419 scam: "BARR. MARIO SANCHEZ"<sanchezlaw5@yahoo.com> Hello, Please Treat This As Urgent And Confidential!!!

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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "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)
- "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.
- sanchezlaw5@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BARR. MARIO SANCHEZ" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 07:33:16 -0800
Subject: Hello, Please Treat This As Urgent And Confidential!!!

Dear Friend,

My name is Barr. Mario Sanchez, a personal Attorney to Late Mr. Michael who died along-side his entire family on the 11th of March 2004 in a train bombing in Madrid. You can get more information on the website address below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3500452.stm It may surprise you to be receiving this letter from me, since there was no previous correspondence between us. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret hence I solicit your confidence in this matter.

My purpose of contacting you is for your help in securing the cash deposit left behind by my late client, to avoid it being confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this cash deposit of ?12,700,000.00 (Twelve Million Seven Hundred Thousand Euros) was deposited by my late client before his accidental death. I got information about this cash deposit a couple of months ago from an inside confidential source in the bank where this huge amount was deposited in a secret account since the year 2003 under Blind Trust Fund Protection Act 6/OJ L184/ PT3 and we have been working on the project since then.

The reason I am contacting you is because the account is secret and there is no one left to claim the fund. I am actually asking for your consent to present you to the Bank as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary of my late client's fund, so that the fund will be released to you as his next of kin. All the legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next of Kin are with me. All I require is your honest co-operation and absolute confidentiality in order to guarantee the success of this transaction.

Kindly get back to me as soon as possible for more details via my office email address which is (sanchezlaw5@yahoo.com)

Awaiting your immediate response

Barr. Mario Sanchez.
Attorney at Law.

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