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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:
  • "huge amount of money" (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 email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• 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.
  • franklinscott4us@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "frankscott@terra.es" <frankscott@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:17:43 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: CHIEF AUDITOR, BANK OF ENGLAND



FROM FRANKLIN SCOTT
CHIEF AUDITOR, BANK OF ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
WEB:http://www.bankofengland.co.uk
EMAIL: franklinscott4us@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Sir,

I'm sorry for not seeking your permission before directing this proposal to you. I am Mr.Franklin Scott, the Chief Auditor, BANK OF ENGLAND. What I have for you is an urgent transaction that involves the sum of US$45.5M. We discovered this huge amount of money in our corresponding bank deposited by our foreign customer who died in an aircrash on November 15, 2000 with his family when Antonov plane crashes in Angola, leaving 41 dead .
{http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/12/11/angola.planecrash.ap/}. All effort to get at the nearest next of kins to this man prove abortive. However, As a Chief Auditors of the BANK,I have decided with the concept of my Governor MR. MERVYN KING and the Deputy Governors , {Sir Andrew Large and Rachel Lomax } in the office and with the assistance of a foriegner to use the documents in my office and transfer this money out of the country and share it among ourselves. We have tried to get this money out of the bank but could not as it requires an assistance of a foriegner who will recieve this money on our behalf.It is at this point that we made up our mind to reach out to you ;so that you could assist us recieve this money in your our country as soon as it is transfered.
We have agreed to make an offer of 30% of the total fund to you if you would assist us in this transaction.I will like to state here that there is no form of risk involved in this transaction on your own side as a foreigner.
As soon as you confirmed that it has arrived to your location, I and my colleagues will be in your country to share it as we have stated earlier on. Get back to me as soon as possible through email or you can give me a call on my cell phone number for more clarification.Where you could not be able to call me, kindly forward your own number, I will be glad to call you after office work to explain this well to you.
Thanks and remain blessed.


FRANKLIN SCOTT
CHIEF AUDITOR, BANK OF ENGLAND
Reply To: franklinscott4us@yahoo.co.uk





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