Mr. Drinkwater's Lawyer -- Hugh Jasswhype -- makes an attempt to contact Mr. Ndlovu concerning the accident:

Dear Sir:
 
Mr. Lionel Drinkwater was involved in a plane crash (please see attachment from the local paper). I am Mr. Hugh Jasswhype, his attorney and am handling his affairs. Presently, Mr. Drinkwater is not fully conscious and is in critical condition. The good news is that he is expected to recover.
 
My last communication from Mr. Drinkwater was a garbled e-mail he sent from his airplane. Apparently, the storm affected electronics and communications over a wide area of the islands. Lionel had been island hopping to run several errands when his plane was brought down by lighting. I flew to the wreckage site yesterday and took possession all of his effects that were in the plane. I cannot imagine how he survived, but thank God he and Dan Gleebitz, his co-pilot did. The entire tail section of the plane was torn off and I am surprised the plane did not flip over in the surf as planes usually do when they land in water. It is a credit to Mr.Drinkwater's piloting skills that he kept the wings level as he ditched.
 
In his personal notebook, I found your e-mail address with Mr. Drinkwater's notation, "R.N. -- $50K - remit WU" I assume this means you were to remit $50,000 to Mr. Drinkwater as part of a business deal. If so, please make arrangements to send the $50,000 by Western Union as agreed. Contact me and I will give the particulars. If this is not the case, please clarify.
 
Until Mr. Drinkwater recovers, please direct all matters to me as I am handling his affairs and have his signed Power of Attorney to do so.
 
With Best Regards,
 
Mr. Hugh Jasswhype

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E-mails cross and Ndlovu was very pissed off by the "garbled e-mail" and sensed that mischief may be afoot. In this case, mischief is not afoot but is rather a plane as we have seen.

ATTN: Lionel Drinkwater, Esq.

AFTER PERUSAL OF YOUR LAST REPLY E-MAIL, I WAS PUT INTO CONFUSION, CONCERNING YOUR SINCERITY TO HELP ME OR YOU ARE JUST JOKING. I AM A DEVOTED CHRISTAIN WHO DOES NOT LIE OR CONTRADICT ISSUES. TELLING ME IN YOUR LAST E-MAIL THAT YOU NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH NIGERIANS CONTRADICTS YOUR EARLIER E-MAIL AND IT IS HARD FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE MERELY TRICKING OR TRYING TO KNOW WHETHER I AM SUCH SYNDICATE GROUP. I HATE LIE OR ONE TRYING TO BE SMART OVER A BUSINESS WHERE "TRUST" IS THE MIDDLE NAME. SO, LET ME APPEAL TO YOU TO SINCERE AND DEDICATED TO THIS TRANSACTION AND NEVER THINK THAT THE DEPOSITED FUND IS DRUG OR LAUNDRY RELATED FUNDS WHICH REQUIRES MAFFIA APPROACHES TO CLAIM. IT IS A GENUINE MONEY DEPOSITED BY MY LATE FATHER BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH SO, SHADE AWAY ALL THESE HIGH-CLASS MAFFIA PLANS YOU MENTIONED FOR ITS CLAIM IN SPAIN.

ON THE OTHER HANDS, I UNDERSTOOD YOUR STATUS IN FRENCH POLYNESIA (TAHITI), WHICH REQUIRES YOU TO BE IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY OF POWERFUL SECURITY OUTFITS WHENEVER YOU HAVE OFF-SHORE TRANSACTION BUT MINE TRANSACTION DOES NOT NEED SUCH ARRANGEMENT TO GET AT THE SUCCESS. THEREFORE AND I REPEAT, MAKE YOUR PRIVATE ARRANGEMENT TO BE IN SPAIN " SINGLE HANDEDLY" BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT BE AT ANY SECURITY THREAT FROM ANY GOVERNMENT OR PERSON.

ALTERNATIVELY, THE SECURITY FIRM IN SPAIN CAN BE PERSUADED BY ME TO TAKE THE CONSIGMENT TO ANY BANK RECOMMENDED AND ORDER SUCH BANK TO OPEN THE CONSIGMENT WITH THE SOLE AIM OF EMBARKING ON ITS IMMEDIATE TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER TO ANY ACCOUNT YOU WILL PROVIDE. HOWEVER, BE INFORMED THAT BEFORE THE SECURITY FIRM COULD ACCEPT TO OFFER US SUCH SERVICE, THEIR HANDLING CHARGE OF US$50.000.00 MUST HAVE BEEN PAID HENCE THE SECURITY FIRM WILL NOT BE SURPRISE TO KNOW THAT THE CONSIGMENT IS MONEY WHEN ORDERD TO OPEN. THIS MEANS THAT YOU WILL BE PREPARED TO MAKE A TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER OF US$50,000.00 TO SPAIN INTO ANY ACCOUNT PROVIDED BY THE SECURITY FIRM. I HOPE THAT THIS SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVE WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE PROBLEM OF TRAVELLING TO SPAIN UNDER HUGE SECURITY EXPENSES YOU INTEND TO MAKE AND SAVE YOU ALSO FROM THE CURRENCY CONVERSATION PROBLEM. I NEED YOUR URGENT REPONSE ON THIS MESSAGE.

BEST REGARDS

RICHARD NDLOVU

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Hugh Jasswhype attempts to contact Ndlovu once again with more details:

Dear Richard Ndlovu:

I am Solicitor Hugh Jasswhype, Mr. Drinkwater's personal attorney. 

Mr. Lionel Drinkwater was involved in a plane crash (please see attachment from the local paper). Presently, Mr. Drinkwater is in a coma and is expected to remain in a coma for at least a week, such were his injuries. The good news is that he is expected to recover. In the interim, I am handling his affairs and correspondence from his office. 

Like you, the last e-mail I received from him was also garbled. He was sending it from his plane. Apparently, the gathering electrical storm which forced his plane down corrupted the satellite transmission of his e-mails. I have had several of his clients contact me to state that they, like you, have received error messages, scrambled text, and omissions in e-mails he sent. What you see in the message is the satellite uplink on the plane attempting to communicate with the satellite. An incomplete data transmission was made. 

I am desperately attempting to recover the complete texts of seven e-mails sent by Mr. Drinkwater from his plane because they are all critical and all involve large sums of money. The satellite communications provider told me that the messages may still be in the satellite's computer and they are running diagnostics in an attempt to recover the messages -- and this is not an inexpensive process I might add. Simply to interrogate and decrypt the satellite's memory from a ground station is costing me $7,000. Yet I must do this because Mr. Drinkwater has so many high-dollar ventures and lost data could result in forfeitures, fines, and interest against Mr. Drinkwater. Although I continually urge him to get a cell phone, Mr. Drinkwater refuses because he says a cell phone would make him feel, "like a dog on a leash." He is very independent and does not fancy the thought of having to answer the phone everytime someone calls him. He always reminds me that he pays people to answer phones and cannot be bothered to take calls unless it is a key client. At least I was able to persuade him last year to use 
e-mail. 

After seeing the wreckage, I cannot imagine how he survived, but thank God he and Dan Gleebitz, his co-pilot did. The entire tail section of the plane was torn off and I am surprised the plane did not flip over in the surf as planes usually do when they land in water. It is a credit to Mr.Drinkwater's piloting skills that he kept the wings level as he ditched.

In his personal notebook, I found your e-mail address with Mr. Drinkwater's notation, "R.N. -- $50K - remit WU" I assume this means you -- Richard Ndlovu -- were to remit $50,000 to Mr. Drinkwater as part of a business deal. If so, please make arrangements to send the $50,000 by Western Union as agreed. Contact me and I will give the particulars. If this is not the case, please clarify.

Until Mr. Drinkwater recovers, please direct all matters to me as I am handling his affairs and have his signed Power of Attorney to do so.

Mr. Drinkwater had mentioned to me that he had "a deal going" and that he was excited about it. I know he was serious about whatever this transaction is because he withdrew XPF 7,000,000 from his account Wednesday past. I know this because I keep a ledger of his personal expenses and he had me note this withdrawal as a personal expense. I do not know what he did with the money. Approximately $62,000 USD is unaccounted for and so I assume Mr. Drinkwater spent this money prior to the plane crash.

With Best Regards,

Mr. Hugh Jasswhype
Senior Partner
Jasswhype & Flushing LLC

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Ndlovu goes silent. Barrister Hugh Jasswhype then "mistakenly" sends an e-mail intended for someone else to Ndlovu. We need some action here and perhaps this will stimulate the con artist. The play is getting dull.

Dear Father Fuentes

It is very late and I am very tired. I have hardly slept since the plane
crash. I know how desperately your ministry needs the $175,000 that Mr.
Drinkwater promised you. Please have Elaine call me tomorrow and I will send
the money right away by wire transfer from the island.

I know the money is for a new drinking water purification system for the
hospital and so it is a very worthy cause indeed. Please tell the people
from Brown & Root that Drinkwater Financial Services is guaranteeing the
payment on behalf of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Mr. Westheimer may call
me directly if he wishes to do so.

Mr. Drinkwater is still in a coma. I am trying to run his business. It is
hard when Roberto Aguilar,
his Chief of Operations is gone. Roberto is supposed to be back from Rome
next week. As he is in a retreat with the Benedictine monks he cannot be
reached, nor would I disturb his time with God and the brothers.

Well, I must go get some rest. I have made too many mistakes today from
fatigue. Please pray for Mr. Drinkwater and all of us who serve him. He is a
great and good man and a good and loyal Catholic. May God bring him healing
and deliverance.

Yours in Christ Jesus,

Brother Hugh
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Ndlovu, that lazy drag-ass scammer replies back with a letter that has been cut and pasted. I have left it in its original font. Moreover, the bastard expects me to send $50,000 to "John Johnson" in Madrid, Spain. Clearly I am now doing more work than Ndlovu. He is just simply not as committed to this scam as I am.

Dear Brother Hugh

I was in the reciept of your today's e-mail. Regarding your mail of today, may I thank you for the great effort you have made to assure the a great success in the businesses of Mr. Drinkwater . Here is the Names and address you will use to effect the payment via Western Union Money Transfer in Spain. This is to assure a fast Transfer to enable everything move forward. You would require to be transfering it US$5,000 each time. I hope you understand my explanation. See the names you are require to use in Transfering the money below:

NAME :   Mr. JOHN JOHNSON

ADDRESS: MADRID - SPAIN

After sending it through Western Union Money Transfer, try to send to me the Transfer Numbers and the name you use in sending the money at once so that it can be cleared immediate. I will be glad if you arrange to do it by Western Union Transfer system. I will also pray for the quick recovering of Mr. Drinkwater, everything will be okay. Extend my greetings to him. Be rest assured that God is in control of everything. I will be waiting to hear from you soon. Thanks and God bless you.

Best regards

Richard Ndlovu

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"God is in control of everthing," he assures me. Okey dokey. Then it logically follows that it is time for the equivalent of an internet rectal exam. Please bend over, Mr.  Ndlovu. Dr. Betrayal will see you now:

 

Mr. Ndlovu:

Mr. Drinkwater is back in the hospital and I, Solicitor Hugh Jasswhype, am once again handling all of his affairs.

The true story is indeed interesting and yet confusing. You see, I had to confuse Mr. Drinkwater. You see, I wanted to take the $50,000 for myself and tell him that you stole it. He does not know you and as there were no written contracts so it was easy. I, sir, have your $50,000. 

I still have the $50,000 USD in my safe. In fact, I had arranged the transfer to Johannesberg so that my colleague could pick up the 10 WU transfers and send then deposit then back into my accounts. I was the one who confused Mr. Drinkwater.

I have told Mr. Drinkwater that you now need another $100,000 USD. He approved.
I will keep this money for myself. If you would like to earn $20,000 USD please cooperate with me by sending me an e-mail with some kind of contracts I can use to fool Mr. Drinkwater.

Frankly, I know that you are a con artist and a 419 scammer and I don't care. All I want to do at this point is to take as much money from Mr. Drinkwater's accounts as I can because I think he may soon die. I think I can take as much as $500,000 if I had a partner. "Richard Ndlovu" or whatever your real name is , could be my partner.

You would make only $20,000 USD for your efforts. If you do not like my offer, I can find someone else to help me obtain these monies. I can deny everything because you are a swindler and cannot even go to the police. I can even deny this e-mail because a hacker could have written it.

In your letters you come across as an intelligent man. If you are interested in this deal please let me know. Otherwise, I will simply find another partner who can provide me with documents. In the end, I will say that Mr. Drinkwater allowed himself to be swindled by his own greed. By that time, there will only be a few e-mails and some phony contracts. There will be no evidence and the matter will be dropped by the authorities here who have neither time nor money to concern themselves with such matters. 

My only condition is this: You must meet personally with my colleague in Spain. I will not send you money by wire transfer or WU. If you send documents, I will arrange for you to be given $2,500 USD in cash in Madrid or Barcelona. When you fulfill each of the eight tasks I am planning, you will be given
$2,500.

Let me know what you think. I have to move very quickly.

H.J.

Like he would ever answer! There is no way a scammer would show his criminal mug in public or risk being arrested or beaten up by thugs, especially since he is a Christian man and has a name and reputation to uphold!

9/15/03 -- End of Scam.

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