419 scam: "Barrister Wacfeld Mabsant"<allen@shengqiulamp.com> PLEASE READ AND REPLY (17/02/2012)

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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:
- "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)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
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.
- wmt70@freemail.hu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barrister Wacfeld Mabsant" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wacfeldm74@freemail.hu>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:44:27 +1100
Subject: PLEASE READ AND REPLY (17/02/2012)

From Desk of Barrister Wacfeld Mabsant
65 Lapaz Road, Zuma Plaza, First Floor
Suite 9,Accra-Ghana.
Telephone:+233247935485
E-mail: wmt70@freemail.hu

Good Day

Compliments!. Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by Virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a Transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am Assuring you that all will be well.

Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Barrister Wacfeld Mabsant, a personal Attorney to Late Mrs. Cari Collins herein referred to as my late client. This email Might come as a surprise to you, since there was no previous correspondence between us. My purpose of contacting you is for you to help secure the funds left behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank in Ghana Where this fund valued €6,100,000.00 (Six Million One hundred thousand Euro) was Deposited by my client before her death.

The Bank has issued me a notice to contact the next of kin or the account will be Declared unserviceable and the fund diverted to the Bank treasury, So far all my efforts to get hold of someone related to her has proved abortive. Since I have been Unsuccessful in locating the relatives for some years now, I seek your consent to Present you as the next of kin to the deceased.

I shall provide all the documents to back up the claim as my client's Next of Kin. All I Require is your honest,full cooperation and commitments to enable us achieve this Transaction.

I wish to point out that I want 10% of this money to be shared among charity Organizations, while the remaining 90% would be shared equally between us. This Transaction is 100% risk free. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate Arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law.

Upon receipt of this letter, you are require to forward to me your full details such as:

1. Your Full Names
2. Home/ mailing address
3. Phone Numbers
4. Age
5. Occupation

I have worked out the modalities for the persecution of this transaction which had meets All necessary requirements in our country and those of international arbitration.

PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET.

Warm regards,

Barrister Wacfeld Mabsant
Email: wmt70@freemail.hu

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