Capt. Eddie Shields.......Nigerian Scammer. Part 2.

In yesterday's post [Capt. Eddie Shields.......Nigerian Scammer. Part1] I published the first email from a Nigerian scammer posing as "Capt. Eddie Shields". As you will see, my reply was short but sweet.........Eddie's first few emails are rather long winded. So, for a few days, I will only post one or two emails. I don't want to bore everyone with an incredibly long blog post.

Soon, the emails will be shorter and I'll be able to post more. That will speed things up a bit.


Re: From Capt.Eddie Shields
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36 AM
From: "Misty Meaner"
To: "USA Army" (d-usmilbase@blumail.org)

Hello Capt. Shields,
Thank you for your recent email.
I was wondering about the 70/30 split. I think you should get more than 30%. Maybe we can go 60/40. I'm sure that woulkd be more fair to you.
Yours,
Misty Meaner


Re: From Capt.Eddie Shields
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:03 PM
From: "USA Army" (d-usmilbase@blumail.org)
To: "Misty Meaner"

Greetings Dear

It is so nice to hear from you, there are things i must let you know
about this deal,bear in mind that I have already had every fee taken
care of , all i need is your kind assistance and your full trust. Yes
trust here is like a two edge sword, if i never trusted you, i would
not have contacted you in the first place. For us to succeed,the
confidentiality of this deal has to be highly observed.

Before we proceed i believe i have explain the origin of these funds
and why I'm sending them to you. I'm part of the 50,000 troops still
remaining in Iraq to complete the later part of the war plan.
However,my unit was deployed to Afghanistan on a temporary mission
from where I should be heading home by the month of December after a
dedicated and selfless service to my country.Right now i am seeking
your help and partnership to keep the boxes safe till my return, as I
just got a confirmation that the boxes has arrived the USA.

Like I told you earlier I'm still on duty here in Afghanistan as we
have moved from Iraq and if such amount of money is traced to my
account in the united states, I shall be investigated. Hence I need
you to assist me. It is $40million in total, and I have given your
request a consideration we would share it 70/40 percent, and you would
help me invest in hotels and real estate. This deal was not just
planned in a day, if you read the news blog i sent to you, you'll
discover that this funds were found a very some time ago, i was not
the only one involved, were were initially 4 in number, but i have
lost all three of them to this war down here. Right now as i am
writing this mail to you, no one know any thing about the boxes except
the both of us, and due to security reasons, this has to remain your
top secret for now, I really need this deal to be accomplished because
i know i owe my late colleagues families a lot, and involving a third
party could really spoil a lot of things. I understand you don't have
a bank account, but all you need to have is a safe place the boxes
could be kept.

I know you might be wandering how i got your information for this,
well i am a level six holder with full access to the Department Of
Defense Database (DOD) data base, and I believe I can trust you, not
just as an American,but because of the love we have for our selves. It
is most important that you take this deal very seriously, i know that
i may have crossed the line by shipping the boxes to you without your
initial consent but the deed is already done,this happened due to the
rush down here,as we have been deployed to Afghanistan to assist on
the on going war against terrorism, with that i had to rush things up,
and i was unable to let you know before now,please accept my apologies
about that. The boxes were sent via a very secured Swift Military
Courier as a special immunity delivery to you, it was done this way so
as to avoid hackers on line from tracking the boxes and sending them
to the wrong person.I must assure you that you will benefit very well
and you will never regret assisting me, but on the other hand you MUST
be very careful never to expose this deal to any one otherwise we
would both be in serious trouble.Even the Delivery man shouldn't know
the content of this boxes as he is not aware that the boxes contain
raw cash, because i made it clear to them that you are my Cousin whom
i am sending my personal military effects, so no one knows nothing
about this. Apart from any carelessness from your side, i have already
made solid plans to ensure that this deal is 100% untraceable. Your
efforts and assistance will be rewarded with 40% of the money if you
are able to handle and abide by the rules of this deal and keep the
boxes safe until i return to the U.S, all you need to do is contact
the Diplomat in Charge of the delivery of the boxes to you so that he
can give you the details and the status of the boxes.

Please i got a confirmation that the boxes has arrived at the USA and
is presently in the Speed Track Travels & Logistics Delivery Hub In
the State Of Tennessee, you will have to write Mr.Harry
(Diplomat/Delivery man) and let him know you are my cousin, the legal
beneficiary to the trunk boxes, in- case you are been contacted by any
body by name or with the info below, do not hesitate to respond to
him, and do as he instructed, he is in charge of the shipment.

Name: Harry Taylor
Email: harrytaylor@speed-track-travels.co.cc
Phone: 404-462-7492

Please try and be fast with whatever you are doing we don't have all
the time in the world.I Will be waiting to read from you once you have
emailed the delivery man. You would have to contact the diplomat,and
instruct them on how and when you want to receive the boxes, just be
of good co-operation with him ok.

Like i stated earlier, trust here is like a two edge sword, it has to
be both sided, with that, I need us to build up this deal in an
atmosphere of trust between our selves, you do not know how much smile
the content of your mail has brought to me today,i also want to assure
you of one thing,you would never regret assisting me in this deal, i
am a man of my words, and i love sticking to my words.

If you do not mind, i can share a bit about my self, you already know
my name, i am from Yucca Valley California, a single dad. lost my wife
in an accident 3yrs ago, i have a daughter and my mom, presently 85yrs
old, and on wheel chairs. I love my family so much, and thinking about
them each day gives me a good enough reason to fight and see the next
day. I would love to know more about you if you do not mind, who
knows, today might mark a beginning of a very great friendship between
the both of us, i would love to know a little about you, your family,
what you do for a living, and so on. I hope you have great ideas on
investments we could lay our hands on as soon as the boxes gets to
you, because the money would be too much to keep in a safe or in a
bank, that is why i suggest you use majority into business and
investments. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Beware Mrs.Meaner, I have $40 million in those boxes.Let me know if
this is going to work out because i need your full devotion in this
deal,Any information you want please let me know. Do keep me updated
as soon as you have contacted the delivery man. Thanks for your
cooperation,Keep you heads up, Have a wonderful day. God bless you and
God bless America !!

Capt.Eddie Shields





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Capt. Eddie Shields.......Nigerian Scammer. Part 1

The first of September found me with writer's block and general ennui viz a viz the blogosphere. Out of boredom, I felt the time had come to bring Misty Meaner and company out of retirement. For those of you unfamiliar with Misty, "she", along with Lucy Ricardo, Fred and Lamont Sanford and Wanda Tuinphro are the personae I use to scam the scammers, so to speak. We all receive the emails from all sorts trying to separate us from our money, identities and social security numbers. From time to time, I will answer these emails while posing as one or all of the above mentioned quintet.

The latest series come from a Nigerian scammer calling himself Eddie Shields. OK, you say, we know it comes from a scammer but aren't you being prejudice calling him a Nigerian?

Au contraire.

I use Yahoo email to communicate with these scammers and if you know where to look, you can locate the IP address from where the email originated. Eddie's first email came from 41.205.160.226 ........Nigeria.

So, without further ado, I'll post the beginning of Eddie's adventure with Misty.





From Capt.Eddie Shields
"USA Army" (d-usmilbase@blumail.org)
September 5, 2011 2:12 PM

Greetings Dear,

Once again thank you for your response to my mail,I am Capt.Eddie
Shields,an O-3 presently serving in the Military with the US Army,I'm
commander of the Paratrooper with B. Co, 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne
Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
stationed here at Camp Victory Baghdad Iraq, and part of the troops
still remaining in Iraq to complete the later part of the war plan.

However, I am on the move to Afghanistan from Iraq as my unit was
deployed to Afghanistan on a temporary mission from where I should be
heading home after a dedicated and selfless service to my country. and
I really need your help in assisting me with the safe keeping of two
military trunk boxes which has just arrived the USA and would be
heading to you as soon as you agree to help me with the safe keep. I
hope you can be trusted?

Be rest assured that this is an opportunity that has come for both of
us to be comfortable in life. Please all I need from you, is to make
sure that you adhere to my instructions, as this is 100% risk free.The
funds in question was discovered by my unit During our war campaign in
Iraq my team was responsible for a lot of raids on Saddam Hussein
(Iraqi former president) palaces and while one of such raids was going
on we discovered the sum of $140 Million dollars packed into military
trunk boxes and hidden in Saddam's underground secret chambers. As a
soldier my first instinct was to report this to but on a second
thought I have sacrificed years of my life to serving and protecting
my great country, most of us have lost friends and loved ones in the
line of duty for me i have been married twice of which none ever
lasted for up to 3 yrs due to the nature of my job. My 18 yrs old son
turned to drugs as he lacked parental guidance and eventually died
from overdose as a matter of fact i can't begin to mention all my
sacrifices and losses but know that the glory of America is built on
our pain & blood, this is why I decided to use this opportunity to
make some fortune for myself since the funds belonged to an ex tyrant
whom we captured and has been executed by the International court of
justice. As the leader of my unit i reported $100 million dollars out
of the funds we discovered and used my position to ship the remaining
$40 million dollars out of here to the USA for safekeeping until after
my assignment as we have been deployed to Afghanistan to help out with
the on going war on terror.

This is my private email address so that no one will be able to trace
anything. Please note that the usage of private phones here is out of
bound to us out here because all international calls are monitored.
But I will always work out ways to call you via public phones when
necessary. Like I told you earlier I'm still on duty here in
Afghanistan after we moved from Iraq and if such amount of money is
traced to my account in the united states, I shall be investigated.
Hence I need you to assist me keep the funds safely . It is $40
million in total, we would share it 70/30 percent, and you would help
me invest in hotels and real estate. I am also assuring you that this
is %100 risk free, I have already taken care of the fee needed, like
you can see, the boxes has safely arrived the shores of the USA, and
all i need is your trust, assurance and confidentiality.

Your own part of this deal is to provide a safe place where the funds
can be sent to, while mine would be sending it to you by diplomatic
means. Can you be trusted to handle this serious and confidential
transactions? I will explain further and provide you with the
necessary information's you would be needing like the name of the
diplomat in charge of the shipment, his phone number and everything
you need to know, when I get a response from you.

I really need your prayers towards us, if you have been watching the
news, you'll find out that there was a recent attack on us down here
which left about 31 soldiers dead, I lost a couple of friends during
this attack, and I am presently amongst the troops heading for this
mission. I am not sure if i would make it back alive, but I want you
to promise me that you will take this just like your own. My Daughters
picture is in one of the boxes, along with my house address with
instructions, just in-case i don't make it back, she is all i have
got, and I want you to take her like yours too, she is a very smart
and nice girl, and I can die for her to make sure she is comfortable
in life. I also want to thank you for all the prayers and support
these last few years, i am very grateful. Do have a wonderful day. I
have attached a copy of my passport and ID so you could at least see
what I look like. Please give me a response as soon as possible


God Bless
Yours buddy.
Capt.Eddie Shields
(/d-usmilbase@blumail.org)



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Replacing Outdated Link for Images of Fetal Development.

On some earlier blog posts which occasionally show up on the LinkWithin links (Images of Fetal Development and Images of Fetal Development Redux) I posted a link to some photos that were presented to Fr. Frank Pavone, at the time he was working at the Vatican. These photos showed fetal development from seven weeks to six months.

I recently discovered that my link was obsolete.

I've updated the page and the new link is as follows:

http://www.dumaguetecity.net/fetaldevelopment.html

Another Slow Week.

It's been very nearly a week since my last post. Much of the blame can be placed on my having changed shifts recently, putting my circadian rhythm slightly out of whack. Not only that, but I have more time to spend with wife and son.

With my new schedule, it's early to bed and early to rise; I'll read a bit before going to sleep. When I finished reading Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (by Simon Singh) I thought my brain needed something less intellectually intense. In his review of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" , Father Robert Barron mentioned the classic horror story by Mary Shelly, Frankenstein.

Frankenstein would be the perfect follow-up to Singh's book, I thought.

Cheapskate that I am, I went to Project Gutenberg and downloaded a file suitable for Kindle. I could have gone to Amazon.com and picked up a Kindle version for $3.99, but, did I mention that I'm a cheapskate?

I was sure that I'd read the book years ago, but as soon as opened the file, I knew right away that I hadn't after all. Since downloading the book, I've been reading a few pages every evening. The story starts slowly.......I was all set to proclaim the novel "cheesy"; had I written a review after getting to the death of Victor Frankenstein's brother, William, I would have given the book a very low rating. I'm further along now and it's getting better (though the monster's narrative of the De Lacey family was a bit tedious at times).

Rather than wait until I've finished reading the entire book - that could take a while at the rate I'm going - I'll go ahead and give it a proverbial thumbs up.

I've also been occupied of late corresponding with yet another Nigerian scammer , this one claiming to be an American soldier in possession of two boxes containing $40 million which he found hidden in Saddam Hussein's secret underground chambers.

I'll be posting details of our email exchanges in the near future. All I can say now is that his name is Eddie Shields and he and Misty Meaner are getting along splendidly.

Anger and Forgiveness.

On Monday, Sept.05 I posted a a link to a sermon given by Fr. Robert Barron. I actually posted this link for a particular person. Thanks to Google Analytics, I know this person visits my blog from time to time on his iPod.

No need to provide so many details to those who have no idea who or what I'm referring to. In that same vein, I'm posting today a link to Fr Barrons sermon for Sept. 11, 2011 on - Anger and Forgiveness. Again, although this valuable lesson can pertain to each one of us, I'm posting the link with one person in mind.

Today's first reading during Mass comes from Sirach :
Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight.

Are you going to hug your wrath and anger forever?

Even if you believe I am the guilty party, you might consider today's Gospel reading from Matthew which has this -

"Then Peter approaching asked him, 'Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?'
Jesus answered, 'I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times........' "

This argument has gone on for far too long. The hatchet should have been buried ages ago.