419 scam: Ed Borris <svideva@uni-plovdiv.bg> From Ed

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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:
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "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.
- edborris61@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Ed Borris <svideva@uni-plovdiv.bg>
Reply-To: <edborris62@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 01:12:23 +0400
Subject: From Ed

Attn: Dear,

Iam Barr. Ed Borris, a solicitor at law in United Kingdom of Great Britain. I am the personal attorney to one late Mr Williams Margales, a business magnate who worked with an indigenous company here in Euroupe in most African Regions. Mr Williams Margales died on July 25,2000 in a plane crash along with his wife(Maryln) and James(son)Amanda(Daugther). Visit the webpage http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/905308.stm

Before the catastrophe, He deposited the sum of US$ 7.5M, ( SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLARS ONLY) with one of the security financial firm for safe keeping.
As the personal attorney/trustee to my late client, the firm has mandated me to present a member of his family (heir/inheritor) to make Claims of this deposit or the funds shall be confiscated and transfered to the Bureau of Diplomatic Securities as unclaimed deposit.

In view of this development, I have made several effort and search for a direct family member of this my late client which seems to prove abortive. Right now I have been given another ultimatum by the firm to get any of his business associate/partner to come for the claim of this insured fund or have it liquidated and made unserviceable in accordance with existing laws.

Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I would want to present you as my late client´s next of kin/ business associate. I know you may not be anyway related to what we are talking about but having in possession of every document related to this deposit coupled with the modalities I have in place, be rest assured that if you follow my instructions and directives strictly (The rule of laws) and capitalizing of some judicial loop holes, the funds in question will be release to us. Mind you that this transaction is 100% risk free, there is no single risk associates to this because every modalities in this transaction will be on a high profiled level so long as you will be capable to handle it.

Once the funds is approved and released in your name, we shall divide the content in the ratio of 50/ 40% while 10%shall be set aside to reimburse any expenses we may in-cure in the cause of these .
Note, all legal documents to back up your claim as my client's business partner will be made available. I will be obliged to give you further information

you may need to know as soon as I receive a positive response from you. Feel free to contact me through my Email: edborris61@gmail.com. Please be kind to get back to me even when you are not willing to collaborate with me so that I can further my search for another partner.

Best Regards,
Barr. Ed Borris

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