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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.)
  • "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
  • "chambers" (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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348063314235 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • smithcollins_esq5@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: Barrister Smith Collins <smithcollins_esq77@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:12:54 -0400
Subject: URGENT

Esteemed Greetings

I am Barrister Smith Collins, a lawyer in the Chambers of FALANA CONCERNS (Legal Practitioners) in NIGERIA.

I saw your contact and profile from Internet in my private search for a genuine person,I decided that you could cooperate with me in this proposition.

I have a client who was deceased in November, 2004, in
PORTHARCOURT,NIGERIA. I am contacting you in view of the fact that you share the same surname, foreign background with my deceased client who lost his life along with his wife and only child in a ghastly motor accident and i felt
that you could help me in the distribution of funding that were left in my deceased client's bank account.

This funds is closed to be declared UN-serviceable by the bank as there were no indicated next of kin or next of beneficiary of the funding in the bank account.
The total amount of cash in the bank account of my deceased client is $5.7 Million (Five Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ), only.

This reason alone is why I contacted you, to claim the deposits and interest from his account with your help because the deposits cannot be released without the help of a foreigner from the United States of America.

I contacted you for two reasons. Firstly, you both come from the same
country and share the same surname, which makes the claim most credible.

The bank had issued to me a notification to contact the next of kin of my deceased client for either to re-activate the bank account or to make claim of beneficiary, of the funding in the bank account, with a month surcharge of 6% to be deducted as an Escrow safe keeping fee of the bank account,so as to avoid the indefinite closure of the bank
account.

My proposition to you is to seek your consent, and to present your kind self as the next-of-kin and beneficiary of my deceased client, since you have the same last name with him. This means that the proceeds of his bank account would be paid to you as his next of kin or the legitimate beneficiary.When the proceeds in his bank account are paid to you, we would share the proceeds on a mutually agreed-upon percentage of 60% to me and 40% to your kind self.

All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's
next-of-kin would be provided by me. The most important thing I would need is your honest cooperation in this proposition.This would be done under a legitimate arrangement that would protect you from any breach of the law.

If this business proposition offends your moral and ethic values, do accept my sincere apology. Please contact me at once if you are interested by replying the mail and ignore it if you are not.If you find yourself able to work with me, Kindly send me your response to my private email address:
smithcollins_esq5@yahoo.co.uk

The entire project is expected to last for about few bank working days.

Best regards,
Barr.Smith Collins
234-8063314235






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