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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Barr Ken Martins" <barr_kenmartins1@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: barr_kenmartins@maktoob.com
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:34:02 -0700
Subject: Dear Friend,
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please in the name of God i ask for your little time to read this message
carefully to the excellency of our mutual benefit. This is not one of those
letters or stories out there that everybody know as joke. I am very serious
and this money is my only hope of survival now and it is the future of my
family. So please read this email very gently and quirtly tell me what you
think,if we can transact it together or not. And please after reading if it
does not interest you please kindly delet the mail and keep the secret of
what you red within you.
I am Barrister Ken Martins a solicitor at law and a partner in Morgan, Lewis
& Bockius LLP. I am the personal attorney to Mr. Douglas Frankel, an
American who used to work with SHELL Oil Producing Company in Britain;
Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client.
On the 21st of April 2004, my client, his wife and their only son were
involved in a car accident. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost
their lives. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy here
to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trackhis last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at US$28.5
million left behind by my client before it gets Confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited. The said
bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within the next fourteen official working days.
For the fact that I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for
over one year now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to
the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.
Thereafter, I propose that the funds will be shared in the following
ratio:60% for me, 40% for you.
I shall ensure that all relevant information and legal documents that may be
needed to actualize this transaction is provided. All I require from you is
your honest cooperation to enableus see this transaction through. I
guarantee you that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law.
If you are interested, write me back through this
email:barr_kenmartins@maktoob.com
<email%3Abarr_kenmartins@maktoob.com>forwarding your telephone numbers
and contact information.
Best Regards.
Barrister Ken Martins.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
London, U.K.
Tel: +44704 0114337
Fax: +448701219723
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