Dear Sir, Madam,
I am Mrs Ülle Pärnpuu, a citizen of Estonia and I hereby wish to make an official complaint to your office about citizens from your country that scammed me with the Nigerian 419 scam. I have reported this to our police department and they advised me to contact your office first.
This all started in May on the Internet site Shtyle. Fm, where a certain Perry Riece from the USA asked for my friendship, which I accepted. He also operates on Facebook, Netlog, Yahoo and SKYPE under the same name and per phone. He won my confidence as a friend, as he told me that he had a 10- year old daughter, who suffers from cancer. As my husband is ill with cancer too, he was right away ready to support me even with money and medications. He tried to start a personal romantic relationship with me, sending me poems and writing letters, as I had given him my email address and phone number. But unfortunately his story turned out to be a usual scam which I did not realize at first. He told me that his cancer -sick daughter was at his sister-in-law in Nigeria and at the time where he had been serving in the US army in Afghanistan. As we corresponded, all kind of expenses started to happen with this little daughter, because she fell and broke her leg and had to be operated on and needed a blood transfusion and he himself as a foreign citizen had to pay full money and was running out of funds. He asked me to help him and promise that he will refund me soon as he is back in the USA. I felt very sorry for his daughter and sent my money via Western Union to Nigeria, mostly on the name of Doctor Ehis Oseghale, 7. Wuse Street, Harper Crescent, Abuja. (Telephone number 2347056679756)
He suddenly had many more expenses as well and told me his visa are about to expire and that he had custom problems. All of these expenses were paid with my money, I started to realise that something was wrong and insisted that he start to refund my money and that he should leave Nigeria after he told me in his own words he was at the time and go back to the USA. A friend of mine tracked the emails origin he was writing me and all of them originated from California in the USA. It was then that I realised I had been scammed and that this man was not in Afghanistan or Nigeria, but that his friends were indeed in Nigeria receiving the payments. Then he informed me one day with big lament that his little sweet daughter had died. He supplied me with a to a private bank in London, telling to me that only they were able to send me a refund. These bankers (Mr Darren Woodgate) asked me for more money (Euro 170) to pay for the transfer of the money to my and gave me at last a fake MTCN (Money Transfer Control Number) of Western Union and a name of Cyril Ifediora from Nigeria, who was supposed to send me back 7000 euros. They gave me a password and an answer, so that it seemed realistic, but there was no money on that number.
Surprisingly he continued to write me and insisted that there must be some mistake about the money the bank in England are trying to transfer to me, but I could find no evidence to believe anything he wrote me.
It is my understanding as told by our police department that many people all over the world had been scammed by this Nigerian scammers with the same kind of scam, so I now I put my case and hope to your department to do something positive about this. Please do not hesitate to contact me for more information, should you seek any.
Kind regardsMrs Ülle Pärnpuu
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