Author: Trellis

Dear Mr. Ibekah

This is rather disappointing, I had hoped to conclude the business today. The lady in the money agent’s did say that there had been recent “network problems” but that things “should be back to normal now” . The senders name was my own, Ethel Trellis, all other details were as previously discussed.

I can only suggest that you try again in perhaps an hour or so in case the previously mentioned “network problems” are the cause of the delay.

Do let me know how you get on.

Kind Regards

Ethel Trellis (Mrs.)

From: James Ibekah
To: trellis@xxxxxxxi.net
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:51 PM
Subject: Get back to me as quickly as possible.

Attn: Ethel Trellis (Mrs.)

Madam,

My secretary have gone to the Western Union service to get the £200 you sent but she couldn’t get it, because the information wasn’t on their system.

Kindly, attach the payment receipt and indicate the names of the sender. Also, confirm from the Western Union agent, if the money was released for pick-up.

I hereby reconfirm the information of my protocol officer below ones again:

Name of Receiver: MISS BETHA MENSAH.

Address of Receiver: 57 Domi Road, Zuma Plaza, First Floor Suite 12,

P. O. box 20052 ,Accra – Ghana .

Test question: How is your family

Answer: Fine

Do this and get back to me as quickly as possible, so that I may proceed to the court to get the document today as earlier planed.

Yours in service,

Barr. James Ibekah (Esq.)

Tel:+233-545398254

while our scammer hotfoots it to the Western Union office in Accra and returns empty handed but still hopeful.

Dear Frank

I have now paid the £200 to Mr. Ibekah, so please send your confidant to deliver the outstanding balance of £375.

Kind Regards

Ethel

Dear Mr. Ibekah

Thank you for your mail. I have given the matter some thought and am reassured that you seem to be an industrious and honest sort of chap. I therefore wish to engage your services on the terms already agreed.

A friend of mine in Accra owes me a small amount of money and will therefore be delivering £375 in person. I have just returned from the Money Agent’s where I sent £200 via Western Union to Miss Betha Mensah. The money control number is 6931552038.

Please let me know as soon as you have received the payment and obtained the required documents.

Kind Regards

Ethel Trellis (Mrs.)

Dear Ethel,

I so much appreciate your efforts towards the success of this project.

I want you to be rest assured that as soon as the attorney endorses the fund release order, the money would be in your account, latest Monday because it takes just 72hrs to credit the funds as soon as the transfer is made.

So, do not bother yourself about the fact that you had to borrow the money as you will be able to pay back with the interest and even show appreciation, on or before Monday.

Please keep me posted as soon as you send the £200 to the lawyer, so that I can send a confidant friend to give the lawyer the balance of £375 on your behalf.

Best regards,

Mr. Frank.

Dear Frank

Thank you for your reply. It is kind of you to offer to pay £375. I’ve managed to obtain £200 from Dai The Loan at an extortionate rate of interest, but if I repay it in full within 7 days I’m unlikely to suffer any physical violence. I shall go to the Money Exchange in the High Street first thing tomorrow morning and send £200 to Mr. Ibekah.

Kind Regards

Ethel

Daer Ethel,

Thanks for the update.

I am glad to hear that you have received a feed back from the attorney and the fee of £575 is not much of a problem going by what you have explained but here in Ghana, we are not allowed to send money out of Ghana through the Western Union or Money Gram service but can only received through them, which makes it rather impossible for me to send money to you.

Secondly, we will have a little problem with an existing law here, which stipulates that for any international transfer such as this, for which the beneficiary is not resident in the country, and regarding which a legal attorney has to represent such beneficiary, a payment evidence directly from the beneficiary bearing such beneficiary’s name, must be presented by the representing attorney before the notarisation can be obtained.

This is necessary, to prove that the beneficiary actually exist and he / she is the person authorizing the representing attorney to obtain the Notarization from the court on his / her behalf because government claims that many prominent figures in our society, have transferred huge amount of money outside this country under the disguise that the beneficiary is not present in the country.

For this reason, this law exist that there must be a payment receipt from the non resident beneficiary which must be presented to the court before the Notarization can be obtained. Having explained all of these, I will need you to send to the lawyer, at least £200.00 together with the copy of the payment receipt so that he can present it in order to obtain the notarization, while I will give a confidant friend the balance of £375 to take to the lawyer’s office or make him have it on your behalf, any way he instructs.

Get back to me as soon as you send this to the lawyer and let me know on time, so that I make him have the balance.

Keep me posted as soon as you do this.

Regards,

Mr.Frank.

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Dear Frank

Thank you for your kind wishes, I am feeling much better now.

I have had a reply from the attorney, his fee for signing the Fund Release Order is £1000. payable once the funds have cleared. which is reasonable given the circumstances. He also requires the notarization fee of £575 to be paid in advance.

This raises certain problems. As you are aware, I have been pretending to Mr. Aidoo that I am a terribly-well-to-do businesswoman who thinks nothing of leaving 3.5 Million US dollars lying around in a foreign bank account for years on end. You and I know that in reality I am a simple whelk seller who hasn’t had her hands on anything resembling £575 since I ran the local church raffle one Christmas and, as I said to the vicar during the subsequent investigation, that money was only resting in my account.

I have been giving this matter a great deal of thought and I think I may have come up with a fool-proof solution. I assume that you, being a senior banker, aren’t short of a dollar or two, you could lend me the £575. I would of course repay this as soon as the funds have been transferred, and as a gesture of goodwill I will also pay the attorney’s fees of £1000 out of my share of the proceeds. I really can’t see any flaws in this plan and I’m sure you will agree that it illustrates the benefit of having someone of my caliber on board.

Please remit the money by Western Union Money Transfer and inform me of the control number and question/answer as soon as possible.

Nearly there Mr. Wuddah!

Kind Regards

Ethel

From: frank wuddah
To: Trellis
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 1:45 PM
Subject: Thanks for your update .

Dear Ethel,

I am sorry to hear that you are not feeling fine. I pray the good lord will restore your health as quickly as possible.

Also thanks for updating me that you have contacted the recommended attorney Mr. AIdoo recommended to us.

Do keep me posted as soon as you hear from the attorney.

Regards,

Brother Frank.