Scams - Igho Izekor via Hong Kong

eLetter 1 that I received:

From: "Igho Izekor"
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:03:03 +1100
Subject: Jesus Christ is Lord of all.

P.O. BOX 5125, GPO AIRPORT ROAD, OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA,EDO STATE, NIGERIA.Hello and peace be unto you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope this letters finds you safe in Christ and I have prayed that God will use you as a vessel to meet the needs of His children here.

My name is Igho Izekor and I’m reaching you from Africa. Yesterday after school I sat for some minutes in our school staff office checking the Internet for online books by Bishop David Oyedipo, there I came across your email. I believe it is God’s order for this to happen.

I am married with five children and me and my family fellowship in Jesus Family Bible Church, a small church with a great vision where Jimoh David (jimohd@africamail.com) is the pastor. I am through God’s mercies born again and serving the Lord faithfully pressing towards the mark. I’M one of our church rural evangelists and through God’s grace I’m able to go with the team once a week (Saturdays) to reach souls in neighboring villages. I have very great compassion for lost souls so the evangelical team is the better place I can serve in the church. My occupation: I am a teacher in a primary school and in my school we have a staff computer Internet where I’m now able to reach you. I grew in the village and my parents were farmer but I had the opportunity to acquire western education but not too many people do in my place.

The purpose for writing you is to appeal for your help for bibles. In the past six months we have visited Iguadolor village continually and many people have been won there for Christ particularly the old fathers and mothers. Old persons mostly inhabit the villages here because the young ones are drifting to the urban areas in order to enjoy amenities like electricity and pipe-borne water that are not available in the village. There are up to 50 persons in need of bibles but not all can read. There are four aged couples and five individuals who can read and asking for bibles. They have so much show concern that we are keeping them always in our prayers for provision of bibles for them. We need 13 giant print bibles for these loved ones who are now saved and eager to feed from God’s word. They cannot afford bibles because they are cost much in this place. Please help to supply bibles to these our brothers and sisters in need. The King James Version will be preferable used or ! new. Please send the bibles through my address above. If you have any Christian literature one or two that is enriching to the spirit man please send me.

I pray for you in Jesus name that the Lord will provide for you to help for the need and also bless you as you help.

Bye for now and write soon.

Your in Christ,
Igho Izekor.
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eLetter 2 that I sent in response:

Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:17:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "Marguerite E." briarsandthorns_660@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Jesus Christ is Lord of all.
To: ighoizekor@yahoo.com.hk

Greetings Igho:

I just received your email, and am pleased that you wrote to me. Is the address that you mailed to me complete, and if I sent something to this address would it be in care of you, or would it be in care of your church and church pastor?

I'm happy to hear about your ministry, and would like to hear more. Does your church - or pastor - have any kind of online site?

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Many blessings to you,
Assuredly in faith,
Rev. Marguerite Earhart

http://lenicheministries.com/

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eLetter 3 From ChristianBook.com

From : CBDOrders
Sent : Monday, November 12, 2007 12:09 PM
Subject : Re: Feedback From Christianbook.com
(Topic: An order you are trying to place)

We regret to inform you that we have temporarily stopped shipping catalogs and orders to Nigeria. This action is due to the extreme cases of theft, fraud, and difficulty in delivering orders that we have experienced, particularly in this country.

We regret the severity of this policy. Thank you for your understanding.

Garret K.
Customer Research Rep
Christian Book Distributors

Original Message Follows:
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Feedback from Christianbook.com Web Site from Rev. Marguerite Earhart
at Sat Nov 10 22:09:31 2007

Hello:

I was curious if you deliver orders to Nigeria? I had a request for Bibles that I would like to send, and wanted to check first with you before I ordered.

Many Blessings to you.
Kindly,
Marguerite.
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Final eLetter Response from igho

Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:08:53 +0800 (CST)
From: "Igho Izekor" ighoizekor@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: from igho
To: "Marguerite E." briarsandthorns_660@yahoo.com

Dear friend in The Lord,

I bring you greetings from Nigeria . I got your response to my mail and I’m very happy hearing from you. I have been praying since I wrote to you and believed that God is going to supply the bibles though I may not know the means. I am happy that the Lord has chosen you to respond to this need and He will also provide the means to fulfill this need as we keep praying. Only a few people can give their resources to serve others of the house hold of faith. I want you to know that God will bless you as you meet this need for bibles for our brothers and sisters in Iguadolor.

Our church is a non denomination church which began in 2002 by Pastor Jimoh David. I knew the Lord in 1995 when a team of Jehovah Witness Watch tower group visited me. But After that moment I started attending a non denominational church because the beliefs of Jehovah Witness is not according to the bible.

I am praying for you and know that God is blessing you. A friend was involved in a motor accident and he is in the hospital and responding to treatment. Please pray for him for speedy recovery. His name is Afeke. He is a Christian and wished that such a thing never happened, but in Romans 8:28 the bible makes it clear that all thing that happens to the children of God is for good. I told him to give God the glory rather for keeping him alive.

My postal address remains P.O. BOX 5125, GPO AIRPORT ROAD , OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE , NIGERIA . Please do send them by insured mail so they can be safe on the way. It is our church address and very safe. We have nothing like online site.

Bye for now and write soon. God bless you.

Yours in Christ
Igho Izekor.

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I decided to post this due to interest that I'm seeing as far as this. I did not respond back to this person named igho with this last email.

I have been getting quite a bit of mail from scammers such as this.

I have been getting fraud letters that are addressed from all over asking me to represent myself to foreign governments as a bogus relative of some dead person and their family in order to gain access to their money and estate. I have been getting letters from people saying they have diseases and are going to die soon so I have to send my information in order for them to send money to me to use for Christian endeavors and such - or for me to just pocket.

These scammers present themselves as widows, infirmed people, pastors, lawyers, etc.

It is absolutely disgraceful.

I delete at least two a week from my inbox.

What makes me mad is that they sound so stinking sincere.

FYI: The Lord knows who you people are too.

My advice is this - if you receive any eletters that are emailed to you that are promising large sums of money, estate - which is FRAUD, and are requesting something that sounds fishy - requesting personal information from you:

DELETE IT.

It is not entirely understood the motivations behind this email requesting large numbers of large print Bibles. I read on another site that it is due to the paying of bribes in getting the Bibles into the country or in the selling the Bibles on the black market.

Whatever the reason in my opinion it is despicable.

AND I haven't heard anything to the contrary.

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Scams - This Walk: November 2007. 11.9.07-9:48PM
http://lenicheministry2.blogspot.com/2007/11/scams-this-walk-november-2007-11907.html

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The Good the Spam and the Ugly
by: Steve H. Graham

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