Catherine Lemmens will be my first and most prominent character for dealing with them lads. I still don't have quite a handle on how she behaves, but so far she's pretty much a Karen, taking offence at the mildest slight and expecting them to rectify their error. I'm thinking to add some additional messy-divorce-irritability too (ex-husband would be a scam victim, hence she's also a victim by proxy).
Anyway, the bait itself. I picked up an email from the sister site, about some lottery of 12 billion USD and the Royal Bank of Canada, forgot where the thread was. The sender was the CEO of the bank himself, David I Mckay, oooooh. There's a few snippets of stuff we can harp on just from the initial message alone:
- I supposedly have an attorney named Weiss Mohamad G (Nam), whose particulars were all present, including a Swift code and account number. Irresponsible, really.
- Mr. Mohamad is "ready to pay" the required charge of $100, drawing the whole thing into question since my (monetary) involvement does not seem to be needed anymore.
- After all that, some confusing and quite rude-sounding wording, like me "joking with the deal" when I wasn't even informed about it to begin with!
Anyway, such an offer couldn't be refused. Though Catherine has a few concerns to voice out:
I literally realised just now that I could have touched on Mr. Mohamad already being ready to pay my fees, ah well.Dear David,
What's this about "joking with the deal"?
Also, if all I need to do is send over the cards or whatever, why did you give me Mr. Mohamad's info? That's just irresponsible.
David's response was bewildering. Mr Mohamad apparently is a criminal now. And there's a time limit too.
We're dealing with someone with a very short fuse.Attention Beneficiary,
Hello dear customer I will like to inform you that we have settled all
the requested information that will help us get him arrested.
Presently we shall call the attention of the Economic and Financial
Crime Commission ( IMF ) to arrest Mr. Weiss Mohamad G of Indonesia .
Meanwhile you have been instructed by the Federal Ministry of RBC
Royal Bank Of Canada to try and made the payment of $100 for
Ownership Certificate of your fund to enable us proceed with the
transfer without any further delay and you have be given 12 hours. to
do so or their will cancel the transfer if their did not hear from you
within 12 hours, and it means that you are going to loose the
fund so I will advice you to try all your possible best and send the $100
for the Ownership Certificate before that 12 hours. And you are only
advice to purchase Steam Wallet Gift card of $100 send it and it will
be faster the attach
copy is my ID card and Driver Licence to proof you who I am.
Meanwhile we did not want any of our time to get wasted again by you
if you cannot pay this fee just get back to us immediately so that we
shall know that you are not the right owner of this fund and we will
look forward to the owner. waiting to hear from you with the picture
of the steam wallet gift card once you buy it
I was caught off guard and sorta dropped character:
They probably wanted to induce some panic, but Catherine had somewhere to be. More than 12 hours later, she got back.Dear David,
12 hours is a bit of a harsh deadline, don't you think? Nowhere in your initial email did you refer to any time constraint.
Plus, if I am to receive the, quote "$12,000,000,000.00 USD from Coca Cola Company" from your side, I'm fairly certain I need to provide more than some card.
Dear David,
Sorry for taking more than 12 hours to respond, it was my friend's birthday and I may have had bit too much to drink
Is the offer still open?
Either a bogus time limit, or David has a shitty sense of time.Attention Beneficiary,
So how are you today together with Family, I hear you but only if you are interested and serious.
I could have went off on a tangent about the Family bit, but jumped the gun and went right back to the script.
Dear David,
So the offer is still open, I understand, and yes I am interested and serious.
What do I need to do?
Attention Beneficiary,
You are the one delaying this transfer go on and the 100$ Steam wallet
gift card and your Bank Information.
(I mixed up a name with another bait I was running)Dear Harri,
There we are with that tone again. Is this the way to treat a lady?
To add, the questions I had with "joking with the deal" and Mr. Mohamad's info are still unanswered.
In any case, it's nearly midnight where I am. I'll buy and send the gift card first thing in the morning.
Could be another opportunity for a goose chase here, dammit. I plucked a picture of a Steam wallet card off google images - but only the front.
Dear Harri,
Here's the Steam card thing.
Could you specify what Bank Information is needed too?
[front of card.jpg]
About here, Catherine thought he was getting ahead of himself.Attention Beneficiary,
You have to send scratch and send Bank side of the gift card and your Bank account number name and swift code.
A day went past, and I sent a chaser. David's getting pissy again~Dear David,
Sorry for calling you Harri, I had a bit on my plate at the time.
I still would like clarification on the following though:
- Why was Mr. Mohamad's information given to me? He seems to have nothing to do with our business.
- There were times where you were being less than polite. I would like an explanation, or an apology.
And then he sent this message three times within an hour:Attention Beneficiary,
You have to send the front and back side of the Steam wallet gift card scratch the back side of the card so the secret number will be open why can't you understand simple something.
By now I was getting impatient - poor virtue, I know. Plus, I was worried I'd lose him if I tried to stall any further. I would give him a Steam wallet code. A used one, that is. From 2014. Again, from google images. And Catherine would get pissy too.The $100 is for Ownership Certificate of your fund to enable us proceed with the
transfer of your fund without any further.
You have not done what i ask you. send the card pictures front and
back side and make sure you scrash the serect number.
That's where it left off, and as soon as he tries the not-so-hidden code the jig will be upDear David,
I would have expected someone of your stature to know that you should treat your clients cordially, at the very least. Your rudeness isn't very Canadian of you.
I already threw away the card, since I recorded the code anyway. It's right here. But I'll need to teach you a lesson though, so I hid the code inside MY QUESTIONS YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED:
- WHY WAS MR. MOHAMAD'S INFO GIVEN TO ME
- HOW WILL THE LGGIM-VJWAF-BAZND WILL THE MONEY BE SENT TO ME
- WHAT IS WITH YOUR ATTITUDE
I just hope I get a similarly angry response about how I sit at the computer all day due to a birth defect or some such empty drivel.
It's a learning process, though. I'll certainly figure out more about diversion and actually controlling the flow myself.