419 scam: "Frank Bawa" <frank_bawa@yahoo.com.hk> FROM: MR. FRANK BAWA

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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)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Frank Bawa" <frank_bawa@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: bawa_frank@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:42:02 +0200
Subject: FROM: MR. FRANK BAWA

Dear Friend,

I know that you might be surprise on this mail, but I am telling you the
truth. I know that it is against my official duty to release confidential
issue like this to an outsider. There is nothing I can do to help you
beside this. What I want to tell you is about your fund with the Federal
Government of Nigeria.There are a lot of forces working against you right
from the last CBN Governor and the current Governor, this was as a result
of poor representation from your partners.

There is a way I can assist you get your fund. I have assisted one woman
from Australia with it, it worked out though her fund was US$9.8M. What
you have to do is to open another bank account any where, if you can open
it in another place, it will be nice, but what you have to bear in mind is
that you have to re-transfer the fund to another account immediately you
confirmed it in your account, I know why I want it this way.

Note: To assist you to receive the fund you will give me 15% of the total
sum for the assistance. If you want me to go ahead,let me know as soon as
you get this mail,and I will make the transfer without further delay, it
might be next 6 months that they will find out and by then you have
re-transferred the fund into another account and once the transaction is
done i will delete it from the computer payment data system.And the fund
cannot be traced.

Get back to me through this email as soon as you get this mail so that I
will be in better position to know what to do.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Frank Bawa.

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