419 scam: "Barr Charles Dixon"<saved@means.com> Seeking for business co-operation/ asalamalekun

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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:

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:
- "confidential business" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr Charles Dixon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barrcharlesdixon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:54:54 -0500
Subject: Seeking for business co-operation/ asalamalekun

Dear Sir,
I am Charles Dixon, an investment advisory/Lawyer with Charlene Dixon & Partners a firm based in United Kingdom. I will like to seek your co-operation in a top confidential business transaction.
There is an amount of Seventeen Million USD left behind in a dormant fixed deposit account that belongs to a late expatriate client of mine. He neither has a wife or a child and no WILL as well. All efforts to trace any of his relatives over the years have proved abortive. There is no other person that knows about the existence of this fund except me and the account officer of the account.
At the moment, the bank where the account is domiciled has threatened to confiscate the funds and return the fund to Government coffers should no one come forward before 31st December 2016 to claim the ownership or as next of kin of the deceased. To avoid this from happening, I need a foreigner whom I can present as the next of kin to my late client and then have the fund wired to his/her bank account, hence my contact to you. All legal support documents will be obtained by my office in your favor and presented to the bank as at when needed.
Kindly confirm your interest by return mail so that more details can be provided to you.
Awaiting your urgent response.
Regards,
Barr Charles Dixon

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