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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "hundred thousand united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "this business is hitch free " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • fredrickfranklin777@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: fredrick franklin <fredrick.franklin6@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: fredrickfranklin777@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:51:10 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: The Manager Credit and Foreign Bills


The Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
International Commercial Bank Ghana
Ma kola Shopping Mall P. O. Box 556 Accra, Ghana.

Attention: ,

My name is Dr. Fredrick Franklin, the Manager, Credit
and Foreign bills of International Commercial Bank
Ghana. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer
of our bank with account number 14-255-114 whose name
is Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an American by citizen
who perished in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines
Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including
his wife and only daughter.
list Since the demise of this our customer, I
personally has watched with keen interest to see the
next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has
come to claim his funds of US$15.5M (Fifteen Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which
has been with our branch for a very long time.
On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name
shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up
to be the next of kin. And the banking ethics here
does not allow such money to stay more than Ten Years,
because the money will be recalled to the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.
In view of this I got your contact through a trade
journal when i was making a research on a foreigner i
will use in this great opportunity. For your assistant
i will give you 30% of the total amount then 10% has
been maped out to donate to the motherless baby home,
while the remaining 60% will be for me and my partner.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send you by
fax or e-mail the letter of application which you will
type sign and send back to our bank to enable us start
this transaction. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this business is hitch free and that you
should not entertain any fear as all modalities for
the smooth and easy transfer of this fund has
been finalized, this transaction will be completed
within five banking days of receiving your response,
after you apply to the bank as a relation to the
deceased.
When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail
signifying your decision including your private
Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication on my personal
email
fredrickfranklin777@yahoo.co.uk
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Fredrick Franklin
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
International Commercial Bank Ghana
Direct tel:+233-244-861-237

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