I got this funny email from someone claiming to be from Ivory Coast, I suspect this is another Nigerian brother trying top pull some stunts. After I got an email, from him/her claiming to have loved my profile in Opera, which had no data, I replied him/her! I wanted to trail the person, and here are the mails/replies,


The first reply: The person didnt mention name, which shows its a mass email (A rookie I suppose )

Hello My Dearest Darling,
I am more than happy in your reply to my mail.How is your day hope fine?
Darling i thank you for your lovely reply to my mail,My Name is Rhoda Ofor.22 yrs of age single and never married,tall and fair in complexion, Very good looking girl that is very caring,sharing, giving, and loving girl, above all God fearing and trusted.I really want to have a good relationship with you.A relationship of deep feeling that will construct a mutual understanding.I am from Ivory Coast in West Africa and presently I am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal as a result of the civil war that was fought in my country. My late father Dr Laurant Ofor was chairman managing director LAURANTCOCOA INDUSTRIAL COMPANY LTD, IN ABIDJAN ! and he was also the personal .advicer to the former head of state before the rebels attacked our house one early morning killed my father and my mother,It was only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to near by country Senegal where I am living now as a refugee through the help of united nation.I would like to know more about you,my likes are as folloows, i like cooking, reading novel,movies, serious in relationship outdoors,My dislike include,unseriousness , i also dislike untruthfulness, heartless,and a talkative somebody.I will tell you more about myself in my next mail.l Attached here is my picture so that you 'll know who i am.Hopping to hear from you soonest,
kisses & Love from Rhoda.

My Reply: I sent this to our mysterious persona


Hi Rhoda,

I am sorry to hear about your sad story. Dont worry, sometimes people go through hard times. But sooner or later, they overcome and everything becomes pleasure.

I live in Lagos, Nigeria. I also went through some hard times but I guess not as harsh as yours. I didnt witness a civil war or lived in a refugee. I am sorry about your story. I must ask, what do you do now? Do you go to school? If yes, what do you study? Do you have constant access to the internet? Lets start from there.

And again, I dont mean to turn you down, but I am not ready for another relationship as I am in one now. We can be friends though. If there is anyway you need my assistance, dont hesitate to let me know.

Take care sister.

And Guess what?! He/She sent me this

Hello My Dearest Darling,
I am very happy in your reply to my mail.How are you doing today? How was the night hope fine? As i told you in my previous mail about my agony,How rebels enter our house and killed my mother and my father in cold blood morning.Asyou have to here in this camp we are not always allowed to go out from the camp (Refugee) every day of the weeks.but l was able to have access to computer due to the help of the Reverend Father here in the camp, In this camp,Its just like one staying in the prison and i pray by Gods grace i will come out here soon.

I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to all my relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is Rev. Peter Solo who is the pastor of the (Christ the king church) here in the camp he has been very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him, rather i am leaving in the women's hostel because the camp have two hostels one for men the other for women.

The Pastors Tel number is (00221-596 -54-31) if you call and tell him that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the female hostel.As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country.I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

Please listen to this carefully (please it's a secret,even the Rev rend don't know about it),i have my late father's statement of account and death certificate here with me which i will send to you latter,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in one of the leading bank in United Kingdom, which he used my name as the next of kin, because i'm so dearly to my father when he was alive, the amount is ($4.7 Million US Dollars) Four Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars.

So i will like you to help me to transfer this money into your bank account and from it you can send some money to me, to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you after the transfer.I kept this secret to people in the camp here(even the Reverend don't know about it),because i am afraid to loose this money if many ears gets to know about it. So,in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for i am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it. Remember i am giving you all this information due to the trust i deposed on you, after many days prayers to God.I like honest and understanding people,truthful and a man of vision,ambitious and hardworking man.

Meanwhile i will like you to call me like i said i have alot to tell you. Also i would like you to tell me more about yourself, your full details so that i can present your full data to the bank to enable them recognize you as my foreign partner, please i will give to you the contact of the bank where the money is deposited in my next massage.Have a nice day and think about me. Awaiting to hear from you soonest,
Yours forever in love,
Rhoda .

He/She even sent me a female picture, Now. I have read a little about scam baiting so I want to PIN this one, If the sender is from Nigeria, EFCC better be ready

If you have any idea about how to bait a scammer, please send them in. One Love: Say NO to 419!

No shit! i got a similar email from someone claiming to be from Senegal, i traced the email and it was correct but the person just kept going on and on about bank accounts here and there so i just killed it.

I guess our African brothers has caught the 419 infection

By the way, how did you trace the email address. What if it was from a free email like Yahoo!

Very easy get the tutorials here. . .

http://www.onimoto.com/cache/50.html

Even if they are where they claim to be doesn't mean it isn't fraud. . .

Hey Black Spit!

Thanks for the link to the tutorial! It was quite helpful. Have you considered if the sender uses a proxy server or an IP masking sofware (IP spooofing)? Then the X-Originating IP might not be helpful that much. In this case, the sender might not be a scammer, but you want his/her exact location, maybe you are doing some kind of investigation.

Does that make sense? Is there any proxy burster or an application for unmasking IP masks. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, one cant easily use a masking-IP from your location of choice. Most software gives you a dynamic IP from anypart of the world.

hello my dear Phina. I found that on google searcing about what is LAURANTCOCOA INDUSTRIAL COMPANY LTD. Is you?? Please tell me the true. Replay to my mail, Sakis from Greece
waitting for you,

You'll never believe this, i received the very same email sometimes last year, the first email and the reply was rolled into one, i wonder if anyone still falls for such 419 crap

i get lots of such mails.it just
shows how desperate people are to make money no matter what

Hi, also just got a very similar kind of email. Here it is: Hello My dearest one,
Thanks for your response to my email.
l am a simple girl of 23 years who love and want to be loved but l have nobody to rest on his shoulder and have no place to call my home so i wish i can be part of you at lease to be happy once again.
I am Alice Ofor the only daughter of Dr Laurant Ofor who died during the last crisis in my country ivroey cost, west africa He was one of the high officers in the leadership of formal president Charles Taylor who is currently on trial now after many innocent souls were killed ,my father was unlucky to be among those that were killed by the rebel but before his death he deposited the sum of $3.6M(THree Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars) in a leading bank.so i will like you to help me and transfer the money into your account pending my arrivel to meet with you in your country so that i will complat my edication there in your country.if you want to help me i will give you the contact of the bank where the money was deposited in my naxt mail to you and also sent me your pic for me to know you much better.

My mother and l were brutally humiliated by our so called blood relations after my fathers death when they were fighting to take over my fathers properties and that lead to my mothers death by heart attack then l left my country with my late fathers vital documents containing his death certificate and statement of account to a nearby country Senegal where l am as a refugee.

Here in the refugee camp, some missionaries used to visit us and among them is Rev. Peter Solo the king church who is so dear to me, i thank God for his life.
My dear, i have not been myself after going through your profile though it does not say everything about you so i will like you to tell me more about yourself ( your likes and hates, where you live, what you do for your living e.t.c) and also call me through the Reverends phone number (+221-77-237-66-69) from 2pm to 3pm Senegal time when he used to visit the camp, tell him that you want to speak with me and he will send for me.Here is my picture.
Yours truly,
Alice

And this is how i responded:Brent W Simpson
to alice

show details 9:26 AM (4 minutes ago)


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I would like to believe you however, this sounds very much like a 419 scam. If you were really in need this saddens me deeply, and there are many in this world that are truly in need, people that I do sincerely wish I could help in some way. And if this is a scam it angers me deeply because you are creating less trust for those that truly need help, and if this is the case, shame on you (for you are furthering be the causes of pain and distrust around the world)!! With that I guess we ought to break off contact, (and again, if what you are saying is legit I'm sorry but, however this is not what my discriminating wisdom suggests). ~ Bye Brent.

Notice how the name has changed from Rhoda Ofor to Alice Ofor. The age would actually make sense, 22 in September of 2007 and now 23 in July of 2008. It really is a strange thing, (her email for example says 0 for 3), hummm.