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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • bar_isojo01@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: isreal ojo <isrealojo31@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: bar_isojo01@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:46:09 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PLEASE URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED


Dear VICTIMNAME,


I am Israel Ojo a solicitor at law. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.Mark VICTIMNAME, who lived in Nigeria for some fifty years,and who was until his demise my client based on engagement entered into with my chambers in 1985. The said Mark who is hereafter referred to as my client passed on April 1999, in a fatal car accident.



All occupants of the vehicle including his immediate family unfortunately lost their lives. I contact you to secure your assistance in claiming his estate which includesdes sums of money left behind by him(Mark) to forestall confiscation and possible declaration of his account as non-serviceable by the finance company with whom this monies were deposited.The finance company where my late client made the lodgement for a value of 6.7 million dollars has issued me with notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the funds confiscated and declared abandonned.



I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name so that the lodegements of his account valued at 6.7 million dollars can be transferred to you by legitimate inheritance provisions as my client's Next of Kin. This sum of money can thereafter be mutually
disbursed by an agreed percentage.All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin, will be available by my chambers as witness to your status as bonafide inheritor.



I solicit therefore your honest cooperation to enable us see this enterprise to finality. I reassure you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.



Please get in touch with me, to enable us discuss more elaborately.



Best regards,


Barrister Israel Ojo.



I can also be reached on my alternate email address:
bar_isojo01@hotmail.com


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