419 scam: "Baker And Brownberg LLP"<bakerandbrownbe@law-firm.com> Second Attempted Email Notice....

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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:
- "hundred thousand american 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)
- "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)
- "high court" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +441239350036
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.
- brownbergllp@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Baker And Brownberg LLP" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bakerandbrownbe@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:25:28 -0700
Subject: Second Attempted Email Notice....

International Full Service Law Firm
Address: Wyssgasse 6 / P.O. Box 8131
Zurich, Switzerland.Zipcode: 8036

THIS IS FOR YOUR ATTENTION PRIVATE AND URGENT.

Sequel to your non response of our earlier letter sent by post to you by to you on behalf of
the Trustees and Executors of the Estate of our late client.We wish to notify you again that
you were listed as a beneficiary to the total sum of $11,300,000.00 Eleven million Three
hundred thousand American dollars in the codicil and last testament of the deceased.
Name now withheld since this is our second letter to you .
I contacted you because you bear the surname identity and therefore i can present you as the
sole beneficiary to the inheritance. I therefore reckoned that you can receivethese funds as
you are qualified by your name identity.

PROPOSITION;
We discovered an abandoned amount of money in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family.But he happens to share the same last name
with you,Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims
to this money as the heir.

We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin
to the deceased as indicated in our judicial laws.Upon this discovery, we now seek your
permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by us for the funds to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next
of kin.

To verify these funds in escrow, please call the Automated Number of the Bank and follow the prompt:

Call: +44-123-935-0036
Pass code: 1439
Account Number: 30402741078
Pin: 9898

It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any
of deceased beneficiaries.All the legal papers will be processed in your acceptance of this deal,
I request that you kindly forward to me your letter of acceptance in acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the following:

1. Beneficiary name and address.
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers.
These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim at our high court probate division for the
release of this sum of money.

Get back to me through the following contact mail address: brownbergllp@hotmail.com

Golchert Rainer.
[Legal Trustee]
Zurich, Switzerland.

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