419 scam: Barr Martns Alan <greatfileyes@gmail.com> A mutual business transaction

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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:
- ",500,000" (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)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "% will be for you" (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)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- martins.alan010@yahoo.es (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Barr Martns Alan <greatfileyes@gmail.com>
Reply-To: martins.alan010@yahoo.es
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 13:43:38 +0100
Subject: A mutual business transaction

Sir/Ma,

I am contacting you for a mutual business transaction involving Ten Million
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only($10,500,000.00 )hoping that you will
contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible business relationship
on how to actulise this mutual benefit.

I am Barr .Martins Alan, An attorney at law here in London ,with your
sincere assistant,Trust and Co-operation, I am determined to work this
transaction with you if you can finish it.my client was going through a
horrendous divorce and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to his
vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming predicament,He
came to me with a very brilliant idea,he transferred some funds,Ten Million
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars only($10.5M) to a fixed deposit account in
one of the bank under an alias which only the two of us knew about as the
confidentiality of the matter was necessary for his protection when he was
alive, Due to his untimely death in early 2013, the funds have been Lodge
in the account ever since and will continue to do so perpetually unless we
do something about it.

This is where you come in because I located you through an agency that
helps seek people by their email.My client did not declare any next of kin
in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit and all
effort to trace his relative failed. Against this backdrop, my suggestion
to you is that I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin
to our client so that you will be able to receive his funds.65% of the
total money will be for me,30% will be for you and 5% will be map aside to
cover all expenses in the process of completing this transaction.

At the moment,I am constrained to issue more details about this business
until your positive response is received.Please take a moment of your time
schedules to read this proposal and contact me with the following
information:

Your Full Name
Your Full Address
Your Contact Phone/Mobile Phone Number

In receipt of the above information,I will summit a letter of introduction
in your name as the next of kin beneficiary to this claim and start
processing all paperwork in your name for this claim.I assure you that this
transaction is worth taking and highly profitable.Reply to "
martins.alan010@yahoo.es "It's 100% risk free.Thank
you for your time and attention.

I awaits your urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
Barr. Martins Alan

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