About the book
If you have e-mail, then you receive junk e-mail AKA Spam. I am sure that
all of you have received an e-mail sent from an official or the wife of an
official of a country in Africa asking for your help in some type of
financial transaction or another. The risk to you is small and you
will certainly receive hundred of thousands or several million dollars if
you participate in the project.
Most of you recognize it for the scam it is and immediately delete the
e-mail. But you also wonder what the sender of the e-mail could
possibility say that would convince someone to risk thousands of
dollars.
Imagine my excitement at being given the opportunity to receive 30% of
65 million of President Charles Taylor (former President of Liberia). All
I would have to do is travel to Amsterdam with 14,000 pounds sterling for
administrative costs!
When I received the e-mail, SUBJECT: PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL, sent to
my junk e-mail account, I couldn’t resist. I wanted to do several
things:
- Determine details as to how the scam was run.
- Coax the people running the scam to send a fax detailing the
operation to a federal and/or state agency tasked with stopping this
type of activity.
- Acquire information about the individuals that could lead to an
arrest.
- Research who someone could report such an attempted crime to at the
state and federal level.
- Report the individuals running this scam to the appropriate agencies
and see what if anything they would do about it.
The results proved to be interesting and informative. Follow along as I
unveil the plot. I used two fake names 1. Rip Jackson when I was e-mailing
the various people who claimed to be representing Charles Taylor, former
President of Liberia, and 2. Roy Cooper when I was e-mailing Igho Brown,
Senior Manager of Prime Clearing Systems and Finance. This was the
company handling the financial transactions for Charles Taylor in
this “business proposal.”
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