419 scam: "BARRISTER IAN MACDONALD"<barristerianmacdonald@gmail.com> READ CAREFULLY AND RESPOND

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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:
- "million pounds" (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)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
1. They don't notify winners by email.
2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
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.
- barristerobin.white@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "BARRISTER IAN MACDONALD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barristermacianmacdonald@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:09:56 +1100
Subject: READ CAREFULLY AND RESPOND

Dear Sir,

I am Barrister Ian Macdonald. A personal solicitor and attorney to Dr. Andrew Bell, Fund Manager of The Witan Investment Trust Plc. One of the UK`s largest oldest independent self managed funds management company with over Forty-Five Billion Pounds Capital Investment Funds.

Nevertheless, as Attorney Witan Investment Funds Manager, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.3% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annul on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds.

As an expert, we have made over One Hundred and Sixty million pounds from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Witan Magellan Capital Funds through a suspense account with Federal Reserve Bank NY, USA.

.All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our Clearing Houses n UK or the suspence account with Federal Reserve Bank NY without any hitches.

Our sharing ratio should be 70-30%. In case you are interested, Please email me your direct telephone number for discussion of this transaction in further detail. Send me an email too via barristerobin.white@gmail.com.

For more details on further verifications, log onto this site;
http://www.witan.co.uk/ http://www.witan.co.uk/blog/acropolis-now http://www.witan.co.uk/content/andrew-bell-witan-investment-trust-tells-robert-miller-recovery-us-economy-has-dawned http://www.whatinvestment.co.uk/funds/1149023/out-of-recession-but-into-what.thtml

Awaiting your interest declaration and response.

Sincerely,

Barrister Ian Macdonald Esq.
On behalf of;
Dr. Andrew Bell,
No. 5272533 of 14 Queen Anne’s Gate, London , SW1H 9AA ,

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