Airline Email Scams Uncovered

Recently, airline email scams have been hitting people’s inbox. I wanted to revisit another airline email scam that happened last year.

Last year an email scam was sent out using Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash victims to scam and lure unsuspecting victims.

According to the Seattlepi.com, “the U.K. sender, who claims to be the personal attorney for Ronald and Joyce Lake, asks for help in retrieving $10.5 million that his ‘clients’ left behind and solicits personal information from you. The scam, which takes various forms, links to actual news stories about the plane crash to fool recipients.”

Here’s the scam email:

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Barr. Peter John
For P.John Chambers & Advocates
Address: 60 Bays water Road
London W2 3PS , United Kingdom
Tel : + 44 70457 06827
Tel : +44 703 1844341

Email:peter609john@yahoo.de

Good day,

I am Barrister Peter John personal Attorney to Ronald Lake and Joyce Lake who used to work with Frank Howard Allen Realtors. On the 31st of January 2000, my client and his wife were involved in a Plane Crash (Alaska Airlines Flight 261) where all passengers unfortunately lost their lives, since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my client’s extended relatives but this proved unsuccessful.

After all these several unsuccessful attempts, since it’s not compulsory that the next-of-kin must be a blood relation to the
deceased, I contacted you because you are from the same country with my late client. Be informed that a next-of-kin can be
anybody,friends or organization.

Presently, the Bank where the deceased (my client) had a Deposit valued at US$10,500,000.00 million issued me a notice to provide the next-of-kin to my client to receive its benefit or have the account confiscated, so I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating this benefit left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank.

To this effect, I now seek your consent to present you to the Bank as the next of kin of the deceased (my Client) so that the proceeds of this Deposit valued at US$10,500,000.00 Million can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money; 50% to me and 40% to you, while 10% should be given to any Orphanage Home.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me via e-mail:peter609john@yahoo.de with the below details immediately you acknowledge the good receipt of this message.

Full Name:
Full Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Mobile Number:
Private Email:
Age:
Occupation:
Country of Origin:
Sex:
Marital Status:

Your prompt response is highly imperative.

Yours sincerely,

Bar. Peter John (Esq.)
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SavvyWallet readers:

If you get emails like this , please forward the email to 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov or file a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Tip: Avoid all emails with anything “Nigerian”