This hapless idiot is playing right into my hands...
Picking up from where we last left off, the lad responded as hoped:
Okay I will contact him but you have to send the $3500 as soon as possible.Today if possible.
Evening.
Thank you. I'd like to hear back from him first and then I'll proceed. Things are getting quite confusing over here.
L𝔼nny
Now, something which confused me at first in real life happened. I had sent out the same ASEM requesting an imaginary "Mike" to about 20-25 lads. Then on Monday. the same day as these messages, this popped up in my inbox:
From: Innocent 1st
Hello Mr Leonard,It is me Mr mike.
When are you making the payment?
I assumed this was probably a lad responding to my ASEM a few days late. So I replied:
Mike:
Thanks for writing back. I'm ready to send the money whenever you send the account. What was the delay?
L𝔼nny
Hello leonard,I apologize for keeping you waiting. I had other official matters i was looking into.
Pay to the account below please.
<snipped piggy>.
This was a brand new account and so far I was thinking this was a different lad. But then he messed up and said:
Hello Leonard.I have not heard from you.The trunk boxes are being delievered .
I am waiting for your payment. And send me your home address again. If you are on telegram or WhatsApp send me your numbers so we can talk constantly through chat.
Regards
Mr Mike.
This Joseph character is the only lad who I have said anything about trunkboxes to. It was clearly him under another name trying again. So this made for the second piggy from the lad.
I decided to make things get messier:
Mike:
Are you sure this is the correct account? Different people have been writing me this week and confusing me.
L𝔼nny
And then this morning, all hell broke out. Joseph wrote first:
I thought you said Mike has contacted you yesterday. What is confusing you? What were you talking about your elder sister ? You said she stopped talking to you the last time .
He'd been on the phone with L𝔼nny AGAIN, this time pretending to be Mr. Mike.
Innocent then added on (repeating the mule's IRL name, changed):
Yes the account is correct.I personally approved the account of Mule McMuleface.
Please proceed immediately so i can hasten up the delivery of the trunk boxes.
Thank you.
Mr mike.
Then:
Have you sent the money yet to McMuleface?
Followed by:
Becareful of imposters please. I sent you a community bank of Missouri bank.Please use that or do you prefer to used cashapp or apple pay?
Thse all came in the middle of the night. So I decided I'd introduce Mr. Klein at least. I sent a mail to the lad from another address:
Who are you? Reply back asap abeg, we no fit recognize you bros.
Mike Okonma
Innocent got back to me and must've thought I was really stupid:
I am Mr mike.
How may i help you?
My working name is Mike. Leonard na my client. If u no wan join hand, keep off abeg. I don chop plenty dollars from him already, make u no spoil the work bros.
Innocent played dumber than he is:
Wetin happen?
You don msg my cl
And innocent got belligerent:
One person Dey get cl? Instead of you to know how we work together and share funds. Oya nah I will just start telling him you are a scammer. Make the whole work spoil.
Last chance:
I no want trouble with you bro, make you no spoil the work.
He wants to pay me $3500 . I don’t know what you are saying
Which was rejected I guess.
Thus, I moved onto the next stage of things. I sent the following letter to my own account (the victim one) from the fake lad's account:
FROM THE DESK OF:
DR. CALVIN KLEIN ESQ.
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL FUND TRANSFERS
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAGOS & TRUSTED AFFAIRS
14 Prosperity Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos, NIGERIA
Date: March 11, 2026
Good morning Mr. Leonard:
This is the real Mr. Calvin Klein. I am reaching out to you with a matter of EXTREME URGENCY and UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY. Recently, we have been having problems with our records. I am requesting that you kindly send money to the below account today:
<snipped>
We are still doing everything we can to connect you with the late Mr. Reginald Buttersworth's funds. However, I must STRONGLY CAUTION YOU, YOU MUST ONLY READ AND RESPOND TO MY EMAILS. My ex-wife is angry at my good fortune and she will attempt to contact you pretending to be me or my assistance to ruin this transaction. DO NOT REPLY. Do not even open her emails.
If you receive any other correspondence about unclaimed funds, foreign inheritances, lottery winnings, or opportunities to become a part-time prince, THESE ARE FAKES AND IMPOSTERS. You see, I have already been betrayed FOUR TIMES this week by people who replied to other emails. One man replied to a different bank official and lost everything, including his hat. I do not want this to happen to you.
We just need the required administrative processing fee of $3,500 USD. Once this is received, I will send Mike Okonma, our delivery agent, to grant you your share of $47,800,000.00 in the trunkboxes lined with authentic mahogany. Please respond ONLY to this email address and NO OTHER. If anyone else emails you claiming to be Dr. Calvin Klein, please know that I am the REAL Dr. Calvin Klein. The others are lying. I have a certificate. I look forward to our mutually beneficial and completely legitimate business partnership. Please keep this matter between us.
Yours in God's blessings and financial prosperity,
DR. CALVIN KLEIN ESQ.
Joseph ran in to give his two cents as well:
Mr Mike is our former agent who went rogue and has been dismissed because he illegal contacts beneficiaries to collect money from them illegally which resulted to his dismissal.
This person you are sending money to will keep asking you for more and more money which will not be registered in the company. You will not get your money delivered to you if you keep send this Mr Mike your money .
Kindly pay to the right account and get your trunkboxes delivered to you immediately.
Regards .
IMF manager,
Joseph Dane .
Unfortunately, the well has been poisoned:
Hello.
Mr. Klein just told me that his ex wife is out to get the money. Is this what is going on? Please keep me posted.
L𝔼nny
Who is is Klein . Explain why the ex wife is going to to get money and from who or where please ?
Joseph.
Calvin Klein messaged to say that his ex-wife is out sending bad people to try and impersonate officials and get the money. I presume you've communicated with him about this? In any event, I need to make the transfer soon and the faster this is cleaned up, the sooner I can get this 3,500$ sent fo the trunkboxes.
L𝔼nny
Do not say I didn’t warn you. You are being scammed by this people. You already sent the $1,500 which you are not getting back or the trunk boxes .I have sent you the right account to send the $3500 to.
There are too many impersonators already.
The trunk boxes are yours and there is no need to pay such amounts .
So I reintroduced the task to try and direct him back into playing the Mike character:
Joseph.
I have just recieved the attached mail here. I wish you people could get this sorted out. Mike Okonma is supposed to be helping on a project for which I'm supposed to include an extra 1,000$ upon completion. We did agree to that. If you are legitimate and not Mr. Klein's ex-wife trying to confuse me, I do hope you would do the same.
Right now I am torn between the two of you. Are you even working in the same offices?
L𝔼nny
Then Joseph messed up BAD:
Mr Leonard ,From my investigations, this group of people are Nigerian scammers .
Please kindly go on google and ask about Nigerian scammers and see for yourself.
You can also talk to the police and see for yourself that they are lying.
Nigerians are scammers and they will say anything or promises to take your money .
I don’t want anything from you aside you getting what is rightfully yours but you are not meant to pay any money for it.
I am an American and despise these evil Nigerian people. I can’t watch anyone get scammed by this people .
Please kindly keep your money safe and call me let me tell you steps to follow to get your money back.
Now I know why your sister was angry with you and I must say that she is really smart .
I am not asking you for money but this other Mr Mike and fake Mr Klein wants money from you and they can go any length to get it from you..
Text me for information on the right step to take.
Shouldn't have done that. Now you HAVE to pretend to be Mr. Mike:
Joseph,
I'm sorry, but I must scold you for having a very racist view. Not all Nigerians are scammers, this is just as bad as saying all Chinese can't cook or all Brits have bad teeth. I can no longer support you if you truly believe an entire nationality is made up of robbers. We should consider our brothers in Africa higher than that, how backwards of you to even suggest such a thing. I'm sure now you must be Mr. Klein's ex-wife out to decieve me and hold this racism in your heart due to the marraige failure. May God forgive you young lady, I will be doing business exclusively with Mr. Klein and Mr. Mike.
L𝔼nny
Joseph tried to get through with another mail. IGNORED:
I have people from Nigeria working with the IMF. I didn’t say all Nigerians are scammers. I am telling you this people are currently scamming you and after sending them $3500, they will ask for another money with another story.
But unfortunately, the victim has moved on and wrote Innocent:
Mike.
Thank you. I have just received a very racist message from a Joseph Dane who I think was a fraud and actually a woman, probably your employer's ex-wife. I hope this is the correct email? The lady said all Nigerians are theives.
L𝔼nny
I am sorry you heard that from him.Please proceed with the payment to Mule McMuleface bank details i sent earlier so i can finish up this work for you.
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While that happens, Innocent/Joseph and my fake lad got into an argument:
Why do you tell the client Mike is yahoo boy?
That is not me oga. My working name is mike too.
Liar
Wetin your client's name bro?
Leornard. Send me your WhatsApp number.
If we don't work together, all of us will lose the cl. He Will block all of us.
Instead of greed lets work and share this 3500
Why you tell the cl Mike has gone wrong bros? U no get sense.
Na me you dey tell say i no get sense abi ogun want kill you?? I didn't tell cl bad about mr mike because i am also mr mike.
Guy no talk to me anyhow make i no vex. Be like una plenty wey dey fight for this client. 2 people don chat me warn me join.
This is stupid. We just saw him say earlier:
Mr Mike is our former agent who went rogue and has been dismissed...etc. etc.
So I replied:
If you no wan join hand, I no fit hear you bros, the volume is somehow low. The cl is mine and I go cash out this week. Find ur own cl, chat me again when you get sense.
And now, L𝔼nny will reply shortly with the details of what he wants done before any money gets sent... stay tuned!