dictators

This page illustrates other aspects of the 'Nigerian Advance Fee' or '419' scam.

It covers -

• dead souls
• my favourite dictator

     dead souls

Scammers can play a contemporary version of dead souls, with a reuse of names and bodies in a way that would make Zelig blush.

John Jasper of ABSA Bank for example offers US$15.5m from Gerald Welsh, who supposedly died in an Alaska Airlines crash. Lawyer Larry Wood offers US$5.34m from Welsh, who was clever enough to also die in Egyptian Airlines Flight 990. David Brimley has US$12.5m from that crash. Tom Smith has US$15m, Owen Kings has US$19.5m, Alex Cole has US$15m and US$9m, Jake Williams has US$27.9m, Fadiga Ndiaye has US$9m, Kofi Mensa has US$45.5m, James Robert has US$12.6m, John Stevens of the South African Reserve Bank has US$20.5m, Julius Ojeh Iwegbu has US$25m, grieving daughter Princess Evans G Welsh has US$45.8m, Oboh Thompson has US$53m, Charles Vernon has US$10.34m, Micheal Ipenza has US$12m. Ferguson David has £47.5m from William Knudson of the Alaska crash. Vincent Price has £5.5m from Selah Adams of the 990 crash. Barrister Varden Richard Edward has £13m from Ronald Lake of the Alaska crash.

Louis Akintola has US$29.5m from the same Welsh, who expired in a car accident. Stanly Welsh - "I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond" - has a mere US$7m. Rose Welsh has £10m "for the down trodden and the less privileged in the society", having been guided to your email address through "divine word of wisdom from above ... because you are blessed and you have been chosen to do mighty works for the Almighty". Will John has US$5m from Gerald Welsh, expiring in the "earthquake and tsunami-ravaged Indonesian province of Aceh". Ben Tony of Togo appears to have the same US$5m, as does Eric James of HSBC. James has US$7m from Paschal Welsh, apparently reborn at Brompton Chambers in time to offer a share in Paul Jeff Carpenter's estate.

We recurrently encounter other supposed unbeatable offers from the estates of victims of the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash.

For Morris Thompson these include

Alex Camara of UBS (US$20.5m)
James Smith at Barclays (US$50m)
Cheung Pui of Hang Seng Bank (US$24m and £5m)
Johnson Adotey of Ghana Bank (US$12.5m)
Duglas Song (US$88m), who separately offers £36.75m of Iraqi loot
Paul Megene (US$14.5m)
Paule Megene (US$27m)
Franklin Edom (US$5m)
Stephen Abban (US$12.5m)
Gabriel Konty (US$85m) at the same address as Duglas Song
Dr David Foffi of Banque Internationale Pour L'Afrique (US$15m)
Rev John Padila (£20m)
Lawson Mnandi (US$20m, US$24m, £12m)
Preston Udongo of Fidelity Bank (US$10.5m)
Dr Martins Ali of African Union Development Bank (US$15m)
Vincent Ada of African Development Banque Lome-Togo (US$14.5m)
Mustapha Saleh Eldeen of National Bank of Abu-Dhabi (US$45.5m). His cousin Mustapha Saleh Al Eldeen has only US$25m)
Akeem Williams of Eco Bank, Benin (US$8.3m)
Frank Williams of Citex Bank, Benin (US$15.5m)
John Ugo of Lagoon International Bank (US$5.5m)
Nuel Thomas of HSBC Bank (US$19.5m)
Paul Clarke of HSBC Bank (£30.5m)
Tunde Fowler of Chartered Bank (US$13m)
Professor Charles Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria (US$17.5m). Two months later the offer was up to US$95m
Dr Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank has US$7m
Dr Rufus Goodman of Union Bank (US$22.6m). His colleague Osusu Donard offers US$5.62m
William Abafe of Citibank (US$19.5m)
Ben Kalu of Standard Chartered Bank (US$19.5m). Kalu moonlights at HSBC, where he's found US$8.5m
Dandy Nwevo of Togo (US$6.7m)
Thomas Graham of HSBC Bank (US$20.5m)
Mr Jonaly of Merit Bank (US$20m)
Henshaw Wilson of Natwest (US$22.5m)
Henschaw Wilson of Natwest (variously US$17m, US$11m and US$22.5m)
Chief John Williams (US$22m)
Chief John William (US$13.7m)
Dr John Nic, Manager at First Inland Bank Plc (US$15.5m)
Dr John Nin, First Inland Bank Plc (US$15.5m)
Alfred White (US$15m)
Raha Ali Musa (US$14m).

For Peggy Stockley

William Oboh of Fidelity Trust (US$17.5m)
William Oboh of HSBC (US$11m)
Kezia Thomas of Chartered Bank (US$15m)

James Smith, apparently a bit confused, offered US$20.5m from Thompson Morris. Jackson Jafah has US$16.5m from Morris.

Ansar J Mensah offers US$5m from his late father, a cocoa merchant of Accra. Ansar Mensah Jr variously has US$21.5m, US$25.1m and US$10m from his late father, who managed to die from liver cancer in 2002, 2003 and 2004. His sister has US$15m.

Brother Steve Mensah has US$12.8m and US$2.5m. As manager of the International Commercial Bank in Accra he has discovered US$3.5m, US$4.5m. Doppelganger Steve Mensah offers US$0.8m and US$8m as secretary of Rev Dr Joshua Dube and a tastier US$45m as chair of the Ghana Eco-Resource Board. Benjamin West will cut a deal: just "contact my former personal Secretary, her [sic] name is Mr.Stephen Mensah and her direct mail address is ...". Dad Ansah Mensah offers US$10m - clearly, like Mark Twain, reports of his death were premature.

Barrister Ansar Mensah has £2.5m on behalf of the UK National Lottery. Barrister Stephen Mensah has US$5.5m from - you guessed it - a fatality on an Accra express road. Lawyer and political activist Stephen Mensah wants you to launder US$21.5m.

Wang Qin of Hang Seng Bank has US$20.5m from Iraqi General Ibrahim Moussa. Cheung Pui of a different branch of the same bank has US$24.5m. Darlington Abino (same bank, different branch) has US$20.5m, as does his colleague Beij Khan. So does Smith Turner of Barclays bank and Juan Antonio Blanco of the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria.

Sarah Yusuf, widow of the "Sheik Mohammed Yusuf" is 62 years old, suffering from cancer of the breast and wants to dispose of US$10m to worthy causes. Her late husband was

killed during a civil unrest by muslim fanatics in the nothern Nigeria. We had a son who was also killed in a cold blood during the unrest.

The age of miracles is not past, because she was simultaneously married to

Mr.Abd al-Qaadir Yusuf, a saudi arabian based business man in Nigeria ... It's a sorrowful thing to say that he died in a fatal motor accident alongside with our only son on the 19th of may 2004, while cominig back from a business meeting. (God knows best).

He left her US$10.5m but, alas, she was recently "diagonised of liver cancer" (apparently not a problem, because "My soul has found a resting place in the handsome bossom of the lord").

Joseph Kwabenna, Director of Ghana Commercial Bank, offers a slice of US$35m.

Barrister Ronald Baker offers US$30.1m from the estate of estate of the "Late Engr. Lurther Schultz", who "until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers" and died in December 2004 "at the age of 80 years".

In yet another 419 Scam miracle the "late Engr. Jürge Krügger" [sometimes styled Jürgen or even Juge] also left US$30.1m, also died in December 2004 "at the age of 80" and - you guessed it - "was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers". Krügger is separately represented by Barrister Ronald Baker, Aidan Walsh, David Smith, Alan Organ, Teddy Williams, Daniel Amen, Richard Gilbert, Christopher Wood and David Singer. As one of the supposed senders comments "This may sound strange and unbelievable to you". Indeed it does.

Barristers Christopher Motley and JF Martin only have US$7.5m and US$7.1m from the estate of the late "Engr.John Ferguson" who died in December 2004 "at the age of 80 years" and was of course a "a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers".

Barrister Edward Stewart has US$7.5m from the estate of the "Late Engr. Lurther Klein", who died at 80 in December 2005 and was "a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers". So does Barrister Ronald Cole and John Palmer and Ricky Houseman.

     my favourite dictator

Among other invitations we have received offers from supposed relatives of the following tyrants -

• Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Haiti)
• Charles Taylor (Liberia)
• Idi Amin (Uganda)
• Laurent Kabila (Congo)
• Fidel Castro (Cuba)
• Sani Abacha (Nigeria)
• Nicolae Ceaucescu (Romania)
• Slobodan Milosevic (Serbia)
• Joseph Mobutu (Zaire)
• Samuel Doe (Liberia)
• Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia)
• Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
• Jean Bokassa (Central African Republic)
• Hastings Banda (Malawi)
• Joseph Nyerere (Tanzania)
• Hissene Habre (Chad)
• Yasser Arafat (PLO)
• Jonas Savimbi (Angola)
• Said Mohamed Barre (Sudan)

Offers from the families and associates of other potentates occasionally appear.

'Louisa Estrada', wife of the former Philippines President, has US$21.5m - "all modalities are put in place and it is a risk free transaction. I'm trusting you as a God fearing person who will not sit on my life saving fund". As Loi C Estrada she has US$30m after her husband faces "the mysterious charge of plunder which might lead to death sentence". Mrs Luisa Pimentel Estrada has US$37m - "our telephone lines have been bugged. For this reason, telephone conversation will not be an ideal means of communication".

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