This is the story of Mr. Snakes and the Russian Mafia.
White: Narrative
Pink: Mr Henri Snakes
Blue: Me (Yuriev Makarov)
Yellow: Dr. Usman Bello
Purple: The Brotherhood of Snakes
Orange: British secret agent, Harry Palmer
Green: Henri Snakes' Imposter
Allow me to introduce myself; My name is Yuriev Makarov,
I represent a certain syndicate of Russian 'businessmen' which operates out of Moscow.
I received your email and I know that you are a fraudster. However, I like your style, and have a PROPOSAL FOR YOU.
We need associates around the world, who are not afraid to get their hands dirty. You must be upstanding, respected, and intelligent. However, you must also be fearless, strict, 100% in control, and ruthless. You must
know what everybody around you is doing and who they are in communication with.
I believe you may have these abilities.
Since the Communist party fell from power in our country, control has fell to those who were prepared to stand up and claim it. Using that power, we have been able to infiltrate certain international aid organisations, and with the help of people like yourself are laundering billions of dollars of 'aid' worldwide, each year.
If you are interested in becoming an associate of ours, and earning more than the combined annual turnover of everybody you know, then get in touch with us.
We offer you this chance with the greatest respect, and expect that if
you respond, you will show us the same respect, and not forget this chance we have presented to you.
Needless to say this must not go any further,
Yours,
Yuriev Makarov.
Representing.
i just read ur email concerning your business proposal to operate with your syndicate, and i must say that i am very interested, i may be a fraudster,but that is not all i am capable of. my links and other operations extend far and wide depending on what it is that you are interested in offering me.
Concerning being aware of what happens around me, and being wise, i'm your man.
We also have synidicates here that carry out alot of operation and laudering money here is no problem at all.
i understand your syndicates plight in Russia and it is similar with that of ours in part of the world.
I would like to know how it is that we can do business and build trust.
I appreciate the respect you have accorded me by your offer, and in line with professionalism, accord you the same respect.
I intend to hear from you again.
you can reply to this email address until we can find more appropriate and secure means of communication,either by encrypted emails or phone calls.
Best regards,
Snakes
We have received your email confirming your interest in assisting our overseas operations. We are glad you chose this option.
Naturally, you will understand that we cannot, at this stage, divulge specific details concerning our activities.
In a nutshell, we set up fake charitable organisations and use these to obtain international aid funding. This is very easily done in places like West Africa and we have the contacts to do this, but what we need from you is for you to work as an apparently normal, trustworthy, religious charity worker. You will assemble a team of trusted workers who MUST NOT KNOW A THING about the proposed fraud. They must believe they are really helping a charirty. The amounts of money involved are greater than the debts of some small countries, and this deal is to remain absolutely top secret.
As an idea of what you will earn, we usually leave the floor worker a 5% cut of the total, and the cut being no less than £500,000. A typical earner for 6 months work can reach high into the millions.
Please let me know if you are ineterested and we can proceed to the finer details.
Yuriev Makarov
I thank you once again for this very rare and unique opportunity that your organization has offered me.
I have gone through your mail and what you ask is really a piece of cake. Setting up a charitable organization is very easy, i have the means to set up such organizations in as many african countries as your Syndicate wishes.All you have to do is point the country and it is done in a matter of days, and i do not brag when i say this.
I accept your offer fully, and would like to know the full details, so that we can set the ball in motion, because as they say "Time is Money".
And it would be unnecessary to waste time., if you will agree...
You have got the right man in me and I assure you that you will not be disappointed.
I await your humbly reply and instructions,
I remain,
Snakes
'STILL WAITING'.
This pissed me off, I mean, would you talk to a Russian gangster like this?
I replied your mail, indicating my interest on assisting your operations. I have also made contact with a religious social worker as you asked. I await your mail on the full details and on what is required of me.
I still await your reply.
Sincerely,
Snakes.
Please understand: YOU WILL HEAR FROM ME WHEN I AM READY.
Impatience is a quality best forgotten about.
Furthermore, I did NOT ask you to contact any religious people whatsoever. If you jeopardise our plans, you will take no further part in them.
If you are interested in working alongside us, you will abide by our directions, and do, what we say, when we tell you to. We did not approach you for your initiatuity, we approached you knowing full well that you are capable of following orders.
Do not contact us until you receive permission to do so. This is not a game.
Yuriev Makarov
Representing.
I apologize for being impatient, for that is a weakness that i do not possess.
However, i assumed that there was a communication glitch.
I know how you feel, and i offer my most sincere apologies, to both you and your syndicate.
I am very capable of assisting your operations, and i wish to be given a chance to prove myself.
I will refrain from contacting you.
Till i hear from you.
I humbly remain,
Snakes.
We are ready to begin proceedings.
As we need to know with whom we are working, please complete the attached form and return it via email attachment.
Please read the terms of employment carefully, and if you agree to them, sign and date the form.
If possible, please attach a small passport photo of yourself to the email.
Also we request your telephone numbers, home address, and email, so that we can make contact with you in an emergency. We will present you with our contact details in the near future.
Once this form is complete, I will advise you of the next step.
We hope to begin detailing charitable requirements to aid organisations within the month of August, so it is imperative that we move swiftly.
Yours,
Mr. Yuriev Makarov.
Representing.
I have filled the form and also attached a passport photograph of myself,
I fully understand the contract of employment and pledge total allegiance
and respect.
I await further instructions.
Best Regards,
Snakes.
I am writing to acknowlege receipt of your unsuccesfully completed induction form.
The only thing wrong with your form is that your contract name and password are not allowed to be identical. This is for blatantly obvious security reasons.
You MUST select differing contract names and passwords, and re-send this form as soon as possible.
Please accept our apologies if this was not made clear in the first place.
I have the utmost confidence that you can carry out this task without fail, and I must also say that you look quite young for a man of thirty years.
Yours,
Yuriev Makarov,
Representing.
I apologize for the mistake on the previous form.
However, i have filled this one adequately, i filled it with a picture editor on my system.
I hope that isn't a problem.
The passport that i sent is not a recent one, it is a little old.
I do not have any recent passports or pictures at the moment.
I assure you that i look much older and i am really 30.
I have no reason to lie to you.
Sincerely,
Snakes.
I'm afraid he needs to fill out the form a third time!
I am sorry to disappoint you, but all forms must be handwritten. Also the two phone numbers must be different. One should preferably be a landline number. This is to double our chances of contacting you at any time should we wish to do so.
Please fill out the form in handwriting, and provide two differing phone numbers.
We must adhere to a very tight schedule, and already we are running the risk of falling behind.
Yours,
Yuriev Makarov,
Representing.
i have filled the form again as instructed.
You can always reach me via my cell phone number (always), should the need arise.
Humbly yours,
Snakes.
Many thanks for your continued co-operation, I hope it has not cost you anything to send the forms to me. If it has, then please let us know, and we will reimburse any outstanding expenditures via Western Union money transfer.
We will contact you shortly to advise you of the next move.
Yours,
Yuriev Makarov.
I'm glad that we are past that stage at last.
Concerning the expenses, I'm grateful for your kind gesture, but it didn't cost me much.
Thank you once again for being so considerate.
I wait to be advised.
Humbly,
Snakes
Long time no see.
My name is Dr. Usman Bello, no doubt you have heard my name in passing.
Do not believe everything you hear my friend!
I have been monitoring your email correpondence with my good friend Mr.
Makarov of the Moscow Coalition, and it has came to my attention that
you plan to enter into a business arrangement with the Moscow criminal
union.
I hereby inform you that all correspondence with the coalition is to be
copied to this email address. Also, I intend to take 50% of any money
you make from this arrangement. It is within your best interests to
continue with Mr. Makarov's plans, and to make as much money as you
possibly can.
Mr. Makarov and his Coalition are not to know of our discussion.
Yours generously,
Dr. Usman Bello.
you better come clean on who you are., and most of all you better not fuck things up for me. you want 50% of what ? are you fucking high ?
if there's something else that you want to say to me i suggest that you reply to my other box, rikogonzalez@hotmail.com and stay aware from this email address.
I don't respond well to blackmail and threats, so if u want to come on me like that,....FUCK YOU.!!!!
And if you continue bothering me, i'll send your name to my partners....and see how you'll like that.
don't get me pissed, whoever the fuck u are!!!!
you wouldn't want me as your enemy.!!
Very deadly,
Snakes.
No I've never heard of them either, who the fuck are they????
threatening him and demanding 50% on a certain business deal that he is working on.
We have no idea of this deal and do not intend to get involved in his deal,: we just simply send you this mail as a warning!
Incase you don't know what you are getting into, we have stepped into this matter and we warn you for your own good and the sake of the ones you love, keep away from Mr Henri Snakes.
We do not joke and we do not brag, we will hunt you down if you send him another mail.
We have the means. If you don't know who we are, ask about us.
A Message has also been sent to your email provider, if you persist, then we will deal with you decisively.
THIS IS YOUR FIRST AND LAST WARNING!
DO NOT REPLY THIS MAIL!
The Brotherhood of Snakes
I'm sorry for writing this mail to you, since you instructed that i not communicate unless i have been communicated to.
I just wanted to bring it to your notice that i have changed my email address password, from: xxxxxx to xxxxxx
I sent this mail out of respect and loyalty. I beg your forgiveness if i have done the wrong thing.
Humbly,
Snakes.
Do not worry about it, you can contact us at any time as long as it is a matter of importance.
Thank you for submitting your change of details, this shows great integrity as many would not have bothered.
As I mentioned previously the most important personal detail is your phone number, if that ever changes please let us know immediately.
I will contact you again in a few days time with further instructions.
Yours,
Yuriev Makarov
Representing.
I am Dr. Usm4n B3ll0 resident of Nigeria. Also known as Nasto Azzuro.
I think it is you who needs to carry out some research on me. Here is
some help.
http://bbcnews.info.ms/1/hi/world/africa/3563874.stm
This is no laughing matter my friend. I am a man of great power and
wealth, my reach is longer than the laws of any nation, and I find it
quite humorous that you think you can frighten me with a made up gang!
It is not a case of 'want', I will 'TAKE' 50% of all earnings you make
with the Makarov Coalition.
I didn't have to contact you, but I did so with the utmost courtesy to
inform you of the taxes I will be raising on any illegal money leaving
Moscow.
If you refuse to comply with my instructions, you will be eliminated.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Usm4n B3ll0.
Requesting your assistance.
My name is Harold Palmer, I am a British NATO special agent working out of Moscow, Russia.
We have been tracking a man who we believe has been in contact with you. His name is Osman B3ll0, a Russian war-criminal believed to be living in Africa, and wanted for murder and deception in three continents.
Any information you can provide, will be handled in the strictest of confidence. You need not give your name and may be eligible for a cash reward.
Reply to this email address,
Agent H. Palmer.
I know of no such person.
Your must have sent your mail to the wrong person.
I'm sorry i can't help you.