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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: "ROBERT HAKEEM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <robert.hakeem@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:21:25 +0200
Subject: FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION

Alhaji Robert Hakeem
Tel: +2347081884869
mailto: roberthakeem@yandex.com
 
I solicit your confidence in this transaction I am about to introduce Due to it's
confidentiality. We are members of the Presidential Committee on Appropriation of Contract
Review, Re-award and payments (PC-ACRRP).
 
This committee was setup to identify and review inflated contracts awarded by the past regimes,
 
and because of our  Membership of the above committee, we are privy to the information that is
 
hereby revealed to you in this mutually rewarding financial transaction which we will solicit
 
your  Assistance to accomplish.
 
The fund in question came as a result of government officials in the past regimes (as Mentioned
 
above) setting up private companies and ensuring that contracts were awarded to Their proxy
 
companies, many of these contracts were not executed while the executed ones Were poorly done and
 
grossly over-invoiced in various ministries.
 
We Consequently identified inflated and unexecuted contract funds presently Floating in the
 
vault of our Apex Bank. Our desire is to release a particular contract fund from the Several
 
located ones, but our position as members of the PC-ACRRP would not allow us to Acquire the fund
 
in our name(s) or do so without foreign assistance.
 
I am mandated to source for an oversea partner into whose account the Sum of $8,500,000.00
will be paid by Telegraphic transfer and ATM swift transfer, hence this written request.The
 
following data would be required to commence this transaction: A suitable name into which the
 
Fund can be paid, name of your bank, account number, bank address and your full contact 
 
Informations. The above information will enable us prepare all necessary legal documents to pose
 
you or your company as a perfected Re-awarded contract beneficiary and we will endorse a foreign
 
exchange approval document within 48hrs, to effect contract payment fund credit transfer into
 
your  Designated bank account.
 
You are advice to acknowledge this letter by email for more details about the transaction.
 
Thanks.
 
Alhaji Robert Hakeem.

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