nigeria scam from taylor

[lgiambeyah]

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taylor taylor <t_taylor4life@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Dear Lawrence,

Am surprised to read that not even a call has been made through to .I must confess to you that i have lost weight since friday that this consignment was slated for delivery and almost runing BP as at this point of my writing you.

Notwithstanding from the information gathered this afternoon,i was make to know that there have been attempts made by the dipplomat in reaching you and that.Hence, i was made to know that the status of your delivery scheduled showed recipient contact attempted.It is now amazing to read from you not making mention of it.What excatly is going here?

I forcefuly made the parent office office here in Uk to provide me with a number where my recipient should call inother to know why delays has been prolonged and to be able to trace the delivery.I further stated that as the shipper that i ought to know where and how this whole delivery is going and was finally given a US telephone where i will advise you call right now to talk to the delivery diplomatic agent.It was difficult as i was made to know that it is against modalities of diplomatic delivery principles not to devourge any trace of consignment under diplomatic imunity cover/seal but i ernestly insisted.

Now you are to call the diplomat on this number and please be polite and officious when talking to him.The number is:832-668-9581.

Quickly and kindly get back to me so that i will be in the picture of the delivery plans.

Thanks for your patience.

Taylor.

[Daneel]

Consignments, diplomatic agents, bad spelling, sense of urgency etc... this is a typical scam in case you still have any doubts. This "diplomatic delivery" nonsense they keep referring to has no equivalent in the real world, there is no such thing. If you can provide more information we will provide more proof.

[Shamfien]

I would say without a doubt that this is a scam.
Joe Wiens Website analyses the initial email.(ie. the email where the scammer first made contact)
If you cut and paste the inital email into his "Scam-o Matic" I am sure it will show up positive as a scam.

http://www.joewein.net/419/419check.htm

The email posted above is typical of a scammer:
Am surprised to read that not even a call has been made through to .I must confess to you that i have lost weight since friday that this consignmentNow you are to call the diplomat on this number and please be polite and officious when talking to him. was slated for delivery and almost runing BP as at this point of my writing you.Translation:I hope you feel guilty

I forcefuly made the parent office office here in Uk to provide me with a number where my recipient should ......Translation:I did something for you....now you should return the favour

My Favourite
Now you are to call the diplomat on this number and please be polite and officious when talking to him. Translation: Call my scamming partner.
Do whatever he asks you.
Do not question him
No matter how much money he demands
Go against your instinct because he is a "Diplomat"

[Daneel]

Joe Wiens Website analyses the initial email.(ie. the email where the scammer first made contact)
If you cut and paste the inital email into his "Scam-o Matic" I am sure it will show up positive as a scam.

Actually, that's what he did. If you read the text on the top of the post it refers to here :)

[Shamfien]

@Daneel
It looks to me that this mail is not the first mail from the scammer to lgiambeyah
I think the Scam-o-Matic (God I love that name!) is most accurate when it checks the very first email ie:Dear Friend,
Calvery Greetings,I wish to offer you a chance to make a big ball of money .....etc

Even so...It still does a good job on later emails too ;)

[Daneel]

Ah, ok, I misunderstood you there ;)

[lgiambeyah]

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Nigerian convicted in scam
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
By BRENDAN KIRBY
Staff Reporter
A federal jury Monday convicted a Nigerian man of two counts of bank fraud for a scam authorities say involved more than a million dollars in altered corporate checks.

Oluyomi Oshinaike's role in the multistate scheme, according to the charges, involved two checks totaling more than $227,000.

Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Butler Jr. scheduled Oshinaike's sentencing for Feb. 15. Under advisory sentencing guidelines, he faces a prison term of at least 2½ years and as much as 3 years and a month.

Okwudili "Cowboy" Umenyiora, who already has pleaded guilty to bank fraud, testified that he convinced Oshinaike to recruit people who were willing to allow checks to be deposited into their bank accounts.

"His job was to go out and find the accounts," he testified.

Umenyiora testified the account holders would be told a cover story similar to solicitations many people get via e-mail. The tale would be a variation of the theme that a person in Nigeria needed help getting money into the United States. Assistant U.S. Attorney E.T. Rolison said during his closing argument that it is a classic Nigeria scam.

"The reason you call it that is because they say, 'My father is in Nigeria.' They come up with that story," he said.

Umenyiora testified that he would pay a postal worker at a mail-sorting center in Atlanta $500 each for corporate bank checks. He said he did not know the man's name, but a man by the name of Andrew Bryant Gunn has pleaded guilty in federal court in Atlanta in connection with the plot and will be sentenced next month.

Umenyiora told jurors he would take the checks to a man named Guy Taylor, who would change the payee line. Umenyiora said he would then give the checks to partners who would in turn deposit them into bank accounts.

The bank account holder would be allowed to keep 15 percent of the value of the check, Umenyiora said. Taylor would get 10 percent and the postal worker was paid 10 percent to 15 percent, he testified.

Mobile resident Rosa Gullett testified that she agreed to allow Oshinaike, whom she knew as "Abdul," to use her account. She said she met Oshinaike through her sister, who was dating him at the time. Her mother, Kim Williams, testified that she allowed him to use her account, too.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Linda Jensen attacked the witnesses' credibility. All admitted that they have criminal records. All also received deals from prosecutors in exchange for their cooperation. For Williams and Gullett, adjudication was withheld for a year, after which the charges will be dropped if they stay out of trouble. Umenyiora and co-defendant Adrian Chike Okakpu, meanwhile, got prison terms half as long as the low end of advisory sentencing guidelines.

During her closing argument, Jensen urged jurors to reject the prosecution witnesses as untrustworthy and ripped Umenyiora for inconsistencies in his testimony.

"When someone starts lying, it's hard to keep up with those lies," she said.

Countered Rolison: "I would love to have Archbishop (Oscar) Lipscomb come in here and testify. But he's not doing that with his bank account. He's not hanging out at the strip clubs in Atlanta."

Jurors took about an hour and a half to return the guilty verdict.

Nigerian pleads innocent to bank fraud in the US


- Brendan Kirby, Moblie Register

(Saturday, July 9, 2005)
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"Two others already have pleaded guilty and received prison sentences. Adrian Chike Okakpu, 25, received a two-year prison term in April, while Okwudili Umenyiora, 26, received 18 months."


An Atlanta man has pleaded innocent to allegations that he participated in a scheme to steal money by altering the payee line on corporate bank checks.
It is the latest in an ongoing investigation involving Nigerians who investigators contend recruited people in the Mobile area to cash fraudulent checks. Oluyomi Oshinaike, a Nigerian who legally resides in the United States, entered his plea in federal court in Mobile on Wednesday.

Two others already have pleaded guilty and received prison sentences. Adrian Chike Okakpu, 25, received a two-year prison term in April, while Okwudili Umenyiora, 26, received 18 months. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Butler Jr. also ordered both men to make restitution totaling $131,867.

Authorities have characterized Oshinaike as a mid-level operator, similar to Okakpu. Umenyiora played a more prominent role but received a lighter sentence because of a less-serious criminal record.

Unlike Umenyiora and Okakpu, Oshinaike does not face the prospect of deportation because he is legally in the United States. His court-appointed lawyer, Robert Ratliff, said his client moved to the United States with his family in 1998 when he was a teenager. "He is a legal, permanent resident," Ratliff said.

Oshinaike originally was indicted under the name "Abdul," but law enforcement officers did not know his real name. Authorities said Oshinaike saw a newspaper story about the case and surrendered to U.S. marshals in Atlanta in May. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bert Milling Jr. scheduled the case for the September trial term and allowed him to return to his Atlanta home while the case is pending.

Ratliff said his client has demonstrated a willingness to make court dates. "He made it down here (Wednesday), so he doesn't appear to be too much of a risk," he said.

According to U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigators, Oshinaike along with others stole commercial checks from Coca-Cola and Rock-Tenn Co. of Norcross, Ga., in the amounts of $6,974 and $124,893, respectively. They then recruited Mobile-area residents to cash them.

The crimes are federal because they allegedly obtained funds from federally insured banks that cashed the checks. Four residents were allowed to enter a pre-trial diversion program, although court records indicate that one of them, Stanley Derrick Ragin, failed to comply with the terms of the program. Charges have been reinstated against him and set for trial next month.



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[topcop]

It's good to see prosecution and conviction, but it's too bad the sentences are so short. 200k for 2.5 years (1/2 that with good time, maybe 2/3) is not a bad paycheck for most. I encourage all to get info to LE when you get scam stuff in the mail. If it can be traced back to Canada, the US or most other "industrialized" nations, there is a pretty good chance that the Postal Inspectors, Secret Service or FBI can get involved and slow this stuff down...
Even if not much can be done, knowledge is power and the info is usefull to LE. --- tc

[lgiambeyah]

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Dear [mod edit: John Fairheart - Posters Personal Details Removed For Privacy],

Please understand that you have stress my life and have disappointed by entire family and business over your inability to have our consignment picked up when it was due.

Right now my application for delivery has been accepted and am now in serios debts which was used to pay for dumourage on the consignment anf will want you to be ready for any minor expense that may arise when the consinment finally get to your country.

I have been assured that the consignment will touch down in US on thursday and you shall be contacted as usual by the diplomat.Be ready to take his call and see that this time you will sign for the consignment when delivered.

Get back.

Taylor.

[John Fairheart]

lgiambeyah,

I take it that you accept that this 'Taylor' is a scammer looking to steal from you? Likewise you also accept that any emails coming from his quarter are simply trying to 'engineer sympathy' to get you back on the hook again?

These being the case, how can we be of further assistance to you. Are there questions you wish to ask about the letter posted above? You have not continued to communite with this scammer have you?

[Nyla]

And just to add to what John said, if you happen to still be replying to "Taylor", you do understand that you are not likely to be able to just hand over further communication to the police and have this man posing as Taylor arrested, don't you?

Many scam targets think it's simple to get an arrest just by continuing to communicate with the scammer. It isn't. This person is using a free, anonymous email address, is probably emailing from a public internet terminal accessible to dozens, if not hundreds of patrons who all pay in cash, and is probably calling and receiving calls on an anonymous, prepaid cell phone, registered to a fake identity, and paid for in cash or stolen credit card numbers. And every document, personal detail, name and piece of ID he's sent to you is fake as well. Successful scammers do not just hand over their real identities on silver platters and ask to be arrested. If you're continuing to communicate with this scammer in an attempt to get him arrested, you would likely be wasting your time.

Due to the complexities of international investigations, jurisdiction, the costs that would be incurred in attempting to identify, arrest, extradite or prosecute this scammer, it is very unlikely he will be arrested. The chances are tiny that he could even be identified. And the local police in some areas happily accept a nice bribe to look the other way even if they could identify the scammer.

Please drop contact with this scammer. Continuing to communicate with him only encourages him to believe that he can scam money out of you and wastes your time. Nothing useful is likely to come out of it. Arrests are very few and far between, even in cases where victims lose hundreds of thousands to a scammer. Police generally do not commit several thousands in resources into cases where there is no financial loss and a nearly zero chance of arrest.

[topcop]

Nyla -BINGO - hit it right on the head - Thanks .. tc

[lgiambeyah]

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