To All That Want to Buy Rough Diamonds in Sierra Leone

WANT TO BUY ROUGH DIAMONDS IN SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA? THIS IS THE ONE BOOK THAT YOU WILL NEED TO SAVE THOUDANDS OF DOLLARS DOLLARS AND POSSIBLY A JAIL SENTENCE SENTENCE THERE.

SOME DIAMONDS FROM SIERRA LEONE IN 2006 AND 2007. Gregg Lyell Sierra Leone/Maryland Dealers License number: 37/09 http:www.greggsgemhouse.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.) INTRODUCTION 2.) HOW I WORK IF YOU WANT TO GO BUY DIAMONDS THE CORRECT AND LEGITIMATE WAY.

3.) SCAMMERS PRICES THAT ARE BEING SENT OUT TO

UNSUSPECTING BUYERS IN SIERRA LEONE 4.) MY DEALERS LICENSE FOR THE YEAR 2009-2010

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Introduction: TO ALL THAT WANT TO BUY ROUGH DIAMONDS IN SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA My name is Gregg and a lot of you out there have seen the ads for Sierra Leone diamonds on the Alibaba site here. I have lived in Sierra Leone for the last 12 years and have been a diamond dealer and diamond miner for most of those years and I am going to tell you once and for all that all of those price lists you see are TOTAL BULLSHIT. I hope this is clear enough for all of you reading this. THERE IS NO ONE IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAS THE AMOUNTS AND QUALTIES OF DIAMONDS THESE SCAMMERS ARE ADVERTISING AND IF YOU KNOW ANYONE OTHER THEN MYSELF THAT HAS BEEN THERE and HAD A LICENSE FOR EH ALST 12 YEARS ASK THEM. Call the ministry of mines and ask them about what you read and give them some of the prices and you will see what I mean. You can get their phone number off the internet. Here is the number of the Ministry Of Mines. Call and ask for the Minister of Mines, Alhaji Kanu. +232 22 240142. Tell them of the prices you have received over the internet and ask if they are legitimate prices. They will tell you they are not and that they are criminals trying to dupe people into losing their money. I recently came back from a buying trip and had to talk to a few of those people for some people back here and it was as I told them it would be. There answer for the price of a diamond was “this is not a phone business and we have to meet”. Total bullshit as we do not have to meet. I can call any dealer I know, Lebanese or legitimate local, and they can give me a price. Why not? That is their business and they should know. After telling one he was full of shit he finally told me a 1 carat sawable stone of 1st color (D-E) would run me $2000 and that the clarity did not matter but the shape did.! This man had big balls to say the least. That diamond costs no more then $500 tops. I know the prices you get from these people are $200 and so on and that is not possible. What I told the people I talked with was to meet with me and the Director of Mineral resources or come to GDO and meet my friend there and we can look over the diamonds and see what they are worth. The valuer was waiting for me to bring the people to him and of course I did not as there were no diamonds just bullshit and lies to get you there.

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HOW I WORK IF YOU WANT TO GO BUY DIAMONDS THE CORRECT AND LEGITIMATE WAY. THERE IS A WAY TO BUY THERE AND THERE ARE ESTABLISHED PRICES AND NO ONE IS SELLING OUTSIDE OF THEM, NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE TOLD.

1. $400 a day(12,000 a month) or any part thereof and the airfare paid in advance. I will meet you in Dulles International, inVirginia or I can meet you in the UK as I did with the group last month or we can meet in Freetown. It is up to you. 2. All expenses while there. That does not mean I can do anything I want but whatever I do you do. 3. You listen to me as that is what you are paying me for. If I catch you even speaking to these other people I come home and you are on your own. You people do not know the country or the law and I do and I know what they do to foreigners that try to go around the laws there. I am not going to prison because some of you want to do things the “easy way”. There is no easy way only the right way. 4. Any licenses we need you pay for. I just renewed my 2009-2010 Dealers license so I am good in that area for another year. I will add it to this letter as well. 5. I can offer cutting, polishing and selling in one spot as well. This is from my cutter who has been going there since 1978 or thereabouts and knows what is going on there. He is an excellent cutter and is well known in the country(Sierra Leone and the US). If you wish to talk to him about me then I will give you the number and numbers of s couple of others I have bought diamonds for over the years. 6. If you use my cutter then I get 6% of the sales of the polished. If you take them and say you are selling as rough then the $12,000 for the months Consulting fee is all I receive. 7. You will be prepared to stay for a minimum of 12 days and we will travel to Kenema, Bo and maybe Koidu, in the Kono area. The “Diamond Trail” runs from Kono, to Kenema and then to Bo and then Freetown. Being in Kenema gives us first shot at the stones coming from Kono. 8. We may rent an office from someone to buy or we may work from the hotel in Kenema. We will decide that when we get there. 9. If we stay more then the month then at the beginning of the next month you will pay for another month. It does not matter if we stay 2 weeks or four weeks you will pay for the month.

10. I will show you around the country and will not let you spend money that does not need to be spent. I will find you a good hotel and we will stay there. 11. I will tell you how to carry the money there and have no problems with customs there or I can arrange for it to be sent to a bank account once we are there. It is up to you. You can carry $100,000 on you with no problem if you like or more. 12. I will need to know what you want in the way of diamonds and not just “diamonds” before hand. If it is not possible then I will tell you so and we will not go. 13. I will take you to everyone I know in the business there and that includes the government officials at the Ministry of Mines, including the Minister who is a friend, the Director of Mines and the former Director General of Mines as well. 14. I will take you the GDO which where you will meet the Independent Valuer who is also a friend of mine for many years and you are free to ask him anything about diamonds, me or whatever tickles your fancy. I hide nothing and you will see that all is above board and legal. 15. We will do this right or not at all. I am not looking for a vacation and I value my reputation and all the hard work I have done there since 1996. 16. MOST IMPORTANTLY I GUARANTEE NOTHING IN THE WAY OF CERTAIN TYPES/SIZES OF DIAMONDS. I WILL NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY JUST BECAUSE IT IS THERE. 17. IF WHAT WE WANT, BASED ON WHAT YOU TELL ME, IS NOT THERE, THEN YOU GO HOME WITH NOTHING BUT NICE MEMORIES OF THE BEACH AND THE COUNTRY AND YOU CAN TRY AGAIN LATER. IF THE DIAMONDS ARE NOT THERE THEY ARE NOT THERE. IT TAKES SOME TIME AND PATIENCE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT AT TIMES. So that is it. If you want to go buy then contact me and we can get started. Keep in mind I hate to be a jerk but I will not even inquire about a ticket until I get the money from you for the consulting fee and ticket. Sounds harsh but that is the way it has to be. I am not in the business to waste time and your money. When you are ready I will send you my bank account number and we can start. Of course you can go on your own as well and I wish you the best of luck. Just remember if you go by yourself get all your licenses such as the resident visa ($1400), your Multiple Entry Visa $130 (at the embassy in Washington DC), your work permit which can cost $200 (as it did me this last time) your Dealers License which is $4000 now instead of $5000, and pay the Income tax of 600,000 leones($200), Rehabilitation fee of 500,000 and the Monitoring fee (by the Mines Monitors) of $500.

As you can see if you go alone it can cost you in the area of $5000 if you can swing it. Technically you are to be in the country for 6 months before you can get the Resident Visa which you must have to get the Dealers License. And if you do this, do not meet with anyone that does not have a MINING License as it is illegal to buy diamonds from anyone but a miner unless you have an Exporters Agents license and they were all given out when I was there last month (July). Do not let anyone tell you can buy from them because they have a dealers or exporters license. It is a con game and half the time they are working with the cops for the 25% they will get on any diamonds you are caught with. YOU CAN ONLY BUY FROM MINERS AND THEY MUST GIVE YOU A RECEIPT WITH THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS. DON’T LET YOUR GREED PUT IN PRISON THERE. IF THEY CATCH YOU THEY WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND ANY DIAMONDS YOU HAVE BOUGHT AND YOU WILL NEVER GET EITHER BACK. I am adding one or two price lists from the Alibaba so you can see what I am talking about. Just so you will know a 1 carat diamond cost $400-500 there; a 2 carat may run $700-800; a 3 carat may hit $1300-1600 and the 9 carats should be around $3500 a carat. Compare that to the lists I will add and you will see they are totally full of bullshit and it is a con to get you there and find a way to take your money.

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ONE LAST NOTE:

BUY THE BOOK AND GET A $25 REBATE. (I require that anyone that wants to go read this book before we take off to Sierra Leone) If you are serious and do not know diamonds or the diamonds in Sierra Leone, I will want you to go the website http://www.greggsgemhouse.com and buy the book I wrote on buying diamonds in Sierra Leone. Go to the “Books” page and look at the books and chose the one on buying rough in Sierra Leone. It is $200 and is all you will need to know about how it is done there and how you must buy to stay out of trouble. It is $200 and the reason for that is all the scammers taking my info and using it to get people to come and then take their money. If they want my info then they are going to pay for it now. The book is about 50 pages and has all you really need to know about the country and the diamonds. You will see everything concerning the licenses, sales books that the mines dept gives you and so on. Once you have the book i will know you are serious and then we can talk. Take care Gregg Ps. Once you have this small report, I will send you some actual buying prices and you can compare them with the bullshit ones you will see added to this booklet. Send me a copy of your payment for the big book and I will send you the other price info.

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SCAMMERS PRICES THAT ARE BEING SENT OUT TO UNSUSPECTING BUYERS IN SIERRA LEONE ON THE INTERNET THROUGH ALIBABA FOR THE MOST PART. TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT BELOW. (This man does not feel the clarity and color are worth mentioning)

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MORE TOTAL BULLSHIT LIES As you can see this man below has all the very best quality diamonds in clarity and the best colors with the exception of some in the “J” color range. Again it is impossible to get these qualities in the amounts he says he has and especially in the prices.

The price for the 1.5ct above should run in the $500-600 range per carat. These are total bullshit prices and unfortunately a lot of people will fall for these and if they send money they have lost it and if they go they will not see the diamonds as they don’t exist. Iwill meet with these people at any time I am in Salone at the Minister of Mines office or the GDO and we show the supposed diamonds and see what they say. As I said below this will never happen as they do not exist and is a total fabrication.

LONTA!!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Gregg Lyell August 2009 http:www.greggsgemhouse.com

MY DEALERS LICENSE FOR THE YEAR 2009-2010

I am ready to go when you are so contact me at the email or leave a message on the website http://www.greggsgemhouse.com [email protected] Thank you for your time and I hope you heed my warnings and do things the right way. Gregg http:www.greggsgemhouse.com