Is this a 419er

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Values Are >>> Humility, Integrity, Empathy, Resilience
BARCLAYS BANK OF LONDON.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE OFFICE.
TEL: +447045702685
FAX: +447045707373
DATE: JULY 24, 2007

ATTENTION: MR.


UNITED STATES.



OUTSTANDING INHERITANCE FUND TRANSFER OF 3,700,000 MILLION POUNDS FROM ACCOUNT NO. IB517986896002ML

WE'VE REVIEWED YOUR APPLICATION AND MADE ALL DUE VERIFICATION ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED TO US BY YOUR ATTORNEY BARRISTER STEVEN MEYER WHICH CLEARLY STATES THAT YOU'RE THE BENEFICIARY TO THE ACCOUNT OF OUR LATE CUSTOMER MRS VICTORIA LEE. YOU ARE TO SUBMIT YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION WHICH IS VERY ESSENTIAL IN THE COMPILATION OF YOUR C.O.T..WE'LL SUBMIT YOUR PAYMENT FILE TO THE ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT. THEY WILL IN TURN GIVE US THE QUOTATION FOR THE RE-ACTIVATION FEES AND THE C.O.T( COST OF TRANSFER )THAT YOU'RE TO PAY BEFORE THE ACCOUNT CAN BE ACTIVE AND READY FOR TRANSFER. WE'LL ALSO GO TO THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT FOR THEM TO ACCREDIT YOUR PAYMENT. THERE WILL BE A CHANGE IN THE NAME OF THE ACCOUNT FROM MRS. VICTORIA LEE TO YOUR NAME.
WE CAN THEN EFFECT THE TRANSFER TO YOUR ACCOUNT .YOU'LL BE GIVEN A PAYMENT SLIP AND WITHIN A MAXIMUM OF 5 WORKING DAYS YOUR FUNDS SHOULD BE IN YOUR ACCOUNT. IF YOU WISH TO BANK WITH US YOU INDICATE SO WE CAN ARRANGE FOR A DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT IN YOUR NAME AS OUR FOREIGN CUSTOMER.

NOTE THAT THERE'S A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME ALLOWED FOR THAT ACCOUNT TO REMAIN IN-ACTIVE/DORMANT. THERE HAS BEEN A WARNING THAT WAS SENT TO MRS. VICTORIA LEE BEFORE SHE DIED REGARDING THE RE-ACTIVATION OF THIS ACCOUNT. I GUESS IT WAS DUE TO HER MEDICAL CONDITION THEN SHE COULDN'T RESPOND BACK. THAT NOT WITHSTANDING ALL BANK POLICIES AND REGULATIONS WILL BE FOLLOWED.



THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION

YOUR FAITHFULLY,
MR. PHILIPS BOWMAN
BARCLAYS BANK OF LONDON


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Hi Sailor,

Yes that is a classic 419 inheritance scam.

THEY WILL IN TURN GIVE US THE QUOTATION FOR THE RE-ACTIVATION FEES AND THE C.O.T( COST OF TRANSFER )THAT YOU'RE TO PAY BEFORE THE ACCOUNT CAN BE ACTIVE AND READY FOR TRANSFER.

That's a dead give away. You will be asked for fees over and over again, and you will never see a dime.


The email address looks convincing, but it is not from a real bank, it leads to a domain that was set up for the purpose of sending scam emails.

Any offer for millions of dollars from someone you do not know is a scam.

Hi sailor, and welcome to ScamWarners. Thanks for posting the headers with the email.

Luckey is right, this is definitely a scam. Banks do not work like this. They do not charge reactivation fees, and accounts with that kind of money in them do not go dormant. The telephone number looks like a UK number but it is actually what is called a personal number, from Open Telecom International Ltd. That means that the number can be diverted to anywhere in the world, at the caller's expense. As long as you have the country code, you can check all phone numbers using this site:
http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=ana ... ub=phonenr

I hope this helps.

That sounds like a candidate for aa419 - it'll be in the database shortly

edit: http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=17133

The domain looks dead to me. Its redirecting to the service home page: http://www.unonic.com

I'm betting it was killed by Unonic when someone reported that it was being used to send out scam emails like the one you posted, Sailor.

^^^Well, I think it's only an email domain. I sent one and it hasn't bounced yet.

Might as well take a shot at it then. That service might not give the normal "parked" page I see on mail domains.

The Barrister who is setting it all up !!!!


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Have you not given them your banking information? How do you expect them to transfer these funds to you?

Please send them your banking information so they can proceed. I don't know if they will deduct the reactivation fees /c.o.t.from the total funds but if an account has been dormant and needs reactivation, they don't deduct the fees from the total sum because the account is inactive. Whatever the case may be .Just send them your account information first.

Regards,

Steven Meyer








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Thanks for posting that, Sailor, it will help anyone else who is searching to check the names.

I've sent an abuse report for the barclaysbankuk.net.tf domain to the host. We don't normally close the other free web domains (lawyer.com is a domain at mail.com).

Edit: If that is your email address in the headers, it would be better to remove it

opps I thought I had. I'll look at it again

It might be of interest to you Sailor, to know that, based on the header info, your scammer is operating from Nigeria.
Quite often scammers pretend to be in Western countries as they feel that it gives them a look of authenticity. I'm sure I don't have to tell you but you should never judge a book by it's cover as far as unsolicited email is concerned.
Nobody should assume that just because somebody gives a realistic address, country or company name, that they are actually based there.

~Emma Jones,

Actually some banks do charge a reactivation fee but it's usually very small. I had a checking account that sat dormant for over a year and when I tried to deposit some money I was charged $3.00. This account had a monthly fee. By going dormant it avoided the fee eating up all the money in the account.

I'm sure however this bank will want a lot more than that.

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Good point, Guest. Scammers often take what is a real but small fee and blow it up to hundreds or thousands of dollars. Of course, they also make up real sounding but completely fictional fees and taxes as well.

@ sailor - You can also assume that this 'barrister' Steven Meyer is more than likely the same scammer, or most certainly a co-scammer using a different email address. They like to bring in 'lawyers' to make the whole transaction look more legitimate.

Real banks do charge an out-going wire fee but its generally reasonable: $25 to $40. Only in the scammers world do bank fees have to be huge to allow a transfer to be effected. And if the money is really in the millions, they never say why the cost can't be deducted from the funds sent. The real answer is the money in the account does not exist. You have only their word for it that its there. And the irony is they are not really protecting your interests by not letting you wire the funds minus their cost; they're trying to keep the scam going on as long as someone is gullible enough to fall for it!