419er scam of the century!

Sleipnir

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/15/canadian_419_victim/


419ers take Canadian for $150,000


A Canadian man who fell for a 419 scam was taken for $150,000 by advance fee fraudsters who conducted a textbook operation to fleece their victim.

John Rempel of Leamington, Ontario, got an email back in 2007 from "someone claiming to be a lawyer with a client named David Rempel who died in a 2005 bomb attack in London", the Windsor Star reports. The email claimed the "deceased" had left $12.8m, and since he had no family "wanted to leave the money to a Rempel".

Rempel, 22, said: “It sounded all good so I called him. He sounded very happy and said God bless you.”

The 419er told Rempel he had to pay $2,500 to transfer the money into his name. He then had to stump for several more documents, some of which cost $5,000. The scammer told Rempel he had to open a bank account in London, with a minimum $5,000 deposit. He said some of the money had been transferred into the account for “safe keeping".

The scammers then upped the ante, sending an email from a "government department" claiming he owed $250,000 tax on his inheritance. Rempel's contact assured him he'd "negotiated the fee down to $25,000".

Rempel decided to travel to London to check that the deal was legit. He made his way to Mexico, where his farm-owning uncle gave him cash and money for a plane ticket. He said: “I had $10,000 in cash in my pocket and my uncle sent another $25,000 when I was over there.”

Once in London, Rempel met "some people" and handed over the $10k. The next day, the 419ers showed their target a suitcase they said contained $10.6m in shrink-wrapped US bills. Rempel demanded further proof, at which point one scammer extracted a bill and “cleansed” it with a liquid “formula" which "washed off some kind of stamp". The process converted the cash into “legal tender", Rempel was told.

Rempel said: “I was like holy crap, is that mine?” he said. “They said ‘yes sir, it’s yours.’ It all sounded legit.”

Rempel went back to his hotel room with the magic formula to wait for the 419ers "so they could cleanse all his money". They, of course, disappeared, later claiming they'd "been held up".

The victim then managed to drop the bottle containing the formula, breaking it. He rang his contact who said he'd get further supplies. Rempel flew back to Leamington and waited several weeks until a call which confirmed more formula was available for $120,000.

Rempel said: “I thought, ‘let’s work on it, nothing is impossible.’”

The 419ers told Rempel they "were willing to meet associates in different countries to get cash for the formula", but that they'd need several plane tickets, at $6,000 a pop.

The scammers subsequently confirmed they'd collected $100,000, but were still $20,000 short. Apparently, there was "a guy in Nigeria who had it, but another plane ticket was required". The contact then insisted he could only get $15,000 of the balance and “begged” Rempel for the remaining $5,000.

Rempel obliged, borrowing the money and defaulting on his credit card and car payments.

A week later, Rempel got the call he'd been waiting for - the cash was ready to go if he could just find an extra $6,900 for "travel costs and to rent trunks to ship the money".

The final contact between Rempel and the scammers was when they called to say they'd arrived at the airport in New York. However, there was a slight snag - security had stopped them and they needed $12,500 for a bribe.

Rempel, still none the wiser but substantially lighter in the wallet, told them: "No way, I’m cleaned out.”

In one last desperate act, Rempel drove to the airport with his parents and 10-year-old brother, but found no trace of his friends or the money. They then went home and called the police.

The final cost of Rempel's mix of greed and remarkable stupidity was $55,000 from his uncle in Mexico, $60,000 from his parents to "cover fees for transferring $12.8 million into his name", plus the money he personally lost - a total of $150,000.

He said: “They’re in it now because of me. If it wasn’t for me, nobody would be in this mess. You think things will work out, but it doesn’t. It’s a very bad feeling. I had lots of friends. I never get calls anymore from my friends. You know, a bad reputation.”

He concluded: “I really thought in my heart this was true." ®

Bootnote
Those of you familar with 419 scams will note there isn't one aspect of this operation which doesn't come from the Lads from Lagos manual: a surprise inheritance; up-front fees and taxes; the fake bank account trick; magic money-laundering fluid; plane ticket expenses; bribes, etc etc.

SV

Deserves it.

Jesus

javaboy

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http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/facepalm.jpg

facepalm^

Mena

ClioV6 wrote: »

Deserves it.

Afraid so. It's hard to imagine any one person can be that gullible.

javaboy

javaboy wrote: »

facepalm^

?

swalsh

Muppet

Drummerboy08

Was this fella "special" ?

Pighead

Ah c'mon that's a rubbish claim in fairness. SCAM OF THE CENTURY does indeed sound impressive but when you break it down the century is only 8 and a bit years old! There's still over 90% of this century to go yet. It's like Miss Piggy saying to me on New Years Eve after our New Years Kiss "Oh Pighead, that was the best kiss I've had all year"

At the time Pighead blushed but a few days later he copped on to what she was saying and realised she was taunting his kissing skills in a sneaky and clever way. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation as her sneakiness and cleverness is forever making a fool of Pighead yet its those very traits that make me want her even more.

_feedback_

Pighead wrote: »

those very traits that make me want her even more.

OOPS ... you've been offline too long Pighead.

consultech

Wowzers...

speaktofrank

Yeah pretty standard 419 scam, textbook stuff really, if he had taken the trouble to google the information, he would have realised quite quickly what was going on, check out www.419eater.com where the tables get turned on the scammers, quite hilarious stuff

Boom_Bap

what an idiot.

But as Pighead says, cant exactly call this scam of the century. I'm sure that this century somehow our 419er Nigerian brethren will dupe us all into believing that we are all in recession and gain profit somehow.

Sleipnir

Pighead wrote: »

Ah c'mon that's a rubbish claim in fairness. SCAM OF THE CENTURY does indeed sound impressive but when you break it down the century is only 8 and a bit years old! There's still over 90% of this century to go yet. It's like Miss Piggy saying to me on New Years Eve after our New Years Kiss "Oh Pighead, that was the best kiss I've had all year"

At the time Pighead blushed but a few days later he copped on to what she was saying and realised she was taunting his kissing skills in a sneaky and clever way. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation as her sneakiness and cleverness is forever making a fool of Pighead yet its those very traits that make me want her even more.

She doesn't really kiss you does she? Or is it just once a year?

Right, "419er scan of the 15th century"

smellslikeshoes

I guess I always knew that people actually fell for those ridiculous scams because there is so many of them going around but when you see something like this its hard to believe anyone could be so stupid.

who007

dumbass indeed but I feel sorry for the poor b*st*rd

Sleipnir

Boom_Bap wrote: »

But as Pighead says, cant exactly call this scam of the century. I'm sure that this century somehow our 419er Nigerian brethren will dupe us all into believing that we are all in recession and gain profit somehow.

Yeah well I'm from the future and the 419er world government department says that this won it. So there.

Boom_Bap

Sleipnir wrote: »

Yeah well I'm from the future and the 419er world government department says that this won it. So there.

how far into the future?

Halfrican

Poor chap, nothing more to say...

minidazzler

OK, if they can fool someone out of that much money, they earned it. Simple as, they shouldn't have to give a cent back.

ordinary_story

I hate 419 scammers but in this instance I think they deserve their money

Sean Quagmire

419Eater is good but it doesnt hold a candle next to http://www.thescambaiter.com/

These guys send scammers around the world in reverse scams and send them old refrigerators and stoves costing thousands in freight charges

they completly ruin one scammers life in this story click

and run up massive freight charges on this chap (they got this guy 5 times!) here

Mimikyu

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Degsy

Here's a scam thats burning irish people all over the place
http://www.propertastic.com/countries/Bulgaria/

Here's the usual end result of it

http://www.skipropertybg.com/repossessions_0.html

A fool and thier money are soon parted.

Naos

I sh1t you not, while reading this thread I got the following random message in skype:

"[16:58:45] hayford.soludo says: fine
[16:59:20] hayford.soludo says: I am Barrister kunle willimas , a solicitor atlaw,personal attorney to Mr.P.B Anderson,
a national Of your country,who used to work with Shell Development Company in nigeria.
Here in after shall be referred to as my client. On the 21st of April 2007, my
client,his wife and their only daughter were involved in a car accident along Nouvissi
express Road. Alloccupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I
have made several enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my clients extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful"

No stopping them!

ScumLord

What a mong and the apple doesn't fall far from the family tree neither.

Fozzie Bear

He is a Nimrod. But bad and all as he is what the freakin hell were his uncle and parents doing handing over those amounts of cash to him.

How many times did the 419ers tap him of bundles of cash and each and ever time he handed it over? Was there not a voice inside his tiny head screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo.

And then the magic fluid! Holy Jesus is he must be retarded or at least partially lobotimised.

Oryx

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

He is a Nimrod. But bad and all as he is what the freakin hell were his uncle and parents doing handing over those amounts of cash to him.

How many times did the 419ers tap him of bundles of cash and each and ever time he handed it over? Was there not a voice inside his tiny head screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo.

And then the magic fluid! Holy Jesus is he must be retarded or at least partially lobotimised.

Its like gambling, once youre in for a certain amount you keep going past all sense or reason in the hopes you might get your money back.

I dont like scammers, but I dont like greedy so and sos who think you get something for nothing, either.

Quazzie

Pighead wrote: »

Ah c'mon that's a rubbish claim in fairness. SCAM OF THE CENTURY does indeed sound impressive but when you break it down the century is only 8 and a bit years old! There's still over 90% of this century to go yet. It's like Miss Piggy saying to me on New Years Eve after our New Years Kiss "Oh Pighead, that was the best kiss I've had all year"

At the time Pighead blushed but a few days later he copped on to what she was saying and realised she was taunting his kissing skills in a sneaky and clever way. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation as her sneakiness and cleverness is forever making a fool of Pighead yet its those very traits that make me want her even more.

This is the first third person slip I have seen Pighead make in After Hours.

I never thought I'd see the day

\runs to the window to see it its raining fish

antodeco

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

This is the first third person slip I have seen Pighead make in After Hours.

I never thought I'd see the day

\runs to the window to see it its raining fish

Nah, theres been a few today. I dont think its really him. I think he died and is talking in the fourth person now.

Sleep well litttle piggie, sleep well.

galwayrush

This is one i got a few days ago, surely genuine.......................:D


Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Peter Modise. An administrative top manager with one of the major bank in South Africa. I am in a position to move a chunk of money in ($15 M) Fifteen Million United States Dollars out of the vault of my bank although legally, the money was owned by a customer who had longed died and couldn't get traces of anyone to claim his money, despite desperate search for a next of kin.

The rules and ethics of our banking regulations demands that, after 5yrs of unclaimed funds (money) the money would be forfeited to the bank and declared surplus, since I am the manger who is in charge of this unclaimed money, I am ready to effect the payment of the money to you as a foreigner, who I would present as a next of kin or a business associate to the late fellow.

This is risk free as all legal backings are present and would be detailed to you once I have gained your trust and certainty that I can have a friend and trust in you.

You can reply to me on my personal email: (petermodise@gmail.com). I will highly appreciate a call from you as to show your seriousness in becoming my partner in this business.

You would be handsomely rewarded with 30% of the total sum. I will disclose some vital information's about the late owner to the funds including the website of the incident that took his precious life and the name of my bank once I have gained your trust.


Regards,
Peter Modise
Tel: +27 78 396 5285
Fax: +27
Email: petermodise@gmail.com

Guy:Incognito

Pighead wrote: »

Ah c'mon that's a rubbish claim in fairness. SCAM OF THE CENTURY does indeed sound impressive but when you break it down the century is only 8 and a bit years old! There's still over 90% of this century to go yet. It's like Miss Piggy saying to me on New Years Eve after our New Years Kiss "Oh Pighead, that was the best kiss I've had all year"

At the time Pighead blushed but a few days later he copped on to what she was saying and realised she was taunting his kissing skills in a sneaky and clever way. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation as her sneakiness and cleverness is forever making a fool of Pighead yet its those very traits that make me want her even more.

New years day surely? New years eve is fairly late in the year.

Wonder has that Canadian guy got any money left? Might bang off an email...

antodeco

Lol his name is an anagram of Repet (sp) sodime