Senior Advocate Barrister Dad Joshua
Queja 54666 Detalles

Dear Sir / Madam / To whom this may concern

Dear High Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Australia

My name is Tiffany Pham, i am writing to seek your urgent help and what step to take in action for a matter that i have been going through since June 2011 to current. I wish for you to help assist me to claim all my payments that i have been imposed to make since 2011 for a compensation that i was entitles to due to me being a victim of a scam that took place for an item that was bought from me and the buyer is from Nigeria.

I reported all this to PayPal in which the buyer sent me phishing emails that i believed it was a legit buyer and then PayPal has told me it was a scam in buying my item - brand new phone HTC Desire Z for AU$700.

A few days i received an email from the Federal Government of Nigeria/ Customs Officer in Nigeria that they had recovered my information from searching the fraudulent and requesting me to send the relevant evidence to put get the person guilty and recover my lost from this fraudulent activity. I was then notify by a Senior Advocate Barrister Dad Joshua who will be acting on my behalf and get my entitlement as a victim of a scam.

The person was found guilty and was told that i will be issued with a compensation of USD$50,000 through a credit card issued by the City Bank of Nigeria and couriered to me via UPS. I was ask to make a payment for the courier UPS of USD$250 made via Western Union MTCN 6483291970 on the 9th June 2011, then i was ask to make a Demurrage Fees for the courier parcel of USD$522.11 made via Western Union MTCN 4442793890 on the 10th June 2011, then i was asked to make another payment for the City Bank of Nigeria to release a NBRB Certificate which consist the PIN and Parcel Password so when the Courier UPS delivers the parcel i can verify the password upon receiving the parcel of USD$1,500.00 on the 14th June 2011.

After all payments has been made and received by Abiodun Adebayo, 30 Lambadi Road Victoria Garden City Lagos Nigeria 23401, i was told that the Australian ATM system is different to theirs in Nigeria so they have changed for my compensation to be delivered via Diplomat Service rasing my compensation to USD$70,000, and all the previous payments that i made wasn't returned to me and i have been asking for the money to be refunded but they just make up some excuse and still not refunding me back my money instead they are asking more payments from me listed below:

Diplomat George Alan airfare ticket USD$3,467.94 MTCN 9585716352 on the 20th June 2011

Then i was asked to make a 10% payment of my compensation amount of USD$7,000 to obtain an Authority Certificate for the Diplomat to go through Amsterdam Airport and Sydney Australia Airport.

USD$1,843.79 MTCN 0828273834 on the 23rd june 2011
USD$1,150 MTCN 8508130486 on the 24th June 2011
USD$2,994.74 MTCN 4698723532 on the 29th June 2011

After all that payment was made i was told that the diplomat George Alan was robbed and injured in Amsterdam so he had top return back to Nigeria and i had to pay his Accommodation Fees of USD$1,136.02 MTCN 3058208366 on the 30th June 2011.

I was then told that a Professional French Diplomat will carry out the assignment to deliver the compensation to me and the Federal Government of Nigeria raised it to USD$170,000 asking me to pay an Airfare Ticket of USD$649.33 as final payment.

But after the payment was made and received Barrister Dad Joshua told me that a new Authority Certificate needs to be obtained for the new compensation amount and that requires 10% of the compensation amount meaning an extra USD$10,000 payment needs to be made. I told the barrister that i don't need that extra USD$100,000 i'll be happy with the USD$70,000 because it's not easy for me to obtain such amount in a short period of time and if so it will take time. Barrister Dad Joshua told me that there's nothing that can be done but to accept the compensation amount and obtain the new Authority Certificate so i made the following payments as listed below:
USD$229.66 MTCN 0182003412 on the 13th July 2011
USD$116.23 MTCN 1867608233 on the 27th July 2011
USD$115.92 MTCN 4060729924 on the 31st July 2011
USD$542.74 MTCN 6977109879 on the 17th August 2011
USD$329.15 MTCN 8945609048 on the 24th August 2011
USD$169.40 MTCN 2016927068 on the 7th September 2011
USD$5,106.24 MTCN 5700795347 on the 8th September 2011
USD$2,055.85 MTCN 9874863459 on the 12th September 2011

After all the required they said that money was recovered the fraudulent offender and the it's being divided evenly among the victims and it was going to be transferred into my account from the City Bank of Nigeria but i had to make a payment Bank Transfer Fees of USD$1,750 on the 19th September 2011 then i was asked to make another payment because under the law of section something a payment Transaction Processing Fees was required to make of USD$592.13 MTCN4486356332 on the 3rd October 2011, but still after being rushed to make those payments the funds was never transferred and the Bank Manager said that the funds will be made after i receive my compensation luggage from French Diplomat Doriane when i was told that the Diplomat will leave Nigeria once i receive the funds in my account!!!

The Federal Government of Nigeria then told me that the Diplomat cannot leave Nigeria yet as the payments for the Authority Certificate hasn't been completed and requesting that i make the payment for the balance when i already did but for some reason Barrister Dad Joshua said he couldn't get the funds for the USD$3,215.01 MTCN 8026730837 on the 10th October 2011 then i had to make another payment of USD$2,106.14 on the 11th October 2011 MTCN 1410738605 on the 11th October 2011.

Finally Diplomat Doriane had left Nigeria and stopped over in New Zealand, he then made a phone call to me requesting me to pay his Professional Diplomat Service Fees of USD$10,000. As a professional service i was spoken over the phone very rudely, i asked for his name and why am i being asked to make this large amount of payment? He refused to answer me and just kept saying that if his representative in Nigeria don't receive the payment within 3 days then he is sending back the luggage and hung up on me. Barrister Dad Joshua said that this is not in the of the Federal Government hands but it's between myself and the diplomat, but he managed to gain extra time for me to make payments. Then the following payments was made as listed below:
USD$1,101.35 MTCN 8940958935 on the 21st October 2011
USD$5,225.92 MTCN 8579540924 on the 5th December 2011

USD$1,810.18 MTCN 0269770732 on the 6th December 2011
USD$1,080.57 MTCN 1017131951 on the 9th December 2011
USD$1,979.48 MTCN 1488193828 on the 9th December 2011
USD$789.62 MTCN 6541431540 on the 14th December 2011

After all that payments was made Diplomat Doriane stopped in Melbourne for a few days then confirmed payments was made and received by his representative Uduak Daniel, 26 Omololu Street Surulere Lagos Nigeria 23401. Diplomat Doriane then left to Sydney Airport, but when he got to entered Sydney Customs Airport he was stopped and interrogated by Police and Customs officers. Diplomat Doriane was requested to obtain an Australian Diplomat Certificate to enter Sydney in order to carry out and complete his assigned assignment. Barrister Dad Joshua then contacted the Senior Officer who could issue the certificate and he requested a payment of USD$15,780! Barrister Dad Joshua tried to help and negotiate with the senior officer if i could make partial payment then the rest after i receive my compensation. Then he accept so i made a payment of USD$407.07 MTCN 6208442390 on the 16th December 2011.

I waited all day, as the hours goes by and i heard nothing at all. I called the barrister Dad Joshua and no answer, sent him text messages no replies, until about nearly 1am on the 17th December 2011 barrister Dad Joshua calls me saying that he sorry about the problems cause and the financial hardship i was put in from borrowing loans after loans for all the payments made in this compensation matter but Diplomat Doriane had ran off with my compensation money. I told him how is all this fair on me and my little baby girl who have been through so much stress. Broken promises kept being made and final payment kept being said but still more payments one after another still being imposed on me. All i ask is that i don't care about the compensation money that i am entitles to but i just want all my money refunded back from June 2011 to December 2011 that i have made so that i could pay off the loans from banks, loan offices and angry family & friends that i owe.

I then received an email from the Bank Manager from the City Bank of Nigeria pasted below:

Dear Tiffany Pham,

This is an urgent email from the Assistant Director City Bank Of Nigeria. We understand the fact that you have gone through some problems in the past months. However, There is a reserved fund of $50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand United State Dollars) that was supposed to be transferred into your account.

We have received your Common Wealth Bank Account and the funds will be transferred asap into your account. This will include a transfer fee of $936.00 (Nine Hundred and thirty Six Dollars) as transfer charges of $50,000.00 into your account.

Sincerely
Assistant Director City Bank Of Nigeria .

I really don't understand why more payments are being asked from me when i made payments for this funds that was meant to be transferred back in September 2011 when i made a payment for Bank Transfer Fees of USD$1,750 on the 19th September 2011 then i was asked to make another payment because under the law of section something a payment Transaction Processing Fees was required to make of USD$592.13 MTCN4486356332 on the 3rd October 2011!!! After i sent an email reply back to the Assistant Director City Bank Bank of Nigeria he said that he don't know about those payments and that i should contact barrister Dad Joshua. Barrister Dad Joshua then told me some reason and i just didn't understand what he meant. So he said he would help me balance the payment when i sent a payment of USD$400 MTCN0968130073 on the 4th January 2012 to receiver Abiodun Adebayo, 30 Lambadi Road Victoria Garden City Lagos Nigeria 23401.

I then received an email from barrister Dad Joshua pasted below:

Dear Tiffany Pham,

City Bank Of Nigeria has refused the payment of US$400.00. We have to contact the Federal Government Of Nigeria and retrieve all the payment we lost last year back.

In Addition, I just got an Alert from Miss Opadami Oloriburuku. A computer scientist with City Bank of Nigeria. She came across your file which was marked X and your released disk painted RED and she took time to study it and found out that you have paid VIRTUALLY all fees and certificate but the fund has not been release to you.

I will look into this and keep you posted.

I am at a really financial hardship situation with my poor little 13 months baby drag into with me, all i'm asking is to recover all the payments that i have made for this compensation matter so that i could pay off all debts URGENTLY please and just live a normal life as before with my baby. During this matter i have sold all valuable assets in the house and also my vehicle now i am just so depress and just want to get all money refunded back and live on with my life with my baby starting from scratch again.

Please i am asking sincerely with my baby on our knees for your kind help with this matter, i don't know who to go or where to seek further help. I am contactable any time to your convenience on (Personal Information Removed) to provide any further information or supporting documents that i have, majority of the important email correspondence has somehow been deleted in the folders i saved them in, i have tried to recover them but no luck so i only have what is recent and i think i also have the barrister ID that he sent me saved.

Thank you for your time in my matter.