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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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • hakeembadru@inbox.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Hakeem Badru <hakeembadru1@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: accentagency@fsmail.net
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:27:58 +0100
Subject: Seeking investment partnership !!!


Good day,
This is Hakeem badru the first son of a late Yusuf Badru, a fish merchant and a millionaire Mogul of Saudi Arabia who died of Esophageal cancer three years ago. I am contacting you because of my present need to engage in a mutually beneficial business partnership with person whom I have not had dealings with before and who has enough knowledge in investment. I am therefore contacting you to assist me in channeling the sum of $5 Million U.S Dollars belonging to my late father into a productive investment ventures in your country. The money was reserved by my late father for the acquisition of New Marchineries and coldroom equipments meant for expanding his fishing business in Saudi Arabia and this couple with his untimely death. Be informed that this money is genuinely made for it has nothing to do with money laundering, therefore, this transaction is 100% risk free and all I need is your partnership .
As an inexperienced 20 years old boy, being the heir of my late father's estate, I am saddled with the problem of investing this funds on a lucrative investment abroad. For this reason, I am contacting you to assist me apply the funds on a lucrative investment of your choice in your country and for your efforts, I am willing to compensate you with 20% of the funds.
I shall be expecting your urgent response so that I can furnish you with further information about the funds. All replies in response to this mail shall be directed to my private email address: hakeembadru@inbox.com. Thank you. May this mail receive its earliest attention
Yours
Hakeem Badru
Saudi Arabia

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