Crime Online

If you have seen the Khodorkovsky e-mails, then you know what this one is about. Platon Lebedev is another billionaire put in jail in Russia. I found the last sentence sounds like a James Bond movie:

If you know you can do this, then contact me via private email: natlebdev@list.ru so that i can furnish you with more details but if for any reason you choose not to assist me, please destroy this mail and forget I ever contacted you because of our safety.

———- Forwarded message ———- From: U.L <natlebde@bk.ru> Date: 2009/5/22 Subject: I await your response To: natlebde@bk.ru Good day, I know this mail may rather come to you as a surprise but had no other alternative than to contact you in this manner due to a matter of necessity and urgency for the relocation of my kids and me. Before i proceed further it is better for me to introduce myself; i am Mrs.Natalia Lebedev, the wife of Russian multi billionaire Mr. Platon Lebedev (former director of Group MENATEP, Russia) that was arrested unjust fully by the putin regime for his involvement in the YOKUS company crisis in 2003. You can read more story on this in the below website: http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2007/10/platon_lebedev_statement.htm As a result of the false allegations, all joint our accounts were frozen and properties confiscated except for a profiling amount of one hundred million United States dollars in cash, properly insured and sealed under the UN diplomatic core which my husband succeeded in depositing as consignment with a European depository firm before his arrest. Now that i am currently having problems with Authorities over my husband present circumstance, i had to source for a God fearing individual to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum and also make immediate preparations to relocate me and my kids once the funds are secured. For your assistance in embarking on this task for us, you will receive thirty-percent of the total funds once the transaction is completed. Please note that this transaction is legitimate and all documents backing the funds will be provided upon your readiness to proceed. If you know you can do this, then contact me via private email: natlebdev@list.ru so that i can furnish you with more details but if for any reason you choose not to assist me, please destroy this mail and forget I ever contacted you because of our safety. Thank you very much Yours truly, Mrs. Natalia Lebedev. Private Email: natlebdev@list.ru

The “barrister” is looking for a reputable business partner and found
me. Along with a couple of hundred others…

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Barrister Ricardo Portal
Date: Sep 5, 2008 4:17 PM
Subject: From ; Barrister Ricado Portal (Estudio Juridico Castellana )
Urgent Reply is required of you
To: undisclosed-recipients

Barrister Ricado Portal
Estudio Juridico Castellana
Caracas, 27
Madrid 28010 Spain.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Before I proceed, I must first apologize for this unsolicited letter
to you. I am aware that this is certainly not a conventional way of
approach to establish a relationship of trust, but I do have limited
choice. My name is Barrister Ricado Portal a Solicitor working with
Estudio Juridico Castellana with address: Caracas, 27 Madrid 28010
Spain Actually, I got your contact address from the internet while
searching for a reputable business partner in your country’s public
records. My Late client Mr. Johannes Reinhold , a business mogul who
had casinos and restaurants, lived in Spain for many years, my client,
her husband and their one child were involved in an underground train
crash in the eastern city of Valencia as Victims of the Tuesday, 4
July 2006, Incident that befall the Spanish.

You can confirm through this website
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5143738.stm)

Before his death, on my advice as his lawyer he deposited One Trunk
Box/Diplomatic Personal Treasure, containing the sum of $7.5M (SEVEN
MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) cash with a security
company here in Spain, on a highly security form but he did not
disclosed the content of deposited diplomatic consignment to the
company, for security reasons. The security company has mandated me to
present any family heir/inheritor for claims, before the consignment
gets confiscated or reverts to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, as
unclaimed diplomatic immunity. So I decided to search for any of my
late client’s relative which has been very difficult for me, as he did
not declare any other person, address, partner or relatives in the
official paper works of his diplomatic consignment deposit. Mr
Johannes was my private client. I will not like you to involve any
third party in this transaction, just me and you .Besides I am doing
this on my own personal capacity and do n
ot wish to bring my office into i

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as
a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr. Johannes Reinhold, with
my position as his lawyer, I will now appoint and recognize you as the
heir. I will obtain every relevant document from the probate to make
your claim legal. Note that this process is not risky in any manner
and it is completely legal but might not be justified morally. Once
the fund is released to you, I am proposing 40% of the total sum to
you for your involvement.10% would be set aside for any expenses that
could be incurred during the transaction.

I would retain 50% for myself. Note that when the whole documents are
ready, it would be your responsibility to approach the bank and make
application for the release and transfer of the said funds. If this
proposal does offend your moral values please pardon me otherwise
reply via my private email address: ricadoportal@mixmail.com for
further clarification. Please be kind to get back to me if you are not
interested so that I can further my search for another partner.

Best Regards

Barrister Ricado Portal

The FEDEX mail has been coming in quite regularly over the last few weeks.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: iscolljonas14 Gazeta.pl <iscolljonas14@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:50 AM
Subject: FedEx Diplomatic Delivery
To: iscolljonas14@gazeta.pl

Dear Friend,

I have paid for the delivery of your consignment by the FedEx company Benin Republic. They promised that your consignment will leave immediately they  received your re-confirmed informations to avoid wrong delivery. Now contact them with your full informations through their email address (fedexshipping_diplomatic_courier@yahoo.fr
Phone number +229 9394-9986.
Here are the requested informations needed by the Director Of The FedEx Diplomatic Division which they instructed me to email you to provide while contacting them for easier identification when the diplomat arrives in your country:
Kindly re-confirm to them the followings:
Your Full Name: ____________________________
Your Complete Address (Physical Address with Zip Code not
P.O.BOX) :
Name of City of Residence:____________________
Country:____________________________________
Direct Telephone Number: _____________________
Mobile Number:______________________________
Nearest airport:______________________________
Working Identity Card/Int’l Passport:_____________
Ocupation:________________ Position__________
I registered it with the FedEx Courier company in the name of Computer accessories as its content and i didn’t let them know that it contains funds of US$1.500.000.00 because of fear of betrayal.

Yours faithfully
Mr. Iscoll Jonas

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, FEDEX Benin

Rur Uar? Now that is a very unusual name.

Benin seems to be a very popular base for these 419 e-mails these days.

What do you think? Will send it with Fedex or DHL?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: DR FRANK SMITH <franksmith0011@myway.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Re:Notification
To:

From:DR FRANK SMITH
Manchester M27 5FX, United Kingdom.
Fax:TEL:+44 70457 04247.
 
Dear Sir /Madam,
 
This is to officially inform you that your funds of Ten Million United state Dollars only(US$ 10) has been approved for immediate delivery to you by cash payment via Consignment delivery to your door step .For the purpose of clarification,you are advised to reconfirm:
 
(1)Your Full Names
(2)Your Direct Telephone & Fax Numbers
(3)Your Physical Address
 
So that there will be no error during the delivery of the funds to you in your country of residence.Your quick response will be highly appreciated to enable us proceed further.
We awaits your urgent response.
Yours Sincerely,
DR FRANK SMITH.

Tags: 419scam, Dr. Frank Smith

Of course, Franca Donna is just a fictive name, just like so many others used for these scams

———- Forwarded message ———-
From:mrsfrancadonna02@sogou.com
Date: 2008/4/16
Subject: Dearest Friend PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME.
To:

Dearest Friend, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND GET BACK TO ME.

I crave your indulgence at this mail coming from somebody you have not know before. I decided to do this after praying over the situation. You should please consider the transaction on its content and not the fact that you have not known me before. I need not dwell on how I came by your contact information because there are many such possibilities these days.

I would like to introduce myself as Mrs. Franca Donna, of Repulic of Benin, widow to Late Mr.Sheik Donna (for Consular of the benin embassy in Madrid,Spain.I have been recently been daigonosed of Cancer of the Pelvics. I am writing from my sick bed in a CHINESE HOSPITAL here in Benin Republic.

There is this consignment (containg US$29.5Million cash, in US$100 bills) my husband deposited with a security company, here in Cotonou,Republic of Benin of which I am the next of kin. With my health condition and because my husband and I have no children, I am looking for a credible person to whom I will pass the right of next of kin. This person will apply to the company and request, from them, the procedure towards retrieving the consignment from them.

This is on the condition that you will take 25% of the fund for yourself, 5% used for expenses, while you will use the remaining 70% for the less previlege people in the society. This is in fulfilment of the last request of my husband: that a substantial part of the fund be used to carter for the less previleged.

If this condition is acceptable to you, you should contact me immediately with your full names and contact information so that I will send you all the documents that the company gave to my husband when the consignment was deposited. So that you will contact the company directly, and demand from them the procedure towards retrieving the consignment from their company.

I cannot predict what will be my fate by the time you will recieve the fund, but you should please ensure that the fund is used as i have described above, I look forward to hear your response at this Email:(mrs_francadonna01@yahoo.com).

Best Regards
Mrs. Franca Donna. ________________________________

but you run the risk of losing a pile of money if you fall for this …

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: AL-QASSAB GH ABDULLAH
Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Subject: Assalam Alaikum
To: undisclosed-recipients

Assalam Alaikum

I got your email address through Islamic organization directory over the Internet.

I hope in the name of ALLAH that I have the right person who will assist me.

I want to transfer money for investment into your country/business as such I would like to make contact with people like you residing in that country for assistance Note,the funds are already with a security company which also has branches in Asia, Europe and America for safe keeping. If you are willing to assist me.

This is all you will do for me,You will help me contact the security company for the release of the funds to you as my next of kin, as I cannot travel out from Iraq at the moment because of certain conditions which I will explain to you if we work together(my traveling documents are not yet complete).

The fall of Saddam Hussein has brought destruction / Hell to our great country and everything is practically difficult now and opportunities are closing up,the new government is trying to frustrate our businesses.

What I require from you are as follows:

1. You should make arrangement with the Security Company to secure the funds on my behalf.

2. You will be entitled to 30% of the total sum involved for your assistance, and 5% of the funds will be set aside for reimbursement of any kind of expenses incur as a result of this transaction by both parties.

3. As soon as you confirm to me by e-mail your readiness to claim the consignment from the Security Company, I will send the PIN code number of the consignment to you and also the security Company’s information.

4. Please note that this project is 100% risk free but you must keep it very secret and confidential with strong assurance that you will not let me down at all.

I have made all necessary arrangement getting for the probate order from court that necessitate you as the next of kin and this document will allow you deposit the money to any account of your choice safely.

Please if you’re interested to assist me, reply back with this Email address [quasa100@rediffmail.com]

I await your prompt reply.

Regards,
Abdullah

This is another joker assuming we know each other. Don’t bother sending an e-mail to global@speed.com. It’s only a parked domain.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY <global@speed.com>
Date: 12.12.2007 09:52
Subject: CONTACT THE GLOBAL SPEED COURIER IMMEDIATELY FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR CASH.
To: undisclosed-recipients

ATTENTION,

I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your money but I did not heard from you since that time as we fixed.Then I went and deposited the $1.500.000.00 Million USA Dollars,as consignment box to GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED in Benin Republic,because I traveled to SAUDI ARABIA to visit my friend and i will not come back till next month ending.

I want You to contact the GLOBAL SPEED COURIER COMPANY LIMITED to know when they will deliver your package. I have paid for the delivering charges.The only money you have to send to them is the security keeping fee of your consignment which is which is $155.00 Us Dollars to received your package.The company will deliver it to you on C.O.D so this security keeping fee $155.00 Us Dollars is the only money you have to send to them.

CONTACT PERSON; DR.DAVID AKA DISTRICT
MANAGER GS Courier Company Limited BENIN
REPUBLIC.E-mail:(globalspeedcourier_company101@yahoo.fr )
CONTACT PHONE+229-9369-7920

Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the insurance fee. I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake on the delivering.Reconfirm below information to the company.

Your Full Name———————–
Your Address—————————
Home telephone———————
Office telephone———————
Your pic———————————-

Let me know as soon as you receive your package,and check the contents weather the complete of the total $1.500.000.00 

Regards
Barr.Nelson Udo (ESQ)

Seeing that Marisa is a complete citizen of the Phillipines, (Yes, it’s strange what some people write) it makes me wonder why anybody would want to deposit anything at all in a West African land like the Ivory Coast.

That is the second strange thing about this e-mail …

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: marisa mayor <mari_samayor04@live.fr>
Date: 03.12.2007 13:05
Subject: Dear Respected One
To:

Dear Respected One

My name is Madam Marisa Mayor . A complete citizen of the phillpines widow to the late Mr Desmond Mayor who died of ulcer and he has been buried.

I inherited a total sum of 12.3 million dollars from my late husband, this money which is concealed in a metallic trunk box is deposited with a security and finance company in Cote D’Ivoire Due to the instruction he laid down before he deposited the box, that he needed maximum security/safety of my consignment and no body nor government organization can trace where about of the box until were ready and prepare to claim it.

This deposit was coded under a secret arrangement as a family treasure.This means that the security company does not know the content of this trunk box.

My main purpose of sending you this mail is because of the way I found you and perhaps trustworthy to give you this priority of shipping the box of money to any address that you think is very secure and save in your country with your percentage of which we shall chat on soon.

In fact, since the death of my husband, his brothers has been seriously chasing me around with constant treats, trying to suppress me so that they might have the documents of his landed properties and confiscate them. They have successfully collected all his properties, yet they never stopped there, they told me to surrender all bank account of my late husband,which I did, but I never disclose to them this deposit with the security company in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire , because this is where my future and destiny lies upon.

The family of my late husband never aware of the secret existence of this deposit which my late husband made with the security company and they can never be aware of it.

Out of fear of my late husbands family, and when the situation becomes uncontrollable because of pressure on me from the family, I decide to look for a trustworthy person who could assist me retrieve this box of money from the security company for onward lodgement into his account for the purpose of future investment.Consider my situation as a widow and come to my rescue.

There is need for urgent action because I’m paying $50 dollars per day as a demurrage to the security company for safe keeping this consignment.

I give thanks immensely for your co-operation as I look forward to hear from you soon.
All the best,
Madam Marisa Mayor