419 — Killer Soludo
I have found the world’s least convincing 419 scammer:
From: charles soludos (charlessoludos234@yahoo.com) To: AmpleRealty@cfl.rr.com Date: Feb 6, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 .
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE VICTORIA
ISLAND LAGOS NIGERIA
THE DESK OF PROFESSOR. CHARLES . SOLUDO GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN). INTERNATIONAL RIMMITANCE DEPARTMENT. CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS: # CBN HOUSE, Tinubu square, Eleke Crescent-Victoria Island Marina, Victoria Island Lagos Nigeria West Africa. P.O.Box 55037 Falomo Ikoyi Lagos Island Marina. Direct line: # +234-8-0540-513-54 EMAIL: ( :charles234soludos@yahoo.com ) IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . ATTN: HONORABLE CONTRACTOR. The acknowledgement, of Your Immediate Contract Payment. Contract Number #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009. On behalf of the entire staff of Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Federal Government of Nigeria in collaborated with the Authorities, who are in charge of foreign contract payments. We Apologies, for the delay of your Contract payment, the Inconveniences and Inflict that we might have indulge you through. However, where having some minor problems with our payment system, which have demoralized us, also have caused a lot of predicament to this organization, which is Inexplicable? And have held us Indolent, not having the perseverance and Aspiration to devote our 100% standard Assiduity in accrediting foreign contract payments. Once again, Our Apologies for all inconveniences. From the Records of outstanding contractors due for payment with the federal government of Nigeria, your name and company was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments. I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square hole, and can be voguish for that your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter. Also note that from my record in my file your outstanding contract payment is US$25,700 000 (Twenty Five Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars.) Kindly re-confirm to me the followings: 1) Your full name. 2) Phone, fax and mobile #. 3) Company name, position and address. 4) Profession, age and marital status. 5) Working I'd/Int'l passport. As soon as this information is received, your payment will be made to you in a certified bank draft or wired to your nominated bank account directly from central bank of Nigeria. You must call me on my direct number (+234-80-540513-54) as soon as you receive this letter for further discussion, get back to me on this e-mail address ( :charles234soludos@yahoo.com ) Regards,
Professor. Charles . Soludo Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com) To: Date: Feb 7, 2006 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . Er, hello. This is going to sound a little odd, but either you have a very evil and ingenious marketing team, or else I have found the Stupidest 419 Scammer Ever. I got the email below earlier today. You've seen it before, in its text form. It's on your website at least once. My version contained a Nigerian crest (leeched from the Nigerian Embassy), a Nigerian flag (leeched, oddly enough, from an anti-419 website), and a photo of himself, leeched from http://419.bittenus.com/CharlesSoludo3/soludoframed.jpg -- complete with your URL. Can this possibly be real? Can anyone think YOURS was a good website to link me to when trying to scam me? Andrew From: Miss Young ( ) To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com) Date: Feb 7, 2006 10:14 PM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . Hi Andrew, thanks for the information. I will give you the full story: When I published the http://419.bittenus.com/CharlesSoludo3/ story, I had included a picture of Charles Soludo in a nice wooden frame because it was in line with the story. Apparently a scammer (your scammer?) found this picture, and decided to link to it in his fraud letter. When I realized this, I added "419.bittenus.com" to the framed Charles Soludo picture. Your email shows that the scammer still sends out letters with links to the new picture! Be aware that not all scammers are as stupid as this one. Be also aware that you have to share your $25,7m with all these people: http://www.google.com/search?q=AV%2FNNPC%2FFGN%2FMIN%2F009, so I suggest that you wait for a better offer! Cheers, Miss Young
http://419.bittenus.com/support.htm From: Andrew Taylor <taylor .andrew@gmail.com> To: charles soludos <charlessoludos234 @yahoo.com> Date: Feb 8, 2006 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . Professor. Charles . Soludo Iam honourable Contractor. You are Charles Soludo. I am re-confirming my detail in regards of my informations. I would use my name, Andrew, and my number, twelves. My phone is demoralised at the day, so I must Intornise this communicationer. Please explain, re-explain, pre-explain or bi-explain any further clarificatings that need clarificating. Yours, Andrew From: charles soludos (charlessoludos234@yahoo.com) To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com) Date: Feb 10, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . ATTENTION: MR Andrew Kindly re-confirm to me the followings: 1) Your full name. 2) Phone, fax and mobile #. 3) Company name, position and address. 4) Profession, age and marital status. 5) Working I'd/Int'l passport. As soon as this information is received, your payment will be made to you in a certified bank draft or wired to your nominated bank account directly from central bank of Nigeria. You must call me on my direct number (+234-80-540513-54) as soon as you receive this letter for further discussion, get back to me on this e-mail address ( :charles234soludos@yahoo.com ) Regards, Professor. Charles . Soludo Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Direct lines: +234-8-0-540-513-54 From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com) To: Miss Young ( ) Date: Feb 13, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . I say, he's not much fun, is he? He's just copy-pasting himself. Never mind. Andrew (Who doesn't have a photo of himself in his email signature and until now thought that made him seem normal) From: Miss Young ( ) To: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com) Date: Feb 13, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . Maybe I should change the Soludo picture to this one?
From: Andrew Taylor (taylor.andrew@gmail.com) To: charles soludos (charlessoludos234@yahoo.com) Date: Feb 14, 2006 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . ATTENTIONS: MR Sudoku 1) My full name is MR Andrew. I used to have a surname but I lost it at Poker. 2) I have not a phone, fax and mobile. I have a wicker basket and a bicycle. The bicycle is yellow. It is lovely. 3) My company name is MR Andrew HOLDINGS. Its position and its address are the same. 4) My profession is fifty two years old and happilly married to Carpentry. It plans to buy a cottage. 5) I am not allowed to have a passport on Tuesdays. I hope this informations are informative. I am Honorable Contractor MR Andrew OUT! From: Andrew Taylor <taylor .andrew@gmail.com> To: Miss Young ( ) Date: Feb 14, 2006 7:54 PM Subject: Re: Re: IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT. CONTRACT #: AV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009 . Just rename it, and change the HTML page to point to the original nice framed image. Then upload the file I've attached in its place... Your site looks nice and nobody falls for his scam ever again. Andrew
