The true stories……….

BY
MUGAMBE MICHAEL
Not only in my country where I’ve seen it my self, but it is all over the world!
Every community has given them a name or names according to their
language and their understanding of the Act, those who speak English call
them scammers, conmen, thieves etc. In Uganda different tribes call them
different names, like in Ankole they are known as “Abashuma”etc. in
Buganda, they are known as “Ababbi”, “Bakyala-kimpadde” and mostly
Bakondo, today it has been made an English word by adding (s) making it
kondos. This word means a person who acquires some thing through illegal
means like corruption, stealing, conning etc. In East Africa, Uganda is well
known for such people followed by Kenya and then Tanzania, in Africa
Nigeria is the king, Senegal etc

These kondos use various means to get what they want, like through grabbing,
telling sad stories, lying etc. and the most popular way today is using Internet,
internet kondos are commonly known as Scammers. Many people have lost
their money through this Internet game in which they promise you Billions of
money and at last you end up in tears, at least I have seen two of my friends
who after losing this ridiculous game sadly came and told me the story.

One is called Robert, he was sent a massage that he was the (10,000,000) ten
millionth person to use that website so he qualified to win a Laptop, a Black
berry phone and an air ticket to one of the best hotels in Brazil with ₤2000 for
his up keep, but he was the one to pay for the shipping of his prizes including
the Air ticket, and in all, the total sum of the shipping fares was ₤460 which is
Ugshs 1,380,000/= (one million three hundred eighty thousand). Robert kept
this as a secret, he almost emptied his Account and sent the money with all his
details, but up to now promised prizes have never been sent. So the Internet
Kondos stole his money! The other narrowly survived this Kondo Game, after
realizing that the stories told by him by a beautiful Senegalese lady ended by
asking him send some money through the forex bureau to process some Bank
documents to ease transactions for millions they had promised him.

In my language (Luganda) there is a saying that “Buli mbwa n’olunaku

lwayo” every dog has its own day”, when I heard of Robert’s story I laughed
to tears, unknowing that my turn is coming.
Yes, my turn came, but it found me SMART with prior knowledge about the
Kondos, these people have a very good convincing skill that if you are soft
hearted and money minded you can just give in your money

A person in the names of Anta Momoh Joseph claiming to be the daughter of

the Joseph Momoh former president of Guinea Conakry, sent me an e-mail
asking to be my friend, its my hobby, so I just said “Yes its OK”, I sent her my
Private E-mail and she also did the same, she went ahead by sending me more
massages but on the 3rd E-mail, I realized she is a KONDO………..
Hi Anta,
It’s really great to have you, surely you've winded up my day, am
waiting for your photo, and this is my E-mail too. Pliz I kindly ask
you to send me your full contacts including country, Phone
number etc.

Michael

This was my first reply to her when she sent me a massage through my
scribd account in the names of ANTA 4U. She had asked me to send her
my private E-mail, in her first massage. When I sent that e-mail she
replied as follows:-

Hello Dear Michael M,

How are you today, I hope this massage will find you
in the best of your health, I really like to have a good
relationship with you, and I have a special reason why
I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my
situation here.

Please I write not only to introduce myself to you, but

also tender a joint investment business proposal for
your considerations and acceptance. I know that
receipt of my communication shall be a great surprise
to you considering the fact that we did not know each
other or had any business negotiations before now, I
am also aware of the fact that there is a lot of
fraudulent business proposals circulating around the
world, mostly from African countries. which makes it
imperative for one to be extremely careful before
accepting and venturing any business proposal from
unfamiliar person like me.

I however, pray your respected self not to allow the

above unnatural abnormalities to influence your
decision to accept my genuine proposal and
intentions which undoubtedly would be of immense
mutual benefits to both of us. I pledge to you for
urgent and dedicated attention which this issue
deserves.
I deem it necessary to introduce myself in detail for
you and the need for your assistance to claim and
invest my inheritance for me, I am Miss.Anta Joseph
Saidu Momoh 25years old girl from Sierra Leone, the
only daughter of Late Ex President Joseph Saidu
Momoh who was killed early Sunday in Conakry.

I am constrained to contact you because of the

maltreatment I, am receiving from my step mother.
She planned to take away all my late father's treasury
and properties from me since the unexpected death
of my beloved Father.

Meanwhile I wanted to escape to the Europe but she

hide away my international passport and other
valuable traveling documents. Luckily she did not
discover where I kept my Father's File which contains
important documents. So I decided to run to the
refugee camp where I am presently seeking asylum
under the United Nations High Commission for the
Refugee here in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. I wish to
contact you personally for a long term business
relationship and investment assistance in your
country.

My father secretly deposited the sum of US$6,3,

000.00 in one of the prime bank here in Senegal in
custody of my name as the next of kin. However, I
shall forward you with the necessary information of
the deposit on confirmation of your acceptance to
assist me for the transfer and investme nt of the fund
in your country. As you will also help me in an
investment, and I will like to complete my studies, as
I was in school, before the death of my father in
Guinea Conakry.

It is my intention to compensate you with 5% of the

total money for your services and the balance shall be
my investment capital. This is the reason why I
decided to contact you. Please all communications
should be through this email address only for
confidential purposes. As soon as I receive your
positive response showing your interest I will put
things into action immediately. In the light of the
above, I shall appreciate an urgent message
indicating your ability and willingness to handle this
transaction sincerely.

I am staying at the female hostel. Awaiting your

urgent and positive response. Please do keep this
only to your self please I beg you not to disclose it a
third party till I come over, once the fund has been
transferred into your account. I hope my explanation
is very clear but if you need further clarification, then
send in your questions. I will try to scan my picture to
send in my next mail.
Thanks as I hope to receive from you soon.
Yours Faithfully!

Miss. Anta Joseph Saidu Momoh

THE ABOVE IS HER PHOTO SHE SENT!

After receiving this E-mail, I was very shocked by the statement "I am
Miss.Anta Joseph Saidu Momoh 25years old girl from
Sierra Leone, the only daughter of Late Ex President
Joseph Saidu Momoh who was killed early Sunday in
Conakry.” in the 4th paragraph , I logged into Google search and
inserted Anta Momoh Joseph Saidu. Among the search results I
received, was also www.419.bittenus.com which gave more details about
this scammer.

After reading through the testimonies given by other people, and the
more details given by Miss. Young about these scammers, I copied some
details and sent them to her (kondo) by email, asking her to explain
more about it.

Here are the details I copied from 419.bittenus.com.

Hi Anta,

Hope life is Ok, could you please give a full explanation about the following :-
Hi My Dearest Frederick,
In the beginning, i actually was having fears of betrayal and how to get you convinced to
believe me when the firm advised me to look for a foreign partner from your country
since i am a refugee at the moment and the law of the country does not permit me to part-
take in any international transaction until i secure all the necessary papers. I was also
warned to be careful with the kind of person i connect through Internet because most of
the people are fake and can destroy my future if i don't pray for God to guide me to select
real person but surprisingly your mail response came up and you sound as if you were
reading my mind at the moment,…………………...
ISLAMIC BANK OF SENEGAL
49,Av.Leopold Sedar Senghor,
BP 3379 Dakar Senegal.(SWIFT IBSSNDA)
Information about my late father & the deposit code are as follows:
Name of depositor: Mr. Joseph Saidu Momoh
...................................................................
I am trusting you based on your genuine promise that you won't betray yourself which
you have taken me as part of you. Please do not involve a third person into this matter for
now until we secure the money because of my father's name that………………………...

You thought am not informed about the scammers on internet, why don't you try
another way of stealing people, don't you think it is an old fashioned way Which
most of us are aware of?
NOTE
For Fredric’s story in details
I’ve given you free advice, take care. and more stories about
Michael. scammers please visit
www.419.bittenus.com
After sending this e-mail I felt I had made a mistake, I had missed a
good story to tell, or write about. But this Kondo was also very serious
with a great attitude that, she went ahead with giving a full explanation
about the E-mail thinking am so stupid to take his words. She explained
as follows:-

From: Anta Momoh <momohanta@yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: THE ONLY EXPLAINATION I HAVE TO THIIS SITUATION
To: mmugambe@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Friday, 30 May, 2008, 1:24 AM

Dear good evening,

Please I must start by letting you that I am shearing

tears right inside the office of my Rev.Father who had
given me the opportunity to access my email in his
office computer twice in a day. why because I least
expect the mail you sent to me, I have an explanation
to that mail because I knows who is behind it, it is my
step mother using that fake information to make
people disbelieve me since am alone there is no body
who will stand on my behalf after she had survived in
killing as many as she had killed after the one of my
father.

Dear I don't know what to say or to do, for you to

believe me that this money is really in existence, but
the simple truth is that, I have had a lot of
disappointment over the transfer of this money due
to the manipulations of my step mother, she is aware
that I am trying to recover this money and since then
she started using her cousin sister to confuse people
that she is the rightfull beneficiary of that money but
not knowing that I have the original documents of
that money with me which was the only thing I
escaped with, and now many people have started
using the event as an opportunity to play fraud.

You are not the first to ask me this question even the
last one which finally caused me an unbearable
sickness after which I had to tell my Rev.father
everything about this money while I have been
hiding it from him. after telling him about it, he now
advised me to write to the Bank and tell them the
problem am having, to see if they can transfer the
money through diplomatic means so that it will be
easy for my partner whosoever, to help me handle
this transfer without any doubt. that is, he will see
the money before he will pay any fee to the Bank for
the transfer.
Dear I want you to believe me that this transaction is
100% free from risk but because of my status here in
the camp I can not go for it by myself and beside my
late father's WILL reads that I must execute this
transaction with a foreign partner who will help me
in business investment while I will continue my
studies all in the person's care.

Now Dear all I need to know is if you can sincerely

and reliably handle this transaction for me. then I will
like to have more details of yours as to prove to me
that you are not going to betray me at the end of this
transaction when the money had been transferred to
you.
I want to have your full contact information such as:
Your full name(.........................
Your home address (................
Your work (.................................
Your age (..................................
Your direct phone number(.....
And more about yourself
When I receive this above details from you confirming
that you have agreed to handle this transaction for
me, I will give you all the contact information of the
Bank where the money is, for you to contact them
and ask them the possibility of transferring the
money to you through their diplomatic Channel so
that if there is any payment involve, that will be only
when the total money has been brought to you and
you confirm that everything I told you is true before
you will pay any fee that they will charge for their
operation. Then after you have confirmed from the
Bank the possibility of this transaction in the way it
will suit you, I will give you all the documents
I got from the file of my late father which represents
the account. So that any one the Bank ask for, you
will send it to them.

Thanks,
Yours Anta.

I felt happy when she wrote back, I knew I had got a good story to tell
others, I didn't hesitate, but reply her immediately to show that I was
very interested in the deal.
The story continues like this:-

Hello Anta,
Good afternoon, am sorry about that sad story your
side, but let me pray for you, life will be better in the
Almighty’s name. At this time i don’t have a direct
Mobile 4n number, it was stolen from me a week
back, though it is off you can send me an E-mail
appointing me the time you'll call and fix my Sim Card
in an emergency phone.

I have trusted you! But i want "clean Deals" not those

which will tarnish my name in my country. Am just
helping you because I’m a Christian, the details are as
follows:-

Name: M. Michael, Address:- Box 2541 Kampala

Uganda. Age: 23, Phone: +256-755-525549.

That’s all, take care.

Michael

I had to give in this information, to let her send in more e-mails, after
receiving it she went in for another step. Enjoy it!
Dear Sweetheart,
How is your weekend, hope all is well with you.
I must tell you the truth, I am very happy to hear from
you.
Dear I want you to carefully read this mail, so that
you can understand what you need to do immediately,
as it is said that situation changes all things, Of
course I prefer to trust you than to die here in the
refugee’s camp where no body want to help me.

All that I am waiting now, is your efforts to get the

money transferred to you, then you will help me
prepare my travelling documents to join you so we
will live to understand each other, while I continue my
education, It's very painful in life when there is no
body to depend on, But I am glad that I have you now
to protect all my interest.

I want you to understand now that you are totally in

control of this transaction as soon as you send
an application to the bank, because I don’t have any
access to monitor this transfer from the refugees
camp, And I am giving all my trust and good faith
believing there will not be any betrayal or mischief
that will break my heart in the future, because I have
already gone through a lot of pains, and wouldn’t
want to under go pains any more, There is something
in me that has made me trusting you, So please do
not let me down.

I have already sent a letter to the bank regarding this

claim, so all you need to do now is to draft the letter
stating the method which the transfer should be done
and send it to the bank, because I don't know much
about transaction and I am giving all my trust and I
believe that you are choosing the right part for me.

Firstly you have to send a message to the bank

address as it is below requesting the transfer of the
fund be made to you on my behalf, with the bank
contact address as follows; Send the letter to the
bank first then we shall see what their answer will be.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK.

Contact person: Director of Foreign Operations.
His name is: Mr. Ragagopalan Nair
Email: icbicbsenegal@icmail.net.
Senegal Dakar .
Tel: +221-761- 273-695.
You must send the letter through the bank email
address I will be looking forward to hearing your
response from the bank.

Tell the bank to transfer the outstanding balance of

US$6.300, 000.00 to you belonging to Miss.Anta
Joseph Saidu Momoh . With account number,
871323987 Swift code AKP627; Deposit code AL148,
Tell the bank officer that you are my foreign business
partner and we need the fund to be transferred to
you urgently for an investment, also send your full
contact information’s to the bank for easy
communication with you and the bank.

As soon as the bank responds to your email, do not

delay to inform me so that I can advice you and also
go through the response of the bank.

Make sure you send the email to the bank as urgent

as you receive this mail and notify the bank about
your request, I will be waiting to direct you further,
because I want to leave this country to join you as
soon as possible.

I will be expecting to hear from you soon. Have a

happy week ahead.

Kisses from

Anta
On receiving this E-mail I tried to visit the International Commercial
Bank web site, I didn’t find any ting like icbicbsenegal@icmail.net
among their contacts, I then tried www.icmail.net and found out it is a
website where any body can open an E-mail address. Doing this didn’t
mean that I was expecting the money, but I just wanted to confirm. I
sent an e-mail to the Bank as I was told by the Kondo, what I also
received as a reply from the bank I forwarded it to Anta (Kondo) as she
had told me.

I believe doing as she had told made her think I was ripe to be eaten she
then sent another e-mail asking for a fee for a lawyer to work on the
documents which the Bank had asked, read the emails your self……...

Mr. Ragagopalan Nair.

Director of Foreign Operations
International Commercial Bank.

Sir/Madam

Re. TRANSFER OF FUNDS.

On behalf of my foreign business partner Miss. Anta

Joseph Saidu Momoh, I request for the transfer of
US$6.300, 000.00,With account number, 871323987
Swift code AKP627; Deposit code AL148, to my
account No. 8093762 Barclays bank of Uganda

I will be happy when my request is considered.

Yours,

Michael Mugambe

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK SENEGAL,

FOREIGN ACCOUNT OPERATIONAL DEPARTMENT:
MR. M.R.Rajagopalan Nair,
Tel :( 221) 761-273-695).
(03-06-2008).

Attn: Mr.Mugambe Michael,

Sir,
We Hereby acknowledge your request for the release of
Mr. Joseph Saidu Momoh deposited fund of ,($6.3 Million)
willed to Miss.Anta Joseph Saidu Momoh presently in
Dakar-Senegal.
According to your mail of inquiry, in-respect to the said
inherited fund deposited in our escrow account.

Be informed that your formal inquiry has been noted and

forwarded to the transfer unit, you are required to provide
proves confirming the true death of the depositor and the
legality of your claims from the side of the next of kin (Ms
Anta Joseph Saidu Momo) to enable us process the release
order, you should present the following documents via e-mail
attachment for the contents to be viewed properly.

1. You are requested to draft an application letter

requesting for the closure and transfer of the said fund
into your nominated bank account.

2. You should present an authority letter Power of attorney)

dully signed by a Senegalese based lawyer as your witness,
mandating you to make this claims and transfer on Miss Anta
Joseph Saidu Momo`s behalf

3. You should present a copy of Mr.Joseph Saidu Momoh death

certificate, issued by a public/General hospital confirming
his death.

4. You should present an affidavit of oath from the federal

high court in Dakar Senegal, Since the next of kin is
residing in Senegal.

On receipts of the above documents/in formations, we shall

verify them and as soon as we are satisfied, we shall
process your claim and effect the transfer. We sincerely
apologize for the inconvenience, we strive to ensure the
safety of our customers and maintain our high quality
standard.
Thanks.

Yours sincerely,

MR. M.R.Rajagopalan Nair.

Dearest Honey Michael,

I thank you very much for the notification of the reply

you received from the bank I greatly appreciate the
love that you are filling into my empty life , Indeed it
is natural and nothing can turn us apart, I hope to
come to your place soon and be hearing your sweet
confident voice close to me, and I am sorry for the
late response you already know that I have no
computer of my own and I have been thinking the way
to solve this matter perfectly and I have got the
solution.
I am very happy to receive from you the response
from the bank, I thank God for everything, I really
appreciate your care and your concern and I know
God will surely see us through.

According to the bank request, from the bank I

understand that they required a backing documents
seal and sign with a Senegalese Base Lawyer,
1) Firstly I have the Death Certificate of my late
father and the deposit certificate with me here. which
I will attach it to you as the bank requested from you.
What you have to do is to contact this Lawyer for him
to help us and get the remaining three,

2) Since you can't come here in person I have been

thinking that we will need the services of a lawyer
here who will represent us at the federal high court
here in Senegal. to get the affidavit of oath and
support, the lawyer will also help us to prepare the
power of attorney on our behalf.

This lawyer will help us to get the item which is the

power of attorney and the affidavit of oath and the
lawyer will also draft the transfer application for us
and support from the federal high court here in
Senegal.

Please keep this matter strictly confidential, I will

always trust you, Because I don't want my step
mother or any of my relatives to know about this on
any account, as you can see that we are almost at the
end of this matter, God will help us.

Now there is no need for us to keep waiting since

the bank are ready to make this transfer once the
documents are ready, I have ask the Rev.Father here
and he gave me a contact of a good indiginal lawyer
here in SENEGAL who will help us to get this
documents without wasting much time, Bellow here is
the lawyer contact The Rev.Father gave me;

THE LAWYER'S CONTACT:

* Name: Br. Wembley Hamani,
* Tel : (00221) 763-350-429,
* Mail: (bar.wembleyhamani@yahoo.fr).

Please, I will like you to make contact with this law

firm immediately and ask him to help us to get those
needed document for us, to enable us
see that everything concerning this transfer is
complete, please help me out to see that this lawyer
get this document within this week ok, my prayers
are with you and I know that God will surely see us
through. Send the letter you received from the bank
to the lawyer for his more understanding. I will never
forget you in my life, God bless you for me, waiting to
hear from you with the response from the lawyer,
please call the lawyer on the telephone so that he will
know our seriousness ok at the same time send also
an email to him. Send the letter you received from
the bank to the lawyer immediately for his more
understanding on what he need to do,
Thank you for your concern, always put me in your
daily prayers.
Please don't forget to send me your picture
Best Regard

Yours Anta .

I took long to answer this e-mail and contacting the lawyer, in fact I
didn’t answer it. After something like 14 days she sent other e-mails as
follow……...

Darling Michael,

How are you,

I have been waiting to hear from you the response
from the Lawyer, Have you contacted?
Please if you have reply and tell me your
correspondence with him so that I will direct you
further.
Thanks.

Yours

Anta.

Hi Darling Michael,

Good day!!
I am surprised that you did not sent me mail for a
long time. I hope all is well with you? I have been
wondering what could have happen to you.

Nevertheless, I want to let you know that since you

refused to contact the lawyer, I wrote him to find out
why he is delaying us only to hear that you never
contacted him. then I had to forward the response of
the bank which you sent to me to the lawyer, I asked
him the way we can get those documents and he
charged me the sum of (£1,600.00) for
everything, Then I told my Rev.father about it
since am no longer in contact with you, all the same
my Rev.father had to talked to the lawyer in the way
he understood the whole situation am into.
Meanwhile, my Rev. has given him part of the money
and asked him to be patient for some time so that
immediately we finished the transfer we will balance
him and he accepted it.
I have completed the documents we were asked to
present before they can transfer the money to you.
But I need to find out the most important thing from
you to avoid any complication during this process.

Firstly, your full consent and assurance to me based

on your communication with me on daily bases until
you receive the money in your
position because I wrote the bank as well and
they have promised to transfer the money to you as
soon as they receive those documents from you, but
the next thing before the transfer process
commences is that we must reactivate the account
with the total sum of ($3,150.00) before they will be
able to make the transfer. So I want to know from you
if truly you want to help out of this situation and also
if you can make the payment to the bank, though they
will explain to you better when you send the
documents to them. but before i send the documents
to you, please if you know that you can not handle
this transaction with all it takes because I can see
that you are still doubting if it is real, so therefore
please tell me and let me find another person now
that I have gotten the documents complete so that we
will transfer the money and balance the lawyer and I
will come out of this place and have rest as a human
being.
Please respond to this mail for further information to
know how this process can be done.
Yours Lovely,

Anta Momoh

So far what I have found out is that these people use

what I call a language with a content called Humor,
that even if you know they are lying, you can
accidentally believe and get Kondonised.
When this kondo realized that I didn’t reply when she
asked for £1,600.00, she then resorted to $3,150.00,
thinking that I will send it. Because I need more from
her I decided to send her another mail showing that
am still in the Deal, Read it please…..

Hi sweetie,
Am sorry for the silence, but its because, my warless
broadband internet was disconnected yet i have been
not in town for some 3 weeks, I have been in Juba,
Sudan for a film shooting, but now am back and
willing to reconnect my internet with in a week, now
where should i begin from, should i write to the
Lawyer? advise me!
Yours in Love

Michael

By the time I’ve made this document, am still in contact with the
Kondo, the above is my last E-mail by now, when I receive other more;
you will read them in INTERNET KONDOS Chapter II to be released
any time.

I know some words like Kondonise , kondoisim etc confused you, but let
me explain them for you:
Kondo: He is the person who commits the act.
Kondoisim: Is the act.
If you have been stolen, then you’ve been Kondonised.

If you have also faced these Kondos or received any massage of that
nature please, use it to become one of the Authors of the next Document
by sending it to mmugambe@yahoo.co.uk. Or use my Scribd massage
box Account..