"Advance Fee Fraud" and "419 Fraud"

These crimes target carefully selected individuals / companies & charities & and represent high safety and financial risks to those who become involved.

The details of multiple communication scenarios are well developed and supported by credible 'forged official documentation'.

Recently these scams have been refined to target the sympathetic & charitable:-

Enough is enough.

Kidnapping, Blackmail & Serious Fraud are the tools of these scams.

Here is a SAMPLE email - 1st communication

Report an attempt to defraud to:-

Protect yourselves - stay alert and suspicious of unsolicited communications

Look out for

Theresa Makagbo (Letters below)
femi Ige (Particularly well researched background "story"
MR Frandebe Nuel
Alh AL Faruq
MR Nelson Zulu
Dr Frank Umoh
MR. Abbas Bundu

Name of email addressee

From: Theresa Makagbo [mailto:tsmakagbo3@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 4:56 PM
To: ..........@ines.ro
Subject: plea for passionate help


Attn. The Managing Director

You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally. I am Mrs. Theresa Makagbo, the wife of Chief John Makagbo, who was recently murdered in the land dispute in Zimbabwe.

My late husband was among the few black Zimbabwean rich farmers murdered in cold blood by the agents of the ruling government of president Robert Mugabe for his alleged support and sympathy for the Zimbabwean opposition party controlled by the white minority.

Before his death he had taken to Dakar-Senegal and deposited the sum of US$ 13.5 Million (Thirteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with a Security and Finance Company, sensing the looming danger in Zimbabwe.

My husband declared the money as classified documents to the Security Company. This was aimed at distracting the attention of government agents who would want to pry into such a huge amount of money.

The land crisis that claimed my husband's life arose when President Mugabe introduced a new "land act" that wholly affected the rich white farmers, while very few blacks unanimously condemned the illegal policy adopted by the government. This resulted to rampant killing and maiming of unsuspecting white minority and their black counterpart by the war veterans and some political thugs.

Owing to this hostility, quite a number of white minority farmers and their black supporters have been gruesomely murdered. This incidence has recieved both local and international condemnation, especialy from the western countries and yet the defiant President Mugabe is still less perturb and fully in control.

Subsequently, the South African Development Community (S.A.D.C) has continously supported Mugabe's new land act. It is against this backdrop that my family who are currently forced into exile in various countries decided to transfer the money from its current location out of Africa. Please sir, kindly be in contact with my son for proper briefing and understanding. He is currently seeking political asylum in the Netherlands. His name is Festus Makagbo and his phone number is +316-155-655-28 while his email address is First28@omaninfo.com Right now, myself and my other two children are in a hideout in Dakar Senegal.

We are faced with the dilemma of investing this money in Africa as President Mugabe is bent on frustrating the minority farmers, hence I resolved to search for a reliable business oriented person who can help us invest these funds. My problem is compounded with the fact that I am incapacitated with President Mugabe's act of terrorism.

For your assistance, we are offering you 20% of the total sum, 70% for my family while 10% is set out for any expenses we may incure during the course of this transaction.

Finally, If my request is acceptable by you, please confirm your interest by responding swiftly.

Sincerely,

Mrs.Theresa Makagbo

See Blueprint of a Nigerian Scam

Letter 2 in response to reply (It is foolish to go this far)

Name of email addressee

From: Theresa Makagbo [tsmakagbo3@yahoo.com]
Sent: 15 April 2002 10:54
To: Richard P.......
Subject: From Mrs. Theresa Makagbo

Dear Mr. Richard P......,

I got your mail this morning for which I write to thank you for your response. Your mail gave me all the hope and strength I could possibly need to pull through the unwieldy crisis in my life.

Firstly, I would like to tell you more about myself and family and also the nature of assistance I need from you.

My full name is Mrs. Theresa Imhanwo Makagbo; I am 40 years old and blessed with three children, two sons and one daughter. Festus 25, Manfab 24 and Tracy 22yrs. Festus had polio when he was young which subsequently led to his disability. Manfab and Tracy live with me here in Dakar while Festus is currently seeking political asylum in Holland, the Netherlands.

Anyway, I will like to also know you well to have a good knowledge of who I am dealing with. I am hoping that with constant communication, we will be able to learn more about ourselves and the pace of development of the project.

I will forward your email address to my son so that he can reach you as well. You can call me on this phone number, 00221-6639-666, if I am not at home; tell my children, Manfab or Tracy when you will be calling back. Though I feel it's not safe to discuss this issue on the phone so I wouldn't like to discuss about it on phone as it could possibly jeopardize our effort and of course, our aim. This is strictly for security reasons. We will be in constant touch via email, but phone only when it is utmost imperative. I hope you can understand my fear much better.

Basically, I want you to help me receive this money as the beneficiary. At present, these funds are deposited in a private security company as an official package belonging to a foreign affiliate and put in a crate marked Antique, thus safe. My husband declared the content of the package as precious materials (Gold & Diamond) to the security company.

My problem is compounded with the fact that my husband informed the security company that the foreign affiliate that owns the package will be contacting them directly whenever he needs the package to be transferred to him. Since my husband's death all my effort to claim back the package was frustrated as the security company repeatedly urged to tell the beneficiary come forward to claim it as it is only the foreign affiliate that can claim it. This is the reason why I contacted you to help me out of this predicament.

All I want your permission to do is to send them letter of notification stating that the beneficiary will be contacting them soon as he want the package transferred to him immediately. I will submit your names and contact information to them. Firstly, I will send to you a copy of the certificate of deposit in case they ask you questions about the package.

If you are willing to help me out of this dilemma please send me your full names and fax number as soon as you get this mail so that I can forward it to the security company later today or first thing tomorrow. Meanwhile, I will be much happier if you could link up with my son, Festus in Holland and familiarize yourself with him. He can be reached on 6155-655-28.

By the grace of God, we will be able to claim the package out of Senegal within a short time and this depends on your urgent response.

All that will be required of you is to act as the beneficiary to this shipment. Every necessary document that will be required to claim the package is within my reach. I will provide the following documents to you to enable us achieve this goal:

Source: Factbook.net