How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: Yet another inheritance

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Yet another inheritance

From: jim clark [mailto:jim_clark680@msn.com]
Sent: 22 April 2009 14:01
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST!!

NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST!!
FROM: Barr Jim Clark (For Trustees)
Managing Partner(Jim Clark Chambers)
646 Commercial Road London, E14 7HA UK
Email: (barristerjimclark@yahoo.co.uk )
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Mr. Brian
York, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email
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NOTIFICATION OF BEQUEST!!

FROM: Barr Jim Clark (For Trustees)
Managing Partner(Jim Clark Chambers)
646 Commercial Road London, E14 7HA UK
Email: (barristerjimclark@yahoo.co.uk )

On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Mr. Brian
York, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned
undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email
address on the WILL.I wish to notify you that late Mr. Brian York made
you a beneficiary to his WILL. he left the sum of Five Million Hundred
Thousand Dollars (USD$ 5,100.000.00 ) to you in the codicil and last
testament to his will. this may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but
it is real and true. Being a widely travelled man, he must have been in
contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one
of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good. Mr. Brian York
until his death was a member of the Helicopter Society and the Institute
of Electronic & Electrical Engineers. He was a very dedicated Man who
loved to give out. His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards
during his life time. Late Mr. Brian York died on the 16th day of February
2004 at the age of 90 years and his WILL is now ready for execution.
According to him this money is to support his Goodwill activities (may his
soul rest in peace.) and to help the poor and needy. Please if I reach
you as I am hopeful, endeavour to get back to me as soon as possible to
enable me conclude my job. Thanks and remain bless. I hope to hear from
you in no distant date.
Yours in His service,
Barrister Jim Clark.

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What is advance-fee fraud?

According to Wikipedia advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer, the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.

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The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter, fax, or Telex. The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software made the cost of sending scam letters through the Internet low. In the 2000s, the 419 scam has spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and, more recently, from North America, Western Europe (mainly UK), and Australia.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code (part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating") dealing with fraud. The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
The advance-fee fraud is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner scam in which the trickster would tell the scam victim that a (fictitious) rich prisoner had promised to share (non-existent) treasure with the victim if the latter would send money to bribe the prison guards.
Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."