Another Fake Beneficiary Scam

E-Mail received:

Date: 19/12/2024, 04:11

From: Ecesoy Integrity.LawFirm@chambers.org

Reply to: borisandrey@tuta.io

Subject: ***SPAM*** Are you interested for us to work together?

Greetings,

How are you? Please accept my apologies if my email does not meet your personal ethical standards. I would like to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you.

My name is Barrister Sergen Ecesoy of Integrity Law Firm London, I am the personal lawyer of my deceased client who bears the same surname as you.

I am contacting you regarding an unclaimed financial inheritance claim related to your surname. I want to know if we can work together as a team.

I want you to act as the next of kin of my deceased client who has an account worth $40.7 Million USD at a financial institution.

My deceased client died without any registered next of kin and therefore the funds now have an open beneficiary mandate. The board of his bank passed a resolution and I have been mandated to nominate his next of kin to pay this fund or the fund will be forfeited to the bank as unclaimed property.

Fortunately, since you share the same surname as my deceased client, it will be very easy for me to make you his official next of kin.

If you are interested, please let me know so I can give you full details on what we are to do.

Thanks,
Best Regards,
Barrister Sergen Ecesoy
180 Tottenham Court Road London, W1T 7PD.United Kingdom
The Law is Our Business.

Notes:So really to benefit from this email you have not to have "personal ethical standards" so obviously this barrister has not got any personal ethical standards. He is contacting a large number of people who he says have the same surname as the deceased client. Obviously this scam will name the deceased person with the same surname as each person who responds to the e-mail.

The name Barrister Sergen Ecosay appears in a number of similar scams you only have to do a google search to confirm this. The e-mail address @chambers.org fits in nicely with a barrister whose offices are known in the uk as "chambers" however the domain name is registered to a Norm Chambers who owns Ship and Stor LLC in Springfield, Utah. I doubt that someone has gone to the trouble of registering the domain name for the scam, the e-mail address is probably spoofed or the e-mail domain hacked. A number of businesses are registered at the London address given and it is easy for the scammers to assume the identity of one of those companies.

The reply to address: borisandrey@tuta.io is a free e-mail account used because identity checks are cursory and the scammers can hide both their identity and location.

Finally a very large amount of money is mentioned to entice in the gullible (I can't say it any other way). If it sounds too good to be true... it is too good to be true, it is a scam.

Recommendation: Delete the e-mail.

Michael Fowler

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