A large box of money
We've received a new email from Dr Kalume Zaman, a social worker with an international Non-Governmental/Voluntary organization based in Switzerland. Dr Kalume is just back from Iraq where in the cause of performing his duties, he found, in a box, a large amount of money in cash in an abandoned house. We're going to help him get it into the UK, or so he thinks...Dr Kalume
I feel very sorry to interrupt your peace since you are not expecting to receive any mail from me. However, I was obliged to do so due to the importance and urgency of the message.
I crave your indulgence, and want to reassure you that I mean well and that it is only for our mutual good. So please do not be embarrassed or suspicious. My name is Dr. Kalume Zaman. I am a social worker with an international Non-Governmental/Voluntary organization based in Switzerland. I am the Accounts/Project Director in-charge of South America regional representation. Our organization, through the local NGO'S and other Agencies and in partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR,UNESCO, etc works and sponsors development projects and social services in some third world/developing countries, assistance and re-settlement of victims of natural disaster, civil wars and Refugees, displaced/oppressed children and minority people around the world.
I am just back from Iraq where in the cause of performing our duties we found in a box a large amount of money in cash in an abandoned house, I reached an agreement with the members of my team whom are UN officials (two in number) and we agreed to keep this money to ourselves and they moved the box out of Iraq to Europe (with their immunity as UN officials they are not searched at borders or airports).
Now, I am in need of a reliable and trustworthy person or company overseas whom I can confidently work with. My work does not permit me to own a foreign bank account or any personal business until retirement. I have the honor to confide this information in you and to request for your pleasure to assist to receive and secure the money in your account, pending our retirement from service. Please understand that my approach to you is based only on my positive reasoning and on the belief that you will not disappoint or betray me at last. The amount is fairly huge and we have agreed that on completion of the deal, you will retain some reasonable percentage of the money as a compensation for your assistance.
By any standard, the money is cool and legal and therefore quite safe and secure for all of us. However, to consider our official positions, reputation and integrity, especially, the opportunities in the business itself, it is very necessary that all due care be taken so that we do not miss the opportunity due to carelessness. You are therefore expected and advised to display high degree of maturity, responsibility and understanding in handling this information.
NOTE: I know there may be scams and junk mails flying here and there on the internet but certainly, this is not one. Please do not fail to understand that in spite of all that, opportunities of this kind still abound. If you have ever wished or prayed for something good to come your way, now I urge you to take this message seriously and with an open mind. You could never know. This may be an answer to your prayers.
So please give it a benefit of doubt and with good faith and trust join me and I am assuring you now that you will never be disappointed. Please reply by email urgently and furnish me with your TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, for further details. Treat as strictly confidential.
Best regards,
Dr. Kalume Zaman
Our reply
Dear ZalumeThanks for your recent email regarding your need for help in this delicate matter.
How I can I be of futher assistance?
Kindest regards
Lord Buster
Mayfair
London
Dr Kalume
Firstly, I must thank you for replying I must confess my rather bizarre mail. Secondly, I must inform you that I have been working for relief web; a non government organization that works in partnership with the United Nations. Our head office is in New York in the United Nations h/q but my office is in Geneva Switzerland also in the United Nations office though I am presently in London now on posting
I have been working with this org. For almost 12 years now and we have been involved actively in partnership with the un in amassing funds from other Ngos, philanthropists and good willed citizens all over the world for the purpose of providing relief materials, health care and other humanitarian activities in distressed areas all over the world including Somalia, Bosnia etc and presently Iraq.
My colleagues (two un officials in my team, an American and a Briton) and I are the only people aware of this money, luckily for us it was only three of us that ran into this abandoned building to avoid fire near Basra where we saw this money and we agreed to keep it to ourselves, I must inform you that over 450millionusd have been looted from the central bank of Iraq and the coalition forces have discovered more than 700 million usd in such abandoned buildings, you can confirm this information from www.cnn.com.
My colleagues used their immunity as U.N. diplomats to move this money immediately to London and deposited it in a security company. The main reason why we need you is because we international relief agents especially those attached to the U.N. are required by law to report to our main office all financial transactions we embark on even if its our family we are sending money to we have to report it to our office officially and the banks are also advised to contact our offices too, you know our jobs deals mainly with collection of cash donation for relief purpose from all over the world so most banks gives us concession when we have transaction so if such regulations are not in place some relief agents might resort to laundering money and the rest so because of this regulation we cannot open accounts in our names to deposit this money as our office will be contacted immediately and we will not be able to defend this money and that will be a very big problem for us.
In this light I and my partners decided to contact someone that is total stranger to us so that there can never be any link between us in future and this makes it very safe for us, so we searched on the internet and got your details. We will use you to deposit this money into a banking system for investment purpose and others. You will have to meet with me in London immediately so after our meeting you will open an account in London so we can retrieve this money from the security company and deposit it into your account in London and you will instruct the bank in London how you want them to transfer the money out for investment purpose.
We have already made contacts in this bank so they will accept this money from you in London without asking many questions about the source. Due to the nature of our jobs we must not be associated to this transaction on records, in fact my partners have asked me not to reveal their identity under no condition till much later so all accounts and documentation has to be in your name though I will be in London with you. As soon as this money is in your account in London we would have entrusted our future and that of our families to your hands, we hope it will be safe.
I will like to know some of your details like your age, occupation or business and your financial profile so we will be sure that you can defend this money to your bankers when it is transferred to your account in your country finally for we will only be able to defend this money in London and get your account opened and the deposit into your account in London made as we have already made arrangements at the bank where you will open an account when you arrive London but you will have to defend this money when it gets to your country unless you decide to operate the account in London and not transfer the funds out eventually but we shall discuss this and investments extensively when we meet in London.
I must implore you keep our correspondence confidential due to the nature of our jobs till sometime in future when it will be appropriate, I am taking the risk of attaching my id and certificate of deposit issued to me when I deposited the consignment and I hope you will not use my id against me in future but you are free to call me anytime on 44 770*****76 as I will still be here in London for quite a while and as soon as I get your reply I will call you. I wish to assure you once again that as far as we keep our communication to ourselves we will have a smooth, risk free transaction that we will conclude in 2 days at most and we can all go back home, we do not intend to play games on you, the amount of money we are talking about is 30million usd and I believe that all parties will be quite satisfied with their share I await your reply.
Please reply me to this email as sometimes especially when I am not in London I find it difficult to open my other email address so please use this mail so that anywhere I am I can access your mail.
Thank youKalume
Our reply
Dear KalumeHere is my profile as requested.
Age: 45
Profession: Ear surgeon
Height: 6in
Weight: 150lbs
Marital status: Divorced 7 times, remarried to Bob, 0 children.
I trust that this will be enough information to allow us to proceed further, however, should you require additional information regarding my standing in the Community, I am more than willing to supply it.
Regards and earology to all
Lord Buster
Dr Kalume
Sir,
In my second mail to you I explained to you that due to the nature of our jobs we cannot keep this money in a bank on our own names and I also explained to you whey I do not think it will be a good idea for us to use our friends and relative around us here because they can easily be linked to us and that will defeat the whole aim, the best thing for us is to use someone that is a total stranger to us, this way it will be very safe for us because there can never be any link between you and us unless you expose us but dealing with you is very safe for us as we have no previous relationship so no one can easily link you to us.
The only risk we are taking is that you might decide to disappear with this money after it is in your possession fully but we are willing to take that risk and pray that you remain honest with us as we will remain honest with you but I personally believe that in a life a good name and a good reputation is more than all the money in the world so I am willing to take the risk of dealing with you and be sure that the most that can happen is you disappearing with the money than for me to deal with any of my friends or relative here and take the risk of being exposed and that doesn't mean that my friend or relative will not still want to run away with the money so basically it is better for me to deal with you despite the fact that I do not really know you or anything about you for that matter, I only pray that you will be honest to us as we will be honest to you always.
I wish you will be able to come over to London immediately because it is the best way we will conclude this transaction as soon as possible especially as we are having some financial constraints. The staff of this security company where this money now is does not know that it is money we have in the consignment there, if they know they would not have accepted it from us because they are not licensed to keep such as they are not a bank but we were desperate to keep the consignment somewhere very safe and discreet and we were confident that because of the diplomatic wrapping the consignment has this security company cannot open it to find out the content unless we default in paying them their storage charge then they will have to get a court injunction to open the consignment to be sure that the content is valuable but it will never get to that stage.
We cannot possibly go to this security company to take out some money from this consignment without exposing the content and besides it means that we will have to break the diplomatic seal wrapping it now so after we leave the company staff can open the consignment and immediately they find out it is cash we have there they will definitely inform the authorities and that will be a big problem for us because we will not be able to defend this money.
The only option we have is to retrieve the consignment from this security company once and for all and we cannot do that till your account in London here is ready so we will know that we have somewhere we are taking the money directly to. This security company is charging us 95pounds a day for their storage charge and so far we are owing them almost 8,000pounds and I am having a very hard time trying to raise that sum, I am even discussing with a money lender about lending me money but he told me that the most amount he can lend me is 4,000pounds because I am a civil servant and do not have much collateral or security and this storage charge is increasing everyday but I and my partners are seriously working on making sure we get enough money to pay the security company off by the time you are ready to come to London to open your account but we cannot afford to wait for too long so that this storage charge will not be impossible for us to pay.
We are really sorry and even ashamed that we cannot send you any money for your personal expenses and that is why we are really happy that you have planned on coming to London already, but sir, I am assuring you that any money you spend on expenses you will get back immediately your account is ready in London because after your account is ready we will go to the security company and retrieve the consignment and take it directly to the bank and before we deposit the money into your account we will take out enough money to pay back all our expenses and debts and even more.
We have discussed with a financial consultant in London here that will assist in opening of your account here, this financial consultant namely Mr. Harris has a lot of clients that have millions of pounds in their account in this bank (NatWest bank) so he already has a reputable relationship with this bank because it is him that set up and handles these accounts, we told him that you recently inherited a very large sum of money and that you want him to help you get this money into a bank and transfer the money out as discreetly as possible so that you will not need to pay the British government inheritance tax which is up to 40% in most cases and he told me that there is no problem at all, he assured me that as far as you open your account through him your account will be ready in a day if he starts processing it early in the morning and that we can make the deposit the next day and that because of him this bank will never ask you for the source of this money at all and as far as you do not try to transfer the money all at once you will never have any problems with this bank or the government.
He told me that he can help you open your account and this account will be ready to receive as much as 20million pounds the next day and that you can then start transferring the money out in little bits but he is charging us 10% for his work which I do not think is a problem at all. It is not as if you cannot open this account in this bank without you coming to London but I really think it is very important that we meet ourselves face to face in London before we deposit this money into your account and I know that you will need to use a little of your money to open this account in the NatWest bank and maybe get an affidavit from the court in London here according to what Mr. Harris told me and as you will have to use your own money to open this your account and get this affidavit I wanted you to come down to London so that you will take this money out back immediately we retrieve the consignment from the security company.
If you cannot come to London very soon to open this account it means that we will fax you all forms to fill and return but you will have to send down the money needed to activate your account in NatWest and also the money needed to get your affidavit from the justice department here. If you come down to London and see us face to face and see everything on ground I know that you will not hesitate to give Mr. Harris this money to open your account and get this affidavit for you especially as you know that you are physically in London to take out money from the consignment so you are sure you will go back home with enough money if not you will have to send this money to Mr. Harris in London here and then you will have to wait till your account is opened then I make the deposit before you will be able to get any money from the account online but it will just be 2 days difference because Mr. Harris will open your account and we will make the deposit the next day and Mr. Harris explained to me that also before the end of work the next day after he opens your account your pin number and codes will be made available to you so you can withdraw money online from the account but if you can be in London here you will get all the money you spend on expenses back immediately then when you get back home you can start transferring the money out of your London account online in little bits.
I have an appointment with Mr. Harris for tomorrow at noon because I want to know exactly how much you will need to open your account at the NatWest bank and also how much the stamp and court fees are for you to get your affidavit in support of claim from the justice department here but I am sure that it will be a very small amount. I will reach you as soon as I finish meeting with Mr. Harris but please reply this mail immediately so I will know your decision about coming to London and how soon you can come. I just pray you will be able to come to London so that you will see everything on ground yourself before making a decision
I hope to receive your reply immediately and I wish you will give me a call, because of the time difference between both countries, I do not want to call you at an awkward time so I'd rather you call me on +44 770*****76 even If just once so that we will talk on phone and also inform me how soon you can be in London for this transaction,i hope in a weeks time,unless you are already in London then give me your phone number so i will call you and come and meet with you immediately.
ZamanOur reply
Dear Kalume ZamanMy dear Kalume, I can assure that my standing in the world of finance would prevent me disappearing with your money once this transfusion has been induced through whatever means of literary acknowledgement that transcends.
I am currently in London, conducting a business deal with the National Earlobe society, so meeting you at your chosen venue wouldn't be a problem. Therefore, there is no problem regarding the travel expenses that you cannot provide as I have legs, two at the last count, but you can't be too careful in London and this number could change at anytime in the near future.
Have you managed to acquire the £8000 you need to release the documentation to allow us to acquire the money? I can't wait to meet Mr Harris, your Natwest representative, any relation to Rolf?
So, let's get this on, get rich and spend the rest of our lives lording it up in seedy Soho strip joints!Regards and hearingaids
Lord C Buster
Dr Kalume
Sir,It is very good that you are in London now,how long have you got to stay in London? and when will be free to meet us? pls give me your number so i will call you and arrange a meeting as soon as possible for you. I hope top hear from you today.
Zaman
Our reply
Dear ZamanI'm in London until August, so anytime between now and then would be fine by me.
You probably won't be able to reach me on my phone as I'm out of the office most of the time the lead doesn't stretch that far
There is a lovely little bistro, just off Carnaby street where we could meet for a few beverages and further discusion?
Will Rolf be coming along for the meet or will it just be your good self?
Regards and eardrums
Lord C Buster





