BEWARE AFRICA GRACE AMSALU IS A PRANKSTER ON THE LOOSE: ( PART 2.)

BEWARE AFRICA GRACE AMSALU IS A PRANKSTER ON THE LOOSE: ( PART 2.)

Being an investigator at times means you put your life at risk sometimes. So today I received a reply mail from Grace Amsalu and the email was almost the same word for word with a link to a website that had already discovered her prank. So I decided to play along and the drama continues!

My email to her read:

hey was nice to get an email from you and see your photos and learn about you and your past history as a refugee.

About  Vincent…..

Well what can I say. I am Kenyan student doing mass communication. I am 20 years and I love writing, poetry, spoken word, graffiti and art as a whole. You need to follow my blog I did a great story on south sudan ’s independence that was published in one of the dailies here.

A lot about me is found on my facebook page and my blog. You seem nice and I will hate to lose you as a friend but then again I know that when a deal is too good, think twice. You are so sweet but my research shows that you are a prank. I hate saying this but with google you can know whether someone is genuine.

Kindly don’t get in touch with me again.

The reply from her today read:

HERE IS MY LIFE STORY WITH LOVE AND TRUST

• FROM : Grace Amsalu

TO:

• vincent libosso
•  

Message flagged

Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:18 AM

Dearest one am happy to read from you once again. I hope you received my pictures.i know God will see me through one day. we  can only go out on permission of the camp master Reverend John Paul  and its like one staying in the prison because you do not have freedom of your own. I hope by Gods grace i will come out of here soon if everything works out well between me and you together. I will like to come over to your country and start a new life and go back to school. I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to because they all ran away in the middle of the war in my country. The only person i have now is  (Rev.John Paul) who is  in charge of the camp welfare. I stay in the women's hostel because the camp have two hostels and you can reach me on the telephone through this number (+221771419071) . If you call just tell  Reverend John that you want to speak with  me, he will send for me in the hostel to come and answer your call,  As a refugee here i don't have any right or privilege to work or engage in any business or financial  matters,  be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I think the little I have known about you gives me confidence now to give you more information about me with the hope that you will truly help me as promised.  I have my late father's bank account papers  here with me which i will send to you later if you are ready and capable to help me as a trustee to claim the money because the bank has given me a condition to release the money to me as the legal next of kin. When my father was alive he deposited some amount of money in a bank in Scotland and he used my name as the next of kin. The amount is $4.5(Four Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars).So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you will send some money for me to get my travelling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I will give all the necessary information about the money and will introduce you directly to the bank manager for discussion because the manager is waiting for me now to present my trustee so that they release this money for me. I am expecting  your response and call. Thanks, Grace +221771419071

Little did she know that I had already known about her prank via another website that seemed to have discovered her earlier (http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/fraud )

On this website we discovered the same unending tale.

FRAUD

Hey Guys i got this thread below and i strongly believe its a scam which the person got my email on lightstalkers. Please below. who knows one of you guys might have receive it. From: Tina Oumar <tina_oumar@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:06:27 -0800 (PST) To: <tinaamsalu@yahoo.com> Subject: tinaamsalu@yahoo.com tinaamsalu@yahoo.com Hi, Dear My name is miss Tina, l saw your profile today at (http://www.lightstalkers.org),and after going through it then l made up my mind to contact you as my friend. so l want you to write back to me through my email address (tinaamsalu@yahoo.com) so that l will give you my picture and for you to know more about me. I hope to see your mail soon. Cears Tina. (tinaamsalu@yahoo.com) tom.saater@gmail.com Jan 12 (1 day ago) to Tina  Hi Tina, many thanks for contacting me. Are u a photographer , film maker or what do you do? Yes I like to see your photo and tell me more about you. Thanks Tom Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN 13 January Tina wrote. I am very happy to receive your reply Like I said before my name is Tina, 23yrs old, Fair/African lady, never married. I am a simple person who likes to have fun and offers the same to my companion. I do tend to be a little shy in the early going but with the right person it goes away pretty quickly. I believe is important to know each other better for trust and confidence which is necessary in any good and lasting relationship built on truth and real love. I like reading and spots either, walking or just sitting at the beach (watching the sun go down is the best time).I love children too & can also carry on a good conversation but I also have a great pair of ears for listening. I am from Sudan and i am presently staying in a refugee camp here in Senegal. I came here because my parents died and our region is not safe at all because of the rebel soldiers who are rapping women everyday and i escaped through the help of the unicef and red cross and i am now registered with the united nation high commission for refugees Dakar Office here in Senegal. I choose to come to Senegal because i came once to Dakar three years ago with my late father because he was in oil business . I will tell you more about my family and everything about me when i am sure who you are and that i can trust you with my life as true friend and guardian, Attached here is my picture I will tell you more about myself in my next mail. Please send your own picture and telephone number in your next reply. Hoping to hear from you soonest! cares Tina. by Tom Saater at 2012-01-14 00:10:17 UTC | Bookmark | Report spam→

Tom I bet that million dollar on my Nigerian bank account that Tina is a fraud. But, make her to send an photo of herself holding a paper with the text: “I love Lightstalkers!!” And post it here. Like these scambaiter guys from 419 Eater.  by Tom Van Cakenberghe | 14 Jan 2012 06:01 | Kathmandu, Nepal |  Report spam→

Hey guys see below more from this miss Tina Amsalu Tina amsalu_tina@yahoo.com 12:32 PM (3 hours ago) to me  Dearest one am happy to read from you once again. I hope you received my pictures.i know God will see me through one day. we can only go out on permission of the camp master Reverend John Paul and its like one staying in the prison because you do not have freedom of your own. I hope by Gods grace i will come out of here soon if everything works out well between me and you together. I will like to come over to your country and start a new life and go back to school. I don’t have any relatives now whom i can go to because they all ran away in the middle of the war in my country. The only person i have now is (Rev.John Paul) who is in charge of the camp welfare. I stay in the women’s hostel because the camp have two hostels and you can reach me on the telephone through this number (+221771419071) . If you call just tell Reverend John that you want to speak with me, he will send for me in the hostel to come and answer your call, As a refugee here i don’t have any right or privilege to work or engage in any business or financial matters, be it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I think the little I have known about you gives me confidence now to give you more information about me with the hope that you will truly help me as promised. I have my late father’s bank account papers here with me which i will send to you later if you are ready and capable to help me as a trustee to claim the money because the bank has given me a condition to release the money to me as the legal next of kin. When my father was alive he deposited some amount of money in a bank in Scotland and he used my name as the next of kin. The amount is $4.5(Four Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars).So i will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you will send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet with you. I will give all the necessary information about the money and will introduce you directly to the bank manager for discussion because the manager is waiting for me now to present my trustee so that they release this money for me. I am expecting your response and call. Thanks, Tina +221771419071  by Tom Saater | 14 Jan 2012 14:01 | Abuja, Nigeria |  Report spam→

Dear Tom, you can take a look at these sites for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_baiting http://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.htm You can also put “scambaiting” or “scambaiters” on Google and you will find several other useful links that will explain you what the letters from this “Tina” are about – a fraud attempt as you already suspected. Cheers, Laura  by Laura Larmo | 14 Jan 2012 16:01 | Milan, Italy |  Report spam→

hey Tom! i was lucky enough to get one as well! i felt important… briefly. may be in your neck of the woods soon. up for a few Stars?  by john d | 14 Jan 2012 22:01 | Toronto, Canada |  Report spam→

Hey John, You mean you got same message in ur inbox or you caught the person?  by Tom Saater | 14 Jan 2012 22:01 | Abuja, Nigeria |  Report spam→

no, just the same message. the effort to try and catch anyone is beyond me. nice job on the heads up though!  by john d | 15 Jan 2012 14:01 | Toronto, Canada |  Report spam→

Tina is, after all, one off the sexiest names I can think of. Guess these Nigerians figured that out as well.  by Tom Van Cakenberghe | 15 Jan 2012 17:01 | Kathmandu, Nepal |  Report spam→

The soap opera continues but in the meantime we will paly her game and monitor her next move. Keep on reading!