In a few of my exchanges with scammers I have lead them to believe I am an agent of the EFCC.
I do this in an effort to make them fear the EFCC and believe they're actively investigating the scammer that sent the email (maybe they'll even quit).
As you can see at the end of this exchange, they really have no fear of the EFCC and even claim to receive assistance from employess of the EFCC!
Hello, I'm May Lucas from United Kingdom.I came across your profile for you place to be rented out.I am interested in renting your place for my niece who will be coming to the US for vacation and She will be staying in the place for the duration instead of an hotel due to the exhorbitant price of the hotel.
and I will like to know till when your room will be available for 3months and also i will like to have the description of the room, size, and the equipments in there to know what she will bring along when coming including the rent fee you charge per month plus the utilities and if you require deposit.
I will like to know if you accept paying the rent monthly ,in addintion i want to know if you accept cashier check or money order for payment so I can make an advance payment before her arrival that will stand as commitment. Also i will like to know more about you and I will be very glad to have all this questions answered.......Hope to hear from you soon.
Thank God, cause you really the one I want to live with. So when will you arrive??
Pls conclude May Lucas to you - Sep 7More Details From: May Lucas Hide To: mish5150@aol.com Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 1:55 am
Hello,
Thanks for your response. My Niece name is Elizabeth Lucas and she is 26 years old Medical student of Universty of East London. she is responsile, neat, non-smoker and easy going. i attached her picture to you as attachment for you to see how she looks like .I will send you a Cashiers check which will amount to $4500 which i will write payable to your name and take it your bank to cash them.
I am sending you that much money because my dad is very sick at the moment and i need to go out of town to take care of him and i dont know how much money am going to spend for his hospital bill and take care of neccessary things.
The cashiers check is for US which is cashable at your bank and its not cashable here in UK.I made promise to my niece early this year that if she performs very well in her Final year exams in the University that am going to send her to the US for her vacation. She has performed very well and i dont want to dissapoint her.
So as soon as you receive the check, take them to the bank and cash it, remove the rent payment for the first month and deposit. Send the balance down here to my niece through western union money transfer so she can buy her ticket and buy necessary things she will need because i will be away from town to take care of my dad because he is sick at the moment. My niece has no problem sharing apartment with either a male or female.
Send me your name, address and phone number so i can write the check payable to your name so you can cash it at your bank.
Hope to hear from you as soon as possible to i can send the check to you before i leave town to my dad's place
Geeeez, she really pretty. Please give her my picture as well so she will know me when she see's me at the airport to pick her up. The move-in amount is $1,700 ($1,000 of it is a security deposit). When she arrives at the port tell her to give me a call on my cell phone 206-233-9614 and I will pick her up. It only takes me about 15 minutes to get to the port; so by the time she gets through Customs and gets her luggage I'll be there waiting.
Also, you should give her my email address so her and I can get to know each other before she comes!
Misha xoxoxo
Re: Pls conclude May Lucas to you - Sep 10More Details From: May Lucas Hide To: mish5150@aol.com Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 7:04 am
Ok dear will get back to you with the tracking number ASAP Here is her email [som1angel@yahoo.com].
Cheers
Just want to confirm if all is well. May Lucas to maylols2002 - 6 days agoMore Details From: May Lucas Hide To: mish5150@aol.com Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 3:45 am
Hello again and how are you doing? I am so sorry I ve been ou of town to clear some cargo and due to some pressing issue I forgot to issue the check before I left. I am back now and still interested so will like to confirm if I should still go ahead to send the check to you or if you changed your mind. Pls get back to me ASAP so I can no whats next to do.
Well Lucas, your lucky. the person that was going to rent the room didn't, are you still interested? Lucas.
Re: Just want to confirm if all is well. May Lucas to you - 6 days agoMore Details From: May Lucas Hide To: mish5150@aol.com Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 5:30 am
Sure my niece is badly on my nerves now. I will send the check today.
How old is your niece? Is she my age? From: May Lucas maylolspride@yahoo.com To: mish5150@aol.com Sent: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:56 am Subject: Re: Just want to confirm if all is well.
Thanks for the completment here is my picture too if you care. mishy5150@aol.com wrote:
Your a very nice looking man! Heres one for you! From: May Lucas Hide To: mishy5150@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:37 pm
You look so sexy Michelle, I dont no if you wont mind to accomodate me too as your roomie when I come to the state to visit Elizabeth[my niece].hope hope we can have sometimes to talk if we can be...............LOL I love this pics, it looks like you werent putting anything on. Do you model or just snap a nude pics for fun?
its not a problem! How long before your niece arrives? How long will she be staying?
From: May Lucas Hide To: mishy5150@aol.com Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 1:53 am
She is staying for at least 3-4months.She is ready to be there but since the money as not reach you she still have to be calm. As soon as you wire the difference to her for her ticket she will be on her way.
Lucas
Here is the tracking number for the check. May Lucas to you - yesterdayMore Details From: May Lucas Hide To: mishy5150@aol.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:30 pm Hello Michelle,
How are you doing and hope all is well with you? Here is the tracking number for the check which I sent through fedex [791763894920] track the pacel on www.fedex.com and here is the information to wire back the difference to.
James Pierre Louis 12 western ave Brooklyn , Ny, 11210. Pls get back to me ASAP.
Thanks so much May, it's certainly taken a bit of time hasn't it. Also, on my part I will of course need to have a scanned image of James Pierre Louis US drivers license or State ID card prior to my sending him the money. Also, his address doesn't appear to exist.
From: May Lucas Hide To: mishy5150@aol.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 4:04 pm
How do you mean? Its not neccessary you have his id or license to send him the difference or does it? Anyway his the one to take care of the ticket arrangement for my niece and thats all I have for you to wire him the difference so let me understand what you are talking about or I should just put an hold on the shippment so we can cancell this transaction instead.
From: May Lucas Hide To: mish5150@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 3:26 am
Ok then,I will be expecting your message as soon as you recieve the package pls let me no.
Lucas
Hope all is well? May Lucas to maylols2002 - yesterdayMore Details From: May Lucas Hide To: maylols2002@yahoo.co.uk Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 5:00 pm Hello again and hope all is well? I ve not heard from you after I sent you the tracking number of the check which I sent thru fedex. Pls get back to me ASAP to no whats next.
Lucas
This is what’s next; it's time for you to understand that you are in fact trapped in an EFCC sting. There is no Mishy, and no money for you Mishy is actually a Special Agent working with us in conjunction with the U.S. Secret Service.
We have been watching you for 6 months, and this was merely an operation to acquire the fraudulent cashiers checks from you and and infiltrate your computer network, which we have successfully done.
I have spoken directly to our great President Umaru Yar'Aduaabout you and he agrees that you deserve full prosecution. Therefore, it is my order by this court that you be arrested and prosecuted immediately. It is also my order, and the order of our great President that all of your family be imprisoned until a trial can be conducted. Such orders will take affect immediately and there will be no exceptions. All of your family's assets have been frozen.
You are hereby ordered to surrender yourself into our custody at the address below (with an attorney present if you like). To delay in doing so will only cause your family to suffer additional grief. You are an embarrassment to our great nation.
Mal Nuhu Ribadu Mal Nuhu Ribadu Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) 15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos +234 (01) 2624189,
To: mish5150@aol.com Sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 2:14 am Subject: Go to hell
I live in Lagos, somewhere around Egbeda, if you can lay your hands on me. Just sentence me to life in prison. If not that you guys are foolish and stupid.what on earth have I done wrong about this that concerns you. If you don't fall for it then fuck off. you dont need to watse my time. Even EFCC in Nigeria are big time scammers.
I have a friend Muyideen that works with the EFCC and he supplies me more format and once sold a laptop for me. I am sure he will not watch you idiots to come and mess him up.Replying me back will cost you alot of damage. Especially if you are out of nigeria. Idot. Instead of you to seek for advise on how to escape my trap you are bluffing.
Lucas
Your a bold and foolish little man; we fully intend to take you into custody and you do indeed face life imprisonment. You and the other Yahoo Yahoo Boys feel you have a right to steal from honest people that work for their money and are merely trying to rent out a room in their home to pay their own bills, while thieves like yourself are too lazy to be gainfully employed.
Its your boldness and belief that you cannot be brought to justice that has been your undoing and has lead to your demise. We will continue watch you for a brief time in an effort to take down as many of your associates with you. Because of you and those like you, my good friend Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria's consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by a 72-year-old Czech at the Nigerian Embassy in Prague as a result of the 419 scam.
Your daring and threatening email towards our great government makes you a candidate for execution. Therefore the letter will remain in your file and shall be presented at the time of your sentencing.
Never believe that you are smarter than the government or that your understanding of Internet technology is superior and offers you ambiguity. In fact, it is what has lead us directly to you and your associates and enabled us to watch your every move. Trust me, you will sit before me soon and you will beg for your life as will your entire family.
This is my promise to you. Mal Nuhu Ribadu Mal Nuhu Ribadu Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) 15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos +234 (01) 2624189, +234 (01) 4749419 +234 (01) 2624187
Ok now,tell me what you ant me to do?maybe your adviese will help instead of threatening me.After all people are ot there doing the whorst.If I do this on the internet to scam the whites by sending checks,how about those pointing guns around on the masses out there.Why cant the Government stop the olice from extorting the civilians..You urself dont you families?
dont you think before you send me this message.For the past 8months now I ve not seen anything like dollars not to talk of ponces.and yet you are after me. well I dont care where are or who u are.but I am sure you will be disappointed if you are able to get me at last,Lol because I am the wrong person you are looking for.
Seek for advise and i can help if you care.
Lucas
Well now I am pleased to see your attitude towards my office softened a bit, I'll say that. As I said, I do take this issue very personally due to the recent murder of my friend and associate by a victim of the 419 scam. I don't believe that you fully understand the damage you do to our great nation when you perpetrate fraud on a mass scale as the Yahoo Boys have.
This isn't a black-white issue, this is about your own nation being destroyed by young men only wanting to put money in their pocket and not caring who they hurt or destroy in the process. Would you want someone to walk into your home and carry out your possessions and justify it by saying "well, if he was stupid enough to leave the door unlocked he deserved to lose his things"?
In these last few years our nation has become known throughout the world as having nothing but thieves for citizens. Other nations will not employ our workers, and our college degrees have no value because of this problem. All so a few young men can enjoy fancy cars and pretty girls while pretending to be successful; when in all actuality they are nothing more than common thieves.
419 scammers' are to our great nation what cocaine has become to Columbia. Both must be fought and destroyed to restore integrity to the nations. Indeed there are other criminals out there that need to be dealt with, but to justify what you do by simply saying "well others are doing worse" is absurd.
If you are willing to cooperate with my office and provide information that will assist us in the arrest and apprehension of others involved, then you may qualify for cash rewards. This is my offer to you.
Mal Nuhu Ribadu
Mal Nuhu Ribadu
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
