I didn't get much work done yesterday - I was writing a letter of complaint to Hertz! Took me ages. Now I've got to complain to Eurostar and American Express. I don't know if they'll do any good but it always makes me feel better!
Customer Relations,
Hertz UK,
Hertz House,
11 Vine Street,
Uxbridge,
Middlesex UB8 1QE
Dear Sir,
Confirmation Number: E5893473877
Pick up date: December 28, 2009
I am writing to complain in the strongest possible terms about my most recent Hertz rental.
I booked a car on line, and paid for it in advance with my American Express card. I booked a VW Passat from your Green Collection.
When I arrived at the Hertz Marble Arch location at about 9.30am on Monday December 28, a member of your staff (I later found out that his name was Asdi) was berating a customer. The customer was foreign, I think from Scandinavia, and was a Hertz Gold Card Member. Your member of staff was treating the customer with total contempt. I’m not sure what the problem was – the man’s car wasn’t ready and there was some confusion about using a discount voucher. I was appalled at the way Asdi was talking to the customer. The customer was polite and dignified and asked to speak to a manager. At first Asdi refused to contact a manager, then he said that the manager was busy. The customer continued to politely ask for a manager and eventually Asdi agreed to phone the manager. After a brief conversation, Asdi pointed at the door and said to the customer ‘your vehicle is ready.’ There was no apology, no politeness, just sheer contempt.
After the customer went to collect his car, Asdi picked up the phone and called his manager again. ‘That customer had a really bad attitude,’ he said, in front of me and three other customers. I hope that’s not how you treat all your Gold Card Members.
I was next in line. Asdi asked me if I had made a reservation. There was no greeting, no smile, no please or thank you. Just ‘Do you have a reservation?’
I said that I had. He then held out his hand and said ‘Driving licence and credit card.’ Again, there was no please or thank you. He was behaving more like an immigration officer than someone working in a customer service business.
Once he had checked my reservation, he told me that he did not have a VW Passat, but that he would upgrade me to a bigger car. There was no apology or explanation as to why the car that I had already paid for was not available. I asked him what car he was giving me and he said it would be a Kia Soul.
I asked him why he thought that the Kia Soul was a bigger car than the VW Passat and he said it had a bigger boot. (He actually kept calling it a booth but that is by the way). I asked him if the Kia Soul’s engine was bigger than the VW Passat and he admitted that it wasn’t. I pointed out to him that when people talk about the size of a car they are more often than not referring to the size of the engine and not the boot.
He agreed with me but said that it was the only car he had. It was that or nothing, he said. I explained that I was planning to drive a long distance with my family and that the Kia Soul would not be suitable and he again said that it was the only car available. Eventually I had to agree to take the car. I argued that I should be entitled to a substantial discount but all he would offer was to allow me to return the car with the tank empty. I said I was not happy with that, but there was nothing I could do other than to take the car offered, but under protest.
I had booked the Passat because I was driving my wife and daughter to Manchester, then up to Northumberland, and then back to London. The Kia Soul was totally unsuitable for this. The driving position was terrible, the car is clearly designed for small Korean housewives and not six-foot tall Englishmen. I ended up with back and shoulder pains after the four days I spent driving it. I could not see any of the dashboard instruments without slumping in the seat and lowering my neck, so that for most of the journey I was unable to see what my speed was. Despite your representative’s claims, there was very little space for luggage. I won’t bother mentioning that the charger that I was given with the Sat Nav system didn’t work and had to be replaced. Or that the car was dirty inside and out.
The car did not handle well at speed and visibility, particularly with the off-side mirror, was bad. What made matters worse of course was that during the rental period the UK was hit by snow and driving conditions were terrible, especially up north. The Kia Soul was totally unsuitable for the snowy and icy conditions that I was driving in. I have to say that you were lucky that I wasn’t involved in an accident because I would have held your company responsible for giving me a car that was totally unsuitable.
It was not the car I paid for and it was in no way an improvement. I can confidently say that it is the worst car I have ever driven, with the possible exception of a fifteen-year-old Suzuki Jeep that I rented in Phuket many years ago.
When I returned the car to your Marble Arch location I asked a member of staff why they thought that the Soul was an upgrade from a VW Passat. He agreed that the Soul wasn’t a better car but that it was in Hertz’s Fun Collection.
I have to say that driving the Soul was not a fun experience. It was totally unsuitable for my needs and was on occasions dangerous. It does not handle well at speed or in the snowy and icy conditions we had in late December and January. What makes this inexcusable is that not only had I reserved the car, I had paid for it in advance. You took my money but you then failed to deliver what I had paid for. That is tantamount to fraud and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
The last time I had a bad experience with Hertz (I was given a car in Manchester with a leaking tyre valve) the manager who handled my complaint asked me what it would take to make me happy. It was a good question, and we agreed that she would knock the cost of one day off a three-day rental.
If you were to ask me the same question regarding my treatment by your staff and the fact that you gave me a totally unsuitable car, I would have to say that there is only one way to make me happy and that would be to refund all my money. If that doesn’t happen, I don’t see that I’ll ever be using your Marble Arch location again.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Leather
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Lousy Review
Nightfall goes on sale later this week and is already doing well on Amazon.co.uk. It was in the Top 100 but it varies from day to day.
I've got my first review on Amazon and it's terrible. One star! One lousy star! Here's the review...
complete change of style, 18 Jan 2010
By E. Marshall
having been an avid stephen leather fan for years i struggled with this book. he seems to have changed his style of writing and sadly i found it hard work totally lacking his usual gripping story line.so sad.
I'm not sure why E Marshall can't use capital letters. This is his only review and I can't work out why such an avid fan as he describes himself hasn't posted reviews of the books that he liked!
All a bit worrying, really!
But it is fair to say that Nightfall is very different from my regular thrillers so I hope there aren't too many E Marshalls around!
I'm well into the Nightingale book as we speak and hope to have the first draft finished in a few weeks.... I had a meeting with my agent Julian Alexander last week and he has suggested major changes that will much improve the storyline. I think it's going to be a cracker - though i doubt that E Marshall will be impressed.
I've got my first review on Amazon and it's terrible. One star! One lousy star! Here's the review...
complete change of style, 18 Jan 2010
By E. Marshall
having been an avid stephen leather fan for years i struggled with this book. he seems to have changed his style of writing and sadly i found it hard work totally lacking his usual gripping story line.so sad.
I'm not sure why E Marshall can't use capital letters. This is his only review and I can't work out why such an avid fan as he describes himself hasn't posted reviews of the books that he liked!
All a bit worrying, really!
But it is fair to say that Nightfall is very different from my regular thrillers so I hope there aren't too many E Marshalls around!
I'm well into the Nightingale book as we speak and hope to have the first draft finished in a few weeks.... I had a meeting with my agent Julian Alexander last week and he has suggested major changes that will much improve the storyline. I think it's going to be a cracker - though i doubt that E Marshall will be impressed.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Sledging Policemen
Saw the following story on line today....
Police rapped after shield sledge stunt
A passer-by filmed the moment Thames Valley Police officers arrived at the slope in Berkeley Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, in a riot van.
One is then seen clambering on to the shield, and is advised by a colleague: "You've got to hold on to the straps." Another officer appears to be filming the incident on his mobile phone as the policeman is pushed down the slope, to a shout of: "Whatever happens, keep smiling!"
He then travels down the hill towards a ditch, to the obvious amusement of his three colleagues watching.
Superintendent Andrew Murray, Oxford City commander with Thames Valley Police, said: "The snow has a habit of bringing out the child in all of us.
"I have spoken to the officers concerned and reminded them in no uncertain terms that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers' expense is a very bad idea should they wish to progress under my command."
Rick Latham, who filmed the 41-second clip before posting it on YouTube website, said he initially thought police were going to tell him off when they caught him attempting to slide down the slope in a kayak.
He said: "We thought they were going to give us a hard time. Then they asked how slippy the snow was, and one of them grabbed the shield, then another one went down on it as well. I asked if I could film it and they said that was fine. They said something like: 'We're only human'."
Isn't Superintendent Murray a spoilsport? Fair play to the boys in blue showing their human side. Incidentally it's now a criminal offence to take a photograph of a policeman so Rick Latham might be expecting a knock on the door over the next few days!
Police rapped after shield sledge stunt
A passer-by filmed the moment Thames Valley Police officers arrived at the slope in Berkeley Road, Boars Hill, Oxford, in a riot van.
One is then seen clambering on to the shield, and is advised by a colleague: "You've got to hold on to the straps." Another officer appears to be filming the incident on his mobile phone as the policeman is pushed down the slope, to a shout of: "Whatever happens, keep smiling!"
He then travels down the hill towards a ditch, to the obvious amusement of his three colleagues watching.
Superintendent Andrew Murray, Oxford City commander with Thames Valley Police, said: "The snow has a habit of bringing out the child in all of us.
"I have spoken to the officers concerned and reminded them in no uncertain terms that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers' expense is a very bad idea should they wish to progress under my command."
Rick Latham, who filmed the 41-second clip before posting it on YouTube website, said he initially thought police were going to tell him off when they caught him attempting to slide down the slope in a kayak.
He said: "We thought they were going to give us a hard time. Then they asked how slippy the snow was, and one of them grabbed the shield, then another one went down on it as well. I asked if I could film it and they said that was fine. They said something like: 'We're only human'."
Isn't Superintendent Murray a spoilsport? Fair play to the boys in blue showing their human side. Incidentally it's now a criminal offence to take a photograph of a policeman so Rick Latham might be expecting a knock on the door over the next few days!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Stating The Obvious
A friend sent me this and I read it at Heathrow Airport on my way to Dublin. As always I have had to remove my laptop, take off my shoes and watch, and throw away my bottle of Evian water so I couldn't agree more with what Ann Coulter has written!
by Ann Coulter
12/30/2009
In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.
Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded.
How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he heard the stewardess announce that the food service was over and seats would have to be placed in their upright position? I can't finish my snack? This plane is going down!
Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!
For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and jackets, to open their computers, and to remove all liquids from their carry-on bags, except minuscule amounts in marked 3-ounce containers placed in Ziploc plastic bags -- folding sandwich bags are verboten -- among other indignities.
This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.
Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.
An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say?"
The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.
And so, despite 5 trillion Americans opening laptops, surrendering lip gloss and drinking breast milk in airports day after day for the past eight years, the government still couldn't stop a Nigerian Muslim from nearly blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
The "warning signs" exhibited by this particular passenger included the following:
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He's Nigerian.
He's a Muslim.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He boarded a plane in Lagos, Nigeria.
He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket.
He had no luggage.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous.
If our security procedures can't stop this guy, can't we just dispense with those procedures altogether? What's the point exactly?
(To be fair, the father's warning might have been taken more seriously if he had not simultaneously asked for the U.S. Embassy's Social Security number and bank routing number in order to convey a $28 million inheritance that was trapped in a Nigerian bank account.)
The warning from Abdulmutallab's father put his son on some list, but not the "no fly" list.. Apparently, it's tougher to get on the "no fly" list than it was to get into Studio 54 in the '70s. Currently, the only people on the "no fly" list" are the Blind Sheik and Sean Penn.
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, "Is this where you lost them?" No, the drunk answers, but the light's better here.
The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans. Will that help avert a terrorist attack? No, but the Americans don't complain.
The only reason Abdulmutallab didn't succeed in bringing down an airplane with 278 passengers was that: (1) A brave Dutchman leapt from his seat and extinguished the smoldering Nigerian; and (2) the Nigerian apparently didn't have enough detonating fluid to cause a powerful explosion.
In addition to the no blanket, no computer, no bathroom rule, perhaps the airlines could add this to their preflight announcement about seat belts and emergency exits: "Should a passenger sitting near you attempt to detonate an explosive device, you may be called upon to render emergency assistance. Would you be willing to do so under those circumstances? If not we will assign you another seat ..."
by Ann Coulter
12/30/2009
In response to a Nigerian Muslim trying to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, the government will now prohibit international travelers from going to the bathroom in the last hour before the plane lands.
Terrorists who plan to bomb planes during the first seven hours of the eight-hour flight, however, should face no difficulties, provided they wait until after the complimentary beverage service has been concluded.
How do they know Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab didn't wait until the end of the flight to try to detonate explosives because he heard the stewardess announce that the food service was over and seats would have to be placed in their upright position? I can't finish my snack? This plane is going down!
Also prohibited in the last hour of international flights will be: blankets, pillows, computers and in-flight entertainment. Another triumph in Janet Napolitano's "Let's stay one step behind the terrorists" policy!
For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and jackets, to open their computers, and to remove all liquids from their carry-on bags, except minuscule amounts in marked 3-ounce containers placed in Ziploc plastic bags -- folding sandwich bags are verboten -- among other indignities.
This, allegedly, was the price we had to pay for safe airplanes. The one security precaution the government refused to consider was to require extra screening for passengers who looked like the last three-dozen terrorists to attack airplanes.
Since Muslims took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, every attack on a commercial airliner has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color. Half of them have been named Mohammed.
An alien from the planet "Not Politically Correct" would have surveyed the situation after 9/11 and said: "You are at war with an enemy without uniforms, without morals, without a country and without a leader -- but the one advantage you have is they all look alike. ... What? ... What did I say?"
The only advantage we have in a war with stateless terrorists was ruled out of order ab initio by political correctness.
And so, despite 5 trillion Americans opening laptops, surrendering lip gloss and drinking breast milk in airports day after day for the past eight years, the government still couldn't stop a Nigerian Muslim from nearly blowing up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
The "warning signs" exhibited by this particular passenger included the following:
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He's Nigerian.
He's a Muslim.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
He boarded a plane in Lagos, Nigeria.
He paid nearly $3,000 in cash for his ticket.
He had no luggage.
His name was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
Two months ago, his father warned the U.S. that he was a radical Muslim and possibly dangerous.
If our security procedures can't stop this guy, can't we just dispense with those procedures altogether? What's the point exactly?
(To be fair, the father's warning might have been taken more seriously if he had not simultaneously asked for the U.S. Embassy's Social Security number and bank routing number in order to convey a $28 million inheritance that was trapped in a Nigerian bank account.)
The warning from Abdulmutallab's father put his son on some list, but not the "no fly" list.. Apparently, it's tougher to get on the "no fly" list than it was to get into Studio 54 in the '70s. Currently, the only people on the "no fly" list" are the Blind Sheik and Sean Penn.
The government is like the drunk looking for his keys under a lamppost. Someone stops to help, and asks, "Is this where you lost them?" No, the drunk answers, but the light's better here.
The government refuses to perform the only possibly effective security check -- search Muslims -- so instead it harasses infinitely compliant Americans. Will that help avert a terrorist attack? No, but the Americans don't complain.
The only reason Abdulmutallab didn't succeed in bringing down an airplane with 278 passengers was that: (1) A brave Dutchman leapt from his seat and extinguished the smoldering Nigerian; and (2) the Nigerian apparently didn't have enough detonating fluid to cause a powerful explosion.
In addition to the no blanket, no computer, no bathroom rule, perhaps the airlines could add this to their preflight announcement about seat belts and emergency exits: "Should a passenger sitting near you attempt to detonate an explosive device, you may be called upon to render emergency assistance. Would you be willing to do so under those circumstances? If not we will assign you another seat ..."
A Policeman's Lot
I just got the following from a policeman pal.....it's a joke but actually gives you an insight into how policemen think!
You might be (or have been) a Copper if....
You have the bladder capacity of five people.
You have ever restrained someone and it was not a sexual experience.
You believe that 75% of people are a waste of space.
Your idea of a good time is an armed robbery at shift change.
You call for a name check on anyone who is remotely friendly to you.
Discussing dismemberment or a death over dinner seems perfectly normal to you.
You find humour in other people's stupidity.
You have your weekends, or time off planned for a year.
You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce.
You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says " God its Quiet today".
Whenever you phone someone, you ask them 'Are you free to speak?'
Your diet consists of food that has gone through more processing than a Computer can track.
You're the only sober person in the kebab house.
You believe chocolate is a food group. Having alcohol at 7 am seems perfectly normal.
You have ever wanted to hold a seminar called "Suicide, getting it right The first time".
You believe "Too stupid to live" should be a valid court outcome.
When you mention vegetables, you're not referring to a food group.
You think caffeine should be available in IV form.
Your prisoner states "I have no idea how I got here" - and neither have You.
You end normal conversations with loved ones with "over".
You walk down the street looking at people as potential criminal intelligence submissions or suspects.
You believe the carpet bombing of certain areas of your neighbourhood is a viable alternative to policing.
You believe that some crimes can be sorted out with a damn good kicking.
Your favourite hallucinogen is exhaustion.
You are the only person you know who ever uses the word 'obliged'.
Your partner tells you off for walking with your hands held together behind your back.
At least once every working day you use the phrase, "The job's f*****!"
You regularly say, "With all due respect, Sir" but mean nothing of the sort.
You have a nose finely tuned to the smells of cannabis decomposition and stale body odour.
You think Thursday is the best night to go into town for a drink with your mates.
You nodded and laughed at all of the above, and realised what a sick bunch We all are or were!
You might be (or have been) a Copper if....
You have the bladder capacity of five people.
You have ever restrained someone and it was not a sexual experience.
You believe that 75% of people are a waste of space.
Your idea of a good time is an armed robbery at shift change.
You call for a name check on anyone who is remotely friendly to you.
Discussing dismemberment or a death over dinner seems perfectly normal to you.
You find humour in other people's stupidity.
You have your weekends, or time off planned for a year.
You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce.
You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says " God its Quiet today".
Whenever you phone someone, you ask them 'Are you free to speak?'
Your diet consists of food that has gone through more processing than a Computer can track.
You're the only sober person in the kebab house.
You believe chocolate is a food group. Having alcohol at 7 am seems perfectly normal.
You have ever wanted to hold a seminar called "Suicide, getting it right The first time".
You believe "Too stupid to live" should be a valid court outcome.
When you mention vegetables, you're not referring to a food group.
You think caffeine should be available in IV form.
Your prisoner states "I have no idea how I got here" - and neither have You.
You end normal conversations with loved ones with "over".
You walk down the street looking at people as potential criminal intelligence submissions or suspects.
You believe the carpet bombing of certain areas of your neighbourhood is a viable alternative to policing.
You believe that some crimes can be sorted out with a damn good kicking.
Your favourite hallucinogen is exhaustion.
You are the only person you know who ever uses the word 'obliged'.
Your partner tells you off for walking with your hands held together behind your back.
At least once every working day you use the phrase, "The job's f*****!"
You regularly say, "With all due respect, Sir" but mean nothing of the sort.
You have a nose finely tuned to the smells of cannabis decomposition and stale body odour.
You think Thursday is the best night to go into town for a drink with your mates.
You nodded and laughed at all of the above, and realised what a sick bunch We all are or were!
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
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
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