An Easter gift kinda came early six days ago:
I got this thru my agonist email account:
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Attention:
This is to inform you that I have been informed by Mrs.Jennifer Wilson
of her intensions in WILLING $1.5 million US dollars to you. I will
immediately proceed in notifying Mrs.Jennifer Wilson's bank in order for
the funds to be released and transferred to you.
She has WILLED the funds to you based on her own decision. I will
require the following information below to process the release of the
funds and notification to the bank.
1. Full name
2. Country of Residence
3. Telephone number.
Sincerely,
Johnson Briggs (Barr.in Law)
**SOLICITOR AND LEGAL PRACTITIONER**
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I supplied my details as requested above
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:46:46 -0500, jjsolicitors@netscape.net
>
>> ATTENTION: Graham Upshell
>>
>> This is to notify you that I have applied to Jennifer's bank for the release of the funds making you the beneficiary to the amount of $1.5 million dollars.
>>
>> I shall notify you as soon as the application is approved. Endeavour to confirm the receipt of this mail.You can call me with my number below.
>>
>> Attach is the letter to the Bank.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Johnson Briggs (Barr.in Law).
>> **SOLICITOR AND LEGAL PRACTITIONER**
>> TEL: +44.7704708723
>> FAX: +44.8701301545
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Dear Messr Briggs
Thanks for the notification, how often do you get to such a lovely job
like this one?
Graham
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ATTENTION: Graham Upshell
This is to officially congratulate you that Mrs.Jennifer Wilson's bank have approved to release the funds which has been WILLED to you. This is based upon my notification to them that my client has WILLED $1.5 million US dollars to you.
The bank also requires me to tender a sworn affidavit from the British court, stating that you are now the actual beneficiary to the funds before transfer can be made to your designated account. I would also like to let you know that this sworn affidavit from the court would cost a total of £1,000(One thousand Pounds) to obtain. I hereby advise that you try and send this payment of £1,000(One thousand pounds) in order for me to obtain the affidavit from the british court of law making you the official beneficiary to this fund, in order to allow the bank transfer the 1.5 million dollars to you.
I would advise that you make the payment through western union money transfer with my name (JOHNSON BRIGGS) in order to facilitate the obtainance of the affidavit and the transfer of the funds to your account.
I would like to also notify you that Mrs.Jennifer Wilson passed away this morning during an operation .May her soul rest in peace.
I expect to hear from you soon, so that I can facilitate and conclude the transaction on your behalf.And as soon as the release is approved the bank shall contact you through your email address and you can tell them how you want to receive the funds.I have also attached my letter to the bank.
DETAILS FOR WESTERN UNION PAYMENT:
NAME FOR PAYMENT: JOHNSON BRIGGS
ADDRESS: 11 AMBLESIDE POINT
SE15 1EA, LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM.
Sincerely,
Johnson Briggs (Barr.in Law).
**SOLICITOR AND LEGAL PRACTITIONER**
TEL: +44.7787173525.
FAX: +44.8701341382.
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Dear Johnson,
This is the way I would like this to work:
You pay the £1000.00 out of your Solicititors work fund for the court matter.
I have instructed my British Solicitors, in Dorset, to provide any
assistance you may require. Please advise which bank will be
transferring the funds.
For your assistance in this matter I have asked my solicitors to make
a payment of £30,000.00 to you as a thank you.
Please advise full address of your company, and your bank details so
my solicitor can arrange transfer of the gratuity to you.
yours sincerely
Graham
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Now I wait but I am not waiting at all!!!
23 comments:
today I recieved the same e-mail:
01/04/05
Hello,
My name is Mrs. Jennifer Wilson I am a dying woman who have decided to donate what I have to you/ church. I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed forcancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for.
I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to the you for the good work of God,rather than allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.Please pray,that the good Lord forgive me my sins.I have asked God to forgive me and i beleive he has because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less than one hour.
I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $1,500,000 (One million five hundred thousand dollars) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.
At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives are around me and my health status.I have adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is aware I have changed my will you and he will arrange the transfer of the funds from my account to you.I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.
Contact my lawyer with this specified email: jjsolicitors@netscape.net and tell him that I have WILLED ($1,500,000.00) to you by quoting my personal reference number Law/chamber/solicitors/je/ws/WILL/9834520012 and I have also notified him that I am WILLING that amount to you for a specific and good work.I know I dont know you but I have been directed to do this.Thanks and God bless.
NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don't want anything that will Jeopardize my last wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don't want my relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.
Regards,
Jennifer Wilson
THANX FOR YOUR BLOG!
The saga continues, I have now been told to leave my solicitor out of it as they may divert the funds LOL.
innscam not just wills and donations involved....
Thank you for posting Johnson Briggs letters. I received the same one and gave him the details and he even called me overseas to pursuade me to pay the amount for paperworks. When he called me though I thought it was for real but after seeing his letter to the bank i became suspicious and searched clues on the internet until i came to your site. I have emailed this guy and hopefully wont bother me again.
regards
Karen's reply to Johnson Briggs,
As I am sure you are now aware, Mr. Graham has posted the entire scenario of
your scam on his site. Most helpful and enlightening. I must say, this was
one of the best lures I've ever seen. If you spent as much time in honest
pursuit of wealth instead of scamming, you'd be rich by now. As it is, I
forgive you for intending to bilk me out of my hard earned money and pray
that the Lord will reward you according to your works, since you are using
His Name for your scam.
I have received the same set of letters from Mr. Briggs and have responded in a similar manner as you have. I even asked that he draw up some internationally recognized legal document stating what my funds were for and that I would be promptly reimbursed if the "inheritance" didn't come through.
His response was to send me a VERY fuzzy copy of his British Passport along with the following note:
"This is to guarantee you that as soon as you make the payment for the affidavit that your funds would be released accordingly.I have attached my interntional passport to this mail for your personal view in order for you to know me personlly."
I have noticed all throughout his e-mails that his spelling needs some work. Also, I would expect a lawyer to use something besides "netscape.net" for an e-mail account.
It has been fun and enlightening to play with this guy to see what he would come up with.
Don't "play" with scammers. Report them! The police need evidence to take action.
http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/
If you are lucky they will seize the scammer's files before he sells your name and contact details to other scammers.
Mrs. Wilson & Mr. Briggs have contacted me as well...
here are my resonses:
Dear Mr. Briggs,
thank you for the notification.
May I have a telephone number to enable my attorney,
J. Edgar Hoover, to contact you to arrange the
transfer? I have read of many terrible people who
would steal money from unsuspecting old fools (I amy
qualifiy there as old and a fool).
I continue to pray for Ms. Wilson's health.
MLH
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Dear Ms. Wilson,
Have you tried the miracle cure of Dill Pickle Juice
mixed 2 parts to 3 parts with PRune Juice and adding
one ounce of warm tequila?
I drink it every day and feel much better and am very
regular. Also, not meaning to brag, I find that most
distasteful, but I am a very virile man here in the
last few years of my life. Many of my grandson's
young girlfriends come and se me for attention that is
usually not available from the young squires, if you
get my drift.
Anyway, after reading from the Old Testament, I give
them other gifts of self that they would normally
never consider.
All is well, I have a note from your solicitor asking
for $, my attorney will be contacting him to arrange
the transfer if he provides a valid law office phone
number. J. Edgar is very adamant about making contact
at the office during business hours. I am spenidng
what meager resources that I have to pay J Ed
and have the Western Union gram ready for you.
Could you simply pay the solicitor on my behalf? It
would make life easier. I would be happy to put up
some real estate that I own in the Everglades as
security until I can pay you back.
Please advise.
MLH
I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DON'T WRITE BACK!
he has not given up!!!
latest round of emails:
I wrote to Johnson thus:
> >Please advise Name and Address of your firm please.
> >My solicitors will handle the £1000.00, they have no such difficulty as you.
> >I am unable to transfer funds myself at present due to work
> >committments out of the UK
> >Thanks
> >Graham
> >
On Apr 1, 2005 11:56 PM, jjsolicitors@netscape.net
wrote:
Attn: Mr.Graham Upshell
>
> I will strongly advice that you keep your Lawyer out of this,this is because the fund was WILLED to you personally by our client based on her own decision,your Lawyer might decide to share the fund with you and maybe even went as far as diverting it.
>
> It all depends on you..
>
> Well as demanded, our address is:
>
> JJSOLICITORS
> 11 AMBLESIDE POINT
> SE15 1EA, LONDON
> UNITED KINGDOM.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Johnson Briggs (Barr.in Law).
> **SOLICITOR AND LEGAL PRACTITIONER**
> TEL: +44.7787173525.
> FAX: +44.8701341382
>
Date: Apr 2, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Fund Approved
To: "jjsolicitors@netscape.net"
Thank you, however I am sure that my solicitors are much more honest
than any in London. I have instructed them to send the monies to Mr John Walker, Principal Solicitor, 11 AMBLESIDE POINT SE15 1EA, LONDON
Interestingly I have recently been involved in tracking down a scam
that was using his address for claiming illegal 'refunds' from Hotels and Motels.
regards
Graham
no reply, but I was having fun :)
> >> Sir, have you contacted Mr Walker for the monies?
> >> regard
> >> Graham
and one last try from me, one he could not resist :)
Messr, I will be in London to meet with you to discuss this outrage on
April 20th please advise suitable time. I am not happy that the monies
were not collected from Mr Walker. Graham
Attn: Graham
That`s okey just give us a call when you arrive,and we link up..
Sincerely,
Johnson
and the current state of play:
Thanks Johnson,
please advise your phone nos
Graham
The final correspondence:
I meant do you have a cell phone number? Graham
>
>>
Attn: Graham
my cell phone number is personal,but for emergency purposes,most times i can answer the office phone at home,so you can reach me on the same number.
Johnson Briggs (Barr.in Law).
**SOLICITOR AND LEGAL PRACTITIONER**
TEL: +44.7704708723
FAX: +44.8701301545
pffft! your phone numbers and our correspondence is now available to
http://www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/
the last month was interesting, I was able to stop at least 3 people
sending you money! Real solicitors have trust monies to pay for court
documents and do not make spelling mistakes.
So long
Graham
another day another idjit!
I am Trevor Chambers,Offshore Investment Banking officer of Union Bank Of
Switzerland,Basel.
It is with excellent recommendation from a banking colleague of mine that I
contact you with a business proposal with overwhelming oppurtunities.Owing to
the exact nature of this business proposal,I advice that utmost
confidentiality in all matters I shall discuss with you should be
observed,because it is only on this premise of reliability and implicit trust
in our capabilities,will the exact dividends of this proposal be achieved.
Priviliged information and official Instruments at our disposal will enable
this proposal in the right perpective for a 100% successful execution rate,it
is therefore paramount for us to be assured of your discretion in handling
details of this proposal which I will discuss with you once I receive an
acknowledgement of this email from you with the assurance that even though,the
possibility exist of you declining to this proposal,my identity can still be
protected with your assured discretion.
I shall anxiously anticipate your acknowledgement via
email:trevcham_2003@yahoo.co.uk
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Trevor Chambers
Thank you Graham for keeing all the information on your site. I also received same letter by Jennifer Wilson offering 1.5 million dollars. The information you have provided opened my eyes.
Thank you once again.
i just discovered this site and am so glad that it warned me away from this scam. i was really drawn in by it. thank you for letting me know what a con man this guy is.
See www.419eater.com for futhur examples of these scam emails. See www.419legal.org for support for victims of these scams (AKA advanced fee fraud)
Well ppl i guess i'm just next member of this club that Mrs. Wilson have contacted,she actualy now still convince me that she is ill of cancer and 2 take good care of her kids( have 2 admeet that i realy felt sorry for the kids ).
Bur receiving this e-mail today with british pasport and a man standing by a car with german plates...lol...
Thank you my bro for sending me this site... love ya
Hi, I recently fell for this scam, but I would never send anyone 1000$ let alone 1$ through the mail. If it truely was willed the monies for the will would come directly from the bank account of the person in question, and the lawyer would extract his/her own fees from that ammount. Then after they are done, the local government then removes due taxes and deposites the remainder in your account. Where you have to pay taxes for when you buy something. Wills, prizes... etc.. are all horribly taxed.
I'm going to try to get the address of the person doing the scam as well as the phone number and submit it to the FBI, and the local government of the person sending the scam.
This is the absolute worst scam that I have ever run across in my life! The person that has written this twisted letter and used God in such a demented manner shall perish in hell.
When I read this letter that my husband received, I was very skeptical, but a small part of me believed it. I prayed for this "Mrs. Jennifer Wilson" as did my husband, and we e-mailed back to "her" that no amount of money would be worth her life, and that hopefully she would defeat her illness.
Someone as callous and thoughtless as this person who has created this scam will not go unpunished by god. My this be a lesson to all of us.
Sincerely, Melissa
Just got this email today it is sad that they have to scam people exspecially saying the person has cancer.Cancer is not something to joke about and think these people realy need to grow up and find a real living unstead of living of peoples money that actually think they will get something in return.Thank you for having this site up so people know the truth and god bless.
I received Mrs. Wilson's first email last week. This week her so-called attorney(at the same email address hiltonwest@netscape.com) has sent me a congratulation letter. Ha, all I had to do was Google Johnson Briggs and I found your site.
Great thanks Graham_72! God will bless you for keeping track of this fool.
Oh I forgot to tell you that his newest will amount is $7.5 million.
i received the same meail as you said befor but the amount is 7.5 mio USD the person is the same and all data the same:
Johnson Briggs (Barr. in Law).
**SOLICITOR AND LEGAL PRACTITIONER**
TEL: +31-626-730-992
FAX: +31-84-755-7646.
hey your blog design is very nice, neat and fresh and with updated content, make people feel peace and I always enjoy browsing your site.
- Norman
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