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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:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
• 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.
  • yasin_hirakeeuk@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Yasin Hirakee <yasin_hirakee22007@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <yasin_hirakeeuk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 09:22:51 +0100
Subject: CAN YOU BE HONEST!!!



Dearest One, I am Yasin Hirakee,I was moved by your profile and i decided to contact you for assistance as your profiled as proofed who you are and your capabilities too. I wish to request for your assistance in a financial transaction,I wish to invest in Manufacturing and real estate management in your country.I have ($12.500,000 United States Dollars) to invest in the transaction and I will require your assistance in receiving the box in your country. I want you to help me claim and retrive the box from the security company in Malaysia with the documents I have here with me and transfer it into your country for my future life purposes and on profitable investment.For further details,please contact me at private email (yasin_hirakeeuk@yahoo.co.uk) I will be waiting patienly for your email and hope to get maximum coperation from you. Goodbye,
Yasin Hirakee
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