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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:

• 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)
  • "chief auditor" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
• 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.
  • +447024031639 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• 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.
  • franklindaveson@yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: "FRANKLIN DAVESON" <franklindaveson@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:56:10 -0700
Subject: FROM FRANKLIN DAVESON


FROM FRANKLIN DAVESON
CHIEF AUDITOR, BANK OF ENGLAND
UNITED KINGDOM
TEL:+447024031639
FAX:+447092865823
E-mail: franklindaveson@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk

Dear Sir,

I'm sorry for not seeking your permission before directing this proposal to
you.I am MR.FRANKLIN DAVESON,the Chief Auditor, BANK OF ENGLAND . What I
have for you is an urgent transaction that involves the sum of
US$8.5Million. We discovered this huge amount of money in our corresponding
bank deposited by our foreign customer who died in an air-crash 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
clearification.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.
Mr .Franklin Daveson.
CHIEF AUDITOR, BANK OF ENGLAND

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