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James Brown - The Godfather of Stupidity

Summary
This is an ongoing bait that just started. I will give you the first few letters because I couldn't wait to publish this. This scammer is a Grade "A" Moron!



Sent - 4/8/2009 at 1:09PM

Dear.Thomas Payne

I am arranging to come over to your country with some large sum of money for an investment. I will be flying in few days. However, I do not know any investor inyour country who I may trust to handle the business for me as I am a foreigner. Secondly,

I am afraid of bringing in a large amount of money to your country. Could you please indicate your interest to work with me for this purpose? I will be sending you my flight schedule as soon as I confirm my ticket.

Although, I am in need of your response to this arrangement to enable me find out the situation regarding the amount someone can bring into the country.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using my private email address

Regards,
Mr.James Brown

Make sure you note the logistics of this - he's leaving for America in a few days, with his money, for me to invest, waiting on his flight details...

Sent - 4/8/2009 at 1:45PM

Please explain what you would want me to do. Tell me more about you and what you want to invest in. Then I would be more informed to see how I could be of service to you.

Thanks,

Thomas


Sent - 4/8/2009 at 2:03PM

Dear.Thomas Payne

I recieved your positive response to my proposal and your comments are highly noted. Firstly, attach here in this email are copY of my identity as a staff of Ministry of Energy , Mines and hydraulics Benin, to clear your doubts of the genuiety of my person and of this transaction. I want you to do same thing in your next response to my email . is confirming to you the avialablity of the funds and amount i want to invest. .I have worked with Ministry of Energy , Mines and Hydraulic for over 12 years ,I am a salary earner.I am due to retire soon. I am married without a kid. It was my plan to invest with your help the total sum of US$8Million into a business that will guarantee safety of the funds and good profits for period of three years. I want you to choose the business because i dont have ideas and as a Government worker for many years, i dont want to take risks investing such funds without someone with good experience and expertise standing as an investor , adviser and manager. I also do not have general knowledge of investing funds overseas.

WHAT YOU MUST KNOW.My government in this new year has signed into law the bill prohibiting all senior civil servants from operating any business overseas or even to own a foreign account. Their reason was to stop the senior officials from diverting public funds to their oversea account. This same law has also affected other genuine people whose family has personal wealth with oversea banks . The government did not creat a room for thorough investigation to make sure that those whoes families have funds overseas are protected and no one will be happy to loose his family wealth to such politically motivated laws. I have to summon up courage to write you with the understanding that i have tell you the truth and you must also not diasppoint me.

The government is very serious over it . I dont want to be a victim because this funds are free from all liens and ecumbrances it is not funds acquired illegally while in office. Investing the money here will raise eyebrows and the business may not be secured because of unstable government policy and taxes on such huge investment. You should therefore understand that all information i am releasing to you today in respect of this transaction is strictly confidentail and must be between me and you only.It is your duty to locate the business of your choice where to invest the money. i approve the one you know and can handle. It is my opinion that A memorandumn of understanding be signed to protect my investment in your hand . The MOU also will state what will be for you.

Because i dont want you to complain of spending money to make this a sucess, I am going to give you 5% of the total sum before investment and 30% of the profits after investment. I am also going to give you 3 years trial period before i will make a decision on going ahead or cancelling the agreement. I need your assistance urgent. The funds is boxed in the Societe General Bank of Republic of Benin and my inablity to travel to any where to withdraw the funds and wire it to your account was because my ministry has failed to approve my application to travel out of the country to meet you , we shall be discussing the various alternative means to make the money avialable to you as soon as you confirm to me what i should be expecting per year as profits for investing US$8,000,000.00 . I will be sending a representative to you if my second application is not approved . The representative will meet you for siging MOU and also to make sure that the funds released to you.

I have discussed with my attorney and he assured me of making sure that there will be no problem on my side and also on your side. He explained to me that there are various ways to have the funds be sent to you without problem . On your final acceptance to asist me, i will quickly proceed with changing the ownership of the deposit to your name which is the first thing required to avoid loosing the funds to our government agents overseas.Your should at that time be sending to me the following.

1. Your Full name
2. Your full addresss
3. Your company name
4 Your Company address
Please note that you must also give me details of the business you planned to invest the funds.
6. 24 hrs contact Number.

I need this information urgent to enable me get back to him so that we can proceed. May God be with you

Yours Sincerely
James Brown

See the problem with this? The times are important, along with what he said in his second email as compared to what he said in the first...

Sent - 4/8/2009 at 2:21PM

In your earlier email, you said you were coming to my country in a few days – now you say “because of your inability to travel, etc., etc.” – so what exactly changed between now and 54 minutes ago when you said you were travelling to my country?

This whole paragraph contradicts what you just said 54 minutes ago in your first email.

The funds is boxed in the Societe General Bank of Republic of Benin and my inablity to travel to any where to withdraw the funds and wire it to your account was because my ministry has failed to approve my application to travel out of the country to meet you , we shall be discussing the various alternative means to make the money avialable to you as soon as you confirm to me what i should be expecting per year as profits for investing US$8,000,000.00 . I will be sending a representative to you if my second application is not approved . The representative will meet you for siging MOU and also to make sure that the funds released to you.

Did your government pass these laws in the last 54 minutes where you cannot withdraw your money and travel?

Let me remind you what you said in your first email since you seem to have forgotten it even though it was only an hour ago.

I am arranging to come over to your country with some large sum of money for an investment. I will be flying in few days. However, I do not know any investor in your country who I may trust to handle the business for me as I am a foreigner. Secondly, I am afraid of bringing in a large amount of money to your country. Could you please indicate your interest to work with me for this purpose? I will be sending you my flight schedule as soon as I confirm my ticket.

Do you remember typing this, big fella? Did you read it when you typed it? I am interested in helping you, but not if your bipolar or can’t seem to make much sense. Let me know.

Thomas


This moron screwed up this whole scam in the first two emails! The first email was supposed to be the "hook". In the second email, he reverted back to type, and went with the typical Rich Investor Scam - the main problem is that it contradicts the first email completely! Read on how this idiot justifies the difference.

Thomas Payne
Thanks for understandings, well my meaning in all the logics is to find out if you would be vigilant enough to handle this project, and due to the over spam emails which people are sending across the internet world made me to write you with a confusing statements, you may not feel if I am in a hoax activities. Anyway as you understand my government has signed this kind of transactions in the law early this year, but for me to open it up for you in my first email it might cost you not to build the will power to assist me this project, and I would not afford to loose you as I knew that you’re a trust worth person. So do not feel bad on the whole thing, this is a matter of trust but not an ordinary transaction or business. This indicates you very ok to handle this project .please go ahead and get to me the requested information.

BEST REGARDS
JB

Thanks for the "understandings"? Unfortunately, I understand everything a little too well...

So what you are trying to say is that the first email was a complete lie? Is that what you mean? I don’t understand how making up that story is supposed to filter out spam or hoax emails, or help you find a trustworthy person to assist you. In fact, I think it would do the opposite – you send out an email like that and every con man, thief, and scammer is going to be after you. You may want to rethink your strategy in the future because the course you are on is not the straightest one, if you know what I mean. I am going to do you a favor and save you from your own ineptitude and try to assist you in this matter in any way I can.

Here is my info.

1. Full name............Thomas Payne
2. Country..............USA
3. Contact Address........1422 Lake Road, Medina Ohio 44256
4. Telephone Number.......330-666-9269
5.Country Of Residence ...........USA

I give him the information so he'll think I am still in. I want to continue this bait because it has real potential, if I can keep from laughing at him or insulting him!


My Dearest, Mr.Thomas Payne
I am very happy for your email with the indications that you 're very ought to understake this project for me .I say thank you very much once again .as i had wrote you in my previous email that this project is not an ordinary transactions but a project that worths an innamost trust,so i am bestowing this trust on you ,this kind of a faithfully trust is like the one i have for the lord .so for GOD sake do not betray me or my trust . Well as i had said this monies is boxed lodging in a safe deposite vault of sgb securities company here in Benin Republic .if you finally accept on helping me on investing it into a lucrative business/investment in your country ? .WRITE me back soonest so that i will get in contact with an attorney whom shall prepare some paper works like the poa and mou the documents which shall guide the investment . moreso important you will be at the forefront of this plans of shipting the money out of this place ,because i will not all that showcasing myself here for saving the face of my job so i may not be have any blob on my degnity as iam about to go for resign .so from today i will ask the lawyer to commence on the documents ,when you write back giving go ahead attorney shall apply to the sgb for the changing of owership and so on. when you reply i will give theattorney your information including your email id so to have a direct communications with you so to complete the documentions and ship the monies to you . sorry for my late response is due to the easter feast i entertain a lots of guests and i would not be writing you in their present as you know this is a confidential project . expecting your soonest response .
And thanking you very much for your building these trust .plaese i hoping on you soley on this project and no other party is reqiured involve. confidential.
Best regard
James Brown



If you have that much trouble trusting me then my advice would be not to look for a partner on the internet. It is insulting that you contact me, then talk to me about trust and betraying you. I am a trustworthy person, as well as my friends and family – I don’t know what kind of people you are used to dealing with, but I am an honorable person.

I don’t understand all of this nonsense you wrote about “not showcasing” to save the face of your job. How would your job know about your personal banking details? Does your job keep tabs on your personal life? Please explain this.

I was under the impression that you just wanted a bank account to receive this money into until you could come here and set up your own account. Isn’t that what you told me?

Thomas




Nothing you said hurts my feelings – I just find it silly to lie in your first email to me and then explain that the reason you lied was to avoid scammers, Spam, and hoaxes. What kind of nonsense is that? Is this how you usually do business?

Send me the contact for the lawyer. If you were the one who put the money in a security company, whatever that is, why can’t you get it out? Why do have to involve lawyers and fill out applications for change of ownership and all this nonsense? And if the money is in a security company, whatever that is, why are we sending an application for a change of ownership to a bank?

After we get this money in my hands, I would prefer not to be involved with any other business with you – no offense intended, but it seems you are not a competent businessman and I would rather not deal with it, ok?

Thomas




Dear.Thomas Payne
IF YOU INERESTED OF DOING THIS BUSINESS WITH ME SIMPLY INDICATE ,NOT BY SOME UNBEARING SENTMENTS REFARRING TO THE PAST EMAIL ,WHICH I LATTER EXPRESSED THE REASONS OF THAT COMPLICATIONS . I WILL INVIST THE LAWYER TO MY HOME AFTER MEETING WITH HIM I WILL GET YOU HIS CONTACTS .
JB

He's getting mad I keep bringing up his initial screwup...



I already said I would help you do this, that’s why I sent you my personal information. I won’t say anything more about your earlier emails but you totally ignored the questions I asked in my last email. Please answer them and I’ll be awaiting the contact info for the lawyer.

Send me the contact for the lawyer. If you were the one who put the money in a security company, whatever that is, why can’t you get it out? Why do have to involve lawyers and fill out applications for change of ownership and all this nonsense? And if the money is in a security company, whatever that is, why are we sending an application for a change of ownership to a bank?

This is what I wrote (above) – can you please explain this to me?

Thomas




Mr.Thomas
well as you had known that our government passed a new law that no any person or person would allow to own ,operate a worthy bank account or run an investment overseas . this is why we should involve a lawyer to draft some neccesary documents including the change of ownership to your name as a foreigner so that the money shall be very easy for us to move to you without any hitch , please this is the whole logics behind this business ,it is a risky free project asap the documents are secured . i hope you can understand my steps now . and you're yet to tell me what would be your percentage as i had offered you 30 percent ? we would continue to run a partnership business? .
i will get you the lawyer contact details asap .
thanks for your understanding and trusts
J.Brown



Dear.Thomas Payne
Top of the day
Iam expecting your response on the the percentage .
thus this is the lawyer contact you may get to him now
BARR.ABBEY GILLS
Telephone: 0022997550604
gillschambers@mail2judge.com
get back to asap you have a communication.

regards
James Brown



I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were waiting on my response. Whatever percentage you decide on is fine, it’s your money, not mine. I’m just holding it for you. What do we need a lawyer for? Since when are lawyers and courts involved with a simple account transfer?

Thomas




Dear. Thomas Payne

HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

AFTER WENT THROUGH YOUR EMAIL, WITH UNDERSTADING THAT YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO GET TO THE LAWYER AND QUESTIONG FOR THE NEEDS OF THE LAWYER AND COURT NOTARIZATIONS IN THIS BUSINESS .WELL THEY SUPOSE TO BIND US AS A GUARANTEE OF TRUST AND TO GUIDE THE MONIES ON THE QUESTIONING FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR MONEY LAUNDRY OR SO .BUT IF YOU’RE ASSURRING ME THAT THERE WOULD BE NO SUCH IN YOUR SIDE OF GOVERNMENT, AS I WILL COVER EVERY QUESTIONING OF MY GOVERNMENT HERE. SO ONCE AGAIN IF YOUR SURE THAT THERE WOULD BE ALL FREE FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT OR FREE FROM THE SEIZURE OF THE MONEY BY YOUR GOVERNMENT, THEN I WILL GO AHEAD ON ARRANGING WITH THE SECURITY COMPANY ON HOW THE (MEANS) THEY WILL BRING THE BOXED, AS I HAD TOLD YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT THE MONEY IN NOT IN ANY OF ACCOUNT DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT WOULD BE MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTRY, PER THE SOUCE THE MONEY WAS MADE.

I WILL WHOLE HEARTEND GIVE YOU A 30% OF THE AMOUNT IF YOU WILL SUPPORT IN EVERY EFFORT TO ACTAULIZE THIS MONEY IN YOUR DOMAIN.

AS SOON AS I HEAR FROM YOU ASSURRING ME THAT THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEM OF SEIZURE OR ANY THING RELATED BY YOUR GOVERNMENT? , I WILL GO TO THE SECURITY COMPANY TO FINALIZE ON THE MEANS WHICH THE MONEY SHALL GET TO YOU..

SO ALL AGREED ON ONE SPIRIT AND MIND ON A REAL TOTAL TRUST ,THAT THERE WOULD BE NO USES OF THE ATTORNEY AND THE COURT .

YOURS
SINCERELY
JAMES BROWN



I could contact the lawyer if it is necessary, I just didn’t understand why it was. If the money isn’t in an account, why do I need to send an application to the bank for transfer of ownership? What do you mean “they bring the boxed”? Are you saying the money was placed in a box? For what reason and who was the idiot that decided to do this? My government will not seize the money as long as I’m not affiliated with any terrorist organizations or the money does not come from illegal sources. I will contact the local FBI Office and speak with them to make sure this is all legal and to see if there is anything special I need to do. I’ll get back to you later.

Thomas





Dear.Thomas Payne

I am satisfy with your email now, your assuring me that your government would not have the monies on seize. The money was boxed with anticipations that it shall be easier to move it out of the country to skip the violating laws per the law imposed on all civil servants on moving money out of the country or running a bank account in overseas.

Henceforth you can guide the money from the hold of government; I shall go to the societe generale banque‘s security company with a (suburbs package) that they will use their Usa /Canada to transfer the money to you….

I will update you asap I conclude with them then I express the out come.

I want to hear from you soonest ...

Respect .
James Brown




Thomas Good day ,
Iam in the state of happiness to inform you that the sbg security company ,would use their Canada sister bank to transfer the monies to you without any hitch .
So if you accept that method i will go ahead onto suppling them what they requested from me .
expect your opinion.
James Brown




I thought you told me that you were going to ship a box to me? Now you are going to transfer it to a bank in Canada? Are you shipping the box to the bank? This all doesn’t make one bit of sense. If the money is in cash in a box, just ship it here to me, wouldn’t that be easier? If you are able to transfer it to a bank in Canada, then what do you need me for?

Please explain,

Thomas




Thomas
Your making things difficult to this project, or may be is taking you much time to understand the way I phrase my English writing. I told you that the sbc security company may use their sister firm, bank in Canada to transfer the money to you with a special arrangement .but much easier for them is by cargo the boxed money to you.

So I requested for your opinion in the two way ,all our mission is to get the money to your reach .

plz do understand me and make your proper opinion . read my last email to understand .

Jb




James;

I finally heard from that security company (whatever that is) and they want you to pay $220.00 before they deliver it to me so could you please take care of this. Thanks,

Thomas




Thomas Good morning .
As you can see ,that I had paid all the costs of the shipping , insurance fee including the vat and the registration fee, but I wanted to for the recipient bill of S.K.F security keeping fee ,but the company did not agree to collect the recipient payment from me ,due to their rule and to ensure that is delivering to a reliable person for fear of shipping a country band package or related to like drug and so on .
That is more reason why you were requested to shoulder the fee beside that! I would have pay for the recipient bill of skf .so I do soliciting you to assist in this part to actualize this project , the fee you were asking to shoulder is solely use for the help of the shipment but not for any other different thing ( vip shipment ) as registered .
If so you shall deduct the $220.00 as soon as the money is delivered to you in a just 24 hours the payment is made to them by you particularly as their shipping law said .
plaese get to me as soon as you send fee to them .please lets work out this project ,hoping your would be in house to relay the package to you,because they will not hand over the box to any other person excerpt you .
waitnig for your positive response
JAMES B




You are supposed to pay all of the costs of the shipping. That was your idea, wasn’t it? To have the money shipped to me? Are you actually telling me that a company refused money from you for payment because of “their rule”? Are you seriously telling me that?

Thomas


The reference to "their rule" was in an email from the Security/Courier Company which states that they are not allowed to collect the fee from the shipper (sender), but have to collect the final fee (SKF) from the recipient. So basically, it obviously matters to this silly "security" company WHO pays the fee...VERY NICE, HUH?



Thomas
WOULD YOU PLAESE HALP ME TO GET A TRUST WORTHY PERSON WHO CAN UNDERGO THIS PROJECT WITH ME ,
SINCE YOU WERE NOT COOPERATING . I WILL STILL GET YOU SOME CUTS .
JAMES


It was at this point he decided I was not cooperating with him - but he wanted me to find someone else to help him...LOL.



What do you mean I wasn’t cooperating?

Thomas




Thomas
Yes your not, i was messed up when you were unable to work with the deliveery comapny .you own me one thing now please help me in geting a compitent person who can do this project .
Or if you would have a change and work with the REDL by paying the recipient bill as thier rules of first-class shipments.
expecting your response.
James B




So, even though you have “millions of dollars to invest in my country” , like you told me in your first two emails, you want me to pay $220.00 to some silly delivery company? Shouldn’t that come from the millions of dollars of investment capital that you have?

Thomas




Thomas
Yes it should be , and it will not take out of the main money for investment because is boxed and count balanced seald and signed by the safe deposit vault of sbg that it won't be open until it raech you the recipient .all the documents shall hand over to you prior to the delivery .if you're still interested in this project? cooperate with the norms of this delivery company so to actualize this project .did you think iam into hoax with you or what actually is your meaning please do explain .do me this favour to look for a reliable person who would do this for me before it shall be late .iam hoping on you but ?????.
WRITE ME
JAMES


I have officially passed this Scambait on...My replacement is Booger R. Green, from Norm and Company Scambaiting Website (http://normandcompany.com). Let's see if Booger can keep it going...


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