and I have to say that I am extremely uneasy about attempting to transfer the money via Western Union again. We have had so many problems with this method of transfer over the past few weeks, and I do not want to put anyone else through the embarrassment you and Mr Ukoha have suffered each time you tried to collect the money.

Therefore, I have decided that it would be a much better idea to hand over the money in person to one of the gentlemen you mentioned. That would be easier for all concerned.

If necessary, I am quite willing to travel to meet one of these fine gentlemen myself: that would probably be easier than expecting them to find their way to Gypping in the Marsh. We are rather tucked-away in the middle of nowhere here, and people do have the most frightful trouble finding their way to the village.

Given the location of the three men, it would be easier for me to meet up with the gentleman who lives in London: Mr Obi. It would be no trouble at all for me to travel to London with the money. Do you think you could arrange a meeting between us? The sooner the better: I am keen to get this money to you as quickly as I can, to ensure the safe retrieval of the $25 million from the security company and the refurbishment of my enormous organ.

See what you can do to make arrangements and get back to me, there's a good fellow.

May Jesus bless your trousers with a fine crease.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. I trust that you spent your time during the Lord's day in a suitably religious manner. Did you attend church like a good boy and pray to the Lord to forgive you your many sins? Do let me know. I am pleased to report that my own service went splendidly well. I quoted heavily from Leviticus in my sermon, and I would be surprised if any of the congregation touched seafood ever again after that. You don't eat seafood yourself, do you?

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: VERY URGENT PLEASE

Sent: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:45:40 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

DEAR SIR,

YOUR MAIL HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND ITS CONTENT WELL NOTED. AFTER MUCH STRESS ON THE SAFE WAY TO RECEIVE THE MONEY, WE FINALLY CONCLUDED THAT THE MONEY SHOULD BE SENT THROUGH THE BANK ACCOUNT IN TAIWAN GIVEN TO YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE MET WITH A RELATION OF MR OBI HERE IN LOME, TOGO IN THIS REGARD, BUT WAS TOLD THAT MR OBI WILL NOT BE MADE AVAILABLE FROM TOMORROW BECAUSE HE WILL BE TRAVELLING TO SWEDEN, AS WE WERE HOPING THAT THE MONEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SENT TO MR OBI TODAY.

WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE ONLY FASTEST WAY AND SAFE IS TO PAY THE MONEY INTO THE BANK ACCOUNT GIVEN TO YOU, BECAUSE MY FRIEND, AFTER HAVING A SHORT DISCUSSION WITH HIM THIS MORNING, HE HAS PROMISED US THAT IMMEDIATELY HE RECEIVES FROM US THE PAYMENT INFORMATION INTO HIS ACCOUNT IN TAIWAN, HE WILL NOT HESITATE TO GIVE US THE COMPLETE MONEY HERE AS WE HAVE EXPLAINED TO HIM THE URGENCY OF THIS MONEY.

WE URGE YOU TO GO AHEAD AND REMIT THE MONEY WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY AND ALSO IN ORDER NOT TO PUT YOU IN ANY STRESS BY TRAVELLING TO LONDON AS WELL AS PAYING WESTERN UNION CHARGES.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND GOD BLESS.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,

BARRISTER JAMES

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: What a shame

Sent: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:19:07

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I am sorry to hear that Mr Obi will not be available to meet up with me and to collect the money from me in person. You say that he is travelling to Sweden? I have heard that some of these Nordic people still worship false pagan gods. Is he perhaps going on a mission on behalf of Reverend Oshimolowo to convert the people of Sweden to the delights of Christianity?

Never mind. Despite this bad news, that still leaves two of Reverend Oshimolowo's cronies in the country: Mr Jackson and Mr Johnson. I will be happy to meet up with either of these gentlemen to hand over the money in person.

I realise that we never cleared up the matter of whether these two gentlemen live in Birmingham or London. Please allow me to reassure you that it would be no trouble at all for me to travel to London to meet up with one of these gents; I could pop in on the Archbishop of Westminster while I was down there for a cup of tea. The two of us go back a long way. Aah, I remember the jokes and japes we shared at theological college as if it were only yesterday.

Kindly make arrangements me to meet up with either Mr Johnson or Mr Jackson in London and get back to me with the details.

May the Lord clear the diaries of these gentlemen and protect Mr Obi from untoward heathen influences in the Scandinavian wastes. After all, we don't want him coming back worshipping trees and singing Abba songs now, do we?

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. Is the CAPS LOCK key on your computer keyboard broken yet again? You wrote your last email completely in CAPITAL LETTERS. Remember, use capital letters for the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns, but use lower-case letters for the rest of the letters that you type.

From: James Micheal

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: Be honest to God

Sent: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:39:38 -0700 (PDT)

ATTENTION REVEREND GILBERT MURRAY.

Dear sir,

It is quite a pity that things get to be this way, that you can't understand me. I have to be very specific to you that it is only Mr Obi that knows very well, for he is in the same church with the Pastor and it happens that he was already on his way to Sweden and he was not alerted before the arrangement was made to use his name to forward the fund to us here to accomplish the formation we have.

The other two names was brought by the Pastor's secretary and I am not too sure of the two young men, even if you can observe very well the addresses was not understood at the initial time. That is the reason why I have to use the man that I know very well who have a company here in Lome from Taiwan, China, who worships with us any time he comes to Togo and was introduced to me by the Reverend Pastor.

Please, you have to use his means to get the fund to us so as to get the fund without any more molestation from any angle.

Do what I ask you, for I am the one working for you. The case of the secretary will be handled when the Pastor comes back from his trip to India and I believe as the Pastor said, she have had her last appointment with the Pastor as she will be dismissed for the act she has committed, not letting me to know whom those two young men are.

Send the fund to the account by tomorrow, for I know that there will be no time for you to do so now. As soon as you send the fund to the man we will obtain the equivalent from his company here in Lome, Togo.

I HAVE TO STOP FOR THERE ARE THINGS TO BE DISCUSSED WITH THE MINISTRY AUTHORITIES THIS EVENING.

Yours faithfully,

JAMES CHAMBERS,

Barrister James

From: Matthew Oshimolowo

To: Gilbert Murray

Subject: CHILD OF GOD ARE AFRAID? WHOM WILL YOU FEAR WHEN OUR GOD IS LIVING FOR US?

Sent: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:17:10 +0100 (BST)

GREETINGS IN JESUS NAME.

Dear Brother Reverend Gilbert Murray,

How are you and the situation of everything with you over in the UK? I hope all is fine with you. I got the message the lawyer sent to me concerning the remaining fund that is supposed to be sent to the ministry, that it is being found difficult in getting the fund from you from the UK.

My lovely brother, there was a mistake in the names been given to you by my secretary. On the two names that was given to you, they in no way been a very detective members of my parish. They may be ordinary members that come to my church of which I do not know them in person. Maybe my secretary does, but that is not a guarantee that they can handle my priorities that I am doing with you concerning the humanitarian purposes that I am doing. Although I will see to that when I come back from India where we are having a very big revival and the programme is very fine. Many souls are being restored back to the Most High God and I believe that Joy will be found in Heaven.

My dear very good fellow, I want you to look unto the lawyer for a moment, for he is the only person that I can trust for now, for he does not take chances in any nonsense. He told me he gave to you one of my international men's accounts who have a very big business in Lome, Togo, who is capable of giving the equivalent fund to them in Togo, and as far as I am concerned, that man can handle anything you give to him, for he have a very big company in the country.

All I want you to do is this. Do send the remaining fund to the lawyer the way he have directed you so as to get the required documents from the ministries and to be in a good position to get the treasures out from the security company before I come back from the programme we are having. Do not have any fear for the Lord God is with you all the time, even unto the end.

Note: remember the time of King David before he became King of Israel. He passed through many things before the seat was given to him. Remember the children of Israel, how they suffered in the land of Egypt before freedom was granted to them. Many prophets in the Bible, how they are been molested by their enemies and still so far they have the faith that it will be good and the trust they have in God and victory was converted to them. There is no victory without war and there is no way you will ever, I mean ever, see victory without fighting a war. When there is no war there is no victory. This is the time of war and also the time of victory.

Make things where it will be more easy for me when I will enter Togo so as make every other thing to be done to get those treasures out from the security company.

I have to stop here until God permits us to meet in person, then you will know who you have interacting with in a kind of humanitarian way.

Thanks,

REVEREND PASTOR MATTHEW OSHIMOLOWO

THIS MESSAGE WILL MAKE YOU GREAT THROUGH THE LOVE OF GOD AND MAY HIS GRACE BE WITH US IN EVERYTHING EVEN UNTO THE END, AMEN.

From: Gilbert Murray

To: James Micheal

Subject: I shall transfer the money to your own bank account

Sent: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:28

Dear Mr Micheal,

Thank you for your email. I am sorry to hear that Reverend Oshimolowo's secretary is turning out to be so useless. May God forgive her.

I am also sorry to hear that I will not be able to meet up with anyone here in the UK to hand the fund over to them in person. This is a great shame.

Well, it appears that the only option left is for me to transfer the money from one bank account to another. However, let's forget this ridiculous notion of transferring the money all the way to some stranger in Taiwan. It will be much simpler for me to transfer the money directly into your own bank account. As a qualified and respected lawyer, you must have an account in your own name into which I can transfer the money. So send me the details of your own bank account and I will transfer the money into it as soon as I receive them.

On another matter, I was contacted this morning by the wife of my poor deceased colleague. You remember, the one who had the unfortunate accident involving the bottles of white spirit. Apparently he was supposed to go back home to her this weekend and she is wondering why he never showed up. I did not really know what to do. I am ashamed to say that I lied, and told her that he had left here on Friday afternoon, and that he must have been delayed somewhere along the way. She then got terribly worried and told me that she was going to report him to the police as a missing person.

It then occurred to me that all my colleague's clothes are still in the spare room where he was staying. What do you think I should do? I obviously need to get rid of them. Should I burn them? Or perhaps I should throw them into the marsh? The police must not find them here, that's for certain.

Please, Mr Micheal, this is a very stressful time for me. I need your advice.

May God dissuade the police from looking too closely into this matter.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

From: Gilbert Murray

To: Matthew Oshimolowo

Subject: I am pleased to hear that you are getting rid of your secretary

Sent: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:13:52

Dear Reverend Oshimolowo,

Thank you for your email. It was a pleasure to hear from you after such a long silence, my dear chap.

I am pleased to hear that you are getting rid of your secretary. I have had my doubts about her ever since she offered me a milkshake made out of worms. Very odd. She's been nothing but a hindrance in this business right from the word go, if you ask me.

Regarding our transaction, I am confident that Mr Micheal and I are on the verge of finalising everything, so please do not worry. I am sure that Mr Micheal will keep you informed of what is going on.

May Jesus bless your flowing locks and ensure that you never have a bad hair day.

Amen,

Reverend Gilbert Murray

PS. You mentioned that this is a time of war. Who are you at war with? Are you suggesting that I should be at war with someone? If so, who? I cannot think of anyone offhand.

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