Mercy Bello - Romance Scammer

Details on this scammer are still vague, I hope to be able to add more information as it becomes available

email address: [email protected]

Hi Love,

I am a beautiful young and charming girl looking for real love and protection, I have gone through your profile, I am very happy to contact you for us to know ourselves.
You know that distance, age and indeed color cannot stop true love. So my dear, I would appreciate if you send Email to my private Email box: m e r c y b e l lo @ h o t m a i l . c o m
So that i can send my pictures and more information about my self to you.
I wait for your positive reply.

Yours in love
Mercy

Definite refugee/romance scammer.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THIS TYPE OF SCAM

This scam has a romance element - whereby a scammer is "pretending" to be a young girl - and will send stolen photographs in an attempt to appear legimate. The scammer will most likely "pretend" to be all alone, parentless (they died recently and tragically) and is in now in a refugee camp, where a "pastor figure" allows "her" to use a PC to mail the victim.

The scammer will mention a fortune (cocao/cash/diamonds) ect - and request you to mail "another person" - same scammer or scam partner - lawyer/banker/barrister - who will need some fee paid before the "imaginary" riches are transfered to the victim.

The scammer "pretend" girl - will fall in love with you and plan to travel to you - and live happily ever after with "her" knight in shining armour.

It is all lies - scammers always lie - all they care for is the money they hope you will wire to them.

Delete and do not reply to this and other scammers peddling the same/similar lies

Mails continue;

My name is Miss. Mercy Bello, i am 23 years old from Durfur Region of Sudan and presently i am residing in the refugee camp here in Dakar Senegal as a result of the killing of my family by the rebels last year, please don't be discouraged for hearing this.

My late father Engr.Ousman Bello 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 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 more of my pictures for you and my refugee camp identity card for you, and i will also like to see more of yours. I wait to hear from you soonest.

Kiss

MERCY

My Dearest love,

Thank you for your response to my mail. I am very happy for your reply. As i told you earlier I am staying in a refugee camp. This Refugee Camp is headed by a Reverend Father Peter Ajai whom i used his office computer to send you this email and i only enter his office when he is less busy.

The Reverend father's e-mail address is ([email protected] ) This is his telephone No. +221 76 854 5382. You can as well reach me through his telephone number, when you call tell him that you want to speak with Mercy Bello.

My father deposited the sum of US$2.5 Million (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) with Chase Financial Bank in London in which he used my name MERCY BELLO as Next of Kin to inherit the money if he eventually dies.
Unfortunately now that he is dead and I have to inherit the money having lost all members of my family in the war in my country.

When I arrived Senegal I sent mail to the bank telling them that my father is dead. They demanded for Death Certificate confirming that my father was actually dead. Then I gave them the certificate as demanded. They also asked me if I have the original copy of the Deposit Certificate, I gave them with the account information my father used in opening the account with the bank. The bank confirmed the two documents that they are ok.

The bank now said since I do not have documents and even bank account where they can transfer the money that I should look for a reliable foreign partner who I trust to stand for me as a trustee to receive the money on my behalf. Which is why I contacted you to receive the money for me so that from the money you can send me part of the money to get my traveling documents to travel to meet you in your country to continue my education.
Or in the alternative, if you can help me to get the Camp Clearance and Passport to come to join you then on my arrival i will apply directly to bank myself so that they will transfer the money in to your bank account.
It is now left for you to choose which option you prefer to help me. (1.) Either to agree to represent me at the bank so that I can give you the contact of the bank in London and all information for you to contact them directly so that they can transfer the money into your bank account. (2). Or to help me come over to your country so that the bank can transfer the money in to your bank account.

I promised to give you 25% of the total sum for your assistance, while you will help me to manage my own share of the money in any good investment in your country because i do not know much about business.

Honey these are the ways you can help me.
Waiting for your positive response.

Your lovely,
Mercy.

It doesn't take long before the money requests come in

Good day my love,

I have received your mail, God will reward you as you wish to help me. As a matter of facts you are to contact Mr. John Celis Bara the Foreign Payment manager for the transfer of the money in to your bank account with the information bellow. Honey here are the email of the rev fr peter for you to email him and ask him what ever you want to ask and here are his phone number to call if you want to speak to me tell him that you want to speak to mercy bello he will send to call me and answer your call. ( +221 76 854 5382 ).

Please while writing , tell him that you are my foreign partner that you want to know the possibility of transferring my late father's money in to your bank account in your country. Meanwhile i have informed the Bank about you, so feel free to contact Mr. John Celis Bara as soon as you receive this mail.

Here is the contact of the bank to write them:

Chase Financial Bank
14 Green Lanes
Hackney London N16 9NB
United Kingdom.
Tel Nos: Tel:- +44-7031848682 (note the UK redirect phone numbers, these numbers can be set up by anybody in the world, calls to these numbers will redirect to teh receivers location, in this case Africa)
+44-7031849993
Fax:- +44-8704959626


John Celis Bara
Foreign Payment manager;
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Tel +44 7031 867 712

DEPOSIT ACCOUNT INFORMATION;

Name of Depositor: Eng. OUSMAN BELLO
Name of Next of Kin: Miss MERCY BELLO
Amount deposited: US$2,500,000.00
Date deposited: 7th January, 2004
Account Ref No. CFB/IO/45121/0055478-541/2004

Like i told you in my first mail i have mapped out 25% of the total sum for your assistance and for any expenses you might made in the cost of the transfer. God bless you as I wait to hearing from you, take care and have a good day.

Yours faithfully,
Mercy

Scammers will weave a complex storyline with multiple charactors and fancy names for fees, in this scam there is a reverend involved, of course, he isn't a real reverand, scammers love having a person of god included in their scam, by doing so it can make many think it must be true because teh reverend said so.

In many cases, you will even see the head of a bank that is a reverand as well, of course, only in the make believe land of scammers.

Following is an email giving details of this scamming "reverand"

Good day my love,

I have received your mail and i am very happy to hear that you want to help me out and i want you to know that you are the only hope i have and each time i see your mail it gives me joy. Honey as you ask here are the email of the rev fr peter for you to contact him ( [email protected]). so honey i will like you to try and help me out.

Looking forwards in hearing from you soon.

Yours lovely,
Mercy

These scams are generally very quick, either the victim realises quickly or loses money after a short amount of time, they generally do not have much script available so they take their chances with a numbers game, maybe only 1 in a thousand would believe this story, but so long as the scammer finds that one, he doesn't care that the other 999 have ignored him.

Good day my love,

I have receive your mail and i am very happy to hear from you my love, honey i have had what you said and i will like you to do as you said and contact the rev fr and also to contact the bank in london too.

My love you are the only hope i have and i want you to do your very best for me and please when ever they replies you try to get me imformed ok. Happy weekend my love.

Looking forward in hearing good news from you soon.

Yours lovely,
Mercy

This scammer now mails "pretending" to be the "camp minster" using mail address [email protected]

Mr. xxxxx, may the peace our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you and your family and let him guide you in all your dealings and thank you for writing me.

My name is Rev. Fr. Peter Ajayi, a catholic minister of God and a citizen of Malawi in Southern Africa now serving our good Lord at Senegal where I am in charge of charitable organization and refugee camp where Miss Mercy Ousman Bello found refuge.

I have received your mail concerning your request to assist this young girl who is equally an orphan. She had explained things to me regarding your acceptance of receiving her and the last inheritance from her late father who was killed with all members of his family by the heartless rebels in Sudan.

I have been trying to assist her and others as the Lord directs me, but I pray that our good Lord will also guide you all through until she joins you in your country. Everything she has told you regarding this huge fund is truth I have seen the documents confirming her stories.

Go ahead and truth her because I prayed for her before she contacted you. So do not be afraid for entrusting such huge sum of money on you, as a servant of the Almighty God, things of this nature are difficult with men but with God all things are possible.

As a minister of God I have nothing to offer you than my prayers in all your endeavors most especially your dealings with Miss Mercy and I pary that the good Lord whom I serve will straighten you all the time.

You can call me at your own convenience time on Tel: +221 76 854 5382

With regards
Yours in the Lord
Rev. Fr. Peter Ajayi

Scammers often lose their email address, many people believe that shutting down teh email address will close down teh scam, of course that is not true, they will simply open a new email address in minutes and continue scamming.

It is widely accepted by most people who are in teh anti scam world that closing email addresses is actually helpful to the scammers as their new email address will not come up in searches.

In this scam, after the scammer lost his latest email address he has opened a new one and in this email is carrying on with teh scam script.

From this email address, [email protected]

Good evening my love,

How are you doing over their, Hope all is well with you my love,

Honey please i will like you to use this email address to contact me as my normal once could not go again and i will like you to try your very best to help me out of this ugly place as i hope on you and i put all my trust on you.

Honey i will like you to do all you can in other to make sure that i get my late father's money been transfers into your bank account as it the only thing i get and live for. Once again have a wonderful weekend and joyful one too.

Looking forward in hearing from you soon.

Yours lovely,
Mercy

In this kind of scam the scammer would normally be quite fast to get to the money requests, in this case the scammer has been disrupted slightly by the closed email address but that was only a very small inconvenience, as you can see, he is now back in full swing

Good morning my love,

How are you doing my love? Hope you have a wonderful weekend over their. Honey as i told you in my first mail to you that am from Sudan and also and orphan now due the the civil war in my country that took away all my family members their lives's. As for me now am leaving in a refugee camp here in Senegal as a refugee and hoping that one day i will come out of this horrible place.

Honey here in the camp is like one leaving in a prison their is no good water to drink, no good accommodation and no good food to eat. So my love i want you to try all your very best for me in making sure i come out of this very bad place.

Honey i want to be a free person and forward my education that is the reason why i contacted you to help me get my late father's money deposited in the London bank as am the next to kin to have the money as it is the only hope i have to survive. Please try and contact the bank and when their mail you back please do let me know as am counting on your for help.

Looking forward in hearing from you soon.

Yours lovely,
Mercy

This scammer sends this mail;

From: CHASE FINANCIAL BANK PLC [email protected]

Subject: OUR OFFICIAL REQUIREMENTS TO TRANSFER THE SAID SUM IN TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

Attention xxxxx,

Please find attached document as our official response to your inquiry for your perusals and actions accordingly.

Also be informed that this bank is ready to transfer the money into your bank account in your country as soon as you comply by providing all the legal requirements mandating Chase Financial Bank to recognize you as an Appointed Trustee to Miss Mercy Ousman Bello.

However, you are advise to fly down to Senegal to engage a Senegalese attorney to arrange these legal documents for you, we can only recognize and approve those legal documents if obtain by the Senegal High Court of Justice where Miss Mercy is residing.

REQUIRED NEEDED LEGAL DOCUMENTS:

1. Legalization of Original Fund Placement Certificate issued to Late Eng. Ousman Bello on the 7th January, 2004.

2. Legalization of Original death certificate of late Eng. Ousman Bello

3. An Affidavit of Oath from the Senegalese High Court declaring your information as an Appointed Trustee to receive the money on behalf of Miss Mercy Ousman Bello.

4. Power of Attorney from the High Court of Justice in Senegal where Miss Mercy Ousman is residing.

And it happen that you can not go to Senegal to get those legal documents, you are at liberty to arrange an attorney through your partner Miss Mercy Ousman Bello to carry out this legal process on your behalf.

And finally, as soon as we receive those documents, we shall give value to the sum of US$2,500,000.00 plus its interest accruals and transfer to your bank account.

You are to confirm receipt of this vital document for our record and reference and at the same to confirm we are to expect the documents as requested. Also you are to fax without delay copy of your passport or Identity to fax No. +44-870 495 9626 or you send it by email attachment.

Yours Faithfully,
For: CHASE FINANCIAL BANK PLC

JOHN CELIS BARA
Principal Manager
Foreign Payment Dept.
Tel No. +44 7031 867 712

Note telephone used +4470 - UK redirect service to any cellphone worldwide and favoured by scammers.

"fake" document;

Good morning my dear,

I have received the same massage from the Bank . My dear i do appreciate all your efforts so far and i pray that God will see you through in all your efforts.

As you can see it that massage, the bank said that the legal documents will be process here in Senegal and I don't think it will be possible for you to come down here for the processing of those legal documents because of the time factor and traveling expenses, now the point is that we need the service of a lawyer who will legalize and process those needed documents for us here at the court of law as demanded by Chase Bank.

With the help of Reverend father Peter in charge of our camp, we were able to secure a lawyer this morning who is ready to get those needed documents for us here at the court of law, which will empower the Chase Bank to transfer the money in to your bank account.

Please my dear, you are to contact this lawyer as soon as you receive this mail, meanwhile we have already informed him about you, so feel free and contact him as soon as possible because your attention is highly need by the lawyer which is the reason why he asked us to tell you to contact him.

Here is the contact of the lawyer for you to contact him as soon as you receive this mail.

Barrister Denis Mohamed
Principal Attorney,
Den Law Office, Mohamed
House 14 Cheikh Anta Diop Avenue,
Dakar Senegal
Email. [email protected]
Tel: +221 776 56 32 93

Thank you once again for this great help which is going to turn my life around. God must surely see you through in all your efforts.

Yours faithfully.
Mercy

ATTN: Mr. Removed,

This is to confirm the receipt of your mail and we are now waiting to receive those legal documents. You are advise to obtain those legal documents from Senegalese high court and send them to us as soon as you obtain them to empower us to recognize you as an appointed trustee to Miss Mercy Ousman Bello. As soon as we receive those legal documents from you, we shall transfer the sum of 2.5 million American dollars plus it's accrual interest since placement on 7th January 2004 in to your bank account without delay.

If you can not travel to Senegal for the processing of those legal documents, you are free to contact your partner Miss Mercy Ousman Bello so that she can direct you to Senegalese resident lawyer who will help you to get those legal documents as strictly demanded by our bank.

Note that those legal documents must have to be obtain at the federal high court of Senegal to enable your partner miss Mercy sign the POWER OF ATTORNEY appointing you as her trustee to receive the money on her behalf.

Yours Faithfully,

For: CHASE FINANCIAL BANK PLC

JOHN CELIS BARA
Principal Manager
Foreign Payment Dept.
Tel No. +44 7031 867 712

The following email shows how the scammer responds when you do something they dont expect, in this case his victim suggested using his own lawyer, in reality, that would be a good idea in any transaction;

Good day my love,

I have received your mail and i want you to understand that the bank only need the documents to be obtain in Senegal so that i can put my signature on it and you are the only one that can send the mail to the lawyer. Honey all you need to do is to sent an email to to the lawyer then he will tell you what to do.

Honey all this while you are written an email to me it will not take you out something from you to send an email to him so that by now we have been know when the bank will transfer the money. Honey please you are the only trustee i have and you are the right person to email the lawyer, please try and send the mail to him.

Yours lovely,
Mercy