Inheritance scam fun

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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:05 am

I have been having a bit of a play with an inheritance scam that turned up in one of my baiting accounts.

I have had little experience with inheritance scams but when a scam email finds you without having to go out of your way it would be just plain rude not to accept the offer

Emails have gone back and forth for weeks between my barister, the bank and myself.

One email asked me for some information which I kindly completed for my barister

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BENEFICIARY'S NAME AND
> SEX: MR BARRY xxxxx HOMAPHRODITE
> BENEFICIARYADDRESS; XUCKS LANE GOXXXRN NSW 2XX0
> BANK NA
> BANK STILL NA
> ADDRESS:.AS ABOVE.
> ACCOUNTNUMBER:.NA.
> TELEPHONENUMBER: PO BOX 16574832675 GOXXXXRN NSW 2XX0

Now today after god knows how many emails starting from negotiating the percentage and the cost of expenses we are nearly ready to complete the paperwork.

Quote:

UNION BANK PLC. (Nigerian)
123/234 DALEKO CASH CENTRE,DALEKO MARKET LAGOS,NIGERIA.
Union Bank Plc. . "We Make the DIFFERENCE"

TELL: 234-1-7211675 234-1-15451050 Wed 24th 2007

ATTN: MR. BARRY XXXXX.

ABOUT YOUR INHERITANCE

GOOD DAY SIR,

WE WISH TO NOTIFY YOU THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED YOUR LETTER OF CLAIM AND SOME OF THE DOCUMENT ABOUT YOUR LATE BROTHER MR.STEVE BOWEN, WHICH WAS SUBMITED BY ACCOUNT MANAGER MRS MERCY AUSTIN. AS A MATTER OF FACT WE ARE STILL ON VERIFICATION AND PROCESSING ON HOW YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR INHERITANCE.

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE DELAY ABOUT THE RELEASING OF YOUR LATE BROTHER�S INHERITANCE IT WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE DON�T WANT TO MAKE ANY MISTAKE ALTHOUGH HIS REPRESETATIVE BARRISTER MUSA ZULU HAS CLERIFY EVERY THING ABOUT YOU BUT ITS JUST THAT WE DON�T KNOW YOU BEFORE HIS DEATH AND THE MONEY IS LARGE SO WE HAVE TO BE CAREFULL TO AVOID WRONG TRANSFER.

NOW, YOU ADVICE TO GET BACK TO US WITH AN ANSWERS TO THE BELOW:

(1) WHAT IS THE FULL NAME OF YOUR BROTHER?

(2) WHAT WAS HIS OCCUPATION?

(3) WHEN DID HE DIE, AND ON WHAT SICKNESS?

(4) WAS HE MARRIED?

MEANWHILE, YOU ADVICE TO CROSS CHECK THE ACCOUNT INFORMATION YOU SENT TO OUR ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT THAT IS HERE NOW TO AVOID ANY MISTAKE IN MAKING THIS TRANSFER, AS BELOW IS WHAT WE HAVE HERE:

NAME: MR BARRY xxxxx HOMAPHRODITE

BENEFICIARYADDRESS: DUCKS LANE GOxxxxRN NSW 2xx0

NAME OF BANK: NA

BANK ADDRESS: STILL NA

ACCOUNT NUMBER: NA

TELE PHONE NUMBER: PO BOX 16574832675 GOxxxxRN NSW 2xx0

YOU ARE ADVICE TO CROSS CHECK IT AND IF THERE IS A MISTAKE YOU MAKE THE CORRECTION NOW BEFORE OUR CONCLUSION.ALSO PLEASE IF YOU ARE SENDING THE ANSWER PLEASE SEND WITH THE BANK THAT YOU WANT YOUR LATE BROTHER'S FUND SHOULD BE TRANSFER OKAY. BECAUSE THIS ALL WE GOT FROM YOUR REPRESENTATIVE HERE.

ONCE AGAIN WE APOLOGIZE AND ASK YOU TO BE PETIENT WITH US AS WE PROMISE TO CONCLUDE SOON AND WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITH THE PAYMENT ANALYSIS.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,

MANAGER (UBN) ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT
MR.AKIN THOMAS

So now its just a matter of answering the questions correctly and I'll be rich I tells ya.

If only I can remember what the answers are.

Surely it was my brother I should know the answers

This was an extract from an earlier email

Quote:

1. Name: Mr. Steve Bowen,
2. Address: Plot 5, Sanusi Fafunwa Street, Victoria Island, Lagos - Nigeria
3. Age: 52 years
4. Wife's name: Mrs. Jennifer Bowen.
5. No. Of Children: Three (3) Tony, Roseline and Angela,

But of course I couldn't find that information and it doesn't answer all the questions anyway so I will just have to do my best and hope I get it right,

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:12 am

In order to try and keep the post clean and easy to understand the first email including header is here if anybody else would like to recieve an inheritance.

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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:00:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Musa Zulu <[email protected]>
Subject: Good day Barry xxxx
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Law Chamber Principal Attorney
Musa Zulu & Associates
44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.

PRIVATE AND HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL

Good day Barry xxxxx,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I
believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact
that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on
your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar
with events.Well, I am Barrister Musa Zulu, a Solicitor. I am the Personal
Attorney to Mr. Steve Bowen , who used to work with Agip Oil
Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2003, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Abuja Express Road.

Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any
of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his
relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to
no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money
left behind by my client in a Finance Company.

Consequently, this Bank issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin
to claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars
only) in their custody within the next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2
years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of
the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the
fund will be transferred to your account by the
Bank.

Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet
with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will
share the money in this order: 55% will be for me, 40% will be for
you.And the remaining 5% would be for whatever expense that we made. I
have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will
make with the Bank.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this
deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.

Best regards.
Barrister Musa Zulu

Principal Attorney

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<DIV>Law Chamber Principal Attorney<BR>Musa Zulu & Associates<BR>44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,<BR>Victoria Island,<BR>Lagos-Nigeria.

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PRIVATE AND HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good day Barry Bowen,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I <BR>believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact <BR>that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on <BR>your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar <BR>with events.Well, I am Barrister  Musa Zulu, a Solicitor. I am the Personal
<BR>Attorney to Mr. Steve Bowen , who used to work with Agip Oil <BR>Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2003, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Abuja Express Road. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident. <BR>Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any <BR>of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. </DIV> <DIV>After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his <BR>relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to <BR>no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money <BR>left behind by my client in a Finance Company.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Consequently, this Bank issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin <BR>to claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars <BR>only) in their custody within the next
ten official working days.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 2 <BR>years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of <BR>the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the <BR>fund will be transferred to your account by the<BR>Bank.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet <BR>with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will <BR>share the money in this order: 55% will be for me, 40% will be for <BR>you.And the remaining 5% would be for whatever expense that we made. I <BR>have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will <BR>make with the Bank.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this <BR>deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a <BR>legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the <BR>law. </DIV> <DIV><BR>Best regards.<BR>Barrister Musa Zulu</DIV> <DIV><BR>Principal Attorney</DIV><p>

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If you would like our emails forwarded for some background, they are numerous and boring but I will send them upon request, it wouldn't take a very clever person to work out an email address for mr Barry xxxxx (Me) from the information here or you could pm me

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:11 pm

@Murry- Inheritance scams are FUNN because you get to involve attorneys and forms and international laws and....etc....
Don't settle for any old fake will - make sure it's the real thing- insist on the Probate Court Director's Stamp of Certitude, which any barrister worth his salt would recognize without you having to explain it Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:09 pm

Murry - You need to contact the barrister immediately!! The inheritance is denominated in DOLLARS. You absolutely must have it in Euros, and all documents which refer to the amount of funds use Euros.

Bruin

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:16 am

Quote:

Hello Barry,

How are you doing.hope all is well with you and family.

Well,i just have to let you know that i send you mails and you never response to me what is going on,please update me because i was at the bank to comfirm what is going and i was directed to you that them have get intouch with you that they are waiting for response from you,so please update me about what the bank have send to you also please do not divert the money to yourself alone okay,because i have suffer alot concerning this issue okay so please update me i am waiting for your response okay.

Musa

Barristers can be so pushy cant they

I will take those ideas on board, thanks for the tips i will make use of them in my next email.

For now here are my answers to the questions, I hope they are right

Quote:

Thank you for your reply,

Following is the answers you require

(1) WHAT IS THE FULL NAME OF YOUR BROTHER? Stephen Bowen

(2) WHAT WAS HIS OCCUPATION? An oil contractor

(3) WHEN DID HE DIE, AND ON WHAT SICKNESS? He died some time ago in a plane crash

(4) WAS HE MARRIED? I think so

If there is further information you require please let me know

Regards

And just now to my ever so helpfull yet pushy barrister

Quote:

I am so sorry,

I have had no time to check my emails, as i told you I must be
carefull when I do this because I dont want other people to see what I
am up to.

The bank sent me some information and asked some questions of me which
I have answered for them

Please keep me informed

Regards

Barry