419 scam: "Barrister Abdullah Ahmad" <babdullahahmadsi@sify.com> PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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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.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "contact me immediately" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "dormant account" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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.
- babdulahsifidaz2@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Abdullah Ahmad" <babdullahahmadsi@sify.com>
Reply-To: <babdulahsifidaz2@sify.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:50:00 +0800
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE

Barrister Abdullah Ahmad Legal Solicitors & Advocate
Jalan Ismail, 95300 Kota Samarian,
Sarawak Malaysia.

Attention,

I am barrister Abdullah Ahmad, a financial and legal Consultant with Abdullah Ahmad chamber in Malaysia.I am contacting you in respect of a business as follows; I had a late foreign client of mine, he was A Road Contractor engineer in my country and he made a Fixed Deposit of $19,000,000:00 USD (Nineteen Million Dollars) in a financial institution in my country.

Upon maturity of his account, the financial institution sent a notification letter to his address
but they did not respond. After a month another reminder was sent to my chamber to notify my
client about his dormant account with the financial institution, I wrote the financial institution
that my client is dead along with the family,

the wife and their two children were involved in a car accident along Sarawak Express Road.
Since l got notification letter from the financial institution to present my late client relative for the claim of the fund, I decide to search for a foreign partner that l can present to be the beneficiary of my late client fund in the bank; As my late client did not declare any other name on the deposited documents except the late son’s name.Please know in according to Laws of my country at the expiration of Six years, the fund will be revert to the ownership of the Government if no one applies to claim the fund.

This is the reason why i am seeking for a foreign partner to present, as my late client relative which l will present to the bank as the legitimate appointed beneficiary by my chamber as the local representative attorney.

And when l authorize the transfer of the fund to you as l cannot claim it on my own we will share the $19,000.000:00 in the ratio of 50% to you as a foreign partner. And the 50% will be mine as the legal custodian of the said fund; I want you to know there is no risk as all the paperwork to transfer the fund to you in your country will be done in your name legally. Upon acceptance of this Urgent business,

do not hesitate to contact me for more information on how this business will be carrying out urgently.pls contact me immediately VIA babdulahsifidaz2@sify.com

Best regards,
Barrister Abdullah Ahmad

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