Here are the emails I received in order...
From: "André Pierre du Plessis"<
[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 10:20:40 PM
To:
Dear Sir/Ma
Good day to you, with warm heart I offer my friendship and greetings, and I
hope this mail meets you in good time.
However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met
personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due
consideration of its importance and the immense benefit it will be to you.
I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not
acceptable to you, as I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity.
Please accept my apologies for contacting you through this medium, since some
miscreants and mischief-makers have taken possession of the internet to
facilitate their nefarious needs hence it has become a very hard place to trust
and to believe.
First and foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name is
Andr? Pierre du Plessis, i work with Capitec Bank as the Chief Financial
Officer.
I got your contact from South Africa commerce and Industry, during my discrete
online search through a web based directory while searching for a foreign
partner to execute this project together.
I have concealed business suggestion for you. There is the sum of Eight
Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$8.5) in my
bank "Capitec Bank", South Africa.
There were no beneficiaries stated concerning this fund which means no one
would ever come forward to claim it. That is why I ask that we work together.
I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the beneficiary to have the sum
transferred out of my bank to you. Should you be interested kindly furnish me
with your following details.
{A}. YOUR FULL NAME
{B}. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
{C}. YOUR CELL PHONE/FAX NUMBER
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Andr? Pierre du Plessis (46) BComm (Hons), CA(SA)
Chief financial officer (Capitec Bank South Africa).
............. After I replied to that one, he sent....
Thank you for your response Michael......?
From: André Pierre du Plessis (
[email protected])
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2009 8:00:30 AM
To:
[email protected]Good Day Michael ,
Thank you for your response and your interest to assist me in this transaction. Like I said before, due to this issue on my hands now it became necessary for me to seek your assistance. I appreciate the fact that you are ready to assist me in executing this project. I will do everything legally required to ensure that the project goes smoothly and you have my word.
Having resolved to entrust this transaction into your hands, I want to remind you that it needs your commitment and diligent follow up. If you work seriously, the entire transaction should be over in a couple of days.
As you know this opportunity is rare in ones life time, so we should make sure we put in all efforts to ensure we achieve the benefits of this transaction which will bring great financial break through in our lives.
I need your total devotion and trust to see this through. I know we have not met before, but i am very confident that we will be able to establish the necessary trust that we need to execute this project
I have really invested much in this transaction so i will please tell you to accept the 30% of the total funds that I have intend to give to you. For your information I will be coming over to your country for my share of the funds, once the fund credits your account.
All modalities have been put in place for the completion of this business within the next 3-5days, as the Attorney handling the paper work is very experienced. He will perfect all the legal title documents in your name and this will make you the bonafide owner of the funds.
Sequel to your question about how we obtain 8.5 million dollars with no one to claim it.........
Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client names withheld who was with the Iraqi forces and also a businessman who deals on computer/electronics with the South African Government made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only (US$8.5)in my branch. Upon maturity several notices were sent to him, even during the war again after the war several notifications were sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that my client and his family had been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home.
After further investigation it was also discovered that my client did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.
What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration seven years the funds will revert to the ownership of the South African Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, I contacted you after lot of search which so as to enable you put a claim as the next of kin of my late client.
I am now in contact with the bank account officer. I now intend that you open an account in your name in our bank. The money would be transferred to your account which you will open in the bank for both of us, this is the best way i have found it will protect us from my bank. I want us to enjoy this money in peace when we conclude. So you should listen to my instructions and follow them religiously.
Also you have to know that I cannot transfer this money in my name as my bank will be aware that it is from me, this is where i need you. As result of this, you will have to open an account in the bank.
The whole process is 100% risk free and legitimate. Also you have to protect my own interest as i am still a serving officer of the Bank whom has put in so many years in service and would not want anything to jeopardize my long year of service. I have a 10year career with my bank and i don't intend to ruin all that. I really can't wait till the funds leave my bank because i have not been able to sleep nor eat properly for the past days.
Before we commence, I will need you to send me a copy of any form your identification (Driver's license, Work ID or International passport). I want to be sure that i am transacting with the correct person. As soon as I get these from you, i will commence the paper work.
I hope you will understand why I need all these, the money in question is big and I want to ensure that I know you well before I proceed to give you all the details to commence the project, I will also send you my Work Identification and my picture upon receipt of your identification. I will also send to you the foreign account department email so that you can commence communication with them on opening the account.
Ensure that you keep this project confidential. Do not discuss it with anybody, because of the confidential nature of this transaction and my work.
Please reply soonest.
Regards,
André Pierre du Plessis.
And he then sent....
Lets Proceed Michael......?
From: André Pierre du Plessis (
[email protected])
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:41:11 AM
To:
[email protected]Dear Michael ,
Thank you for the response, I am in receipt of your mail and Identification. I pray that when this e-mail arrives to you it find's you and your family in the best of health and conditions.
I thank you for showing some great responsibility and trust. I must also let you know that I feel comfortable transacting with you especially after your last email even though we have not had a verbal conversation. I have sent your details to the attorney who will put together the perfected paper work for the release of the funds, this should take not longer than 2-3days.
Furtherance to this, it is proper i inform you of our responsibilities before getting far into the project as that will help both parties know what is expected of us to do at the very right time.
You are expected and will be responsible to establish an account with the bank which you have already agreed while i will be responsible for the legal charges and fees of perfecting all legal documentations. The fund will be transferred from where it presently lies into your newly established account with the bank.
It would have been very possible getting the funds across to any designated account of your choice but it is so unfortunate that this method can't be used in executing a project of this magnitude because the IRS monetary body in your country would get involved in any transactions over $9,999.00 as per Australia banking law. Basically because of this reason I have decided we use this method which stands as the fastest, safest and easiest means of getting the fund out to your designated account.
In this light, I have sent you the foreign account department contact details so you can make enquiries on opening an account. I advice you like i said earlier that you open an account with the bank so that once the funds are released, they will be moved straight into your newly established account and the transfer will not attract the monetary bodies, as the transfer be will seen as in-house.
It is necessary to take precautions on issues like this, and I have to ensure that our interest are protected in this transaction. I am a professional banker and I expect you to follow my instructions, for the success of this transaction.
Once the account is opened, the fund will be credited into your newly established account, then you can access you account online and then transfer the funds in safe bits to your main account for both of us.
Please find below the contact information.
Capitec Bank.
Foreign Account Department.
E-mail:
[email protected]Tel: +27741069721/91/92
Fax: +271727-388-6289
Please contact them with the following information's, your Full Names, Contact Telephone Numbers (Home, Office and Mobile Number and also Fax Number) Note that you are to inform the bank that you wish to establish/ open an account with their reputable bank, and they should advice you on such account.
I will await an update from you. Please do make contact with the bank so that the account opening can be fast. Once the account is opened, then we are set to go.
Cordially,
André Pierre du Plessis.
He then sent this one, complete with (I assume) fake passport and work ID.
Hello Michael......?
From: André Pierre du Plessis (
[email protected])
Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:31:27 PM
To:
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Dear Michael, I have received your email and i am happy to hear of this development.
I sincerely want to commend you for your efforts and diligence and for the way in which you have handled the opening of the account process.
Everything is now according to our schedule. On my side all the paperwork are ready for the transfer and as a result of this we shall effect the transfer as soon as your account details are ready with the Account Department.
What I want you to do is to forward the account number to me as soon as you receive it from the Account Department so that i can file it for the transfer.
Once again, i sincerely want to thank you for your commitment, I am very confident doing this transaction with you, I have no cause to doubt your integrity. The trust I have for you is undisputed and you have earned my respect, I hope you will live up to this respect.
I am sending to you a copy of my work identity card and my passport to let each other know more. Though we have not had a person-to-person contact but i want to let you know of myself so that you will be rest assured of whom you are transacting with.
I am married with two children. My address is #615 Esselen Road, Kruger Park, Western Cape South Africa. I have lived here for the last 13years and it’s really very nice to meet you.
You can reach me my office phone number...ext 81 during working hours or you can call me on my direct cell phone number .
Mobile: +27784900195 or +27739871445.
Please keep me posted with the progress of account being opened.
Regards,
André Pierre du Plessis.
After I went to the fake bank website, began opening an account, I recieved an email from them, saying they needed $1,250 as an activation deposit. I wrote to Andre telling him that I didn't want to pay that, and he sent back...
From: André Pierre du Plessis (
[email protected])
Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2009 9:36:41 AM
To:
[email protected]Dear Brother, Its so nice talking to you over the phone.
I have read your email and the forwarded email from the bank. Thank you for this update.
I understand the bank is requesting for a minimum deposit amount of $1,250 from you before they can open the account. However, I want you to go ahead and do this.
As a banker it is necessary for me to inform you that your account status must be activated and recognized by the KTT data base for onward transfer into your account.
I really would have loved to assist you but at present am very low in cash as i have put thousands of dollars to get this transaction to its present stage.
Michael, this transaction is not easy just that i have made most of the arrangements down before i contacted you. You might not be aware of what it takes to have such an amount transferred especially being inherited funds, well let me make it clear to you that i have taken care of the cost of all the logistics that has to do with this transfer, such as the cost of retaining the services of the Attorney and obtaining the necessary official documents and clearances from the south Africa authorities, including other miscellaneous expenses which i had incurred to ensure we have a hitch free transfer. I don’t intend to take any phase of this transaction for granted.
I crave your indulgence to cooperate with the bank instruction and proceed with the activation of your account. And as confirmed by the bank, the account activation process will only take 2 hours after receipt of the fee and the minimum deposit activation fee will be placed into your established account which will be accessible by you immediately.
Please do everything humanly possible to get your account ready to receive our funds, even if it means for you to get a loan do it as we will pay back a 100% interest once the funds credits your account. This fund means the world to me and my entire family, as our whole life depends on it.
I sincerely want to commend you for your efforts and diligence, and for the way in which you are handling the opening of this account. Actually for a person of your age and status and my partner in this transaction, I expect you to handle this issue of processing your account, I want the account processed and activated as soon as possible so that i can go ahead with the transfer latest Monday morning of my time.
I call you brother so that we both understand that our trust in each other is that of blood.
God Bless you for your positive resolve to affect our lives.
Please keep me posted on every event as it’s unfold.
Cordially,
......... So once again, I ask what should I do? I hope I haven't given him too much information, and I hope I can possibly help to catch them while I'm still in communication with him. I have even talked to him on the phone.
