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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:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • barryaya111@yahoo.co.in

Fraud email example:

From: "barryaya@terra.es" <barryaya@terra.es>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 12:01:35 +0100 (MET)
Subject: GOOD NEWS


YAYA & AKUNNA ASSOCIATES.
NO.15 ALAKIJA STREET,
FESTAC TOWN,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
barryaya111@yahoo.co.in


REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE.

I am Barrister YAYA Akunna, the principal partner of the above named law firm. We are based here in Lagos-Nigeria. Our office address is situated at the above-mentioned address.

The purpose of writing you this message is to ask for your hand in a business proposal that will be of immense financial benefits to both of us on conclusion. In confidence I had a foreign client named ENGR. MATHEW B., a Petrochemical Engineer with the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG)
based here in Lagos-Nigeria.

He was a very rich contractor and I was covering his dealings. Unfortunately, on the 6th of May,2002, he was involved in a Local Plane Crash at Kano State, enroute Abuja (The Capital City) all occupants in the Plane lost their with all the members of his family. Non-survived the mis-hap. This was completely a sad incident. However, before this unfortunate incident, he had made a fixed deposit of (US$10,322,000.00) Ten Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars with a commercial bank here. This bank has written me severally to produce his
supposed next-of-kin to come for the claims of this money as the beneficiary. I have equally made enquiries through all the foreign embassies here to try to locate any of his relatives for this payment but have not succeeded in all my attempts. The bank is ready to confiscate this money, as it has been dormant since the account was opened on The 28th of April 2000.

The banking laws here stipulate that any account that stays dormant for 6 years without any proven transaction within the stipulated period will categorized be "Unserviceable" and thereby declared abandoned and will be subsequently confiscated as it backed by the law of the Abandoned
Decree Act of 1999 of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria. This money at this point in time stands the risk of confiscation by the28th of next month, barely some weeks from now.

My proposal to you therefore, is that I want to present you to the bank for this payment and we share the money as follows: 45% for you and 45% for me. 5% will be donated to charity and the last 5% will cover any expenses we shall have to make in order to fulfill the bank's requirements for this money to be transferred to your receiving bank account in your country.

You will bank my share in your account for purposes of private investment in Real Estate Business in your country through your direction and guidance.

This is urgent and I will let you have the details on your immediate response. This should be handled in an absolutely confidential manner to avoid any doubts by the bank, as I will present you as the rightful bona-fide beneficiary to the deceased's fund since you have the same sur-name with the deceased. This will be honored since I shall immediately make available to the bank, the necessary Liam-substantiating documents that I have to back-up this claim in your favor. I look forward to your quick response and sincere cooperation.

Please you should forward to me immediately the information below to enable me star of the transaction by drafting a letter of claim which I will submit to the bank telling them that I have found the Next of Kin to my late client.

1. Your Full Names and address.
2. Your Private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.
3. Your Occupation and Age.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968616.stm

Yours sincerely,

BARRISTER YAYA AKUNNA(ESQ).






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