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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:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million 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)
  • "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 email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2214661249 (Senegal, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
• 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.
  • revfcalvin@mail2calvin.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Rev. Fr. Calvin Rogers" <revfrcalvin@un.org> (may be fake)
Reply-To: revfcalvin@mail2calvin.com
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:00:27 +0200
Subject: Call Me Asap!!

DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES, UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
VICTORIA SQUARE DAKAR, SENEGAL. TEL: +221-466-1249


Dear Friend,

I am Rev. Fr. Calvin Rogers, a senior staff with the World Bank Fact Finding & Special Duties Office. I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of charity organization have arranged with an officer in the computer section in person of Engineer Peter Cliff to bring out your part pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371) amount of Ten Million United States Dollars (US$10 million).

A lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive different kinds of untrue fax and phone messages from different people everyday. As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment.
Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been extorting money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do not do away with those officers. I am the final signatory to any transfer or remittance of huge funds moving within banks both on the local and international levels.

To effect transfer of the funds into your nominated account, I am conditionally prepared to assist you get the money, practically after studying the part leading to this particular stage in the payment process in connivance with your local collaborators to conceal the authentic source of the funds. And my only condition for this unusual assistance is after all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organization I designate as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for the donation.

I therefore solicit your honest co-operation. Call or write me on my private Email address below.

May the peace of the Lord be with you and your entire family, Amen.

Await your response.

Yours Faithfully
Rev. Fr. Calvin Rogers
Director, Special Duties. UN/WBF
Email:revfcalvin@mail2calvin.com
Tel: +221-466-1249

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