I sent this directly to you via The Curse Of The Wicked Soul. Cradling the powers of the Orunmila to Wizard Of Ingoni, I have unleashed an army of seventy-two spirits and demons. The Eiye Efe will gaze from above as the summons of the spirits appear before your eyes. My cosmic powers have grown from the fears of deception and will reek havoc and spill the blood of the guilt. I have carved marks of evil into your conscience and your spiritual blindness will direct you to fall into the hands of proper authorities.

The curse will begin when I attach this written segment of your soul “hope you are Christan, in the name of the Almighty God. help me thanks”. For you have only made me wiser. Money is just paper in which I used to buy your soul. If you would like it returned unharmed, you must make amends to the deception you have brought amongst yourself. If you do not, you will live for eternity in the fiery pits of hell and in fear of Bytor, Light of Darkness, Centurion Of Evil, Devil’s Prince.

The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI will be on this case if the funds is not sent today. Did you think you’ll eat somebodys money.

Jim “Wizard” Waskowiak
Owner Of Your Soul

Now this was sent to me only after we at the company had received a check in the mail delivered via UPS in the amount of $26,000.85 which we were suppose to send partial payment to 2 different “travel agents” in Atlanta GA. The rest was suppose to be used towards services rendered by our company. I have maintained a printed log of emails from the time of inception (October 30th, 2007) including the UPS mailer & fraudulent check. They are very convincing & the red flag came up when they wanted us to immediately send funds to Atlanta prior to waiting for the bank check to clear. I in turn called the telephone number used on the UPS mailer & the gentleman that answered advised that we were scammed & he had received approx. 10 similar phone calls. Kinda felt bad for the gentleman. Amazing what people will go through to get to your money. BEWARE! About 1 week prior to getting this email, I had placed a call into the Boston Field Office of the FBI advising of what was happening. My response back to the curse email was merely “An open case has been filed with the regarding this matter”.

The site in which the FBI diected me to was http://www.ic3.gov. The IC3’s mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 aims to give the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism.

Good luck & be aware!

It’ll be fun though if you continually get creative using different names.. is Shakira and Madonna in the list?

Hey, I just found Google’s M.C blog and read the comment section. Phew.. what was I missing! I found your comment exchange with the other guy about links. I sure hope he reads your blog too.

Hey, just in case that guy is reading, I enjoy this blog therefore I link. Didn’t get paid to comment either… shoot me.

The scammers believe if a victim is “stupid” enough to be scammed, that is their own fault. That is why when I see anyone saying “Oh, they deserved to be scammed if they fell for something that was so clearly a lie” or something along those lines is often like a red flag to a bull to me and I’ll usually write a long reply to their remark - it’s not about intelligence. The truth is, scammers might catch those people out one day - if they can work out exactly what to say to that person in order to get them to believe.

What the scammers do is fraudulent. It is against the law even in their own country though nobody in their country seems to enforce those laws. They are criminals and they should be treated as such.

Great job…

Dorothy at grammology
remember to call your gram….

Colin - Especially when they are paying for the call to have the tables turned on them!

Tornwordo - I think it’s got a little “New Yawk” in there. Must be all that NYPD Blue I watched. Sipowicz is one of my all time heroes when it comes to putting a sentence together.

Emily - In some ways yes, and in some ways no. It is fairly rare to have a 419 scammer in Australia which is a shame because our police would be thrilled to arrest them. I’ve tried to be very careful how I go about things so they can’t trace me. The phone number they call to speak to me is usually a UK telephone number so they think I am in the UK.

But still, I know they are criminals and I know what they are capable of. So there is that small element of fear in the back of my mind. It is what prevents me from letting go of my cautious scambaiting ways here on the blog. Probably that is a good thing.

Chani - That bit was hilarious. The thing is, when I am taking a call and speaking to them I’m not even thinking about what I’m saying - I’ve been doing it for so long it happens completely automatically. But when I listen back to the calls I sometimes hear things they said that I missed which I could have really reacted to. That was one of the times I caught what he said and spontaneously that W O M A N song popped into my head.

The scammers are fairly predictable, and I tend to have a lot of prepared responses to what they say. In their country they call people “Madam” which causes my characters to go into a fit about whorehouses. We often play hello tennis, where I say hello, and then they say hello, and then I say hello, and it goes back and forth until I say “Ok, we’ve said hello now, let’s not say hello anymore” - then at some point in the call they are bound to say it and I scream at them for saying it again!

I’ve always been good at keeping my composure and not laughing while on the call but there are times when I have to unplug the microphone and laugh out loud, just to get it out.

Ya;all can find more of my audios on my Fraudstars space - just be aware there is often a lot of language in my calls, sometimes from the scammers too!

Thanks for the comments all.

Unbelievable!