So

At the same time that Marg started baiting Dr. Scapoli, we also hooked the unimaginative John Douglas.

It is my great interest and the trust which I have on
you, though we have not met before, neither have we
seen for the first time, because before I pick up your
address and write to you I prayed over it that God
should direct me to a trust woulthy and God fearing
partner who will help me out over my problem. For this
permit me to go into business relationship with you,
since I have made up my mind to do this business with
you.My name is Elvis Douglas the only child of Mr and
Mrs Kalvin Douglas who was a wealthy Gold and Cocoa
marchant in Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire. This is part of his initial scam letter.
Somehow, we forgot to go with the Elvis Douglas name that he used in the body of the email, and went with the John Douglas name that he signed with.

Big Bobby isn't quite sure what to make of him.

Dear Mr. Douglas:

Thank you for your recent interest in our international venture. We
only started our effort recently, but already we are seeing investors
lining up. Who could have guessed hockey could become so popular in
Africa?

Anyways, if you would like to this discussion, and possibly become an
owner of one of our franchises, we will need to have you sign our
standard non-disclosure form.

Please let us know if you would like to proceed, eh?

Yours,

Robert (Big Bobby) Clobber

John doesn't believe in foreplay

Subject: SEND ME YOUR BANK INFORMATION

Dear Mr Robert.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. I
received the mail you sent to me and I am happy about
your willingness to help me transfer this money, I
promise you that I will never let you down and above
all God in his infinite blessings will reward you
abundantly.

From your mail, all I want you to do is to help me
transfer this money which my late father left for me
in the bank here in Cote d'iviore into your account in
your country which you will invest for me in any
lucrative business. You also will help me by sending a
letter of invitaion which I will use to come down to
your country and stay permanently so that we can
manage the investment together. I would also wish to
finish my education.

I want you to understand that you are the only person
who can order the bank to transfer this money because
the bank director told me that it is only my late
father's foreign partner that can order for the money
to be transferred because of the agreement which they
reached the day my father deposited the money. I don't
know anything also about banking, I was in the
university when my father died and has never
controlled any business before, My father did and gave
me everything that I wanted and that is why I didn't
put interest even in my father's business.

I have this morning submitted your name at the bank as
my late father's foreign partner and can transfer the
money for us. Please Uncle, I am putting all my hope
and trust in you please don't betray me, I am afraid
because of what is happening in this world now and
some advises from people that you may take my money
when it is transferred into your account. Please don't
do it to me look upon my faith I am an orphan and you
are the only family I have now. I will give you the
deposit documents immediately I hear from you.

I await your immediate response
Thank you and may the almighty God continue to guide
and protect you.

Yours Sincerely

John Douglas

Dear Mr. Robert:

I'm afraid I don't understand you. I am currently trying to set up new
sports franchises in Africa, and I'm looking for trustworthy people
there that will be able to first recruit players, and then handle the
funds that I would send for training, equipment and players' salaries.

Is this something you would be able to handle, or should I be looking
somewhere else?

Yours,

Robert (Big Bobby) Clobber

Again, always trust a man who can't spell his own name

Subject: I CAN ASSIST YOU.

Dear Sir,

This is to let you know that I can handle and get some
recruit players for you here in african as terlented
players and i believe as we go on the trust will come
inside both of us as this is everlasting investment
for our both benefits.

Thanks.

Jonh.

Excellent, I am very confident that you will succeed. I will be sending
you a non-disclosure agreement for you to sign soon, and then I will be
able to send you more of the details.

Dear Big Bobby,

I received your mail that we are going to work as one
big team and I promised to be of good help to your
need for your search and as soon as we commence I will
take video of some players and send to you by DHL or
any other courier services of your chioce and send you
the Tape for you to watch and pick your chioce and I
will arrenge to push the player to you in your
country.

I will be waiting for the agreement to sign and return
back to you.

With Due Respect Sir,When do I look out for the
Agreement to sign from you?

Thanks.

Yours sincerely Partner.

John.

And, not having heard from me, he sends this.

Compliment of the day.
Thanks for your mail and pls am very sorry for my late
contact because i was very busy with the football
coach that i contacted for the players,through out
last four day,i have been busy with the coach and the
player,i watched most of their training yesterday and
today and now am strongly notice that the players are
very good.

Sir,in respect of our discussion,i had a little time
with the players and the coach which they promised to
comply with you offer but they are requesting for your
picture and they insisted that you have to do every
thing concerning their movement to your country.

I will prefer if you can arrange for the agreement
because i came to released that it will be very
expensive for me to do that in regarding your request
for the agreement purpose.

Pls endeavour to send me some money($500)US dollars,so
that i will cover their saturday's match which i will
like to send to you the coverage tape of the match via
DHL,so that you can see them by your own self.

Pls fact you have to speed up,so that you can view the
players in action.pls endeavour to send this money
with the name of the
coach(WHYTE.C.ANTHONY)Location:ABIDJAN,COTE
D'IVOIRE,send it via Western union money tranfer,so
that i can cover the match.

As soon as you send the money pls call me with this
number immediatelly(0022507522156)so that i will
inform the coach to help me to retrieve the money.

Pls do send me your full address with your telephone
and fax number.

Thanks and remain blessed.

John Douglas+22507522156.

What?! Five Hundred Dollars US? At that price, one can assume he's having an oil painting of the team commissioned.

So, John has been sent the non-disclosure agreement (seen below), but we don't hear anything from him in a while... (hey, why should the scammers get all the fun with fake documents?)

NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

By signing this agreement, you are required to keep secret all details, names, trademarks, and plans disclosed to you as a potential investor, partner or participant in the THL Investment Consortium.

Failure to do so renders ALL offers, tenders and requests for proposals immediately void, and all sums, deposits, sureties and bonds immediately forfeit.

Any violation of this agreement absolves THL Investment Consortium and its agents of any liability.

All of the information below is required:

Full Name:

Work Address:

Phone:

Fax:

Cell Phone (if any):

Email Address:

Profession:

Professional Title:

Age:

Date of Birth:

Wardrobe (size and general colour):

Political Affiliation:

Religious Affiliation:

Financial Holdings (liquid assets):

Financial Holdings (property or other assets):

Financial Holdings (livestock):

Allergies or Other Chronic Conditions:

Restrictions to International Travel:

Passport Status:

Failure to disclose all information renders this agreement immediately null and void.

______________________________
Signature

______________________________
Witness

______________________________
Date

Surprisingly, he comes back to us.

Dear Mr Robert Clobber.

How are you? am still waiting for you. i can see that
you are not interested concerning our business.

John Douglas. Ah... the classic 419 scammer tactic - accuse the victim of bargaining in poor faith. I'm sure it works, normally.

Unfortunately for John, Big Bobby is made of sterner stuff

Excuse me? I was waiting for you to fill out the non-disclosure
agreement. Before that happens, this deal cannot go forward. I don't
know how business is conducted in your corner of the world, but over
here partners make sure that the ground rules are set.

So, get the non-disclosure agreement filled out and back to me, and we
can talk about money. Otherwise, go away and find me someone who is
serious about doing this, eh?

And John responds by saying, uh, actually, I have no idea what the hell he's saying.

i reicive your mail you send to me

you have to know that i am your partiner hear for the
buisness is you solpose to do the agreement is not me
so do it an send it to me i will saing an send it to
you.

so am wating for your good response.

So, taking a page out of 419 Scammer 101, Big Bobby goes on the offensive

Are you out of your mind? I already sent you the URL for the on-line
agreement. If you can't follow simple instructions and click on a link,
I don't know how we'll be able to proceed with our business.

Predictably, John folds

Dear Big Bobby,

May this mail find you well.

How are you today and together with your respectfully
family . i hope all is well with them.

In respect of the agreenment which you send to me is
doe to i dont know computer very well this is why i
didnot find it out from the machine.

Now i will print it out, then by tommorrow i will send
it back to you so that we can proceed without much
delay.

Please Sir, I need your private phone number so that i
can call you immediately i send you the agreenment .

Thanks and God bless you while i wait for your urgent
response to my mail.

John.

I really don't understand the problem here. Are you unable to click on
a link? Is that really what you are telling me here?

If that's the case, I have some serious doubts about your ability to
follow through on this deal. However, I have attached a copy of the
agreement to this email. Print it out, fill in the information and fax
it back to me at 206-338-2673. The North American country code is 01.

We continue on the offensive, regardless

Dear Big John:

What the bloody hell is going on over there? I called the number you
provided and instead of talking business with you, some woman answered
and repeatedly asked me if I wanted to have sex with her. What kind of
game are you playing?

If you can't figure out how to fill in the damn form and fax it back to
me, I'll look for a business partner who can do what is required.

So, either get with the program, or take a hike, eh?

Yours,

Big Bobby

These are the last messages that John and Big Bobby share. It seems that John just can't figure out how to fill out a simple form. However, John does hear from Big Bobby again very soon.

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