419 scam: "Barr. Jacob Walter" <walter@mail.com> RE: IMPORTANT DON'T IGNORE!!!

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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!

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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:
- "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)
- "barrister" (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- "barr." (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.
- attjwalter@mail2world.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Barr. Jacob Walter" <walter@mail.com>
Reply-To: barrjacobwalters@gmail.com
Date: 20 Sep 2018 07:20:33 -0700
Subject: RE: IMPORTANT DON'T IGNORE!!!

Attorney Jacob Walter
Date: 20/09/2018.
REF: EUR/ED/WA08-18

Business Proposal,
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 any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. My name is Barrister
Jacob Walter, an international lawyer and a personal Attorney to
my late client; my purpose of contacting you is for you to help
me to secure the funds left behind by my late client, to avoid it
being confiscated or declared unclaimed by the Bank; the fund
valued (Twelve Million, Seven Hundred Thousand Euros) was
deposited in the Bank by my late client before he passed away on
the 16th April 2004, living the fund with no Testament.
The Bank has issued me a final notice to contact his
relative's/the next of kin or else the account will be declared
un-serviceable and the fund will be diverted to the Bank
treasury, so far all my efforts to get a hold of someone related
to my late client has been in vain. Hence, I have decided to look
for a reliable person that has the same surname with my late
client. I am actually asking for your consent to present you to
the Bank as the Next of Kin, since you have the same surname so
that the proceeds of this account can be paid to your account.
All the legal documentations to back up our claim as my client's
next of Kin, I shall provide them. All I require from you is your
full confidential co-operation to enable us achieve this
transaction.

I wish to point out that I want 20% of this money to be shared
among the Charity Organizations, while the remaining 80% is
shared equally between us. This transaction is entirely risk
free. I will use my position as the client's personal attorney to
guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. If you
are interested, please contact me through my private email:
attjwalter@mail2world.com

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details
and relevant documents that will help you understand more on this
transaction.
However, if this business proposal offends your moral ethics,
please do accept my sincere apology, If on the contrary you wish
to achieve this goal with me, kindly get revert back to me with
your interest for further explanations.

Sincerely,
Barr. Jacob Walter]
(Attorney at Law)

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