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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:
  • "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)
  • "cotonou" (a location commonly mentioned 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: BongoHamilton <hamiltonbongo@yp.com.hk>
Reply-To: engrhamiltonbongo@ubbi.com
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:24:43 +0000
Subject: I LOOK FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU ASAP.


FROM THE OFFICE OF ENGR.HAMILTON BONGO
HEAD OF CONTRACT REVIEW DEPARTMENT ON
AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL GOAL PROJECT.
MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY.
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC.



Your Attention/

This email did not get to you by mistake rather I contacted you with a
true conviction that you are capable of handling this transaction
after I found your profile very interesting.I got your contact from a
foreign business trade office here in my Country.

My Name is ENGR.HAMILTON BONGO,working with Ministry of Industry,Benin
Republic and also the Head of Contract Review Department on
Agriculture & Industrial Goal Project (AIGP).

It is about a foreign contractor (Name witheld) with our Ministry ,
who died on Thursday, 25 December 2003,along with his wife and son in
an 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 detailsof the plane crash,please visit :
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

I want you to "STAND IN", as the partner to the deceased contractor
who had unpaid contract payment of ($6,300,000.00 Million USDOLLARS)
with our Ministry for Installation and Supply of Industrial Equipments
so that this fund can be paid to you ,then me & you will share the
money.

In all facts/contract papers available to us, the deceased contractor
had no registered business partner to inherit this payment and since
his death, nobody has ever came to claim this payment.

I have all the documentation proofs to back you up as the deceased
oversea partner and my assurance is that your role is risk free.

I plead with you on one issue, whether you are interested or not,
kindly do not expose this information to any one else because I want
this transaction to remain confidential.

But If you are interested, Upon yourreply, I will send you a
comprehensive details on what we are to do.

Best regards,

ENGR.HAMILTON BONGO

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