Scam email: BARRISTER SANDY CARRINGTON LAW FIRM, an attorney for a dead wealthy man (Maurice Woh)

Scam Money Transfers from Lawyers / Barristers
Example - BARRISTER SANDY CARRINGTON LAW FIRM:
"Wealthy dead client's name: Maurice Wohl"

Have you received an email from "BARRISTER SANDY CARRINGTON LAW FIRM", claiming that she is an attorney for a dead wealthy man, "the great philanthropist, Late Maurice Wohl" who, she claims,

"made a random selection of individuals( vian email addressees)drawn from 250 Countries in the world , whom he expects to continue in line with his selfless services to mankind"

If you follow the link in the email (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/877056.html) , you will see a common ploy that scammers use: they fabricate a story, a con, around a true event.  Yes, this man was wealthy and he did die, and he was a philanthropist. But notice the date of the article: July 02, 2007. He died a year and a half before this scam email.  Plus, the article says nothing about him giving money away to people at random, vian email or any other method.  It notes that he was a "prominent British Jewish philanthropist". Don't you think that he would have given the money to Jewish causes, rather than random strangers by email?  And if he did, wouldn't that have been front page news?

If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!

Note the items highlighted in the actual email below. You would think a lawyer / barrister would have the education (or at least a spell checker) to avoid so many spelling, punctuation, syntax, grammar and other mistakes.  Not to mention the unusual and unprofessional use of free Yahoo email accounts instead of a business email address.

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Scam email from "BARRISTER SANDY CARRINGTON LAW FIRM":

BARRISTER SANDY CARRINGTON LAW FIRM
 Registered office:
54 Upper Berkeley Street,
London, W1H 7QR United Kingdom.
TEL: +(44)-704-574-8348,
Fax: + (44)-87-1251-8628

Registration number: GR7U78008

VAT Registration number: 690950401

ATTENTION!! Having gone through our records, it came to our knowledge that the great philanthropist, Late Maurice Wohl , made a random selection of individuals( vian email addressees)drawn from 250 Countries in the world , whom he expects to continue in line with his selfless services to mankind. It is on this note that, I Barrister Sandy Carrington, was assigned to contact you on behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Maurice Wohl. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address stated here and I wish to notify you that Late Maurice Wohl made you a beneficiary to his funds.

He left the sum of Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (9.200, 000, 00 GBP) to you in a Bank account number ABN-147-0028-08-5 with a Security Deposit Bank. Until his death, Late Maurice Wohl made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and was a self-made real estate magnate, who was known for his generosity. He was the president of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue, and also a benefactor of Bar-Ilan University, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, as well as many other Israeli institutions. He is a very dedicated Christian who loved to be involved in charitable projects not because it gave him prestige but because it was right and because it was good for other people and his great philanthropy have earned him numerous awards during his life time Late Maurice Wohl died on the 2nd day of July 2007 at the age of 83 years, and his funds are now ready for execution.

According to him this money is to support your humanitarian activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society. For more details, please visit this page at (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/877056.html)

Please if I reach you this time as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. By replying to this e-mail, you will have to update the form below so that I can contact you and also send you the AFFIDAVIT FORM IN SUPPORT OF APPLICATION which you will have to fill and submit to the Security Deposit Bank for claims.

1. Name in full.....................................................

2. Address.............................................................

3. Nationality.......................................................

4. Age.....................................................................

5. Occupation.......................................................

6. Phone/Fax.........................................................

7. country of residence ...............................................

Please reply me with this email, barr_sandy@hotmail.com Get back to me as soon as you read this e-mail so that we can proceed further with remittance to you. I hope to hear from you in no distant time,

Yours in Service, Barrister.

Sandy Carrington

BARRISTER SANDY CARRINGTON LAW FIRM ATTENTION ALL RESPONSE SHOULD BE CHANNELED TO vian email (barr_sandy@hotmail.com)

 

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