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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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Fraud email example:

From: "MR HAVRE ABO" <havre@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: mrhavre@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:06:47 +0200
Subject: CAN WE WORK TOGETHER??

My dear friend,

How are you today?.I beleive you are doing fine.
I wish to introduce myself and this business opportunity to you.
My Name is Engr Havre Abo,working with Benin Ministry of Works and
Chairman Contract Award Review Committe under Benin Ministry Of Works-Benin.It

is based on the information and recommendation satisfactorily gathered
concerning you that I have decided to contact you on this business opportunity
and I
wish to know if we can work together.
On Thursday, 25 December 2003,A Foreign contractor with our Ministry
died along with his wife and son in the ill-fated plane crash involving a
Boeing
727 UTA chartered flight that took off from Cotonou, Republic of Benin and

crashed into the Atlantic ocean.
For details of the plane crash,please visit :
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html .

I have made several attempts in locating the relatives to this
Foreign Contractor but unsuccesfull for these reason i have decided to
contacted you to stand as the next of kin to the deceased contractor who
excuted
unpaid contract balance of ($11,300,000.00 Million USDOLLARS) for the
Supply of Industrial Materials so that the this contract sum can be paid
to
you.
He died without any registered next of kin and as such the funds now
have an open beneficiary mandate

If you are interested you do let me know so that I can give you
comprehensive details on what we are to do.
I urgently hope to get your response as soon aspossible.


Best regards,
Engr Havre Abo

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