€1500 for a simple task
Hi,
Long time reader of this website. First time poster.
A friend of mine was almost caught out by what i believe to be a scam online.
She replied to an ad on a website for someone asking for them to do a simple task for €1,500. (seems too goo to be true right?)
Anyway she replied for more information and below is the reply that she got.
Im guessing the they are looking for the identification documents and intend to use it somehow to scam you.
What could they potentially do with copies of these documents? Havmt come across this particular scam before. I have of course warned her to stay well away from it!!!
Hello,
Further to my message of few days ago regarding a small job which i intend to offer you.
I will pay you good salary/reward you with €1,500 (I mean, i will pay you A "one-off" payment of €1,500 ) if you can do this small task/small job on my behalf.
My English is not so good, so please take patience to read it.
Hope you will understand what I wrote below and do this small task/small job for me.
I am in a perplexing awkward situation that is beyond me in which a difficult choice have to be made by me and i therefore looking for someone i can trust to do this below errand/task on my behalf and I will reward/pay you handsomely for this small below task/small job below. Explanation is below.
I came to Ireland few months ago from the Philippine with tourist visa. I have Irish and German Shengel visa which enable me to travel around Europe. I went to Germany from Dublin to attend friendly Poker tournament.
Unfortunately I had an argument at a Casino while I was in Germany with one of their staff which attracted German Police and the Police handover me to their immigration and was eventually deported three days later because my Shengel German visa already expired. The German immigration did not even allow me to travel back to Ireland to take my suitcase and my other possessions in my vacation rental apartment in Dublin.
I’m kindly asking you if you can assist me go to my former flat and pick up my suitcase (is just one suitcase). I will give you the landlord contacts as soon as you reply. I do not own him any rent at all.
I would have just forgotten about the suitcase if not that I have some substantial amount ( €15,700 ) of cash inside it and high value two Rolex diamond watches, i bought each of them €7,000
I tried to contact my former landlord but he just replied to my email once that he is hospitalize then he wrote me again that he is traveling -too many stories too many excuses from him. I did not disclose to him that I have cash money inside my suitcase to avoid him being tempted to taken my cash money.
Please you do not need to be worried if that my money is legal. It is my money and i made it from legal source. The source of the money is from casino poker gambling. I am a gambler, to be precise a poker player which i am highly addicted to and pretty good in it. I made this money from casino gambling. Casinos in Germany pay winners cash, any winning that don't exceed £3,000 they pay winners in cash.
That was how i have been saving my winning cash money gradually for the few weeks i attended some Poker playing event in Dublin while i was there there in yr country and i kept my winning cash in my suitcase because i cannot bank it due to my tourist visa. The bank over there in your country required that someone must be residence (must have a residence permit and proof of address) in order to be able to open a bank account. So at that time i therefore have no option than to keep the money in my room inside my suitcase.
My plan was to convert the cash into expensive luxuries jewelries that is by going to several shops and use the cash money to buy jewelries. Which I would have easily sold (convert it to cash) when I arrive back to my home country. Which i have already bought two Rolex watches, which is also inside the my suitcase.
I am pretty good in poker playing, I play poker for a living, I am addicted and obsessed to casino gambling.
I play every day live at casino 14 to 15 hours every day most time i win and sometime i loss. I won decent amount of money at the casino almost
every day while in Dublin before travelling to Germany for casino poker event.
But unfortunately most time I will lose it all back. My big win would be gone over the course of a few days because i always replay/re-betting big
with my winning in order to target to win millions but loss it all again.
But manage to save some of my winning which i kept in my room in my suitcase.
I hope you will understand my perplexing ugly situation and you will use a Godly and conscience mind to assist me as a fellow human being.
My only friend that would have help me is not reliable at all, is heavily addicted to gambling and hard drugs so there is absolutely no doubt in my mind
that he will take the next available cab/taxi to the casino and bet and Squandered away the whole money.
I will be very happy if i can arrange this with you.
Please reply early to enable me determine if i should start looking for someone else because my landlord have given me deadline till two weeks’ time that he will give the suitcase to whoever I sent to him. He said my suitcase is intact has kept it for me.
In case you are not able to do this task for me, may be you are not in the Country at moment or so, could you perhaps introduce someone else to me?
As soon as I hear from you I will give you the lanlords number and email so you can contact him. You just tell him that his former tenant, Mr Hari ask you to collect his suitcase.
Once you get the suitcase from him, then open it, open the bottom. The bottom/floor of the suitcase have a zip, simply open the zip the cash is in an envelope to the bottom/floor of the suitcase and two Rolex watches also inside an envelope on the floor of the suitcase. The total cash money in the envelope is €15,700
As soon as you get the suitcase , i will then tell you how to send the money to at the post office. Post office in Dublin have a western union money transfer. The limit to send per week is 5000 euro. Which means you will send all the cash to me weekly -at least with three weeks (that is 5000 weekly).
Take 1500 as payment for doing this small task for me. And transfer the rest to me at the Western Union post office. Western Union is cash transaction (the only accept cash). You just fill up a small form and give the money 5000 each translation.
Once again i will be most grateful if i can arrange this task with you.
Could you please send me any id or any proof of address for my own security. Just a copy of either your id or proof of address.
Thanks, and ensure to keep this matter in the most confidential manner.
Yours Faithfully,
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