I Draws A Blanc

Specifically, a Richard Blanc.

He winds up with less, but I digress.

My purpose here -- besides showcasing another lowlife email scammer -- is to put on display the extent to which some scammers will go with fake documents to make themselves look and seem legit.

Even when anyone with four working brain cells should know that they're not.

Here's his opening gambit...on a scale of 1-10 (10 being not bad at all), he's a 2.5:

Jul 8

Dear Friend.

Permit me to share with you, my desire to go into business partnership with you. I got your profound contact email from a computerized data,following my effort searching for a  reliable and trustworthy person to assist me in this venture.

My name is Mr. Richard Blanc, I am the Credit Account Manager with BANQUE ATLANTIQUE BANK BENIN Republic in  West Africa Region.

I have an obscured business Transaction I wish to discuss and handle with you, if only you can give it a little attention.BRIEF DETAIL OF TRANSACTION: It involves moving an Excess Maximum Returned Capital Profit (EMRCP) of 1.2% to any of your Overseas bank account, and commence a standard Investment.

In BANQUE ATLANTIQUE BANK, We have well over 158 Corporate Investors ,Locally and Internationally, who invested their Capital  Funds in our bank, and those Capital Invested Funds are being managed and administered by my office.

The Capital Invested  Funds has a value of over US$22Billion net. This Value is been used for Trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil business and Lending with Profit Returns. At Every end of year, each Corporate Investor is entitled to receive a 100% Dividend/Interest benefits of any Amount invested .  However, BANQUE ATLANTIQUE BANK has a Targeted Capital Profit of 20% in every year, but in the year 2013, my office made an over targeted profit to the tune of 21.2% ,which 20% targeted profit was  reported and submitted to the management. Since 2013 i have deposited and placed the over-accrude profit of 1.2% which has value of US$5.5Million in a suspense account until
date.

With all due respect, I seek your concept and permission to present you to our bank as one of our bank foreign investors who has not receive his 2013  dividend benefit, so that our bank will transfer this over maximum profit of 1.2% (US$5.5Million) to your nominated bank account, for both of us to share among ourselves.

Note, after handling this project successfully, you will get 50% of the total fund and 50% for me.  

 

 

And more of the usual blah, blah, blah.  It isn't hard to see why this only rates as a 2.5 on my scale.

But what I want to show you here is the quality of documents he's employing to convince my character -- in this case, Jack N. Ewehoff -- that he is legit.  For example, his ID card (above).  Or his passport:

Then there are these three gems he sent me once my character had identified hisself:

Not bad, eh?

 

Of course, he couldn't keep up the quality when it came to the application letter he told me to send to the bank:

 

 

To the Attention: Mr. Edward Cooper
Executive Director ,Banque Atlantique Benin
Phone : + 229 688 32335
Contact E-mail:    edward_cooper.banque@hotmail.com

Sir,

I am Jack N, Ewehoff from USA  One of your Foreign
Investors, I am writing to
confirm and know why my 2013 Annual Dividend Benefit valued at
US$5,500,000.00 has not yet been remitted to my bank account till date.

By this letter, I am applying and requesting  for remittance of my
2013 dividend benefit from Banque Atlantique Benin valued at
US$5,500,000.00 . My late application for this payment is due to other
subsequent projects I engagements.

Sir, your prompt response and attention to this letter will be highly
appreciated as I have already concluded other investment projects I
wish to embark with this dividend fund.

I will appreciate your prompt response.

Thanks

Jack N, Ewehoff

Ah yes...there's always that fall off once the original template strayed from.

 

As one can surmise, my character plays along at getting the business until it's time to allow Mr. Blanc a peek into the dubious character of my character.  Y'all know how that goes.  And unless Mr. Blanc proves amusingly stupid in how this inevitably ends, I'll spare you what you are quite used to by now:  how the game ends.

 

Which got a "WTF is up with that?" from my pet rock, Seymour...