419 scam: "Dr. Fran C Edward" <dr.cfrankedward@gmail.com> Transaction

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

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.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "00,000.00" (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)
- "top secret" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- "very confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
This email message is a next of kin scam.
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.
- +447404566220

Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Fran C Edward" <dr.cfrankedward@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrfrankcedwardm@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 06:25:40 +0000
Subject: Transaction

Dear friend,

I Am Mr. Edward Collins, a banker here in Newcastle United Kingdom (UK). I
write you this very confidential proposal in good faith hoping that I will
rely on you. In 2010, our late customer. Who hails from your country as his
place of origin/birth,, made a fixed deposit, valued at Â£ 12,200,000.00
(Twelve million Two hundred thousand British Pounds) with our bank the
Clydesdale Bank. He was an oil merchant and an Engineering contractor.

He came here to the United Kingdom (UK) for an Engineering work
exploration from your country before he made the deposit through his Swiss
account in Switzerland! I was his account officer unfortunately, while on a
business trip, he died in a deadly Tsunami earthquake that occurred on
March 11, 2011 in Sendai Japan that killed many people.

The management of our bank has been sourcing for a means to reach him so
as to ascertain if he will want to roll over the Deposit or have the
contract sum withdrawn, when I discovered that this will happen, I learnt
of his death, so I have tried to think up a procedure to preserve this fund
and use the proceed for charity. Our Bank Managing
director has been trying to find out from me the information about this
account and the owner, but I have kept it closed to my heart because I know
that if they become aware of his death, they will corner the funds for
themselves and for their private use and leave me with nothing.

Therefore, I am seeking your cooperation to present you as the one to
benefit from his fund at his death. I have done enough inside bank
arrangement and I only have to impute your details into the information
network in the bank computers database and reflect you as the next of kin
to the deceased. .This is a risk free operation as long as no one else
besides you and I know about this.

We can as well discuss this on Whats-app call for confidential purposes. My
Whatsapp number is: +44 74 04 566 220 Send me your phone number for easy
communication.

Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a
family man with a Daughter. I send you this mail not without a measure of
doubt as to what the consequences could be for me if my Bank finds out
about my secret plan. Please let this be a top secret between us. The
sharing should formula would be 45% for me, 45% for you and then 10% to
Charity.

Best Regards,
Mr. Edward Collins.

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