Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Snow In London



It's been snowing in London, which is great so that my daughter Sam gets to play in the snow for the first time ever. The bad news is that I was booked on the Eurostar to Paris just as they cancelled all its services.

At least it's given me the chance to get more work done on the new Jack Nightingale book. I've just hit 47,000 words so I'm on target to finish it by the end of January. It'll probably be called Midnight.... In the book Jack is searching for his sister, whose soul has been sold to a particularly nasty devil. I'm having great fun with it!

The first Nightingale book - NIghtfall - will be on the shelves in four weeks - it'll be interesting to see how it sells because it's very different from my regular thrillers. Fingers crossed.

I hope you all have a great Christmas!

Monday, December 14, 2009

And Money From Ghana - Not!

From: Mr.Henry Kwesi
Plot No.7-Flat 4 Kweku Innocent Crescent,
Labadi district
Accra - Ghana.
{HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL}
(RE: TRANSFER OF ($ 42,000.000.00 USD}
{FOURTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
We want to transfer to overseas ($ 42,000.000.00 USD) from a prime bank here in Ghana, I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who
will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve
to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end of this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will
never let me down either now or in future.
I am Mr.Henry Kwesi, Director of International Relation with a bank here in Ghana, during the course of our auditing I discovered a floating fund in an
account opened in the bank in 2001 and since 2002 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for
nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Louis Kennedy, a foreigner, and a sailor, and he died since 2002. And no other person knows about this account or any thing
concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Late Mr. Louis Kennedy was the manager of K.Louis.(Gh).
LTD. We will start the first transfer with Twelve Million USD [$12,000.000.00] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account, The amount involved is (USD 42M) I want to first transfer $12,000.000 [Twelve Million
United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner in my life, I am only contacting
you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to
any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr.
Louis Kennedy was a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c. Arrange your A/c and send it to me as follows for the processing
of the payment:
Bank name.....................
Bank address...................
Account name...............
Account no.......................
Routing no..........
Swift code...............
Bank phone/fax..........................................
Your telephone number home, office or Mobile.
I got your contact address from my secretary who operates computer and I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to
take. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the deposit as started above. I need your full
co-operation to make this work fine. Because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account,
which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official
who is helping us in this business.
I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down; with the influence and the position of the key bank official we can transfer this money to any
foreigner’s reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing.
The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving to no trace to any place and to build confidence, you
can come immediately to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at
least two days ahead of the money going into the account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will apply for the
legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and Foreign Exchange Departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during the process of transferring and 5% will be for orphanage homes. I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible if you are interested.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Henry Kwesi

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Scam Letter From The FBI - Not!

This is one of the most ambitious scam emails I've ever received - claiming to be from the director of the FBI, no less!




Attn: Beneficiary

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we
have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring
Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of Fedex,Ibrahim Sule,Larry Christopher, Puppy Scammers are impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation.

During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not
received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial
Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment. Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total USD$11,000.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily.

You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD.Since the
Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have
to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free it is our duty to protect the
American Citizens.All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER
via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $180usd only and note that your Approval Slip
which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction.

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Kelvin Williams
EMAIL: kelvin_williams007@inMail24.com
Telephone Numbers: +234-7066868630

Do contact Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTRE with your details:

FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:

So that your files would be updated after which he will send the payment
information's which you'll use in making payment of $180usd via Western
Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III.

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices
claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advised only
to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTER who is the
rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and
forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation. possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advised only to be in contact with Mr. Kelvin Williams of the ATM CARD CENTER who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment information's which you'll use in making payment of $180usd via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay.We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

FBI Director Robert S.Mueller III.

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices