Another Scam Case

Another case that followed in less than one week after, this time through Meelovia, was that of a so called ‘23 year old’ ‘Miss Jenifer Deng from Sudan living in a refugee camp in Gambia’ who also asked to be my friend after going through my profile. She also requested I send her a mail through her private email address.

So I did, telling her she sounded like a very friendly person and I promised to get across to her frequently

Then a preamble to the scam mail came. She wrote unedited;

Hello dear,

How are you? thank you for your response to the mail I sent you. and I am highly satisfied with it. How are you now? Mine, well i thank God for keeping me till this moment.

My name is Miss Jenifer Seaman Deng, 23 yr old girl from Darfur Region of Sudan and right now i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal as a result of the the killing of my family by the rebels last year, please do not be discourage for hearing this.

My late father Engr.Seaman Deng, was the Chairman, Gruv-Melton Oil and Gas Company a private extracting oil firm in Durfur. The brutal killing of my mother and my father, one kid sister and kid brother took place one early morning by the rebels as a result of the civil war that is going on until now in Sudan. It is only me that is alive now and I managed to make my way to the West African state called Senegal where i am leaving now in a refugee camp here in Oakam North, 12 km away from the capital city of Dakar Senegal.

I would like to know more about you. Your likes and dislikes,your hobbies and what you are doing presently. I will tell you more about myself in my next mail. Attached here are some of my photos for you,though I am not all that photogenic.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Yours dearly,
Jenifer.

I replied her mail sympathizing with ‘her’ on the death of members of your family. I told her my hobbies and also how I hate liars, mediocres, lazy and dirty people but love intelligent, truthful, hardworking and neat people. To drive home the point, I informed ‘her’ that I am presently a security consultant and a network marketer.

I related to her the story of someone whom I met in Perfspot who claimed to be a widow and presented a story to me on some lost money which she wants me to help get and blah blah blah. Besides, I told ‘her’ that as a security consultant I have done some studies in scams of various kinds so I knew that person was a scammer. All these were to indirectly dissuade ‘her’ should ‘she’ also be thinking of trying to perform such fraudulent acts.

It seemed she was so determined to continue as at last the real mail unveiling her reasons for the friendship came unedited as follows.

Hello my love,

I was very happy when I received your mail. Like I told you in my last mail that I am staying in a refugee camp. This Refugee Camp is headed by a Reverend Father James Omeni whom i used his office computer to send you this email and i only enter his office when he is less busy.

This place is just like one staying in the prison and I hope by Gods grace, with your help i will come out of this place soon. I do not have any relatives; whom i could go to now.The only person That i have here on earth is; Rev father James,who is the Reverend Minister in charge of the church in this camp; owned by United Nations. The pastors e-mail address is (rev_james1958@yahoo.com) This is his telephone No. 00221 767-585-535. You can as well reach me through his telephone number.

As a refugee here I don't have any right or privilege to any thing be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I want to go back to my studies because I only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

Meanwhile,I have my late father's Certificate of Deposit and death certificate here with me which I will send to you latter,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money with CHASE FINACIAL BANK in United Kingdom; which he used my name as the next of kin,the amount in question is $6.500.000.00(Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars). Though my father owned so many investments outside Africa which I do not know the companies or the bank where he kept his money but thank God that he deposited this money in my name otherwise I would have been left with nothing.
Please I will like you to forward to me those information’s bellow:

1. YOUR REAL NAME:
2. YOUR REAL ADDRESS:
3. YOUR REAL AGE:
4. OCCUPATION:
5. NATIONALITY:
6. TELEPHONE NO.

So I will like you to help me transfer this money to your bank account and from it I can travel to meet you and live there. I kept this secret to people in the camp here, the only person that knows about this money is the Reverend because he is like a father to me.

So in the light of above i will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone for I am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people gets to know about it. Remember I am giving you all these information due to the trust I deposed on you. I like honest, understanding and God fearing people,truthful and a man of vision,and hardworking.

I will give you full details of my late father's Deposit account information and the Bank contact information for you to contact them on my behalf as soon as i receive your response.
Have a nice day and think about me.
Awaiting to hear from you soonest.
Yours lovely
Jenifer.

I followed up thus:

Hi love, I told you I'm a security professional so I'm surprised that you could attempt to play a cheap scam with me. Well sweetie, I love those beautiful photos. Send me more if you still have them as compensation for wasting my time. How I wish I'd meet the real owner of these pix, I would have given anything to have her. Bye love. Ogaga

When I told a friend this story he said it is very common now for some guys to send pictures of very beautiful girls who seek friendship through the net and thereafter launch a scam attack on their victims. I have attached here photos of “Jenifer” sent by the fraudster, and boy isn’t she beautiful! Be warned! Fraudsters are all over the internet. Be careful not to be a prey!