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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Harry Benson" <mrharryben3333@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrharry.benson@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 13:48:31 +0100 (CET)
Subject: REF: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE

REF: INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE


My name is Mr. Harry Benson; I work with the Capital investment company
here in UK, The owner of this fund is an American Military who died at
Afghanistan war and there is no next of kin, My aim of contacting you is
to collaborate with me to transfer the sum of ($15.5 Million
dollars)fifteen Million five hundred thousand dollars into your personal
bank account in your country of origin for investment purposes.

I am going to invest this money in your country through your assistance
and help, whereby you are going to be my Invest Manager. Please when
replying I want you to tell me the type of investment that will be
encourage for us to invest the fund so that we can talk about the
conditions email me back to this email address for further details.
(mrharrybensons@yahoo.com)



Thanks and yours
sincerely,

Mr. Harry Benson

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