New Year Greetings – email from Steven Barlow or Steven B. Kings
January 7, 2009
Filed under Email Scams
Email almost looks legitimate, but it can’t fool us. Also, notice how this guy calls himself “Steven Barlow” in the introduction of the email, but then uses the name “Steven B. Kings” in the end. Ooops!!!
It shows as coming from kingsmail000555@earthlink.net, but the reply-to address is stu70u@inmail24.com
A copy of the email is below:
24 Metro Business Center
Kangley Bridge Road
London SE26 5BWGood day,
This is a personal email directed to you and I request that it is
treated as such. My name is Steven Barlow,a solicitor at law.
I am the personal attorney/sole executor to a client of mine, now
deceased, and who worked as an independent oil magnate in my country.
He died in a car crash with his immediate family on the 4th of
October,1998.Since the death of my client in Oct,1998,I have written
several letters to the embassy with intent to locate any of his
extended relatives whom shall be claimants/beneficiaries of his
abandoned personal estate,and all such efforts have been to no avail.
More so,I have received official letters in the last few weeks
suggesting a likely proceeding for confiscation of his abandoned
personal assets in line with existing laws by the bank in which my
client deposited the sum of 3.8 million British Pounds On this note, I
decided to search for a credible person who can handle this claim, that
I may, with your consent, present you to the “trustee” bank as my late
client’s surviving family member so as to enable you put up a claim to
the bank in that capacity as a next of kin of my client.
Therefore,to facilitate the immediate transfer of this fund, you need,
first to contact me signifying your interest, and as soon as I obtain
your confidence, I will immediately appraise you with the complete
details as well as fax or e-mail you the documents, with which you are
to proceed and I shall direct on how to put up an application to the
bank and I propose that 35% of the net sum will accrue to you at the
conclusion of this deal in so far as I do not incur further expenses.
However,you will have to accent to an express agreement which I will
forward to you in order to bind us in this transaction. Upon the
receipt of your reply, I will send you by fax or E-mail the next step
to take. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is
hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required
arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. Like I
said, I require only a solemn confidentiality on this.
Sincerely,
Steven B. Kings
Steven Barlow recently tried the same thing on us, dont be fooled people he will send you doucments that look very real ,he uses a barrister by the name of Davis Lambert Esq, aslo a contact (fake) from the Bank of Scotland
he is a low life peice of scum